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3. Pharmacopoeia hippiatrica: or, The gentleman farrier's repository of elegant and approved remedies for the diseases of horses : in two books, containing, I. the surgical : II. the medical part of practical farriery : with suitable remarks on the whole

4. The young surgeons dictionary; or, Pupil's instructor: wherein their terms are explained from the best Greek authors; and an introduction to anatomy, by inserting the definition of the structure of man. To which is prefixed, a catalogue of drugs, chemical and Galenical, in Latin and English: together with rules for chemical experiments, and a table of all the characters used in surgery and physic

7. The family's best friend, or The whole art of cookery made plain and easy: together with a complete system of brewery ; the management of malt liquors ; the distillery of simple and compound waters, family cordials, &c ; and instructions for the cultivating of the fruit, flower, and kitchen garden ; the whole being calculated for the preservation of heath, and upon the principles of frugality ... ; the result of forty years practice and experience, together with great assistance in every branch ; embellished with cuts, for trussing fowls, game, &c ; to which is now added, Mons. Millien's famous discovery for preventing either steel, brass, or any other metal from taking rust or canker ; an infallible remedy to prevent persons from taking the small-pox, or any other epidemical disorder ; a certain cure for the bite of a mad dog ; and a variety of other choice nostrums of equal value

9. A list of the governors of the Benevolent institution for the sole purpose of delivering poor married women, at their own habitations: established January 1780

10. An account of the Benevolent Institution: with a list of the governors annexed

12. Good councell against the plague: shewing sundry present preservatives for the same, by wholsome fumes, drinks, vomits, and other inward receits : as also, the perfect cure (by implaysture) of any that are therewith infected : nowe necessary to be observed of every householder, to avoyde the infection, lately begun in some places of this cittie

21. A short account of the venereal disease: with observations on the nature, symptoms, and cure ... Together with some hints on the Practical Scheme ... To which is added, a short account of old gleets, and other weaknesses ... As also an account of specificks

27. An Essay on external appended remedies: occasioned by the very great increase of late years in the bills of mortality ... : in this essay therefore is clearly proved ... that by the wearing only of a certain anodyne necklace approved of and recommended to the world by Dr. Chamberlaine, children will easily breed, and presently cut their teeth without any pain ... women in labour be easily, presently and safely delivered : and most distempers of the head cured

28. An English Fellow's answer to a Scotch licentiate's letter: or, a vindication of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London, from the charge of iniquity brought against the Fellows of the said College, in the said letter

33. The twelfth edition of an essay, on the nature and cure of scrophulous disorders, commonly called the king's evil: deduced from long observation and practice : with additions : and above sixty cases : (some never before publish'd) : the remedies in them used, and occasional remarks : to which is prefixed a coloured plate of the herb vervain, and its root : published for the good of mankind, particularly the common people

34. Letters to married women

36. The sentiments of the professors of physick, in the foreign universities: concerning the operations and method of curing the diseases incident to the eye, as practised by John Taylor, doctor of physick, surgeon, oculist to his Majesty, and Fellow of several Colleges of Physicians in foreign parts

48. Chemical essays: being a continuation of my reflections on fixed fire, with observations and strictures upon Drs. Priestley's, Fordyce's, Pearson's, and Beddoes's late papers in the Philosophical transactions : and an answer to the reviewers

50. Nature's assistant to the restoration of health: to which is added a short treatise on the venereal disease, recommending a safe, easy, and proper mode of treatment : also an essay on gleets, seminal weaknesses, and the destructive habit of self-pollution

51. The hospital pupil's guide through London, in a seres [sic] of letters: from a pupil at St. Thomas's Hospital to his friend in the country ; recommending the best manner of a pupils employing his time, and interspersed with amusing anecdotes relative to the history and oeconomy of hospital's

53. Grana angelica, or, The true Scots pills: (left to posterity by Dr. Patrick Anderson of Edinburgh, physician to his Majesty King Charles the First, and constantly used as his ordinary physick by Charles the Second) are faithfully prepared only by James Inglish (son of David Inglish, deceased, and grandson of I. Inglish of Edinburgh) living at the Unicorn, no. 165, over-against the new church in the Strand, London

67. A short essay on the virtues of Dr. Norris's drops for fevers: to which are added, letters and certificates of many extraordinary cures, among a great number of others not made public, incontestibly proving their sovereign efficacy in fevers, &c

84. Laws, rules, and orders, for the government of the Westminster New Lying-In Hospital, near Westminster Bridge: instituted in the year 1765 : collected and revised by a committee ... and confirmed ... the 6th of March 1793

86. Observations on fevers: with an attempt to prove, that the dangerous symptoms and fatal effects, produced by those diseases, generally happen through a deficiency in the materia medica, and propositions for preventing those symptoms and effects, by a safe, easy and immediate cure

87. A disquisition on remedies which dissolve the stone, in the human bladder: wherein the different medicinal substances and compositions, recommended for this intention, are impartially scrutinized : and their respective lithontriptic virtues ascertained

88. York Lunatic Asylum: the charity, which bears the name of York Lunatic Asylum was first established in 1777, by general subscription : and had for its first object the cure and relief of such insane persons as were in low circumstances

89. Cautions to the public against new attempts to substitute a spurious preparation for the original syrup of Mr. de Velnos: the recipe for which has been purchased of Dr. Mercier ... by the author, Isaac Swainson, sole proprietor of Velnos' Original Vegetable Syrup

94. Aristotle's compleat and experienc'd midwife: in two parts : I. a guide for child-bearing women, in the time of theor conception, bearing and suckling their children : with the best means of helping them, both in natural and unnatural labours : together with suitable remedies for the various indispositions of newborn infants : II. proper and safe remedies for the curing all those distempers that are incident to the female sex : and more especially those that are any obstruction to their bearing of children : a work far more perfect than any yet extant, and highly necessary for all surgeons, midwives, nurses, and child-bearing women

95. The Attila of the gout

98. Candid invitations to serious and unbiased reflections, concerning the great and dreadful increase, malignancy and direfull effects of fevers, and other epidemick diseases: which yearly destroy great numbers of all ranks and degrees, age and sex : with important inquiries, remarks and observations on the causes therof : to which is added : reasons and motives to demonstrate the necessity of putting an immediate stop to their growing progress ... : recommended to the serious and unbiased consideration of all who may think the means for preserving life and health