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Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
London chemist: prescription-Books
Date: 1845-1888Reference: MSS.3975-3993- Books
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Preservatives against the plague, or, Directions & advertisements for this time of pestilential contagion : with certain instructions for the poorer sort of people when they shall be visited and also a caveat to those that were about their necks impoisoned amulets as a preservative against that sickness : published in the behoofe of the city of London, now visited, and all other parts of the land that may or shall hereafter be visited / by Francis Herring.
Herring, Francis, -1628Date: 1665- Books
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The compleat herbal of physical plants : containing all such English and foreign herbs, shrubs and trees as are used in physick and surgery ... : the doses or quantities of such as are prescribed by the London-physicians and others are proportioned : also directions for making compound-waters, syrups simple and compound, electuaries ... : moreover the gums, balsams, oyls, juices, and the like, which are sold by apothecaries and druggists are added to this herbal, and their irtues and uses are fully described / by John Pechey.
Pechey, John, 1655-1716Date: 1694- Books
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Preservatives against the plague, or directions and advertisements for this time of pestilentiall contagion : VVith certaine instructions for the poorer sort of people when they shall bee visited: and also a caveat to those that weare about their necks impoisoned amulets as a preservative against that sicknesse. First publisheed for the behoofe of the city of London, in the two visitations 1603. and 1625. and reprinted for the benefit of the said citie, now visited, and all other parts of the land, that may or shall hereafter be. By Francis Herring Dr. in physick, deceased.
Herring, Francis, -1628Date: 1641- Books
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Speculum perspicuum Uranicum, or, An almanack for the year of Christ, 1684 : being the third after the bissextile or leap-year and from description of the year and of the several parts thereof : with a just account of such eclipses as will happen this year as also the place of the sun and moon with their rising and setting and the moon's southing, with brief predictions of the present transactions of the world and observations on the weather in every month : with several necessary tables and observations of worth for all sorts of persons : with a compendious chronology in every month of all such memorable actions as hath passed of late times to this present year, 1684 : for the meridian of ... London ... / collected and published by Lancelot Coelson.
Coelson, Lancelot, 1627-approximately 1687Date: [1684]
