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The busy body; or, Successful spy. Being the entertaining history of Mons. Bigand, a man infintely inquisitive and enterprizing, even to rashness; which unhappy faculties, nevertheless, instead of ruining, raised him from the lowest obscurity, to a most splendid fortune. Interspers'd with several humorous stories. The whole containing a great variety of adventures, equally instructive and diverting.
Mouhy, Chevalier de, 1701-1784.Date: [1770?]- Books
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Nature the best physician; or, Every man his own doctor. Containing rules for the preservation of health and long life; from infancy to extreme old age. To which are added a collection of natural, simple and palatable receipts for the recovery of health, to those who are already afflicted with any of the various disorders incident to the human body, not only such as are easy to be purchased by persons of the lowest capacity; but proper for those in higher stations, who loath nauseous and unwholesome foreign drugs. By A Lover of Mankind, who has made the study of the human constitution his principal employment upwards of twenty years[.]
Lover of Mankind.Date: MD.CC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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The Universal Scots almanack, for the year of our Lord M,DCC,LXXXII. Being the second after bissextile, or leap year, is, with the greatest submission, dedicated to the Right Honourable Henry Dundas, Esq; of Melville, Lord Advocate, Dean; and to the other members of the Faculty of Advocates: in testimony of the high esteem and veneration which the publisher has for that learned and respectable body; by their most obedient and most humble servant, John Robertston.
Date: [1782]- Books
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Specimen physico-medicum, de Corpore Humano, & ejus Morbis. Or, an essay Concerning the Knowledge and Cure Of most diseases Afflicting Human Bodies. To which is Annex'd A short Account of Salivation, and the Use of Mercury. With a Copious Index. By P. Paxton, M. D.
Paxton, P. (Peter), -1711.Date: 1711- Books
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A curious research into the element of water; containing many noble and useful experiments on that fluid body. As I. Three different Experiments of reducing Water into Earth. II. Several Experiments of turning Salts into Water; with a Method of discovering their intrinsic Earths, and of what Nature they are. III. A Method of turning Vitriol of Mercury into Water; with a way to extract the genuine Earth of that corrosive Body. IV. An Experiment proving that that there is a latent Fire in Water; with a Method to attract the said Fire from the Water, and to render it visible, &c. &c. The Interspersed with Curious Queries and Remarks. Being the conjunctive trials of Ambrose and John Godfrey, chymists, from their late father's observations.
Godfrey, Ambrose, -1756.Date: [1747]- Books
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A treatise on mercury, shewing the danger of taking it crude for all manner of disorders, after the present Fashion, from its Nature, its manner of Operating in the human Body, and Facts. With some remarks on The antient physician's legacy.
Bradley, Henry, surgeon.Date: 1733- Ephemera
In Grays-Inn-Lane in Plow-Yard, the third door, lives Dr. Thomas Kirleus, a collegiate physician, and sworn physician in ordinary to King Charles the second, until his death : who with a drink and a pill (hindring no business) undertakes to cure any ulcers, sores, swellings in the nose, face, or other parts, scabs, itch, scurfs, leprosies, and venereal disease, expecting nothing until the cure be finished ... a better purger than which was never given, for they cleanse the body of all impurities, which are the causes of dropsies, gouts, scurvies, stone or gravel, pains in the head, and other parts ... he cures all fevers and hot distempers without bleeding, except in few bodies. He gives his opinion to all that writes or comes for nothing.
Kirleus, ThomasDate: 1693- Books
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An improved mode of employing mercury by fumigation to the whole body, exemplified by cases of its success. ... in various obstinate diseases of the skin, and especially in syphilitic affections / by Jonathan Green.
Date: 1852- Books
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A treatise on mercury, shewing the danger of taking it crude for all manner of disorders, after the present Fashion, from its Nature, its Manner of operating in the human Body, and Facts. with some remarks on The antient physician's legacy. The second edition. To which are added, a reply to the remarks on the Treatise of the use and abuse of mercury, in the fourt edition of Dr. Dover's Antient physician's legacy. Also an Answer to the Antidote, and some Cases, collected since the First Edition; with a Word or two of the Mercurialist.
Bradley, Henry, surgeon.Date: [1733]- Books
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An essay, on the operation of mercury, in the human body; : in which, the manner how salivation is produced, by that medicine, is attempted to be explained: interspersed with observations on the treatment of the venereal disease. / By Robert Maywood, M. D.
Maywood, Robert.Date: MDCCLXXXVII- Books
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The Universal Scots almanack, for the year of our lord, M.DCC.LXXV. Being the third after bissextile, or leap year, is, with the greatest submission, dedicated to the Honourabel Alexander Lockhart, Esq; or craighouse, dean, and to the other members of the faculty of advocates in testimony of the high esteem and veneration which the publisher has for that learned and respectable body, By their most obedient and most humble servant, John Robertson.
Date: [1775]- Books
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The universal Scots almanack, for the year of our Lord M,DCC,LXXX. Being Bissextile, or Leap Year. Is, with the greatest submission, dedicated To the Right Honourable Henry Dundas, Esq; of Melville, Lord advocate, Dean, and to the other members of the faculty of advocates: In testimony of the high esteem and veneration which the publisher has for that learned and respectable Body; by their most obedient and most humble servant, John Robertson.
Date: [1780]- Books
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The universal Scots almanack, Being the first after Bissextile, or Leap Year. for the year of our Lord, M.DCC.LXXVII. Is, with the greatest Submission, dedicated to the Right Honourable Henry Dundas, Esq; of Melville, Lord Advocate, Dean; and, To the other members of the Faculty of Advocates in Testimony of the High Esteem and Veneration which the Publisher has for that Learned and Respectable Body, by their most Obedient and most Humble Servant, John Robertson.
Date: [1777]- Books
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The universal Scots almanack, for the year of our Lord M,DCC,LXXXI. Being the first after Bissextile, or Leap Year, Is, with the greatest submission, dedicated To the Right Honourable Henry Dundas, Esq; of Melville, Lord Advocate, Dean, and to the other members of the faculty of advocates: In testimony of the high esteem and veneration which the publisher has [for] that learned an- ctable Body; by their most obedient and most humble servant, John Robertson.
Date: [1781]- Books
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An essay, on the operation of mercury, in the human body; in which, the manner how salivation is produced, by that medicine, is attempted to be explained: interspersed with observations on the treatment of the venereal disease. By Robert Maywood, M. D. Of The Isle Of Wight.
Maywood, Robert.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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A scientific and popular view of the fever of Walcheren and its consequences as they appeared in the British troops returned from the late expedition : with an account of the morbid anatomy of the body and the efficacy of drastic purges and mercury in the treatment of this disease.
Davis, John Bunnell, 1780-1824.Date: 1810- Books
A scientific and popular view of the fever of Walcheren, and its consequences, as they appeared in the British troops returned from the late expedition : with an account of the morbid anatomy of the body, and the efficacy of drastic purges and mercury in the treatment of this disease / by J.B. Davis.
Davis, John Bunnell, 1780-1824.Date: 1810- Books
The American mercury : a monthly review. Vol. XII, no. 47 / edited by H. L. Mencken.
Date: 1927- Books
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A scientific and popular view of the fever of Walcheren, and its consequences, as they appeared in the British troops returned from the late expedition ; with an account of the morbid anatomy of the body, and the efficacy of drastic purges and mercury in the treatment of this disease / By J.B. Davis, M.D.
Davis, J.B. (John Bunnell), 1780-1824.Date: 1810- Books
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Constructions of cancer in early modern England : ravenous natures / Alanna Skuse.
Skuse, Alanna, 1986-Date: 2015- Books
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A treatise for the service of chemistry in general : exhibiting the universal and specific principles of body; the simple and uniform proceedure [sic] of nature, etc. To which is added ... The medicine of Wedelius, and Paracelsus for the gout. Medicines for the scurvy, the stone, and the palsy. Considerations on the lues venerea, with its cure without mercury, etc / [J. Grosman].
Grosman, YiśraʼelDate: 1766- Books
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An inquiry into the action of mercury on the living body / by Joseph Swan.
Swan, Joseph, 1791-1874.Date: 1822- Books
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A new and easy method of giving mercury, to those affected with the venereal disease : To which is annexed a new theory of the action of this metal on the salivary glands / Translated from the Latin of Joseph James Plenck.
Plenck, Joseph Jacob, Ritter von, 1738-1807.Date: 1772- Books
The sciences of homosexuality in early modern Europe / edited by Kenneth Borris and George Rousseau.
Date: 2007, ©2008- Books
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A treatise for the service of chemistry in general; Exhibiting the universal and specific principles of body; the simple and uniform proceedure of nature, in petrification, in producing minerals, and, the generation of gold. To which is added, the most accurate process for dulcisying corrosives. The medicine of wedelius, and paracellus for the gout. Medicines for the scurvy, the stone, and the palsy. Considerations of the lues venerea, with its cure without mercury. Together with several curious philosophic experiments, the reason why the fulminant gold strikes downwards, and the true bohemian paste for precious stones. By J. Grosman, M.A. of the University of Prague.
Grosman, YiśraʼelDate: 1766