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Dictionaire oeconomique: or, the family dictionary. Containing, the most experienced methods of improving estates and of preserving health, with many approved Remedies for most Distempers of the Body of Man, Cattle and other Creatures, and the best Means for attaining long Life. The most advantageous Ways of Breeding, Feeding and Ordering of Domestick Animals, as Horses, Kine, Sheep, Swine, Poultry, Bees, Silkworms, &c. The different Kinds of Nets, Snares and Engines, for taking most Sorts of Fish, Birds, and other Game. Great Variety of Rules, Directions, and new Discoveries, relating to Gardening, Husbandry, Soils and Manures of all Sorts: The Planting and Culture of Vines, Fruit-Trees, Forest-Trees, Underwoods, Shrubs, Flowers, and their several Uses: The Knowledge of Foreign Drugs, Dies, Domestick and Exotick Plants and Herbs, with their specifick Qualities and medicinal Virtues. The best and cheapest Ways of providing and improving all manner of Meats and Drinks; of preparing several Sorts of Wines, Waters and Liquors for every Season, both by Distillation and otherwise: Of preserving all kind of Fruits as well dry as liquid, and making divers Sweetmeats and Works of Sugar, and other profitable Curiosities, both in the Confectionary and Culinary Arts of Housewifery. Means of making the most Advantages of the Manufactures of Soap, Starch, Spinning, Cotton, Thread, &c. The Methods to take or destroy Vermin, and other Animals injurious to Gardening, Husbandry, and rural Oeconomy; with a Description of Garden and other Country Tools and Utensils. An Account of the several Weights, Measures, &c. of Metals and Minerals, with their Preparations and Uses. All sorts of rural sports and exercises, conducing to the Benefit and innocent Enjoyments of Life; as also Painting in Miniature, and divers other Arts and Ternis of Art explain'd, for the Entertainment and Amusement of Gentlemen, Ladies, &c. The whole illustrated throughout with very great Variety of Figures, for the readier understanding and practising of those things to which they belong. Done into English from the second edition, lately printed at Paris, in two Volumes, Folio, written by M Chomell. With considerable alterations and improvements. Revised and recommended by Mr. R. Bradley, Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, and F. R. S. In two volumes. Vol. I. From A - to - H.
Chomel, Noel, 1632-1712.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Archives and manuscripts
Cooper & Nephews South Africa (Pty) Ltd
Cooper McDougall & Robertson Limited: Cooper & Nephews South Africa (Pty) Limited, 1927-Date: 21 Dec 1927 - 6 Dec 1966Reference: WF/C/S/06Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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Medical researches: being an enquiry into the nature and origin of hysterics in the female constitution, and into the distinction between that disease and hypochondriac or nervous disorders. Comprehending A Specification of the characteristic Refinement and Excellence of the Female Constitution and Character. A Research into the Materiality of these Occult Powers and Principles of Activity, commonly called Life, in the Human Frame. - Into the real Existence of an Image of our whole Organical Frame, in the Seat and Fountain of its Powers, and the physical Probability of there being a Regeneration of that Image in Organs formed for the Transfusion and Multiplication of Individual Life. - The true Nature, Symptoms, and Indications of Cure of the Hysterical Disease-The Abuse of Sugar, as a Cause of its encreased Frequency, and the encreased frequency of Infant Mortality. - The precise Seat of Animal Heat. - The Structure of the Blood. - Practical Hints, relative both to the Hysterical and Hypochondriacal Diseases, and the Management of them, &c. &c. Together with the substance of a discourse, proving that the motions of the blood and animal fluids, do not depend on the impulses of the heart upon the Blood, but must be referred to other Causes, and particularly to an Animal Modification of that universal Principle which is the common Cause of all Organisation, and of all organical Motions in Bodies. To which are added, four letters to Sir Hildebrand Jacob, on the Materiality-Density-And Activity of light; and on air. By Andrew Wilson, M. D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians at Edinburgh, and Physician to the Medical Asylum, London.
Wilson, Andrew, 1718-1792.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Videos
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Living with diabetes.
Date: 1959- Archives and manuscripts
Beckenham; Berkhamsted; Dartford; Explorers; Floating laboratory; Medicine cases; products; Beckenham plan
Date: c.1890-c.1985Reference: WF/M/I/PR/Z1Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
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The act of tonnage and poundage, and rates of merchandize, with the further subsidy; The ? and ? Subsidies; The Old Impost; The Additional Impost; and all other duties relating to His Majesty's Customs, payable upon any Sort of Merchandize Imported or Exported. Digested into an easie method, Whereby in one View may be found the several Duties upon each particular Commodity specified in the Old Book of Rates, or any other Act of Parliament, and the Nett Duties Payable thereon at Importation, or to be Repaid on Exportation. AS Also The Rules Annext to the Book of Rates; And the Table of Officers Fees. And a collection of such statutes and part of Statutes, relating to His Majesty's Customs, as passed since the Act of tonnage and poundage 12 Car. II. Like Wise, An Abridgment of several Statutes now in Force and Use, which passed before the said Act. And several Acts and parts of Acts relating to the Duties on Salt, which were omitted in their proper Places. AS Also The Ports of Great Britain, the Lawful Keys in the Port of London: With the Tables of Scavage, Package, Balliage, Packers-Porters Duties in the said Port, and the usual Tares and Draughts. With Abstracts of the Duties on Salt, the Duties of Excise, and Inland Duties, Drawbacks of Excise and Salt, and Refined Sugar; Bounty on Exportation of British made Sail-Cloth, British Manufactures of Silk, and British Com; and Praemium on Naval Stores from the Plantations or Scotland; and the Duties on Coal, Culm, and Cynders Coastwise. To which is added by way of Appendix, The several Acts which passed the last Session relating to the Customs, with the Additional Book of Rates of Goods and Merchandizes usually Imported, and not particularly Rated in the Old Book of Rates; Digested in the same Method as the said Old Book of Rates; With Rules, Orders, and Regulations, Signed by the Right Honourable Spencer Compton, Esq; Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons. The Several Duties payable upon Rated Drugs Imported after 24 June, 1725. And A List of several Goods not inserted Alphabetically in the said Books of Rates: With Directions where to find them. AS Also A Catalogue of the several Acts, when Granted, and how long to Continue. Together with, An Alphabetical Index to the Whole.
Great Britain.Date: 1728- Books
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The act of tonnage and poundage, and rates of merchandize, with the further subsidy; The ? and ? Subsidies; The Old Impost; The Additional Impost; and all other duties relating to His Majesty's Customs, payable upon any Sort of Merchandize Imported or Exported. Digested into an easie method, Whereby in one View may be found the several Duties upon each particular Commodity specified in the Old Book of Rates, or any other Act of Parliament, and the Nett Duties Payable thereon at Importation, or to be Repaid on Exportation. As also The Rules Annext to the Book of Rates; And the Table of Officers Fees. And a collection of such statutes and part of Statutes, relating to His Majesty's Customs, as passed since the Act of tonnage and poundage 12 Car. II. Likewise, An Abridgment of several Statutes now in Force and Use, which passed before the said Act. And Several Acts and parts of Acts relating to the Duties on Salt, which were omitted to their proper Places. As also The Ports of Great Britain, the Lawful Keys in the Port of London: With the Tables of Scavage, Package, Balliage, Packers-Porters Duties in the said Port, and the usual Tares and Draughts. With Abstracts of the Duties on Salt, the Duties of Excise, and Inland Duties, Drawbacks of Excise and Salt, and Refined Sugar; Bounty on Exportation of British made Sail-Cloth, British Manufactures of Silk, and British Corn; and Praemium on Naval Stores from the Plantations or Scotland; and the Duties on Coal, Culm, and Cynders Coastwise. To which is added by way of Appendix, The several Acts which passed the last Session relating to the Customs, with the Additional Book of Rates of Goods and Merchandizes usually Imported, and not particularly Rated in the Old Book of Rates; Digested in the same Method as the said Old Book of Rates; With Rules, Orders, and Regulations, Signed by the Right Honourable Spencer Compton, Esq; Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons. The Several Duties payable upon Rated Drugs Imported after 24 June, 1725. And A List of several Goods not inserted Alphabetically in the said Books of Rates: With Directions where to find them. As also A Catalogue of the several Acts, when Granted, and how long to Continue. Together with An Alphabetical Index to the Whole.
Great Britain.Date: MDCCXXVI. [1726]- Ephemera
Water supply and sewerage ephemera. Box 2.
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Tabloid Department production totals
Date: c1929-1936Reference: WF/CW/17/04Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Chemical Works, Dartford
Wellcome Chemical Works, DartfordDate: 1897-1973Reference: WF/CWPart of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Archives and manuscripts
Cleave, Surgeon Captain 'Peter' Thomas Latimer
Cleave, Thomas Latimer "Peter" (1906-1983)Date: 1925-1985Reference: PP/TLC- Videos
The battle to beat polio.
Date: 2014- Archives and manuscripts
[Journals], 1971-1979
Date: 1971-1979Reference: PP/TLC/F.6/4Part of: Cleave, Surgeon Captain 'Peter' Thomas Latimer- Videos
The men who made us thin. Part 3.
Date: 2013- Ephemera
Drug advertising ephemera : Pre-1850. Box 1.