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Speedy help for rich and poor : or, certain physicall discourses touching the vertue of whey, in the cure of the griping flux of the belly, and of the dysentery. Of cold water, in the cure of the gout, and green-wounds. Of wine-vineger, in the preservation from, and cure of the plague, and other pestilential diseases: as also in the prevention of the hydrophobia, or dread of water, caused by the biting of a mad dog. &c. Written in Latine by Hermannus Vander Heyden, a physician of Gaunt.
Heyden, Hermann van der, 1572-approximately 1650Date: 1653- Books
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The countryman's jewel, or, The government of cattel : divided into three books : the first, dicoursing of the government of horses with approved medicines against most diseases : the second, treating of oxen, kine, and calves ... : the third, discoursing the ordering of sheep, goats, hogs, and dogs, with true remedies to help the infirmities that befall any of them : also, perfect instructions for taking of moles, and likewise for the monthly husbanding of grounds ... : also directions for gardening / gathered at first by Leonard Mascal, but much inlarged by Rich. Ruscam, Gent.
Mascall, Leonard, -1589Date: 1680- Books
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The government of cattel : Divided into three books. The first, treating of oxen, kine, and calves: and how to use bulls, and other cattel, to the yoke or fell. The second, discoursing of the government of horses; with approved medicines against most diseases. The third, discoursing the order of sheep, goats, hogs, and dogs; with true remedies to help the infirmities that befall any of them. Also, perfect instructions for taking of moals; and likewise for the monthly husbanding of grounds: and hath been already approved, and by long experience entertained amongst all sorts; especially husbandmen, who have made use thereof, to their great profit and contentment. Gathered by Leonard Mascal. Chief farrier to King James.
Mascall, Leonard, -1589Date: 1662- Books
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Markham's method, or epitome : Wherein is shewed his approved remedies for all diseases whatsoever incident to horses, and they almost 300. all cured with twelve medicines only, not of twelve pence cost, and to be got commonly every where. Also for curing of all oxen, kine, bulls, calves, sheep, lambs, goats, swine, dogs of all kinds, conies, all sorts of poultry, all water-fowl, as geese, ducks, swans, and the like; pigeons, all singing birds, hawks of all kinds; and other creatures serviceable for the use of man. Divided into twelve general points or heads. By Gervase Markham, gentleman.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: 1671- Books
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The government of cattel : Divided into three books. The first, treating of oxen, kine, and calves: and how to use bulls, and other cattel, to the yoke or fell. The second, discoursing of the gouernment of horses, with approved medicines against most diseases. The third, discoursing the order of sheep, goats, hogs, and dogs; with true remedies to help the infirmities that befall any of them. Also, perfect instructions for taking of moals, and likewise for the monthly husbanding of grounds; and hath been already approved, and by long experience entertained amongst all sorts; especially husbandmen, who have made use thereof, to their great profit and contentment. Gathered by Leonard Mascal.
Mascall, Leonard, -1589Date: 1662- Books
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The country farrier : Teaching divers and sundry approved medicines, to cure all sorts of cattell: as horse, kine, sheepe, hogs, and dogs. With directions how to find or know, what the disease or infirmity is. Very usefull for all country-farmers housholders, and travellers in generall. Whereunto is annexed, a brief kalender for country-men shewing all dayes of note in every moneth, the time of sun rising and setting, the length of the day, also most of the principall fayres in England when and where kept, with severall roades and distance of miles to the city of London. Published for a common good, by the experience of William Poole.
Poole, William, farrierDate: 1652- Books
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The husbandman, farmer and grasier's compleat instructor : Containing choice and approved rules, and directions for breeding, feeding, chusing, buying, selling, well ordering and fatning bulls, cows, calves, rams, ews, lambs, swine, goats, asses, mules, &c. : How to know the several diseases incident to them, by their signs and symptoms, with proper remedies to cure them; : as likewise all griefs, and sorrances what-ever. : Also, a treatise of dogs, and conies, in their breeding, ordering, and curing the distempers they are subject to. : To which is added, The experienced vermine-killer, in particular directions, for taking and destroying all sorts of vermine in houses, out-houses, fields, garden, graneries, and other places. / By A.S. Gent.
A. S., GentDate: 1697- Books
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The witch of Wapping, Or An exact and perfect relation, of the life and devilish practises of Joan Peterson : that dwelt in Spruce Island, near Wapping; who was condemned for practising witch-craft, and sentenced to be hanged at Tyburn, on Munday the 11th. of April, 1652. Shewing, how she bewitch'd a child, and rock'd the cradle in the likenesse of a cat; how she frighted a baker; and how the devil often came to suck her, sometimes in the likeness of a dog, and other times like a squirrel. Together, with the confession of Prudence Lee, who was burnt in Smithfield on Saturday the 10th. of this instant for the murthering her husband: and her admonition and counsel to all her sex in general.
Date: 1652- Books
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Britains royal star: Or, An astrological demonstration of Englands future felicity : deduced from the position of the heavens as they beheld the earth in the meridian of London, at the first proclaiming of his Sacred Majesty King Charles the second, on May 8. 10h. 56m. A.M. 1660. And an enquiry made into the use and abuse of astrologie, resolving whether it be convenient to be continued or contemned. Also, an admirable observation of a conjunction of Jupiter and Mars made in the year 1170. by a learned monck of Canterbury, communicated to the learned in astronomy. Together with an exaination and refutation of that nest of sedition, published by Mr. H. Jessey, concerning frogs, dogs, &c. in his pamplet falsly intituled, The Lods Loud call to England, &c. / By John Gadbury, philomathematicus.
Gadbury, John, 1627-1704Date: 1661. [i.e. 1660]- Books
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Doctor Lambs darling: or, strange and terrible news from Salisbury : being a true, exact, and perfect relation, of the great and wonderful contract and engagement made between the devil, and Mistris Anne Bodenham; with the manner how she could transform her self into the shape of a mastive dog, a black lyon, a white bear, a woolf, a bull, and an cat; and by her charms and spels, send either man or woman 40 miles an hour in the ayr. The tryal, examination, and confession of the said mistris Bodenham, before the Lord chief Baron Wild, & the sentence of death pronounc'd against her, for bewitching of An Stiles, and forcing her to write her name in the devils book with her own blood; so that sometimes the devil appearing all in black without a head, renting her cloaths, tearing her skin, and tossing her up and down the chamber, to the great astonishment of the spectators. Appointed to be printed and published, as a caveat and warning piece for England, Scotland, and Ireland. James Bower, Cleric.
Date: 1653- Books
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The works of Ambrose Parey, chyrurgeon to Henry II. Francis II. Charles IX. and Henry III. Kings of France. : Wherein are contained an introduction to chirurgery in general : a discourse of animals, and of the excellency of man. The anatomy of man's body. A treatise of praeternatural tumors ... Illustrated with variety of figures, and the cuts of the most useful instruments in chirurgery. Recommended by the University of Paris to all students in physick and chirurgery, particularly such as practised in camps and the sea.
Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590.Date: M DC XCI. [1691]- Books
Epigenetics in the age of twitter : pop culture and modern science / Gerald Weissmann.
Weissmann, Gerald.Date: 2012- Archives and manuscripts
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Wellcome Apocalypse
Date: c.1420Reference: MS.49- Archives and manuscripts
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Date: 1942 - 2000Reference: WF/M/PB/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd