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The merchant, citizen and country-man's instructor: or, a necessary companion for all people. Containing, I. Directions to planters of sugar, and to make it. II. To a Planter touching Cotton, and the Advantage thereof. III. The Art of Distillation, and the great Advantage thereof to England. IV. Of Fermentation, and the Invention thereof. V. Directions for Young and Old to attain speedily the Knowledge of any Language, and speak it as well and fluently as a Native. VI. To teach Children or others Musick or Singing in three or four Months. Vii. Of Education, or the natural and right way to bring up Children. Viii. Of Astrology, shewing the Reason why Persons Born at the same Minute and of different Shapes and Forms, are of various Fortunes. IX. To make Coal-Fires, and the best Grates, with less Fuel, and better than ordinary. X. The best Method of tempering Clay, making Mortar, Tyles, Flooring and Bricks. XI. Of the five Senses, their Nature and Use. XII. Of Dropsies and Consumptions, and to Cure them by a frugal way of Living proposed. XIII. Of perpetual Motion, and the Impossibility thereof. XIV. Of an afflicted Mind, and how it may be cured. XV. Of Death, and why all Creatures are unwilling to Die. XVI. Of the Burial of Birds, and the Author's Conception thereof. And XX. Other notable and curious subjects are treated of, by way of Letter. By Tho. Tryon, Merchant.
Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.
Date
[1701]
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Artis conservandi sanitatem libri duo / a clarissimo D. Doctore Liddelio defuncto delineati ; atque opera & studio D. Patricii Dunæi, M.D. ad colophonem perducti, & in apricum prolati.
Liddel, Duncan, 1561-1613.
Date
Anno 1651
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A short account of the introduction, nature, and use of the apparatuses of health, invented, improved, and perfected by Dr. Barthol. Dominiceti; And now daily applied under his own Direction, in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea; and that of his son, Dr. Rhod. Dominiceti, At his House in Panton Square, near the Haymarket. Humbly addressed to the nobility and gentry of Great Britain.
Dominiceti, Bartholomew di, active 1735-1782.
Date
MDCCLXXIX. [1779]
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Miscellanies. By John Armstrong. M.D. In two volumes. ...
Armstrong, John, 1709-1779.
Date
1770
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The castell of helth corrected and in some places augmented, by the first author therof, syr Thomas Elyot knight, the yere of our lorde 1541.
Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.
Date
[1557?]
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The castell of helth corrected and in some places augmented, by the first author therof, sir Thomas Elyot knight the yere of our lord 1541.
Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.
Date
[1560?]]
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Essays on the preservation & recovery of health: In Two Parts. Wherein the late wines are suspected and censured: Malt-Drink, Hopps, Cyder, Artificial Wines, Coffee, Tea, &c, as also, Drinking of Water, and the Varieties of Elaborate Compositions in Eating, impartially examin'd: The Hot and Cold Baths with their Benefits and Inconveniences, enquir'd into: The more general Alterations in the Animal Fluids, whether Acute or Chronical, briefly handled: The Principal Intentions of Physick, with necessary Cautions relating to Practice, fairly stated: And that Noble Science rescu'd from the most audacious Empirical Intruders.
Curteis, Thomas, approximately 1660-1747.
Date
MDCCIV. [1704]
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The castel of helth corrected and in some places augmented, by the fyrste authour therof, syr Thomas Elyot knyght, the yere of oure lord 1541.
Elyot, Thomas, Sir, 1490?-1546.
Date
[1541]]
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Sure methods of attaining a long and healthful life. Written originally in Italian, by Lewis Cornaro, A noble Venetian, when near an hundred years old. Translated into English by W. Jones, A.B.
Cornaro, Luigi, 1475-1566.
Date
MDCCLXXI. [1771]
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Gulielmi Clinch de tuenda valetudine liber.
Clinch, William.
Date
MDCCXXVIII. [1728]
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Artis conservandi sanitatem libri duo / a clarissimo D. Doctore Liddelio defuncto delineati ; atque opera & studio D. Patricii Dunæi, M.D. ad colophonem perducti, & in apricum prolati.

Miscellanies. By John Armstrong. M.D. In two volumes. ...

The castell of helth corrected and in some places augmented, by the first author therof, syr Thomas Elyot knight, the yere of our lorde 1541.

The castell of helth corrected and in some places augmented, by the first author therof, sir Thomas Elyot knight the yere of our lord 1541.

The castel of helth corrected and in some places augmented, by the fyrste authour therof, syr Thomas Elyot knyght, the yere of oure lord 1541.

Sure methods of attaining a long and healthful life. Written originally in Italian, by Lewis Cornaro, A noble Venetian, when near an hundred years old. Translated into English by W. Jones, A.B.

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Artis conservandi sanitatem libri duo / a clarissimo D. Doctore Liddelio defuncto delineati ; atque opera & studio D. Patricii Dunæi, M.D. ad colophonem perducti, & in apricum prolati.

Miscellanies. By John Armstrong. M.D. In two volumes. ...

The castell of helth corrected and in some places augmented, by the first author therof, syr Thomas Elyot knight, the yere of our lorde 1541.

The castell of helth corrected and in some places augmented, by the first author therof, sir Thomas Elyot knight the yere of our lord 1541.

The castel of helth corrected and in some places augmented, by the fyrste authour therof, syr Thomas Elyot knyght, the yere of oure lord 1541.

Sure methods of attaining a long and healthful life. Written originally in Italian, by Lewis Cornaro, A noble Venetian, when near an hundred years old. Translated into English by W. Jones, A.B.

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