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The busy body; or, Successful spy. Being the entertaining history of Mons. Bigand, a man infintely inquisitive and enterprizing, even to rashness; which unhappy faculties, nevertheless, instead of ruining, raised him from the lowest obscurity, to a most splendid fortune. Interspers'd with several humorous stories. The whole containing a great variety of adventures, equally instructive and diverting.
Mouhy, Chevalier de, 1701-1784.Date: [1770?]- Books
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Nature the best physician; or, Every man his own doctor. Containing rules for the preservation of health and long life; from infancy to extreme old age. To which are added a collection of natural, simple and palatable receipts for the recovery of health, to those who are already afflicted with any of the various disorders incident to the human body, not only such as are easy to be purchased by persons of the lowest capacity; but proper for those in higher stations, who loath nauseous and unwholesome foreign drugs. By A Lover of Mankind, who has made the study of the human constitution his principal employment upwards of twenty years[.]
Lover of Mankind.Date: MD.CC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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A curious research into the element of water; containing many noble and useful experiments on that fluid body. As I. Three different Experiments of reducing Water into Earth. II. Several Experiments of turning Salts into Water; with a Method of discovering their intrinsic Earths, and of what Nature they are. III. A Method of turning Vitriol of Mercury into Water; with a way to extract the genuine Earth of that corrosive Body. IV. An Experiment proving that that there is a latent Fire in Water; with a Method to attract the said Fire from the Water, and to render it visible, &c. &c. The Interspersed with Curious Queries and Remarks. Being the conjunctive trials of Ambrose and John Godfrey, chymists, from their late father's observations.
Godfrey, Ambrose, -1756.Date: [1747]- Books
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Specimen physico-medicum, de Corpore Humano, & ejus Morbis. Or, an essay Concerning the Knowledge and Cure Of most diseases Afflicting Human Bodies. To which is Annex'd A short Account of Salivation, and the Use of Mercury. With a Copious Index. By P. Paxton, M. D.
Paxton, P. (Peter), -1711.Date: 1711- Books
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A treatise on mercury, shewing the danger of taking it crude for all manner of disorders, after the present Fashion, from its Nature, its manner of Operating in the human Body, and Facts. With some remarks on The antient physician's legacy.
Bradley, Henry, surgeon.Date: 1733- Books
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A treatise on mercury, shewing the danger of taking it crude for all manner of disorders, after the present Fashion, from its Nature, its Manner of operating in the human Body, and Facts. with some remarks on The antient physician's legacy. The second edition. To which are added, a reply to the remarks on the Treatise of the use and abuse of mercury, in the fourt edition of Dr. Dover's Antient physician's legacy. Also an Answer to the Antidote, and some Cases, collected since the First Edition; with a Word or two of the Mercurialist.
Bradley, Henry, surgeon.Date: [1733]- Books
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An improved mode of employing mercury by fumigation to the whole body, exemplified by cases of its success. ... in various obstinate diseases of the skin, and especially in syphilitic affections / by Jonathan Green.
Date: 1852- Books
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An essay, on the operation of mercury, in the human body; : in which, the manner how salivation is produced, by that medicine, is attempted to be explained: interspersed with observations on the treatment of the venereal disease. / By Robert Maywood, M. D.
Maywood, Robert.Date: MDCCLXXXVII- Books
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An essay, on the operation of mercury, in the human body; in which, the manner how salivation is produced, by that medicine, is attempted to be explained: interspersed with observations on the treatment of the venereal disease. By Robert Maywood, M. D. Of The Isle Of Wight.
Maywood, Robert.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A scientific and popular view of the fever of Walcheren and its consequences as they appeared in the British troops returned from the late expedition : with an account of the morbid anatomy of the body and the efficacy of drastic purges and mercury in the treatment of this disease.
Davis, John Bunnell, 1780-1824.Date: 1810- Books
A scientific and popular view of the fever of Walcheren, and its consequences, as they appeared in the British troops returned from the late expedition : with an account of the morbid anatomy of the body, and the efficacy of drastic purges and mercury in the treatment of this disease / by J.B. Davis.
Davis, John Bunnell, 1780-1824.Date: 1810- Books
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A scientific and popular view of the fever of Walcheren, and its consequences, as they appeared in the British troops returned from the late expedition ; with an account of the morbid anatomy of the body, and the efficacy of drastic purges and mercury in the treatment of this disease / By J.B. Davis, M.D.
Davis, J.B. (John Bunnell), 1780-1824.Date: 1810- Books
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A treatise for the service of chemistry in general : exhibiting the universal and specific principles of body; the simple and uniform proceedure [sic] of nature, etc. To which is added ... The medicine of Wedelius, and Paracelsus for the gout. Medicines for the scurvy, the stone, and the palsy. Considerations on the lues venerea, with its cure without mercury, etc / [J. Grosman].
Grosman, YiśraʼelDate: 1766- Books
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An inquiry into the action of mercury on the living body / by Joseph Swan.
Swan, Joseph, 1791-1874.Date: 1822- Books
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A new and easy method of giving mercury, to those affected with the venereal disease : To which is annexed a new theory of the action of this metal on the salivary glands / Translated from the Latin of Joseph James Plenck.
Plenck, Joseph Jacob, Ritter von, 1738-1807.Date: 1772- Books
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A dissertation on the effects of mercury on human bodies, in the cure of the venereal disease. ... By George Key, surgeon. To which is added, the extraordinary case of John Bodle, ... wounded at Clifton Moor, ... containing some animadversions on the use of the bark: ...
Key, George.Date: 1747- Books
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A view of ehe [sic] science of life; on the principles established in The elements of medicine, of the late celebrated John Brown, M.D. With an attempt to correct some important errors of that work. And cases in illustration, chiefly selected from the records of their practice, at the General Hospital, at Calcutta. By William Yates & Charles Maclean. To which is subjoined, A treatise on the action of mercury upon living bodies, and its application for the cure of diseases of indirect debility. And A dissertation on the source of epidemic and pestilential diseases; in which is attempted to prove, by a numerous induction of facts, that they never arise from contagion, but are always produced by certain states, or certain vicissitudes of the atmosphere. By Charles Maclean, of Calcutta.
Yates, William, fl. 1797.Date: 1797- Books
Thermometrum magnum, or, Grand standard thermometer : expressing all degrees of heat and cold, from that with which mercury boils, to that which congeals it into solid metal. To which are adjusted the celebrated scales of Sir Isaac Newton, Fahrenheit, De L'Isle, and Reaumur, for comparing observations made in every part of the globe, and in all degrees of temperature in the air, or any other bodies. The whole delineated on, and illustrated by, a large copper-plate / by Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: 1772- Books
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A critical dissertation upon the manner of the preparation of mercurial medicines, and their operation on human bodies; particularly those most in fashion: Also, A Demonstration that all the Methods hitherto invented, in order to convey Quick-Silver internally into the Blood, retaining its metalline Texture and Properties, have proved abortive. As also, A certain Method of introducing the same Metal in its essential or native Dress internally into the Blood; and the Manner of it mechanically, explain'd; not publish'd before. Address'd to the Royal College of Physicians, London. By T - K - a member of the same.
Knight, Thomas, -1760.Date: [1734]- Books
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Constructions of cancer in early modern England : ravenous natures / Alanna Skuse.
Skuse, Alanna, 1986-Date: 2015- Books
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The hospital surgeon: containing the nature and cure of the following diseases. Lues venerea, schirrhus's, ... pimples in the face. By Augustin Belloste, ...
Belloste, Augustin, 1654-1730.Date: [1745?]- Books
A view of ehe [sic] science of life; on the principles established in the Elements of medicine, of the late celebrated John Brown, M.D. With an attempt to correct some important errors of that work; and cases in illustration, chiefly selected from the records of their practice, at the General Hospital, at Calcutta / By William Yates & Charles Maclean. To which is subjoined, A treatise on the action of mercury, upon living bodies, and its application for the cure of diseases of indirect debility. And a dissertation on the source of epidemic and pestilential diseases; in which is attempted to prove, by a numerous induction of facts, that they never arise from contagion, but are always produced by certain states, or certain vicissitudes of the atmosphere. By Charles Maclean, of Calcutta.
Yates, William, active 1797.Date: 1797- Books
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A dissertation on the effects of mercury on human bodies, in the cure of the venereal disease ... / by George Key, surgeon : to which is added, the extraordinary case of John Bodle, ... wounded at Clifton Moor, ... containing some animadversions on the use of the bark.
Key, George.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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A view of the science of life : on the principles established in the Elements of medicine, of the late celebrated John Brown, M.D. : with an attempt to correct some important errors of that work : and cases in illustration, chiefly selected from the records of their practice, at the General Hospital, at Calcutta / by William Yates & Charles Maclean ; to which is subjoined a treatise on the action of mercury upon living bodies, and its application for the cure of diseases of indirect debility ; and a dissertation on the source of epidemic and pestilential diseases ; in which is attempted to prove, by a numerous induction of facts, that they never arise from contagion, but are always produced by certain states, or certain vicissitudes of the atmosphere / by Charles Maclean, of Calcutta.
Yates, William, active 1797.Date: 1801- Books
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A dissertation on the effects of mercury on human bodies, in the cure of the venereal disease. With a comparative view of the methods by salivation, unction, and purgation, and the more effectual manner of cure, by the use of the mercurial ointment, without either salivating of purging, as practised at Montpelier and now at Paris, by the learned Doctors Astruc and Cantwell, whereby the train of direful symptoms attending salivation are happily avoided, as also the inconveniences of purgation. To which is added, the extraordinary case of John Bodle, a dragoon in Lord Mark Ker's regiment, who was wounded at Clifton Moor ... containing some animadversions on the use of the bark, wherein it is proved, not to be that universal remedy in all constitutions labouring under gun shot wounds ... / Together with some remarks and observations of the author with respect to the effects of an instrument lately invented by him.
Key, George (Surgeon)Date: 1747