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The mineral waters of Vichy : their origin, physical properties, chemical composition, and curative effects, the diseases in which they are ordered and the way in which the must be prescribed with remarks on the advantages of graduated glasses (verres gradués) to be used in drinking at the springs / by Casimir Daumas.
Daumas, Casimir.Date: 1867- Books
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Wit's cabinet: a companion for gentlemen and ladies. In which is contain'd, I. The interpretation of dreams, according to Artimedorus, and other approved authors. ... X. The art of drinking: or, The school of Bacchus. ... To which is added, a choice collection of the best songs.
Date: [1715?]- Books
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The muses choice: or, the merry fellow. Being a collection of wit and humour, Diversified with an uncommon Variety of Merry Tales; Pointed Satires; Pastoral Eclogues; Humourous Descriptions, Comic Characters in High and Low Life; Songs, English, Welch, Scots and Irish; Rebusses on Drinking Glasses, &c. Epigrams, smart and tart; Epitaphs, odd and curious, &c. &c. All calculated for the Improvement and Diversion of the Young and the Gay, the Sportive and Facetious; and suited to promote Mirth in Good Company, or divert a melancholy Hour. Extracted, partly, from the works of the most celebrated authors, such as Congreve, Pope, Swift, Gay, Prior, &c. and, partly, from originals, taken from private Manuscripts. Jucundus Comes pro vehiculo est.
Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]- Books
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The muses choice: or, the merry fellow. Being a collection of wit and humour, Diversified with an uncommon Variety of Merry Tales; Pointed Satires; Pastoral Eclogues; Humourous Descriptions, Comic Characters in High and Low Life; Songs, English, Welch, Scots and Irish; Rebusses on Drinking Glasses, &c. Epigrams, smart and tart; Epitaphs, odd and curious, &c. &c. All calculated for the Improvement and Diversion of the Young and the Gay, the Sportive and Facetious; and suited to promote Mirth in Good Company, or divert a melancholy Hour. Extracted, partly, from the works of the most celebrated authors, such as Congreve, Pope, Swift, Gay, Prior, &c. and, partly, from originals,taken from private Manuscripts.
Date: 1754- Books
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The muses choice: or, the merry fellow. Being a collection of wit and humour, diversified with an uncommon variety of merry tales; Pointed Satire's; Pastoral Eclogues; Humourous Descriptions, Comic Characters in High and Low Life; Songs, English, Welsh, Scots and Irish; Rebusses on Drinking Glasses, &c. Epigrams, smart and tart; Epitaphs, odd and curious, &c. &c. All calculated for the Improvement and Diversion of the Young and the Gay, the Sportive and facetious; and suited to promote Mirth in Good Company, or divert a melancholy Hour. Extracted, partly, from the Works of the most celebrated Authors, such as Congreve, Pope, Swift, Gay, Prior, &c. and, partly, from Originals, taken from private Manuscripts.
Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
Alcohol and humans : a long and social affair / edited by Kimberley J. Hockings, Robin Dunbar.
Date: 2020- Books
The school of sophisticated drinking : an intoxicating history of seven spirits / Kerstin Ehmer & Beate Hindermann ; foreword by Kevin Brauch ; with illustrations by Angela Dwyer ; [translated by] Jamie McIntosh.
Ehmer, Kerstin, 1965-Date: 2015- Books
The curator as barman / photography by Antje Peters.
Automatic BooksDate: 2015- Books
Message in a bottle : the making of fetal alcohol syndrome / Janet Golden.
Golden, Janet Lynne, 1951-Date: 2005- Books
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The new art of cookery, made plain and easy; Which far exceeds any thing of the kind ever yet published; being enriched with a great variety of receipts from the best treatises on this subject. Containing, I. Of roasting and boiling flesh meat, as well as poultry. II. Of made dishes. III. Of ragous. IV. Of fricasees. V. Of Hashes. VI. Of soups and rich gravies. VII. Of soups for fast days. VIII. Of things necessary for the sick. IX. Of dressing of fish; the sauces for; and how to dress a turtle. X. Of collaring and potting. XI. Of pies of fruit, and a variety of pastes for. XII. Of pies of savoury meat. XIII. Of puddings and dumplings. XIV. Of sweetmeats and other decorations for the table. XV. Of the different plummeries and blanc mange. XVI. Of whips and syllabubs. XVII. Of preserves, jellies and jams. XVIII. Of creams, custards, torts, and cheese-cakes. XIX. Of cakes, as well plumb, seed, and saffron, &c. XX. Of macaroons, Naple's biscuits, and cheese-cakes. XXI. Of little savoury dishes, fit for supper, the sides or corners of the table. XXII. Of salting and preserving beef, pork, and making hams. XXIII. Of pickling, making catchup, vinegar, and the India pickle. XXIV. Of the different wines made of fruit. XXV. Of the use of still, and distilling of the different waters, and making meade. XXVI. Of making bread, well with yeast as leavening. XXVII. Of brewing ... drink. XXVIII. A list of the season thro' the year. XXIX. New ... of fare two course, as they are be laid on the table. XXX. Washes and salves for the skin, &c. XXXI. Some valuable physical receipts. With the addition of a variety of original receipts never before published. The representation of the frame for doing things by the steam; and the new contrivance of boiling kettles and other culinary vessels. By. H. Glasse.
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.Date: M.DCC.LXXIII. [1773]- Books
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Speculum ægrotorum: the sicke-mens glasse: or a plaine introduction wherby one may giue a true and infallible iudgement, of the life or death of a sicke bodie, the originall cause of the griefe, how he is tormented and afflicted, what thinges are medicinable to the diseased person: and the day and houre in which he shall recouer, or surrender his vitall breath. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the foure humors, and how they are ingendered and distributed in our humane bodies; with certaine and manifest signes to discerne of whate complexion any man is: and the operation that eating, drinking, rest and exercise, worketh in euery person: with certain speciall preseruatiues for the eye-sight / Composed by John Fage.
Fage, John, student in phisicke.Date: 1606- Books
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Speculum ægrotorum. The sicke-mens glasse : or, A plaine introduction wherby one may giue a true, and infallible iudgement, of the life or death of a sicke bodie, the originall cause of the griefe, how he is tormented and afflicted, what thinges are medicinable to the diseased person: and the day and houre in which he shall recouer, or surrender his vitall breath. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the foure humors, and how they are ingendered and distributed in our humane bodies: with certaine and manifest signes to discerne of what complexion any man is: and the operation that eating, drinking rest and exercise, worketh in euery person: with certaine speciall preseruatiues for the eye-sight. Composed by Iohn Fage, student in phisicke, and practitioner in astrologie.
Fage, John, student in phisickeDate: 1606- Books
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Speculum ægrotorum. The sick-mens glasse : or, A plaine introduction whereby one may give a true, and infallible iudgement, of the life or death of a sicke body, the originall cause of the griefe, how hee is tormented and afflicted, what things are medicinable to the diseased person: and the day and houre in which hee shall recover, or surrender his vitall breath. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the foure humours, and how they are ingendred and distributed in our humane bodies: with certaine and manifest signes to discerne of what complexion any man is: and the operation that eating, drinking, rest and exercise, worketh in every person: with certaine speciall preservatives for the eye-sight. Composed by Iohn Fage, student in phisicke, and practitioner in astrologie.
Fage, John, student in phisickeDate: 1638- Books
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Aristotle's true fortune-teller, containing a great many rare and true receipts for love. Viz. First, whether a person shall marry or live single. How to make a man or woman love you-how bachelors maids, widows &c. shall see the face of them they shall marry in a drinking glass. The interpretation of dreams. The signification of moles-how to know whether a female be a pure virgin or not-to make an inchanted love ring, to cause one to fall in love with you how to make a true love powder-how to know if a ... his lost his maiden head or not-in what hour you shall find the female fern seed excellent in the way of love-and lastly, love observations on hearing the cuckow song.
Date: 1786- Books
Bio auto graphic : a glass half-full : a glass half-empty. Number 22 / by Michael C. Nicholson.
Nicholson, Michael C. (Michael Christopher), 1962-Date: 2012- Books
Spoiled : the myth of milk as a superfood / Anne Mendelson.
Mendelson, AnneDate: [2023]- Books
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Hocus pocus: or, a rich cabinet of legerdemain curiosities, natural and artificial conclusions. Shewing 1. How to cleave Money. 2. To make Sport with Cats, Ducks, or Poultry. 3. To hang two Knives on the brim of a glass. 4. To wash your Hands in melted Lead without damage. 5. To make a Sixpence seem to fall thro' a Table. 6. To teach Children to Read by Dice. 7. Divers wonderful Things done by the Loadstone. 8. To catch kites, crows, Mogpies, &c. alive. 9. To catch a Pick-Pocket. 10. To name a Pack of Cards, and not see them. 11. To write Love Letters secretly. 12. Experiments in Drawing, Painting, Geometry, Astronomy, &c. 13. To make variety of Fireworks. 14. To keep Fowl Venison, or any Flesh, sweet a Month. 15 To make a Drink when you cannot relish other Liquors. 16. To fox Fish and Fowle. 17. To make one Candle out outlast three: 18. To preserve Fruit all the Year. 19. To make excellent Plaistering for Ceilings or Wolls. With many other Natural and Artificial Conclusions, affording great Variety of Innocent Sport and pastime. - Adorn'd with above AC curious Cuts. By J. White, a Lover of Art and ingenuity
White, John, -1671.Date: [1715?]- Books
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Hocus pocus: or, a rich cabinet of legerdemain curiosities, natural and artificial conclusions. Shewing 1. How to cleave money. 2. To make Sport with Cats, Ducks, or Poultry. 3. To hang two Knives on the brim of a Glass. 4. To wash your Hands in melted Lead without damage. 5. To make a Sixpence seem to fall thro' a Table. 6. Teach Children to Read by Dice. 7. Divers wonderful Things done by the Loadstone. 8. To catch Kites, Crows, Magpies, &c. alive. 9. To catch a Pick-Pocket. 10. To name a Pack of Cards, and not feel 'em. 11. To write Love-Letters secretly. 12. Experiments in Drawing, Painting, Geometry, Astronomy, &c. 13. To make variety of Fireworks. 14. To keep Fowl, Venison, or any Flesh sweet a month. 15. To make a Drink you cannot relish other Liquors. 16. To sox Fish and Fowl. 17. To make one Candle outlast three. 18. To preserve Fruit all the Year. 19. To make excellent plaistering for Ceilings or Walls. With many other Natural and Artificial Conclusions, affording great variety of innocent Sport and Pastime. Adorn'd with above 40 curious cuts. By J. White, a Lover of Art and Ingenuity.
White, John, -1671.Date: [1715?]- Books
The water book / Alok Jha.
Jha, AlokDate: 2015