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In the Old-baily, next door to the sign of the Black-Bull, is a sweating-house for eighteen pence a time : where both men and women may be very well accomodated at convenient seasons. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for men; Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays for women.
Date: [between 1680 and 1700]- Books
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The grounds of physick, containing so much of philosophy, anatomy, chimistry, and the mechanical construction of a humane body, as is necessary to the accomplishment of a physitian: with the method of practice in common distempers. Extracted from the most eminent authors both antient and modern.
Groeneveld, Joannes, 1647-1710?.Date: MDCCXV. [1715]- Books
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John Evans, his hummums is in Brownlow-Street in Drury-Lane, where persons may sweat to what degree they please : there being degrees of heat, and several appartments, fit and commodious for private sweating, bathing, and fine cupping.
Evans, John, quackDate: [after 1679]- Books
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Instant relief to the asthmatic, or those afflicted with shortness of breath; being an essay on the nature of the lungs and their several disorders, and the only possible and certain means of cure proposed and demonstrated. With the places of sale of the remedy. From a ms. of the late Dr. Lucas.
Date: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]- Books
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The rudiments of physick clearly and accurately describ'd and explain'd, in the most easy and familiar Manner, by Way of Dialogue between a Physician and his Pupil. Under the following heads, viz. I. Physiology: Or, The Nature and Principles of Physick in general. II. Hygiena: Which treats of Health, and discovers proper Means, and Remedies, for the Preservation of it. III. Pathology: Which considers the Diseases of the Body and Mind; their Causes, Nature, Symptoms, &c. IV. Semeiotica: Which treats of the Signs and Indications of Health and Disease. V. Therapeuticks: Which is employ'd in finding out Remedies for Diseases; and the Method of applying them to perfect a Cure. To which are added, some methods of cure in most diseases, both Acute and Chronical, according to the Practice of Dr. Pitcairn, Boerhaave; Mead, and others. First collected from the instructions of a celebrated professor of medicine in the Royal Academy of Paris: and since improv'd from the best authors, Ancient and Modern; by John Groenvelt, M.D. Now first translated from the Latin, revised, and corrected in the most accurate manner.
Groeneveld, Joannes, 1647-1710?.Date: [1753?]- Books
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An experimental dissertation on the chemical and medical properties of the Nicotiana tabacum of Linnaeus, commonly known by the name of tobacco. By Edward Brailsford, of Charleston, South-Carolina, member of the Medical and Chemical Societies of Philadelphia.
Brailsford, Edward, -1856.Date: 1799- Books
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The juice of the grape: or, wine preferable to water. A treatise, wherein Wine is shewn to be the Grand Preserver of Health, and Restorer in most Diseases. With many Instances of Cures perform'd by this Noble Remedy; and the Method of using it, as well for Prevention as Cure. With a Word of Advice to the Vintners. By a Fellow of the College.
Shaw, Peter, 1694-1763.Date: MDCCXXIV. [1724]- Books
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Physiologia: or, the doctrine of nature, comprehended in the origin and progression of human life; the vital and animal functions; diseases of body and mind; and Remedies Prophylactic and Therapeutic. By Thomas Frewen, M. D. Of Lewes, in Sussex.
Frewen, Thomas, 1704-1791.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- 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?]- Books
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Essays and observations, physiological and medical, on the submersion of animals, and on the resin of the acoroides resinifera, or yellow resin from Botany Bay. To which are added, select histories of diseases; with remarks. By Charles Kite.
Kite, Charles, 1768-1811.Date: 1795- Books
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An essay on the medicinal properties of factitious airs. With an appendix, on the nature of blood. By Tiberius Cavallo, F.R.S.
Cavallo, Tiberius, 1749-1809.Date: 1798- Books
A singular remedy : cinchona across the Atlantic World, 1751-1820 / Stefanie Gänger.
Gänger, StefanieDate: 2021- Books
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The town and country friend and physician, or, An affectionate address on the preservation of health, and the removal of disease on its first appearance : supposed to be delivered by a country physician to the circle of his friends and patients on his retiring from business : with cursory observations on the treatment of children, &c. Intended for the promotion of domestic happiness : in two parts.
Parkinson, James, 1755-1824.Date: 1803- Archives and manuscripts
Research Defence Society
Research Defence SocietyDate: 1811-1992Reference: SA/RDS- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Foundation Ltd
Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: c.1860-c.1995Reference: WF- Archives and manuscripts
Published papers and bibliography
Date: 1979Reference: PP/EBC/G.1Part of: Chain, Professor Sir Ernst Boris- Archives and manuscripts
Thomson, Anthony Todd, F.R.C.P. (1778-1849), professor of materia medica
Thomson, Anthony Todd, 1778-1849.Date: 1817-1845Reference: MS.7715- Archives and manuscripts
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Henry Wellcome Letter Book 1 ['HSW Private No.1']
Date: Aug 1882-Mar 1888Reference: WF/E/01/01/01Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd- Books
Medical marvels : the 100 greatest advances in medicine / Eugene W. Straus & Alex Straus ; illustrations by Bette Korman.
Straus, Eugene.Date: 2006