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The afflicted man's companion: or, a directory for persons and families, afflicted with sickness, or any other distress. With Directions to the Sick, Both under and after Affliction. Also, Directions to the Friends of the Sick, and others who visit them. And likewise to All, how to prepare both for Sickness and Death; and how to be Exercised at the time of Dying. To which is Added. A Collection of Comfortable Texts of Scripture, very suitable for dying Believers. - The Choice Sayings of many Eminent Dying Saints. - The Author's Last Advice to his Wife and Children: And his Dying Words, written by himself, and found among his Papers after his Death. By the Reverend Mr. John Willison, Late Minister of the Gospel in Dundee. Very Necessary for all Families.
Willison, John, 1680-1750.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- 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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The christian's prayer book; or, complete manual of devotions. In four parts Containing Introductory Discourse on the Use and Advantage of Prayer. - Ejaculatious for the Morning, - Family Prayers. - Prayers for Children, for Youth, and for Servants. - Graces before and after Meat. - Instructions for Meditation, and Meditations for every Day in the Week. - Devout Reflections for every Day in the Month. - Heads of Self-Examination. - A Compendium of relative Duties. - Offices for sick Persons, and for the devout Receiving the Holy Communion, &c. &c. &c. With a great Number of Prayers and Meditations, adapted to particular Stations, Persons, and Circumstances. By the Rev. John Fleetwood, Author of The History of the Holy Bible; And Of The Life of Our Blessed Saviour.
Fleetwood, John.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Books
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The hazard of a death-bed-repentance, fairly argued, from the late remorse of W- late D- of D- with serious rflections on his adulterous life - on his living so long in a known sin - on that Latin epitaph he order'd to be set on the tomb-stone of Miss Campion - and upon his seeming penitence in his last sickness. Also, the dying remonstrance of other persons of quality; and in particular, of John Hampden Esq; (formerly Knight of the Shire for Bucks) being a paper he sent by Monsieur Alix to Dr. Patrick, late Bishop of Ely. The whole resolving that nice question, how far a death-bed-repentance is possible to be sincere? And is publish'd by way of answer to Dr. K-'s sermon, preach'd at the funeral of W- late D- of D- to which is added, conjugal perjury, or an essay upon whoredom; address'd to the husbands of quality that keep misses.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: printed in the year MDCCVIII. [1708]- Books
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The art of cookery, made plain and easy; which far exceeds any thing of the kind ever yet published. Containing, I. Of Roasting, Boiling, &c. II. Of Made-Dishes. III. Read this Chapter, and you will find how Expensive a French Cook's Sauce is. IV. To make a Number of pretty little Dishes fit for a Supper or Side-Dish, and little Corner-Dishes for a great Table; and the rest you have in the Chapter for Lent. V. To dress Fish. VI. Of Soops and Broths. Vii. Of Puddings. Viii. Of Pies. IX. For a Lent Dinner, a Number of good Dishes, which you may make use of for a Table at any other Time. X. Directions for the Sick. XI. For Captains of Ships. XII. Of Hogs Puddings, Sausages, &c. XIII. To pot and make Hams, &c. XIV. Of Pickling. XV. Of making Cakes, &c. XVI. Of Cheesecakes, Creams, Jellies, Whip Syllabubs, &c. XVII. Of Made Wines, Brewing, French Bread, Muffins, &c. XVIII. Jarring Cherries, and Preserves, &c. XIX. To make Anchovies, Vermicella, Carchup, Vinegar, and to keep Artichokes, French Beans, &c. XX. Of Distilling. XXI. How to Market; the Seasons of the Year for Butchers Meat, Poultry, Fish, Herbs, Roots, &c. and Fruit. XXII. A certain Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog. By Dr. Mead. XXIII. A Receipt to keep clear from Buggs. To which are added, By Way of Appendix, I. To dress a Turtle, the West-India Way. II. To make Ice Cream. III. A Turkey, &c. in Jelly. IV. To make Citron. V. To candy Cherries or Green Gages. VI. To take Ironmolds out of Linnen. Vii. To make India Pickle: Viii. To make English Catchup. IX. To prevent the Infection among horned Cattle. By a lady.
Glasse, Hannah, 1708-1770.Date: [1755]- Books
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Virtues of British herbs. With the history, description, and figures of the several kinds; An Account of the Diseases they will cure; The Method of giving them; and Management of the Patients in each Disease: Containing Cures of Head-Achs by Feverfew Tea, with Two Singular Instances. Cures of Consumptions by Coltsfoot Tea, Hectic Fevers by the Daisy, Colics by Leaves of Chamomile, And Agues by its Flowers. A Recommendation of the Bidens Cernua to supply the Place of the Ceylon Acmella, so celebrated in the Gravel; but not to be had with us. And a Case, with all its Circumstances and Symptoms, of the Hooping - Cough, cured by a Tea of the fresh Root of Elecampane. The Whole illustrating that important Truth, That the Plants of our own Country will cure all its Diseases. To which are added, Cautions against the Two Othonnas, destructive of Sheep. A Work intended to be useful to the Sick, and to their Friends; to private Families; and to the Charitable, who would help their Neighbours. No.1. - To be continued occasionally, as new Virtues are discovered in Plants; or neglected, or doubtful ones ascertained by Experience. By John Hill, M. D. Member of the Imperial Academy.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]- Books
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A new way of breeding canary birds. Without the trouble, that is in the common way of breeding. And, Will Breed As Many Canary Birds Again, as the Common Way of Breeding does. And, How Presently to Cure a Sick Bird. - Also, How to Keep a Canary (or Any Other) Bird in a Gage, for Singing Only, that they may not Die, as they Do. By a person, who has bred canary birds, several years, With Far Greater Success by this New Way, than Ever He Had Before, in the Common Old Troublesome Way of Breeding. Adorned With One, and Twenty Beautyful Neat Prints, Relating to the Breeding, and Keeping Canary (or Other) Birds, Finely Engraved.
Person, who has bred canary birds, several years.Date: [1742]- Books
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Upon this moment depends eternity: or, Mr. John Dunton's serious thoughts upon the present and future state, in a fit of sickness that was judg'd mortal, in which many New Opinions are Started and Prov'd; and in particular this, That the sincere Practice of known Duties, or dying daily to this Life and World, would of it self resolve the most ignorant Person in all the abstruse Points of the Christian Religion-Being, A New Directory for Holy Living and Dying; Compos'd of the Author's own Experience in Religion, Politicks, and Morals, from his Childhood to his Sixty Third Year, (but more especially during his dangerous Disease in Ireland, in the Year Ninety Eight, when his Life was despair'd Of)-And Compleated in Twenty Essays upon such Nice and Curious Points in Divinity, as were never handled Before-To which is added, The Sick-Man's Passing-Bell. To remind all Men of that Death and Eternity to which they are hastening. - Containing, (1.) God be Merciful to me a Siuner: Or, Dunton at Confession, in which he discovers the Secret Sins of his whole Life; with his Resolutions in what penitent Manner (by the Help of God) he'll spend the short Time he has yet to live. (2.) Dunton's Legacy to his Native Country: Or, A dying Farewell to the most Remarkable Persons and Things both in Church and State; with his last Prayer (or those very Petitions to Almighty God) with which he hopes to Expire. 3. A Living Man following his own Corpse to the Grave: Or, Dunton Represented as Dead and Buried, in an Essay upon his own Funeral-To which is added (for the Oddness and Singularity of it) A Copy of his last Will and Testament-His living Elegy writ with his own Hand-And the Epitaph design'd for his Tombstone, in the New Burying-Place-Together with (4.) The Real Period of Dunton's Life: Or, A Philosophical Essay upon the Nature of that Grand Climacterick Year Sixty Three, in which (as few Persons out-live that Fatal Time) he expects to be actually Buried with that best of Wives Mrs. Elizabeth Annesley (alias Dunton) with their Reasons for Sleeping together in the same Grave 'till the General Resurrection, as contained in two Letters that pass'd between Mr. Dunton and his Wife, a few Days before she Dyed. The whole Directory and Passing-Bell, submitted to the Impartial Censure of the Right Reverend Father in God William Lord Bishop of Ely. By Mr. John Dunton, a Member of the Athenian Society, and Author of the Essay Intitled-The Hazard of a Death-Bed Repentance.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: [1723]- Books
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Every patient his own doctor; or, The sick man's triumph over death and the grave. Containing, the most approved methods of curing every disease incident to the human body, internal or external; whether owing to Defects of Nature, occasioned by Intemperance, contracted by Accident, or caused by Decay. With The Best Remedies Prescribed by the Authority of the most eminent Physicians for removing each Disorder, restoring Health, preserving it when restored; and extending Life to an honourable Old Age. Including An excellent Collection of the most eminent Receipts for making and preparing A great Number of cheap, easy, and efficacious Medicines. Among these are That Admirable New Discovery, by which the Scurvy, the Grand English Disorder, is effectually cured: And for the successful Practice of which, Captain Cook received the Premium Medal from the Royal Society, for having preserved himself and all his Men from this dreadful Distemper, during the Space of Three Years and Eighteen Days, although he passed through all the Varieties of Climate, and Seasons in his late Voyage round the World, performed. By the Command of His Majesty. Also The Method used by the Humane Society for the Recovery of Persons apparently drowned or suffocated. - A certain cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog, Viper, Adder, &c. - -An infallible Remedy against the Goal Distemper, Plague, or any other pestilential Disorder, &c &c. By Lewis Robinson, M.D.
Robinson, Lewis, M.D.Date: [1785?]- Books
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Every patient his own doctor; or, the sick man's triumph over death and the grave. Containing, the most approved methods of curing every disease incident to the human body, internal or external; whether owing to Defects of Nature, occasioned by Intemperance, contracted by Accident, or caused by Decay. With The Best Remedies Prescribed by the Authority of the most eminent Physicians for removing each Disorder, restoring Health, preserving it when restored; and extending Life to an honourable Old Age. including An excellent Collection of the most eminent Receipts for Making and Preparing A great Number of cheap, easy, and efficacious Medicines. among these are That Admirable New Discovery, by which the Scurvy, the Grand English Disorder, is effectually cured: And for the successful Practice of which, Captain Cook received the Premium Medal from the Royal Society, for having preserved himself and all his Men from this dreadful Distemper, during the Space of Three Years and Eighteen Days, although he passed through all the Varieties of Climate, and Seasons in his late Voyage round the World, performed. By the Command of His Majesty. also The Method used by the Humane Society for the Recovery of Persons apparently drowned or suffocated. - A certain Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog, Viper, Adder, &c. An infallible Remedy against the Goal Distemper, Plague, or any other pestilential Disorder, &c. &c. By Lewis Robinson, M.D.
Robinson, Lewis, M.D.Date: [1785?]- 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 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: 1794- 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- Pictures
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A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg. Oil painting attributed to the Master of Los Balbases, ca. 1495.
Master of Los Balbases (Painter in Burgos), active approximately 1495.Date: [1495?]Reference: 46009i- Archives and manuscripts
Letters to Sir Charles Lovatt Evans, and autographs
Miss S AinsworthDate: 1920s-1960sReference: MS.8435- Archives and manuscripts
Wellcome Foundation Ltd
Wellcome Foundation LtdDate: c.1860-c.1995Reference: WF- Archives and manuscripts
English Language Autograph Letters: GO
Date: 1680-1922Reference: MS.9142- Videos
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Towards a better life. The fight against leukaemia.
Date: 1985- Books
Matrescence : on the metamorphosis of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood / Lucy Jones.
Jones, Lucy (Journalist)Date: 2023- Archives and manuscripts
Society of Medical Officers of Health
Society of Medical Officers of HealthDate: 1856-1998Reference: SA/SMO- Archives and manuscripts
Medical Lenten sermons: Libro muy provechoso para todo fiel christiano intitulado sermonario quadragessimal medicinal
Gabriel VacaDate: 1553Reference: MS.9311- Videos
TB.
Date: 2014- Books
Everything that makes us human : case notes of a children's brain surgeon / Jay Jayamohan.
Jayamohan, JayDate: 2020- Archives and manuscripts
Queen's Nursing Institute
Queen's Nursing InstituteDate: 1887-1997Reference: SA/QNI- Archives and manuscripts
Monthly Memoranda (points for propaganda)
Date: 1922-1923Reference: WF/M/GB/30/02Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd