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Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / By John Coakley Lettsom.

The Queens closet opened. Incomparable secrets in physick, chirurgery, preserving, candying, and cookery ; as they were presented to the Queen by the most experienced persons of our times ... / Transcribed from the true copies of Her Majesties own receipt-books, by W.M. one of her late servants.

Primitive physick: or, an easy and natural method of curing most diseases / By John Wesley.

Domestic medicine; or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicine : With appendix containing a dispensatory. For the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan.

Aristotle's compleat master-piece. In three parts : Displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man, regularly digested into chapters and sections ... To which is added A treasure of health; or, the family physician ... / [Aristotle].

The Queens closet opened : being incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, and candying &c. which were presented to the Queen / by the most experienc'd persons of the times, many whereof were had in esteem when she pleased to descend to private recreations.

Internal baths : the principle and the process : being an exposition of Prof. Chas. A. Tyrrell's celebrated "J.B.L. Cascade," a device for eliminating the waste of the system : drugs shown to be injurious to health and longevity : essentially a home treatment.

New guide to health ; or botanic family physician : containing a complete system of practice, upon a plan entirely new; with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and administering them to cure disease : to which is added a description of several cases of disease attended by the author, with the mode of treatment and cure : to which is annexed, A narrative of the life, &c. of the author / by Samuel Thomson.

Aristotle's compleat master piece. : In three parts: ... To which is added, A treasure of health; or, The family physician.

The mother's medical adviser : on the diseases and management of children, with recipes / [by Thomas Wakley].

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The Queens closet opened : being incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, and candying &c. which were presented to the Queen / by the most experienc'd persons of the times, many whereof were had in esteem when she pleased to descend to private recreations.

Internal baths : the principle and the process : being an exposition of Prof. Chas. A. Tyrrell's celebrated "J.B.L. Cascade," a device for eliminating the waste of the system : drugs shown to be injurious to health and longevity : essentially a home treatment.

Aristotle's compleat master piece. : In three parts: ... To which is added, A treasure of health; or, The family physician.

The mother's medical adviser : on the diseases and management of children, with recipes / [by Thomas Wakley].