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3. Hygiene

7. Health by good living

15. The home-book of health and medicine, or, The laws and means of physical culture adapted to practical use: embracing laws of digestion, breathing, ventilation, uses of the lungs, circulation and renovation, laws and diseases of the skin, bathing, how to prevent consumption, clothing and temperature, food and cooking, poisons, exercise and rest, the right use of physicians, &c. &c. &c

16. The art of invigorating and prolonging life by food, clothes, air, exercise, wine, sleep, &c. and peptic precepts: pointing out agreeable and effectual methods to prevent and relieve indigestion, and to regulate and strengthen the action of the stomach and bowels : to which is added, the pleasure of making a will

21. A key to health

22. Public health rhymes

24. The family companion and physician: on reformed botanical principles, treating of the symptoms and remedies of acute diseases in men, women, and children : together with a short lecture on the laws of the many nervous diseases to which we are subject : also, numerous preparations valuable to every family

37. Directions for invigorating and prolonging life, or, The invalid's oracle: containing peptic precepts, pointing out agreeable and effectual methods to prevent and relieve indigestion, and to regulate and strengthen the action of the stomach and bowels

50. The female guide, containing facts and information upon the effects of masturbation: and the causes, prevention, treatment, and cure of hernia or rupture, costiveness, liver complaints, piles, deformities and painful diseases of the spine, suppression and irregular painful monthly periods, prolapsus uteri, or falling of the womb, attended with weakness of the bowels, pain in the sides and back, difficulty of passing the urine, &c., &c. : designed for females exclusively

54. The art of invigorating and prolonging life: by food, clothes, air, exercise, wine, sleep &c. and peptic precepts, pointing out agreeable and effectual methods to prevent and relieve indigestion, and to regulate and strengthen the action of the stomach and bowels ; suaviter in modo, fortiter in re : to which is added, the pleasure of making a will ; finis coronat opus

57. Golden rules of health, and hints to dyspeptics: with special reference to diet, exercise, air, temperature, ventilation, hygrometry, influence of domestic habits : together with remarks on allopathy, hydropathy, aeropathy, thermopathy, psychropathy, homoeopathy, thumpingpathy, healingpathy, killingpathy &c., &c., &c

67. Mental hygiene

72. Six lectures on the functions of the lungs: and causes, prevention, and cure of pulmonary consumption, asthma, and diseases of the heart : on the laws of life : and on the mode of preserving male and female health to a hundred years : also a treatise on medicated inhalation

79. The home-book of life and health, or, The laws and means of physical culture adapted to practical use: embracing laws of digestion, breathing, ventilation, uses of the lungs, circulation and renovation, laws and diseases of the skin, bathing, how to prevent consumption, clothing and temperature, food and cooking, poisons, exercise and rest, the right use of physicians, &c. &c. &c

86. Health lessons

90. Key notes of health and a century of life: with simple, practical, and inexpensive methods of treating diseases of the heart, stomach, and kidneys and other chronic and nervous affections : the deadening influences of which usurp the best years of life, and too frequently cause sudden and premature death, giving the up-to-date methods of antidoting and curing the whiskey and tobacco habits, with many valuable formulae never before made public