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An appeal from Scotland to the House of Lords. James Chalmers, Merchant in Leith, - Appellant. Alexander Brown, Jeweller in Edinburgh, - Respondent. The Respondent's case.
Brown, Alexander, jeweller in Edinburgh.Date: 1783]- Books
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Memor. - Thomas Hog, Esq; against Rebecca Hog & Tho. Lashley, Esq; L. Duff, W.S. agent. S. clk. Memorial for Thomas Hog, Esq; of Newliston, defender; against Rebecca Hog, eldest daughter of the late Roger Hog, Esq; of Newliston, and spouse of Thomas Lashley, Esq; of London, and the said Thomas Lashley for his interest, pursuers.
Hog, Thomas, 1742-1827.Date: 1791]- Books
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Mem. - Presbytery of Biggar, against heritors in the parishes of Broughton, &c. G. Cairncross, agent. Teinds. Memorial for the Reverend the Moderator, and the remanent members of the presbytery of Biggar, defenders; against the Right Honourable Robert MʻQueen of Braxfield, Lord Jusice-Clerk [sic], and others, heritors in the parishes of Broughton, Kilbucho, Culter, and Glenholm, pursuers.
Church of Scotland. Presbytery of Biggar.Date: 1794]- Books
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William and Philp [sic] Fullertons, children of the deceased Dr. William Fullerton and others, their trustees and guardians, appellants. David Kinloch, writer in Edinburgh, assignee of the Reverend Mr. Hugh Fraser, Chaplain of St George's Hospital, and others, the creditors of the said Dr. William Fullerton - - - respondent. The respondent's case.
Kinloch, David, writer in Edinburgh.Date: 1740]- Books
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James Davidson, of Halltree, bookseller in Edinburgh, - - - - - - appellant. Captain Henry Sinclair, Adam Inglis advocate his factor, and others, -- respondents. The case of the appellant.
Davidson, James, of Halltree.Date: 1750]- Books
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An appeal from Scotland. James Craig, Baker in Edinburgh, - - Appellant. Messrs. Douglas, Heron, and Company, late Bankers in Air, and George Home of Branxton, Esq. Factor and Manager for the said Company, and others, - - - Respondents. The Respondents' case.
Douglas, Heron, and Company.Date: 1781]- Books
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George Montgomerie-Moir, of Leckie, Esq; - - - - appellant. Anne Montgomerie, and Mess. Alexander and Archibald Stevenson, procurators fiscal of the Commissariot of Edinburgh, for their interest, - - - - - - - - - - respondents. The respondents case.
Moir, Anne Montgomery.Date: 1751]- Books
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A new plan for speedily increasing the number of bee-hives in Scotland; and which may be extended, with equal success, to England, Ireland, America, To Any Other Part Of The World Capable Of Producing Flowers. By James Bonner, Bee-Master, author of practical warping made east, &c.
Bonner, James, writer on bee-keeping.Date: [1795]- Books
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A warning against Socinianism: drawn up, and published, by a Committee of the Associate Synod. In which, particular notice is taken, of a late publication, intituled, A practical essay upon the death of Jesus Christ: by Dr. M'Gill, one of the ministers of Air. - The dangerous errors in that essay, are pointed out; and the opposite truths established.
Secession Church. Associate Synod.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The Travels and surprising adventures of John Thomson, who was taken, and carried to America, and sold for a slave there: - how he was taken captive by the savages. - With an account of his happy delivery, after four months slavery, and his return to Scotland. Entered according to order.
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A dissertation on miracles: containing an examination of the principles advanced by David Hume, Esq; in an Essay on Miracles: with a correspondence on the subject by Mr Hume, Dr Campbell, and Dr Blair, now first published. To which are added sermons and tracts. By George Campbell, D. D. Principal of the Marischal College, and one of the ministers, of Aberdeen.
Campbell, George, 1719-1796.Date: 1797- Books
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A concise spelling book, for the use of children. In three parts. I. The letters, with tables of words, from one to eight Syllables; and Four Tables of Proper Names. I. Practical Lessons, in Prose and Verse, with Tables interspersed, collected from the Lessons. - Also, A Table of Words having Silent Letters, and other difficulties in reading. II. Some Observations on the Principles of the English Language. - Words changed in Sound and Sense by e final. - A few Contractions explained. - A small Collection of Words, the same in Pronunciation, but different in Spelling and Signification. - Numbers expressed by Letters and Figures. - To which are subjoined, the Old English Characters. By James Gray, Master of the English School of Peebles.
Gray, James, -1810.Date: M,DCC,XCIV. [1794]- Books
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Some remarks on a book lately come abroad into this nation, Intitled, The Religious Establishment of Scotland, examined on Protestant Principles, &c. With a Relation of some Occurrences which have lately happened, that have a Tendency to the End and Scope of the Author, in the Ruin and Destruction of that happy Establishment. - -----And one that hath a plain Tendency to the Subversion of pure and undefiled Religion amongst us, if not adverted to. By James M̀connel, Indweller in Beith.
M'Connel, James.Date: Printed in the Year, M,DCC,LXXII. [1772]- Books
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Dooms-Day: or, a discourse upon the day of judgement: OR, Great Day of Our Lord; raised, by way of sermon, from the 2 Thess: 1 chap: 10 vers: - When he shall come to be glorified in his Saints, and to be admired in all them that believe, &c. Dedicated Unto the Right Honourable, The Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge in the Kingdom of Scotland, for the Behoof of the Poor especially. By W. C. Preacher of the gospel.
W. C., preacher of the gospel.Date: Printed in the Year 1721- Books
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A brief survey of the terraqueous globe: containing, I. The description and use of the globes. II. The construction and use of maps. III. Geography; Or, a short view of the Ancient and Modern State of the several Kingdoms of the World. Exhibiting, 1. The Description of the Solar System, and particularly of the Earth considered as a Planet. 2. The Situation-Extent-Boundaries and Divisions of the various Countries. 3. Chief Towns-Mountains - Rivers - Climate, and Produce. 4. Government-Revenues-Commerce-Sea, and Land Forces. 5. Religion-Language-Literature Customs, and Manners of the different Nations. 6. A View of Ancient Geography, with an Explanation of the names. Written originally by John Mair, A.M. and now republished, with great additions, Amendments, and Improvements, Illustrated with maps of the Ancient and Modern Worlds, and the Four Quarters, engrave by T. Kitchen.
Mair, John, 1702 or 1703-1769.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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A course of lectures on the theory and practice of midwifery: in which, Every Thing essentially necessary to the true Knowledge of that Art will be fully explain'd, and clearly demonstrated; particularly, those Operations which are conformable to the Principles of mechanical Motion. Of the Form, Structure and constituent Parts of the Female Pelvis. Of the Organs of Generation, and the Doctrine of Conception;-The Nutrition and Situation of the Foetus in Utero, and its gradual Increase from its Rudiments to the Time of Birth. The Pathology, Treatment and Cure of the various Diseases incident to Child-Bearing Women and Infants, with the Regimen necessary to be observed, respecting the Non-Naturals, viz. Air, Diet, Motion and Rest, Sleep and Watching, Retention, Excretion and the Passions of the Mind. The Antient and Modern Manner of delivering Women in laborious and preternatural Cases compared; with a View of the Advantages and Defects of the Means proposed for that End. - For the clearer Demonstration of Operative Midwisry (whether simply by the Hand or the Application of Instruments) the several Methods of assisting both in natural and preternatural Labours, will not only be described according to the most approved modern Practice, but likewise distinctly shewn, by an artificial Representation of each difficult Case, upon Machines for that Purpose; constructed upon new Principles, and made to the most exact Imitation of real Women and Children. The Whole will be illustrated by such anatomical Preparations as are applicable to each Lecture; together with various practical Observations, extraordinary Cases, and necessary Cautions; but particularly, by real Labours. By John Leake, M. D. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London, And Physician Man-Midwife to the Westminster New Lying-in Hospital, At his House in Craven-Street, in the Strand.
Leake, John, 1729-1792.Date: 1767- Books
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A catalogue of above fifteen thousand volumes, In all Arts, Sciences, and every Branch of polite Literature, Many on Royal Paper, and in Morocco, and other elegant Bindings; being the Stock of the late Mr. John Hildyard, deceased, with other Libraries purchased since. Among which are Biblia Polyglotta, 8 vols. Biblia Polyglotta, 8 vols. Lincis rubris. Buxtorsii Concordant. Bib. Heb. ... Stephani Thesaurus, 4 vols. Martinii Lexicon, 2 vols. Plutarchi Opera, 2 vols. Aristophanes, Kusteri. Euripides, Barnes. Platonis Opera, Serrani, 3 vols. Herodotus, Gronovii. Galeni Opera, 7 vols. Diogenes Laertius, Meibonaii. Virgilii Opera, Baskerville. Homeri Opera, Barnes, 2 vols. Homeri Opera, Clarke, 2 vols. Hist. D'angleterre, par M. Rapin, 10 tom. Ruins of Palmyra, Ruins of Balbec, fine Plates. Postlethwayt's Dictionary, 2 vols. Chambers's and Supplement, 4 vols. Johnson's Dictionary, 2 vols. Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vols. Ainsworth's Dictionary, 2 vols. Rushworth's Hist. Collections, 8 vols. Rapin's History of England, 2 vols. Guthrie's and Ralph's, 5 vols. Kennet's, 3 vols. Tyrrel's, 5 vols. Drake's Antiquities of York. Thoresby's Leeds. Somner's Canterbury. Stukeley's Stonehenge. Maitland's History of Edinburgh. - History of Scotland, 2 vols. Antient Universal History, 21 vols. Modern Universal Hist. 3 vols. and 8 vols. Bp. Gibson's Camden, 2 vols. Bp. Gibson's Codex, 2 vols. Bacon's Works, 4 vols. Churchill's Voyages, 8 vols. Duncan's Caesar, fine Plates. Dugdale's Summons to Parliament. - Origines Juridiciales. - Hist. of St. Paul's, Hollar's Cuts Sir William Temple's Works, 2 vols. Ben. Jonson's Works, best Edition. System of Geography, 2 vols. Maps. Ware's Architecture Compleat Body of Husbandry Compleat Body of Gardening Swammerdam's Natural History of Insects ... Humphreys on the O. and N. Test, 3 vols. Burkit on the New Testament. Patrick, Lowth, and Whitby, 6 vols. Tillotson's Works, 3 vols. Barrow's Works, 2 vols. Bp. Hooper's Works. Taylor's Hebrew Concordance, 2 vols. Lord Sommers's Tracts, 12 vols. Harleian Miscellany, 8 vols. Astley's Voyages, 4 vols. Addison's Works, 4 vols. Sully's Memoirs, 3 vols. Davila's Civil Wars of France, 2 vols. Hampton's Polybius. Smollet's History of England, 4 vols. Cay's Statutes at large, 6 vols. Strange's Reports, 2 vols. Peere Williams's Reports. Besides a large Collection of other Reports and Law Books. Which will begin to be sold (the lowest Price printed in the Catalogue) on Wednesday, February 14, 1759, and continue on Sale till the Summer Assizes. By John Hinxman, Bookseller in Stonegate, York. Catalogues may be had of Messrs. R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; Messrs. Rivington and Fletcher, in Pater-Noster-Row; Messrs. Whiston and White, in Fleet-Street; and Mr. Payne, at the Mews-Gate, London. - Also of Mr. Fletcher, in Oxford. - Mr. Merrill, in Cambridge. - Messrs. Hamilton and Balsour, in Edinburgh. - All the Booksellers in the North of England, and at the Place of Sale. Price One Shilling, which will be return'd to any Gentleman who lays out Twenty.
Hinxman, J., -1762.Date: 1759]- Books
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In the House of Lords. William Simson, Esq. of Viewfield, - appellant. The Honourable Mrs. Henrietta Ann Ker, sister of the deceased Jane Marchioness of Lothian, Dugald Steuart, professor of moral philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, and John Pitcairn, merchant and stationer in Edinburgh, trustees appointed by the said deceased Jane Marchioness of Lothian, and John William Ker, Marquis of Lothian, respondents. The appellant's case.
Simson, William.Date: 1792]- Videos
Medicine through time.
Date: 1998- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 1 ['HSW Private No.1']
Date: Aug 1882-Mar 1888Reference: WF/E/01/01/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd