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An essay of the great effects of even languid and unheeded motion : whereunto is annexed An experimental discourse of some little observed causes of the insalubrity and salubrity of the air and its effects / by Robert Boyle.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691Date: 1685- Books
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An essay of the great effects of even languid and unheeded motion : whereunto is annexed An experimental discourse of some little observed causes of the insalubrity and salubrity of the air and its effects / by the Honourable Robert Boyle.
Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691Date: 1685- Books
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Tentamen medicum, inaugurale, de aere, et imperio ejus in corpora humana. Quod, annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, D. Gulielmi Robertson, S.S.T.P. Academiæ Edinburgenæ Præfecti; nec non amplissimi senatus academici consesu, et nobilissimae facultatis medicæ decreto, Pro Gradu Doctoratus, summisque in medicina Honoribus et privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Edmundus Cullen, hibernus. A.B. Trin. Coll. Dub. Ad diem 25. Junii, hora locoque solitis.
Cullen, Edmund.Date: M,DCC,LXXXI. [1781]- Books
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The civil and natural history of Jamaica. Containing I. An accurate description of that island, its situation, and soil; with a brief account of its former and present state, government, revenues, produce, and trade. II. An history of the natural productions, including the various sorts of native fossils; perfect and imperfect vegetables; quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects; with their properties and uses in mechanics, diet, and physic. By Patrick Browne, M.D. illustrated with forty-nine copper plates; in which the most curious productions are represented of their natural sizes, and delineated immediately from the objects, by George Dionysius Ehret. There are now added complete Linnaean indexes, and a large and accurate map of the island.
Browne, Patrick, 1720?-1790.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Hippocrates upon air, water, and situation; upon epidemical diseases; and upon prognosticks, in acute cases especially. To this is added (by way of comparison) Thucydides's account of the plague of Athens The whole translated, methodis'd, and illustrated with useful and explanatory Notes. By Francis Clifton, M.D. Physician to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society.
Hippocrates.Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Books
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Observations on the changes of the air and the concomitant epidemical diseases, in the island of Barbadoes. To which is added A treatise on the putrid bilious fever, commonly called the yellow fever; And such other Diseases as are indigenous or endemial, in the West India Islands, or in the Torrid Zone. By William Hillary, M.D.
Hillary, William, -1763.Date: M,DCC,LXVI. [1766]- Books
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Hippocrates upon air, water, and situation; upon epidemical diseases; and upon prognosticks, in acute cases especially. To which is added the life of Hippocrates from Soranus, and Thucydides's account of the plague of Athens. The whole translated, and illustrated with useful and explanatory Notes. By Francis Clifton, M. D. Fellow of the College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society.
Hippocrates.Date: 1752- Books
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An essay concerning the effects of air on human bodies. By John Arbuthnot, M.D. fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh, and of the Royal Society.
Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735.Date: MDCCXXXIII. [1733]- Books
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De imperio solis ac lunæ in corpora humana, et morbis inde oriundis. Authore Richardo Mead, M.D. S.R.S. Et in Nosocomio Divi Thomae Lond. Medico.
Mead, Richard, 1673-1754.Date: MDCCIV. [1704]- Books
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An essay concerning the effects of air on human bodies. By John Arbuthnot, M. D. Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh, and of the Royal Society.
Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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A medical treatise on the virtues of Fir-Hill Well, illustrated with select cases. Auctore J. Taylor, M. D. Societatis Medicae Regalis Edinensis Socio; et Collegii Marischallani Apud Abredonenses Socio et Alumno.
Taylor, J., M.D., of Aberdeen.Date: [1800]- 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 english physician enlarged with three hundred and sixty-nine medicines, made of English herbs, that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation, containing a complete Method of Physic, whereby a Man may preserve his Body in Health, or cure himself, being Sick, for Three pence Charge, with such Things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English Bodies. Herein is also shewed, 1. The Way of making Plaisters, Ointments, Oils, Poultices, Syrups, Decoctions, Juleps, or Waters of all Sorts of Physical Herbs, that you may have them ready for your Use at all Times of the Year. - 2. What Planet governeth every Herb or Tree (used in Physic) that groweth in England. 3. The Time of gathering all Herbs both Vulgarly and Astrologically. - 4. The Way of drying and keeping the Herbs all the Year. - 5. The Way of keeping their Juice ready for Use at all Times-6. The Way of making and keeping all Kinds of Useful Compounds made of Herbs-7. The Way of mixing Medicines according to the Cause and Mixture of the Disease and Part of the Body afflicted. By Nich. Culpepper. Gent. Student in Physic and Astrology.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.Date: 1785- Books
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A short treatise on the all-cleansing, - all-healing, - and all-invigorating qualities of the simple earth, When long and repeatedly applied to the naked Human-Body and Lungs, for the safe, speedy, and radical Cure of all Diseases, internal as well as external, which are, in their Nature or Stage, susceptible of being cured;-for the preservation of the Health, Vigour, Bloom and Beauty of Body and of Mind;-For rejuvenating the aged and decaying Human-Body;-And for prolonging Life to the very longest possible Period. To which are added, a description of the best Kinds of Soil, or Mould, and Situations,-And of the best Methods of conducting this most essicacious, and most salutary Practice of Earth-Bathing; And a free Critique on the regular Professors or Teachers, and Practisers of Medicine, Surgery, &c. Being the first Book or Pamphlet that ever was published in the World on the Subject of Earth-Bathing. By James Graham, M. D.
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- 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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An historical account of the climates and diseases of the United States of America; and of the remedies and methods of treatment, which have been found most useful and efficacious, particularly in those diseases which depend upon climate and situation. Collected principally from personal observation, and the communications of physicians of talents and experience, residing in the several states. By William Currie, Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. [One line from Horace]
Currie, William, 1754-1828.Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]- Books
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Disputatio medica inauguralis, de phthisi pulmonali. Quam, annuente summo numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, D. Gulielmi Robertson, S. S. T. P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti; Nec non Amplissimi Senatus Academici consensu, Et nobilissimae Facultatis Medicae decreto, pro gradu doctoratus, summisque in Medicina Honoribus ac privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Joannes Hallilay, Anglo-Britannus, Soc. Chyr. - Med. Soc. honor. et Praes. an. Soc. Medic. Ed Soc. Chyr. - Phys. Ed. Nec non, olim Soc. Phys. - Med. Ed. et Soc. Med. Lond. Sod. Ad diem 12. Septembris, hora locoque solitis.
Hallilay, Joannes.Date: M,DCC,LXXIX. [1779]- Books
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List of the members of the Medical Society of Edinburgh, instituted 1737 - incorporated by royal charter 1778.
Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh.Date: 1796- Books
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Popular observations on apparent death from drowning, suffocation, &c. With an account of the means to be employed for recovery. Drawn up at the desire of the Northamptonshire Preservative Society: by James Curry, M.D. Member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, and Physician to the Northampton Hospital.
Curry, James.Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]- Books
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A treatise on the dropsy, wherein the various kinds of the disease are considered, with their different causes, &c. &c. - The absurdity of the present general mode of cure exposed, and a different one recommended as pursued by the author. To which is added, an appendix, containing a few remarkable cases which had been given up and abandoned as incurable, by medical Practitioners of the highest Character and Reputation, but were afterwards cured by the Mode proposed; adduced as a Proof of its Superiority over the common Method. By a physician.
Physician.Date: MDCCXCV. [1795]- Books
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A remarkable case of madness, with the diet and medicines, used in the cure. By William Perfect, M. D. of west - malling, in kent, and member of the London medical society.
Perfect, William, 1737-1809.Date: 1791- Books
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A catalogue of books, Including the libraries of the following gentlemen, lately deceased, viz. Francis Hiorne, Esq; F. A. S. of Warwick; The Reverend Thomas Osborne, D. D. Rector of Clifton, Bedfordshire. Henry Brooker. Esq; late Keeper of the Records in the Augmentation Office; Marmaduke Overend, Esq; of Chiswick; The Collection of Books of Architecture of Kenton Couse, Esq; late of the Board of Works; And the Medical Library of a Physician, who has left Practice: Also a singular Assemblage of Old English Poetry and Plays. Amongst others equally valuable are Military and Religious Orders, 800 Drawings, in colours, 8 vol. Morocco Antichita D'ercolano, 8 vol. Russ. Hodges's Views in India, on silk paper Piranesi's Works, 17 vol. Russ. Vitrovius Britannicus, 5 vol. large paper Atlantic Neptune, by Des Barres, 4 vol. Merian's Views, 11 vol. Graevius, Gronovius, & Burmann. 70 vol. Hill's Vegetable System, 26 vol. Seba Thesaur. Rer. Natur. 4 vol. Russ. Catesby's Carolina, 2 vol. coloured Weinman's Flowers and Fruits, 8 vol. do. Merian's Surinam Insects, ditto. Merian's European Insects, 3 vol. coloured by the Author Martyn, Born and Knott's Shells, ditto. Cramer, Ernst, Wilkes and Harris's Moths and Flies, ditto Sepp, Rosell, and Stoll's Insects, ditto Edwards, Lewin, Seligman and Brown's Birds, ditto Scheffer's Birds, Insects, &c. 12 vol. ditto Miller and Plenck's Plants, 4 vol. ditto Knott's Petrifactions, 4 vol. ditto Petiveri Opera, 3 vol. Moracco Morisoni Hist. Plant. 2 vol. ditto Salvianus de Piscibus Cowper, Albinus, Hunter and Smellie Biblia Polyglotta Waltoni, 8 vol. Russ. Biblia Polyglotta, Montani, 8 vol. Kennicol's Bible, and Woide's Test. 3 vol. Erasmi Opera, 11 vol. Lactantius, 1468-T. Aquinas, 1469 V. Max. Spira, 1471-Plinius Jenson, 1472 Herodotus, 1474-Diog. Laertius, 1475 Astronomi Veteres, ap. Aldum Breydenback Peregrinationes - 1486 Caesaris Comment. Clarkii, Morocco Platonis Opera, Serrani, 3 vol. ditto Doleti Comment. Ling. Lat. 2 vol. Russ. Stephani Thesaur. Gr. 6 vol. - Ducange & Carpentier Gloss. 10 vol. Meninski, Golii & Giggaei Lexicon Encyclopedie, 33 tom. - Paris Moutfaucon, & Supplem. 15 t. gr. papier. Fables de la Fontaine, 4 tom. ditto Polyphih Hypnerotomachia - Ald. Speculum Salvationis, MS. Domesday Book, 2 vol. Russia State Trials, 11 vol. large paper, Russ. Froissart and Hollinshed's Chronicles, ib. Drake's York, and Harris's Kent. l. paper Stukeley's Stonehenge and Abury, 2 vol. Edmondson's Peerage, 6 vol. Nisbet's System of Heraldry, 2 vol. Various Heraldical Manuscripts Purchas and Hackluyt's Voyages Montfaucon in English, 7 vol. large paper Shakspeare, 1st, 2d and 3d edit. Caxton's History of Troy Boke of Faytes and Armes, Caxton The Book of St. Albons, MS. Spectator, Tatler and Guardian, 6 vol. orig. edit. Prevost, Recueil des Voyages, 26 tom. Harding's Bandello, 3 vol. large paper Tacitus, Brotier, 4 vol. cb. max. Aristides, a Jebb, 2 vol. ditto Silius Italicus, Drakenborch, ditto Ovidius Burmanni, 4 vol. ditto Horatius Bentleii, ditto Elziver Classics, 93-vol. Morocco Painter's Palace of Pleasure, 2 vol. Political State of Great Britain, 60 vol. Parliamentary Debates, &c. 136 vol. which are now selling, 1791 (for ready Money) By Thomas and John Egerton, (successors to Mr. Millan) at the Military Library, Whitehall. - The full Value given for Libraries.
Thomas and John Egerton.Date: 1791]- Books
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The english physician enlarged with three hundred and sixty-nine medicines, made of English herbs, that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation, containing a complete Method of Physic, whereby a Man may preserve his Body in Health, or cure himself, being Sick, for Three-Pence Charge, with such Things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English Bodies. Herein is also shewed, 1. The Way of making Plaisters, Ointments, Oils, Poultices, Syrups, Decoctions, Juleps, or Waters of all Sorts of Physical Herbs, that you may have them ready for your Use at all Times of the Year -2. What Planet governeth every Herb or Tree (used in Physic) that groweth in England. 3. The Time of gathering all Herbs, both Vulgarly and Astrologically. - 4. The Way of drying and keeping the Herbs all the Year. - 5. The Way of keeping their Juice ready for Use at all Times. - 6. The Way of making and keeping all Kinds of useful Compounds made of Herbs. - 7. The Way of mixing Medicines according to the Cause and Mixture of the Disease and Part of the Body afflicted. By Nich. Culpepper, Gent. Student in Physic and Astrology.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.Date: [1790?]- Books
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The compleat family physician; or, universal medical repository. Containing the Causes, Symptoms, Preventions, And Cures, Of all the various Maladies to which Human Nature is subject, from the Birth to the Grave. Including The Diseases peculiar to Seamen, as well as those of particular Climates; such as the East and West Indies, Coast of Guinea, Greenland, Newfoundland, &c. with the proper Methods of treating Lunaticks, and Persons who are subject to Fits of any Kind. - And the best and most approved Preservatives against Epidemick and Contagious Diseases; such as the Plague, Putrid Fevers, Gaol Distemper, and other Infections. Together with An Account of all the celebrated Spas-Not only of this Country, but such others also, as are of great Repute in other Parts of the World, and the Waters of which are usually imported into these Kingdoms; with some Observations on the Virtues and Efficacy of Sea Water and Bathing. Likewise, Strictures on Quackery in general; and a candid Examination of the respective Merits of James's Powder, Norton's Drops, Ormskirk Powder, Ward's Drops, And Other Popular Medicines. With a full Account of the various Kinds of Poisons, both Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral; and the best Methods of counteracting their respective Effects. - Also, the Means to be made use of for restoring Drowned or Strangled Persons, as published by the Humane Society; and the Plan of Dr. Hawes, Secretary to that benevolent Institution, for preventing Persons being buried Alive. To which is added, The family surgery. Containing Directions for treating Green and Old Wounds; proper Stypticks for immediately stopping the Blood in all Cases; and infallible Applications for the Cure of the Bite of Mad Animals, as well as the Bite or Sting of venomous Animals and Insects. With some approved Receipts for the Cure of Ringworms, Warts, Corns, Bruises, Carbuncles, &c. and Directions for managing the Eyes, Ears, Teeth, Nails, &c. so as to prevent Blindness, Deasness, and Lameness in the Feet. Also, The proper Methods of making and using Salves, Ointments, Pills, Cataplasms, Poultices, Fomentations, Embrocations, &c. &c. Together with The compleat British herbal. And A List of all such Drugs, Chymicals, &c. as are directed to be used in the different Preparations, with their Prices at Apothecaries Hall, London. The Whole Forming A Compleat Body Of AtDomestick Medicine, Calculated As well to assist Gentlemen of the Faculty, as for the Use of private Families; and in which the utmost Care is taken to recommend such Remedies as are most plain and simple, and of Course the least expensive, and readiest to be procured. By Hugh Smythson, M.D. Late Student at the University of Leyden. When, on the Bed of loath'd Disease, With streaming Eyes, Affection sees A Child, a Husband, Wife, or Friend, And fears the much-lov'd Victim's End; How sighs the sympathetick Heart, For Knowledge in the Healing Art! How fears, lest Want of Skill prevent The kind Assistance fondly meant! No more, by anxious Dread possess'd, Shall Terror fill the friendly Breast; Whilst in our Labours are combin'd The healing Arts of all Mankind.
Smythson, Hugh.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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The english physician enlarged with three hundred and sixty-nine medicines, made of English herbs, that were not in any impression until this. Being an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation, containing a complete Method of Physic whereby a Man may preserve his Body in Health, or cure himself, being Sick, for Three-Pence Charge, with such Things only as grow in England, they being most sit for English Bodies. Herein is also shewed, These seven things, viz. 1. The Way of making Plaistere Ointments, Oils, Poultices, Syrups, Decoctions, Juleps, or Waters of all Sorts, or Physical Herbs, that you may have them ready for your Use at all times of the Year-2. What Planet governeth every Herb or Tree (used in Physic) that groweth in England. 3. The Time of gathering all Herbs, both Vulgarly and Astrologically. - 4. The Way of drying and keeping the Herbs all the Year. -5. The Way of keeping their Juice ready for Use at all Times-6. The Way of making and keeping all kinds of Useful Compounds made of Herbs-7. The Way of mixing Medicines according to the Cause and Mixture of the Disease and Part of the Body afflicted. By Nich. Culpepper. Gent. Student in Physic and Astrology.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.Date: 1799