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The general and particular principles of animal electricity and magnetism, &c. in which are found Dr. Bell's secrets and practice, AS Delivered To His Pupils In Paris, London, Dublin, Bristol, Glocester, Worcester, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Chester, Liverpool, Manchester, &c. &c. Shewing how to Magnetise and Cure different Diseases; to produce Crises, as well as Somnambulism, or Sleep-Walking; and in that State of Sleep to make a Person eat, drink, walk, sing and play upon any Instruments they are used to, &c. to make Apparatus and other Accessaries to produce Magnetical Facts; also to Magnetise Rivers, Rooms, Trees, and other Bodies, animate and inanimate; to raise the Arms, Legs of a Person awake, and to make him rise from his Chair; to raise the Arm of a Person absent from one Room to another; also to treat him at a Distance. All the New Experiments and Phenomena are explained by Monsieur le Docteur Bell, Professor of that Science, And Member of the Philosophical Harmonic Society at Paris, Fellow Correspondent of M. Le Court de Geblin's Museum; and the only Person authorised by Patent from the First Noblemen in France, to teach and practise that Science in England, Ireland, &c. Price Five Shillings.
Bell, John, Professor of Animal Magnetism.Date: 1792- Books
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Gees and hennes that be at the.
Date: [between 1500 and 1599?]- Books
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Cheape and good husbandry : for the well-ordering of all beasts and fowles and for the generall cure of their diseases.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: 1653- Books
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Cheape and good husbandry : for the well-ordering of all beasts and fowles, and the general cure of their diseases : containing the natures, breeding, choice, use, feeding, and curing of the diseases, of all manner of cattel, as horse, oxe, cow, sheepe, goats, swine, and tame conies : shewing further the whole art of riding great horses ... : also, approved rules for the cramming and fatting of all sorts of poultry ... : together with the use and profit of bees, the manner of fish-ponds ... : gathered together for the generall good and profit of the common-wealth.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: 1660- Books
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Cheape and good husbandry : for the well-ordering of all beasts and fowles, and for the general cure of their diseases : containing the natures, breeding, choice, use, feeding, and curing of the diseases, of all manner of cattell, as horse, oxe, cow, sheepe, goats, swine, and tame conies : shewing further the whole art of riding great horses ... : also, approved rules for the cramming and fatting of all sorts of poultry ... : together with the use and profit of bees, the manner of fish-ponds ... : gathered together for the generall good and profit of the common-wealth.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: 1657- Books
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Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts and fowls and for the general cure of their diseases : containing the natures, breeding, choice, use, feeding, and curing of the diseases of all manner of cattel ... shewing further the whole art of riding ... also, approved rules for the cramming and fatting all sorts of poultry and fowls ... together with the use and profit of bees, the manner of fish-ponds, and the taking of all sorts of fish : gathered together for the general good and profit of the common-wealth.
Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637Date: MDCLXXXIII [1683]- Books
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The compleat farmer: or, the whole art of husbandry. Containing I. Instructions for stocking a farm to advantage. II. Of the breeding and management of horses, Mares, Colts, &c. and the most approved Receipts in Farriery for all Manner of Diseases they are subject to. III. Of Bulls, Cows, Calves, Oxen: How to make the greatest Advantage of them, how to know when they are ill, and Receipts to cure all their Disorders. IV. Of breeding Sheep, and Receipts for their Diseases. V. Of Goats. VI. Of Swine, and how to make them turn out very advantageous. Of feeding them and fattening them for Bacon. Receipts to cure the Gargut, Measles, and all their other Disorders. Vii. Of wild and tame Rabbits. Of Dogs. Viii. Of Fowls. Of curing their Maladies. To fatten Chickens. IX. The best Method of managing Geese, Ducks, Turkies, Pigeons, Bees, &c. X. Of making Hay. XI. Of the several Sorts of Grass, Seeds, &c. By Mr. Robert Brown, Of Hill-Farm, in Somersetshire.
Brown, Robert, of Hill Farm, Somersetshire.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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The compleat farmer: or, the whole art of husbandry. Containing, I. Instructions for stocking a farm to advantage. II. Of the breeding and management of horses, Mares, Colts, &c. and the most approved Receipts in Fariery for all Manner of Diseases they are subject to. III. Of Bulls, Cows, Calves, Oxen: How to make the greatest Advantage of them, how to know when they are ill, and Receipts to cure all their Disorders. IV. Of breeding Sheep, and Receipts for their Diseases. V. Of Goats. VI. Of Swine, and how to make them turn out very advantageous. Of feeding them and fattening them for Bacon, Receipts to cure the Gargut, Measles, and all their other Disorders. VII. Of wild and tame Rabbits. Of Dogs. VIII. Of Fowls. Of curing their Maladies. To fatten Chickens. IX. The best Method of managing Geese, Ducks, Turkies, Pigeons, Bees, &c. X. Of making Hay. XI. Of the several Sorts of Grass, Seeds, &c. By Mr. Robert Brown, Of Hill-Farm, in Somersetshire.
Brown, Robert, of Hill Farm, Somersetshire.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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The compleat farmer: or, the whole art of husbandry. Containing I. Instructions for stocking a Farm to advantage. II. Of the Breeding and Management of Horses, Mares, Colts, &c. and the most approved Receipts in Farriery for all Manner of Diseases they are subject to. III. Of Bulls, Cows, Calves, Oxen: How to make the greatest Advantage of them, how to know when they are ill, and Receipts to cure all their Disorders. IV. Of breeding Sheep, and Receipts for their Diseases. V. Of Goats. VI. Of Swine, and how so make whom turn out very advantageous. Of feeding them and fattening them for Bacon. Receipts to cure the Gargut, Measles, and all their other Disorders. VII. Of wild and tame Rabbits. Of Dogs. VIII. Of Fowls. Of curing their Maladies. To fatten Chickens. IX. The best Method of managing Geese, Ducks, Turkies, Pigeons, Bees, &c. X. Of making Hay. XI. Of the several Sorts of Grass, Seeds; &c. By Mr. Robert Brown, Of Hill-Farm, in Somersetshire.
Brown, Robert, of Hill Farm, Somersetshire.Date: [1759]- Books
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A book of knowledge : In three parts. : The first containing a brief introduction to astrology, shewing the nature, quality and effects of the twelve signs, and seven planets, their dominion over bodies, with the fortunes of those calculated, who are born under them, also a delightful wheel of fortune. : The second, a treatise of physick, the anatomy of mans body, the diseases incident to the body of man:, rules and receipts for the curing of them; : also rules for sweating, bathing, conserving, and preserving, and the way to make cordial-waters. : Also the principal rules of arithmetick, very plain and easie. : The third, the countrey-mans guide to good husbandry : rules for setting and planting of orchards, gardens, and woods : also rare receipts for curing diseases in horses, sheep, cows, and oxen; : also an almanack for ever and other variety of inventions, very profitable and advantageous. / Composed by Samuel Strangehopes.
Strangehopes, SamuelDate: 1679- Books
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A new plan for speedily increasing the number of bee-hives in Scotland; and which may be extended, with equal success, to England, Ireland, America, To Any Other Part Of The World Capable Of Producing Flowers. By James Bonner, Bee-Master, author of practical warping made east, &c.
Bonner, James, writer on bee-keeping.Date: [1795]- Books
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A collection for the improvement of husbandry and trade. Consisting of many valuable materials relating to corn, cattle, coals, hops, wool, &c. With a compleat catalogue of the several sorts of earths, and their proper product; the best sorts of manure for each; with the art of draining and flooding of lands; as also full and exact histories of trades, as malting, brewing, &c. the description and structure of instruments for husbandry, and carriages, with the manner of their imrovement; an account of the rivers of England, &c. and how far they may be made navigable; of weights and measures, of woods, cordage, and metals; of building and stowage the vegetation of plants, &c. with many other useful particulars, communicated by several eminent members of the Royal Society, to the collector, John Houghton, F.R.S. Now revised, corrected, and published, with a preface and useful indexes, by Richard Bradley, F.R.S. and professor of botany in the University of Cambridge. In three volumes.
Houghton, John, 1640-1705.Date: M,DCC,XXVII. [i.e. 1727 - 1728]- Books
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The farmer. Comprehending the several most interesting objects and beneficial practices in the culture of wheat, rye, Barley, Oats, Buckwheat, Peas, Beans, Tares, Rape, Hemp, Flax, Weld, Turnips, Carrots, Potatoes, Cabbages, Clover, Lucerne, Saintfoin, &c. &c. &c. With the Application and Value of their Products, &c. Together with the Cultivation of Hops, Vines, Forest Trees, Fruit Trees, Kitchen and Flower Garden Productions. Likewise, directions in the breeding and improvement of horses, oxen, Cows, Calves, Sheep, Lambs, and Hogs; With Remarks for Purchasing, Feeding and Disposing of them to greatest Advantage; and the Methods of Preventing and Removing their most fatal Disorders. Also, rules for the treatment and rearing of poultry, viz. Pheasants, Turkeys, Geese, Fowl, Tame Rabbits, Pigeons, &c. And the ordering of bees, and their Labors. To which is prefixed, an introductory essay, calculated to give a clear and perspicuous view of the theory of agriculture, and its Progress from earliest Antiquity to the present Time. By Josiah Ringsted, Esq; Author of the Cattle Keeper's Assistant, or Complete Directory for Country Gentlemen, Sportsmen, Farmers, Graziers, Farriers, Game and Cow Keepers, Horse Dealers, Carriers, &c. and a Diary, containing Tables for the easier Arrangement of the Accounts, of the Business of Gardening, Cattle Keeping, Game Keeping, &c. &c.
Ringsted, Josiah, -1812.Date: [1781?]- Books
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The practical bee-master: in which will be shewn how to manage bees either in straw hives or in boxes, Without Destroying Them, And With More Ease, Safety, And Profit, Than BY Any Method Hitherto Made Public, Viz. I. To manage Bees in Straw Hives, with new constructed Tops, at a small expence, as profitably and easily as with Boxes. II. In Boxes of an improved and cheap Construction, easily to be managed, and with so little Disturbance to the Bees, that all the necessary operations may be performed without any Danger. III. To catch and secure the Queen, or to fix her and a Swarm to any place you please. IV. To cause Bees to quit a Hive, and to be so tractable as to suffer themselves to be mandled without Stinging. V. Several Methods of Swarming Bees Artificially. VI. To cause a Swarm to work in separated Glasses, without any Hive; or in globular or other glasses, so that pure Virgin Honey may be taken when in its utmost Perfection. Vii. To prevent or cause Bees to swarm. Viii. To take the Honey and yet preserve the Bees, with common Hives only. IX. To unite Casts, Swarms, and Stocks. X. A Catalogue of, and Observations on, the most proper Flowers or Pasturage for Bees. XI. An easy and certain Method of preserving Stocks in Winter and cold Springs. XII. Several new and improved Methods of extracting the Wax from the Combs, two of them without either Straining or Pressing; and each by a single Operation: but more perfectly, and with far less. Trouble and Expence of Fuel than hitherto practiced. Together With Such Full And Plain Directions That the meanest Cottager may attain this profitable Art Without Difficulty, and at a small Expence; interspersed with occasional strictures on Mr. Thomas Wildman's Treatise on bees: With Several New Discoveries And Improvements, The Result Of AtLong Experience, And Deduced From Actual Experiments, by John Keys, Bee - Master.
Keys, John.Date: [1780]- Books
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The farmer's compleat guide, through all the articles of his profession; the laying out, proportioning, and cropping his ground; and The rules for purchasing, managing, and preserving his stock. In particular, The Choice and Culture of Wheat, Barley and Oats, from the Seed to the Barn. The most profitable Way of raising Turneps, with a Proposal for introducing the Northern Turnep, called the Naper, which will live on Bogs. The Management of Meadow and Pasture Ground, and raising of artificial Grasses. The Culture of Beans, Pease, Tares, and Thetches. The Raising of Hemp, Flax and Hops; and an Account of the New Lucerne. The Raising of Hedge Shrubs, Coppice Wood, and Timber Trees. The whole Doctrine of Soils and Manures, and the Ways of suiting one to the other in all Instances. And cheap and effectual Remedies for all the Diseases of Cattle.
Date: M.DCC.LX. [1760]- Books
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Curious remarks and observations in physics, anatomy, chirurgery, chemistry, botany, and medicine. Extracted from the history and memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Containing such useful discoveries as have not been collected by other writers on the same subjects. By Dr. Peter Templeman.
Académie royale des sciences (France)Date: MDCCLIII. - MDCCLIV. [1753-54]- Books
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Dissertations on inflammation. containing, Preliminary Dissert-on some of the Laws of the Animal Economy. Dissert. II. - On the History, causes, and consequences of simple inflammation. By John Burns, Surgeon in Glasgow.
Burns, John, 1774-1850.Date: 1800- Books
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The complete English farmer, or, a practical system of husbandry, founded upon natural, certain, and obvious principles: in which is comprized, a general view of the whole art of agriculture, exhibiting the different effects of cultivating land, according to the usage of the old and new husbandry. The whole exemplified by a series of suitable management from the first apportionment of a farm from the waste; to the time of perfecting it by proper cultivation in every part. To which are added, particular directions for the culture of every species of grain in common use. And a new method of tillage recommended, partaking of the simplicity of the old husbandry, and of all the advantages of the new. Illustrated with plans of the necessary buildings belonging to a farm house; and an attempt to establish a rule for constructing barns, which may be applied to all dimensions; also, accurate delineations of some newly-invented farming instruments. By a practical farmer, and a friend of the late Mr. Jethro Tull, author of the Horse-Hoeing Husbandry.
Henry, David, 1710-1792.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- 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 Resinement 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: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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The elements of moral philosophy. In three books. 1. Of Man, and his Connexions. Of Duty or Moral Obligation. - Various Hypotheses Final Causes of our Moral Faculties of Perception and Affection. 2. The principal Distinction of Duty or Virtue. Man's Duties to Himself. - To Society. - To God. 3. Of Practical Ethics, or the Culture of the Mind. Motives to Virtue from Personal Happiness. - From the Being and Providence of God. - From the Immortality of the Soul. The Result, or Conclusion. By the late Rev. Mr. David Fordyce. Professor of Moral Philosophy, and Author of the Art of Preaching, inscribed to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Fordyce, David, 1711-1751.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Books
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A treatise on the manner of raising forest trees, &c. In a letter from the Right Honourable, the Earl of - to his grandson. To which are added, two memoirs; the one on Preserving and Repairing Forests; The other on the Culture of Forests. - Both translated from the French of M. de Buffon of the Royal Academy at Paris.
Haddington, Thomas Hamilton, Earl of, 1680-1735.Date: M,DCC,LXI. [1761]- 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]- Books
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Modern history: or, the present state of all nations. Describing their respective situations, persons, habits, Buildings, Manners, Laws and Customs, Religion and Policy, Arts and Sciences, Trades, Manufactures and Husbandry, Plants, animals and minerals. By Mr. Salmon. Vol.XIII. Contains the Present State of Spain and Portugal, with an Abstract of the History of those Kingdoms down to the Year 1730. Illustrated with cuts and maps, accurately Drawn, according to the Geographical Part of this Work, by Herman Moll.
Salmon, Thomas, 1679-1767.Date: MDCCXXXI. [1731]- Books
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The British gardener's new director, chiefly adapted to the climate of the northern countries: Directing The Necessary Works In The Kitchen, Fruit, and Pleasure Gardens, And In The Nursery, Green-House, and Stove. By Sir James Justice, Bart. F. R. S. and one of the principal Clerks of Sessions in Scotland. With the addition of his dissertation on the culture of forest-trees. To this Edition are prefixed I. His Treatise on Vegetation with Directions for making Compost for the more curious Flowers. II. An Alphabetical List of Flower Seeds, directing to the Season of sowing them. III. - of Flower Roots, with the Time of setting them. IV. - of Seeds of Trees and Flowering Shrubs, with Directions. V. - of Seeds for the improvement of Land. VI. - of American Tree Seeds, shewing in what particular Manner they are to be sown. Vii. - of the most valuable Oriental single and semi-double Hyacinths, with Reference to their Botanical Names and Culture. Viii. An Explanation of the Botanical Terms made use of in the Work. Illustrated with copper plates.
Justice, James, 1698-1763.Date: M.DCC.LXV. [1765]- Books
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Proposals for publishing A system of anatomy and physiology, human and comparative. In two volumes quarto. By Busick Harwood, M.D. F.R.S. and S.A. Professor of Anatomy in the University of Cambridge. In which the Structure of the Human Body, and of all the different Classes of Animals, will be investigated; their several Organs compared with the corresponding Parts in the Human Species; and their various Functions more fully explained than has hitherto been attempted by Analogy. The above Work will be printed at the Expence of the University, and the Syndics of the University Press will fix the Price of it upon Publication. - But as a great Number of very expensive Plates will be requisite for the Illustration of the various Subjects upon which it must necessarily treat, the Author solicits a Subscription of Two Guineas for the Engravings, Half to be paid at the Time of subscribing, and the Remainder upon the Delivery of the last Volume. Subscriptions are received by Messrs. White, Fleet Street; Mr. Walter, Charing Cross, London; Messrs. J. & J. Merrill, and Mr. Lunn, Cambridge; Mr. J. Cooke, Oxford Mrs. Duncan, Edinburgh; Mr. Horden, Peterborough; and Mrs. Jenkinson, Huntingdon. The Impressions will be delivered to the Subscribers according to the Date of their Subscriptions; and the Price of the Engravings to Nonsubscribers will be doubled.
Harwood, Busick, 1745?-1814.Date: 1796?]