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A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord-Mayor, the Court of Aldermen, the Sheriffs, and the Governors of the several Hospitals of the City of London, at the parish church of St. Bridget, on Monday in Easter-Week, 1739. By Thomas Lord Bishop of Bangor.
Herring, Thomas, 1693-1757.Date: M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]- Books
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The london calendar, or court and city register, for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the year, 1790; Including a Complete and Correct List of the present Parliament, more extensive and useful than in any other Book of the Kind yet published. Containing, England. I. Correct Lists of both Houses of Parliament; the State, Law, Revenue, and Public Offices, at the Court, in the City of London, and different Parts of the Kingdom; the Army and Navy; Baronets, Universities, Seminaries, Medical Societies, Hospitals, &c. &c. Scotland. II. All the Peers, Baronets, State, Law, Revenue, and Public Offices, Universities, Physicians, &c. Ireland. III. Both Houses of Parliament, a complete List of the Baronets, all the Law, State, Revenue, and public Offices, Bankers, Deans, &c. &c. America. IV. The Military and Civil Establishments; Governors, Law and Revenue Officers, &c. &c. Carefully corrected at the Respective Offices.
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Observations on the means of preserving the health of soldiers; and of conducting military hospitals. And on the diseases incident to soldiers in the time of service, and on the same diseases as they have appeared in London. In two volumes. By Donald Monro, M.D. Physician to his Majesty's Army, and to St. George's Hospital; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at London, and of the Royal Society. ...
Monro, Donald, 1727-1802.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Ld Mayor, the aldermen, sheriffs, and governours of the several hospitals of the City of London, in St. Bridget's Church. On Easter Tuesday, April. 17, 1707. By Francis Atterbury, D. D. Dean of Carlisle, and Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
Atterbury, Francis, 1662-1732.Date: 1707- Books
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Medical tracts. I. On sugar. II. On the cow-pox. III. On the Yaws. IV. On Obi; or African Witchcraft. V. On the Plague; and Yellow Fever of America. VI. On Hospitals. Vii. On Bronchocele. Viii. On prisons. By Benjamin Moseley, M. D. Author of a Treatise on Tropical Diseases; Military Operations; and the Climate of the West Indies; and A Treatise on Coffee: Physician to Chelsea Hospital, Member of the College of Physicians of London; of the University of Leyden, of the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia, &c. &c.
Moseley, Benjamin, 1742-1819.Date: MDCCC. [1800]- Books
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The curiosities of Paris, in nine letters. Containing The Manner of Travelling from Calais to Paris, and the Description of the Towns. &c. on the Road. Description of Paris, Course of the Seine, Bridges, Fountains, &c. Palaces, Paintings, Gardens, Statues, Cabinets of Curiosities, and an Execution on the Wheel. Hospitals, Churches, Relics, and Processions. Squares, Statues, and Inscriptions. Different Orders of the Religious, Orders of Knighthood, Equipages, and Theatres. Amphitheatres, public Libraries, Colleges, Nunneries, &c. and the Ceremony of taking the Veil. Description of St. Cloud, the Royal Mausoleum of St. Dennis, and Regalia of the Crown. Description and Curiosities at Versailles, Trianon, Marli, Waterworks, and Machine, Gardens, Statues, Procession of the Knights of the St. Esprit, &c. &c. Interspersed with useful Observations, and particularly adapted for the Perusal of Chirurgical Students and the Traveller. By A. R.
A. R.Date: [1760?]- Books
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A survey of the cities of London and Westminster, borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent. Containing, I. The original foundation, and the Antient and Modern State thereof. II. An exact Description of all Wards and Parishes; Parish - Churches, Palaces, Halls, Hospitals, Publick Offices, Edifices, and Monuments, of any Account, throughout the said Cities, Borough, &c. III. A particular Account of the Government of London, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military; of all Charters, Liberties, Privileges and Customs; and of all Livery and other Companies, with their Coats of Arms. IV. Lists of all the officers of His Majesty's revenues, and houshold; and those of the rest of the Royal Family; together with the Salaries thereunto belonging. By Robert Seymour, Esq; The whole being an improvement of Mr Stow's, and other surveys, by adding whatever Alterations have happened in the said Cities, &c. to the present Year; and retrenching many Superfluities, and correcting many Errors in the former Writers. Illustrated with several copper plates. ...
Mottley, John, 1692-1750.Date: M,DCC,XXX,IV. [1733]-35- Books
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The london calendar, or court and city register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the year 1787; Including a Complete and Correct List of the present Parliament, more extensive and useful than in any other Book of the Kind yet published. Containing England. I. Correct Lists of both Houses of Parliament; the State, Law, Revenue, and Public Offices, at the Court, in the City of London, and different Parts of the Kingdom; the Army and Navy; Baronets, Universities, Seminaries, Medical Societies, Hospitals, &c. &c. Scotland. II. All the Peers, Baronets, State, Law, Revenue, and Public Offices, Universities, Physicians, &c. Ireland. III. Both Houses of Parliament, a complete List of the Baronets, all the Law, State, Revenue, and public Offices, Bankers, Deans, &c. &c. America. IV. The Military and Civil Establishments; Governors, Law and Revenue Officers, &c. &c. Carefully corrected at the Respective Offices.
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The medical & chirurgical pharmacopoeia, for the use of hospitals, dispensaries, &c. By Richard Reece, Chepstow; Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, in London, and the Medical Society of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and late Domestic Surgeon and Apothecary to the General Infirmary, at Hereford.
Reece, Richard, 1775-1831.Date: 1800- Books
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Observations concerning ruptures, and the treatment of them, By W, Blakey. Of the college of surgeons at Paris. And inventor of the elastic bandages, used in the military hospitals of his most Christian Majesty.
Blakey, William, 1712-Date: M,DCC,LXIV. [1764]- Books
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A sermon preached at Christ-Church, Newgate-Street, before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, The Aldermen, Sheriffs, and Governors of the Royal Hospitals of the City of London, On St. Matthew's Day, Saturday, the 21st of September, 1793. By the Rev. George Richards, M. A. Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.
Richards, George, 1767-1837.Date: Printed in the Year 1793- Books
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A description of Bath, wherein the antiquity of the city, as well as the eminence of its founder; its Magnitude, Situation, Soil, Mineral Waters, and Physical Plants; its British Works, and the Grecian Ornaments with which they were adorned; its Devastations and Restorations in the Days of the Britons, Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans; with its New Buildings, Baths, Conduits, Hospitals, Places of Worship, and other Public Edifices; its Gates, Bridges, Walks, and Streets, &c. are respectively treated of: The Gods, Places of Worship, Religion, and Learning of the Ancient Britons Occasionally considered: And the Limits of the City in its present State; its Government, Trade, and Amusements Severally pointed out. Illustrated with the figure of King Bladud, the First Founder of the City; Together with proper plans and elevations from twenty-two copper plates. By John Wood, Esq; In two volumes.
Wood, John, 1704-1754.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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The complaints of the poor people of England: containing remarks part I. I. On government. Part II. I. II. The defects in the English government, as to representation. III. The ignorance of the poor, and the imperfection of the laws. IV. disproportion between crimes and punishments. V. Capital punishments. Part III. I. The Royal household, and public expenditure. II. The Church. III. The law-courts. IV. The army. V. The navy. VI. Schools. Vii. Poor-rates, and poor-houses. Viii. Public hospitals. IX. Prisons. X. Feudal and seignoral rights, labourers, and manufacturers. Part IV. I. Address to the friends of reform. II. Balance of pinions. III. Price of provisions and labour-rules for provident societies; free schools; workhouses; address of ladies at Walworth; of Mr. Muir, and Mr. F. Palmer. By G. Dyer, B. A. late of Emanuel College, Cambridge.
Dyer, George, 1755-1841.Date: 1793- Books
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A journey from London, to France and Holland: or, the traveller's useful vade mecum. ... . Wherein is contain'd the following Particulars, viz. I. Each Day's Observations, in Travelling from London to Paris, through French Flanders. II. And from thence to Reims. III. The Manner of Examination mention'd, for obtaining a Diploma in Physick, at that University. IV. A Copy of the Diploma itself. V. A Comparison between the City of Paris and London. VI. Some Account of Paris, the Inhabitants, and the Buildings thereof. Vii. A Description of the two samous Hospitals there, viz the Hotel Dieu, and La Charity. Viii. An Account of Versailles, and its Gardens, &c. IX. An Account of a Course of Midwifry, &c. at Paris. X. An Account of the French Money, to a Hundred Million of Livies, with a Copper Plate of its Impression on each Side, and a Table reducing it into English Money. XI. The Grounds of the French Language, &c. XII. A Short, Historical, Geographical Account of the Nation and People. XIII. A List of the Posts throughout the whole Kingdom of France, shewing the Distance of Place one from the other and the Number of Posts therein contain'd, &c. XIV. To the Whole is added Maps of the Cities of London and Paris, with the Names of the Streets, &c. contain'd therein. The Whole is calculated and design'd chiefly for the Use and Benefit of travellers going into that Kingdom, whereby fully to inform them of those Parts of Knowledge needful hereto: Wherein is also occasionally contain'd many Moral Reflections and Useful Observations. The second edition. By R. Poole Doctor of Physick.
Poole, R. (Robert), 1708-1752.Date: M.DCC.XLVI. [1746]- Books
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The history of London from its foundation to the present time: Containing, I. The original Constitution of London: The ancient and present State of its several Wards, Churches, Parishes, Liberties, and Districts: Accounts of all the Religious Foundations in London and its Suburbs, before the Reformation: The Names of all the Streets, Squares, Courts, Lanes, &c. within the City and Suburbs: With curious Calculations touching the Number of its Inhabitants; and Parallels between London and many of the most celebrated ancient and modern Cities; whereby it will appear that the Inhabitants of London, at present, are almost equal in Number to those of the Cities of Paris, Amsterdam, and Rome together, and superior in Number to any one City in the World. II. Historical and particular Accounts of the City Governments, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military, in all their Branches: With the several Charters, rendered into English; wherein are set forth their many great and valuable Privileges, Immunities, and numerous Benefactions. III. History of the several Incorporations of Merchants and Traders; shewing the Institutions of their respective Companies; with their ancient Rights, Privileges, and Coats of Arms. IV. Description of the present State of Learning, and of the Colleges, Schools, Inns of Court, Common-Pleas, King's-Bench, Chancery, Exchequer, High Court of Parliament, &c. V. Full and particular Accounts of all the Hospitals, Alms-Houses, and other Charitable Foundations, within the City and the Parts adjacent. VI. The ancient and present State of the Tower, and of the Curiosities therein contained; with a Description of the British Museum. Including The several Parishes in Westminster, Middlesex, Southwark, &c. within the Bills of Mortality. By William Maitland, F. R. S. and Continued to the Year 1772 by the Rev. John Entick, M. A. Illustrated With a Complete Set of the Churches, Palaces, Publick Buildings, Hospitals, Bridges, &c. within and adjacent to this great Metropolis: The Plans of London, exhibiting its Appearance before the Fire; in its Ruins after that Conflagration in 1666; and as it is now rebuilt and extended: With a large Map of all the Villages and Country within ten Miles Circumference: Exactly drawn, and curiously engraved on One Hundred and Thirty Copper-Plates, by the best Hands, and on so large a Scale, that each Plate could not be sold separate for less than One Shilling. And Improved With a great Variety of Authentick Pieces, relating to the Progressive Alternations it has undergone from its first Foundation: and describing those Charitable and other Additional Buildings with which it has been lately adorned, and increased to its present prodigious Extent: Wherein all the Defects in the former Edition of this Work, and in other Authors on this Subject, are supplied, their Errors corrected, and the History brought down, with great Care and Impartiality, to the present Time. In two volumes. Vol. I. By the King's Authority.
Maitland, William, 1693?-1757.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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The new dispensatory: containing, I. The elements of pharmacy. II. The materia medica: Or, An Account of the Substances employed in Medicine; with the Virtues and Uses of each Article, so far as they are warranted by Experience and Observation. III. The preparations and compositions of the new London and Edinburgh pharmacopœias; With Such of the old ones as are kept in the Shops; the most celebrated Foreign Medicines; the most useful of those directed in the Hospitals; sundry elegant extemporaneous Forms, &c. digested in such a Method as to compose a regular System of Pharmacy; with Remarks on their Preparation and Uses; the Means of distinguishing Adulterations; of performing the more difficult and dangerous Processes with Ease and Safety, &c. The whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations. By William Lewis, M. B. F. R. S.
Lewis, William, 1708-1781.Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]- Books
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The london calendar, or court and city register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the year 1788; Including a Complete and Correct List of the present Parliament, more extensive and useful than in any other Book of the Kind yet published. Containing England. I. Correct Lists of both Houses of Parliament; the State, Law, Revenue, and Public Offices, at the Court, in the City of London, and different Parts of the Kingdom; the Army and Navy; Baronets, Universities, Seminaries, Medical Societies, Hospitals, &c. &c. Scotland. II. All the Peers, Baronets, State, Law, Revenue, and Public Offices, Universities, Physicians, &c. Ireland. III. Both Houses of Parliament, a complete List of the Baronets, all the Law, State, Revenue, and public Offices, Bankers, Deans, &c. &c. America. IV. The Military and Civil Establishments; Governors, Law and Revenue Officers, &c. &c. Carefully corrected at the Respective Offices.
Date: [1788]- Books
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A description of Bath, wherein The Antiquity of the City, as well as the Eminence of its Founder; its Magnitude, Situation, Soil, Mineral Waters, and Physical Plants; its British Works, and the Grecian Ornaments with which they were adorned; its Devastations and Restorations in the Days of the Britons, Romans, Saxons, Danes, and Normans; with its New Buildings, Baths, Conduits, Hospitals, Places of Worship, and other Public Edifices; its Gates, Bridges, Walks, and Streets, &c. Are respectively Treated of: The Gods, Places of Worship, Religion, and Learning of the Ancient Britons Occasionally considered: And the Limits of the City in its present State; its Government, Trade, and Amusements Severally pointed out. Illustrated with The Figure of King Bladud, the First Founder of the City; together with Proper Plans and Elevations from Twenty-Two Copper-Plates. By John Wood, Esq; the second edition, corrected and enlarged. In two volumes.
Wood, John, 1704-1754.Date: M.DCC.LXIX. [1769]- Books
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A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the Aldermen, and Governors of the several hospitals of the city of London, at the parish church of St. Bridget, on Wednesday in Easter week, April 14, 1762. By Lewis Bruce, D. D. Preacher of his Majesty's Chapel in Somerset-House, and Chaplain to the Lord Mayor.
Bruce, Lewis.Date: M,DCC,LXII. [1762]- Books
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The history of London from its foundation to the present time: Containing, I. The original Constitution of London: The ancient and present State of its several Wards, Churches, Parishes, Liberties, and Districts: Accounts of all the Religious Foundations in London and its Suburbs, before the Reformation: The Names of all the Streets, Squares, Courts, Lanes, &c. within the City and Suburbs: With curious Calculations touching the Number of its Inhabitants; and Parallels between London and many of the most celebrated ancient and modern Cities; whereby it will appear that the Inhabitants of London, at present, are almost equal in Number to those of the Cities of Paris, Amsterdam, and Rome together, and superior in Number to any one City in the World. II. Historical and particular Accounts of the City Governments, Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military, in all their Branches: With the several Charters, rendered into English; where in are set forth their many great and valuable Privileges, Immunities, and numerous Benefactions. III. Accounts of the several Incorporations of Merchants and Trades; shewing the Institutions of their respective Companies; with their ancient Rights, Privileges, and Coats of Arms. IV. Accounts of the present State of Learning, and of the Colleges, Schools, Inns of Court, Common-Pleas, King's-Bench, Chancery, Exchequer, High Court of Parliament, &c. V. Full and particular Accounts of all the Hospitals, Alms-Houses, and other Charitable Foundations, within the City and the Parts adjacent. VI. The ancient and present State of the Tower, and of the Curiosities therein contained. Also an Account of Sir Hans Sloane's Collection, lately purchused by Parliament. And Including The several Parishes in Westminster, Middlesex, Southwark, &c. within the Bills of Mortality. By William Maitland, F. R. S. and Others. Illustrated With a Complete Set of the Churches, Palaces, Publick Buildings, Hospitals, Bridges, &c. within and adjacent to this great Metropolis: The Plans of London, exhibiting its Appearance before the Fire; in its Ruins after that Conflagration in 1666; and as it is now rebuilt and extended: And with a large Map of all the Villages and Country within ten Miles Circumference: Exactly drawn, and curiously engraved on One Hundred and Twenty Copper-Plates, by the best Hands, and on so large a Scale, that each Plate could not be sold separate for less than One Shilling. And Improved With a great Variety of Authentick Pieces, relating to the Progressive Alterations it has undergone from its first Foundation, both in its Political, Ecclesiastical, and Commercial State; and describing those Charitable Foundations, and other Additional Buildings, with which it has been lately adorned, and increased to such a prodigious Extent, as to carry the Appearance of a large County in the Number of its Houses and Inhabitants. By which Means All the Defects in the former Edition of this Work, and in other Authors on this Subject, will be supplied, their Errors corrected, and the History brought down, with great Care and Impartiality, to the present Time. In two volumes. Vol. I. By the King's Authority.
Maitland, William, 1693?-1757.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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The court and city register; or, gentleman's complete annual kalendar, for the year 1799; Containing, I. Lists of both Houses of the Eighteenth Parliament of Great Britain, which met, for their First Session, in September, 1796. II. The Court-Register. III. Lists of the Army, Navy, Universities, Public Offices, Hospitals, &c. With many Improvements, and the Addition of some New Lists. Carefully corrected at the respective Offices.
Date: [1799]- Books
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The new dispensatory: containing, I. The elements of pharmacy. II. The materia medica: Or, An Account of the Substances employed in Medicine; with the Virtues and Uses of each Article, so far as they are warranted by Experience and Observation. III. The preparations and compositions of the new London and Edinburgh pharmacopœias; with Such of the old ones as are kept in the Shops; the most celebrated Foreign Medicines; the most useful of those directed in the Hospitals; sundry elegant extemporaneous Forms, &c. digested in such a Method as to compose a regular System of Pharmacy; with Remarks on their Preparation and Uses; the Means of distinguishing Adulterations; of performing the more difficult and dangerous Processes with Ease and Safety, &c. The whole interspersed with practical cautions and observations. By William Lewis, M. B. F. B. S.
Lewis, William, 1708-1781.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The Court and city register. For the year 1768. Containing, I. New and correct lists of both Houses of Parliament. II. The court register. III. Lists of the army, navy, universities, public offices, hospitals, &c. With many improvements, and the addition of several new lists. Compiled by John Rivington.
Date: [1768]- Books
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The court and city register. For the year 1767. Containing, I. New and correct lists of both houses of Parliament. II. The court register. III. Lists of the army, navy, Universities, Public Offices, Hospitals, &c. With many Improvements, and the Addition of several new Lists. Compiled by John Rivington.
Date: [1767]- Books
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A treatise on ventilators. Wherein an account is given of the happy effects of many trials that have been made of them; which has occasioned their being received, with general Approbation and Applause, on account of their Utility in many ways, to the great Benefit of Mankind, viz. In refreshing the Noxious Air of Ships, Hospitals and Mines, to the better Preservation of the Health and Lives of Multitudes. In preserving the Timbers of Ships much the longer from decaying. In easily sweetening stinking Cask Water and curing the ill Taste of Milk, from some Food of Cows. In new Methods of distilling Plenty of good Water at Sea. In refreshing the Air, and keeping up, and regulating, the Warmth of Melon and Cucumber Frames, and hot Green-Houses. And in several other useful Improvements. Part first. By Stephen Hales, D. D. Clerk of the Closet to her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, F. R. S. and Member of the Royal Academies of Sciences at Paris and Bolognia.
Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]