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• A collection of receipts in physic : being the practice of the late eminent Dr. Bloxam: containing a complete body of prescriptions answering to every Disease. With some in surgery. To which are added, by the editor, a general account of the operations of all kinds of medicines: also occasional remarks, directions, and cautions, suited to the different stages of distempers, in order to render this work particularly useful in families
  Published: (1754)
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  by: Practical chemist
  Published: (1841)
• A thousand notable things : Containing modern curiosities. viz. Divers rare and experienced physical receipts. Monthly observations in gardening, planting, and grafting. To catch birds, fish, &c. To kill bugs, rats, mice, and all sorts of vermin. To make white-wine, claret, mead, cyder, punch, &c. The virtues and use of Dulwich waters. To take spots out of linen, wollen, paper, or parchment. Rules for the preservation of health. To make all sorts of ink, wax, and wasers. To educate children to learn languages speedily. Riddles, jests and stories. To dye bone. To order, encrease, and preserve bees. To make corn produce a tripple crop. How to make Covent-Garden purl, and Dr Butler's ale. How to make old people look young. To make leather last long. To make fine pictures. How to order all manner of pickles. To make window-sashes. The art of dying, colouring, perfuming, and gilding. With above nine hundred other curiosities, on various subjects. Also a new help to discourse, and directions to read, write, indite, and speak languages readily and speedily. Together with an alphabetical table to the whole, for the finding all the matters herein with ease
  by: Lupton, Thomas
  Published: (1748)
• A thousand notable things : Containing modern curiosities, viz. divers rare and experienc'd physical receipts. Monthly observations in gardening, planting, and grafting. To catch birds, fish, &c. ... Also a new help to discourse, and directions to read, write, indite, and speak languages readily
  by: Lupton, Thomas
  Published: (1706)
• 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 compleat Method of Physick, 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 these Seven Things, viz. 1. The way of making Plaisters, Ointments, Oyls, Pultisses, Syrups, Decoctions, Juleps or Waters, of all sorts of Physical Herbs, that you may have htem ready for your use at all times of the year. 2. What Planet governeth every Herb or Tree (used in Physick) 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 Juices 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 Physick and Astrology
  by: Culpeper, Nicholas
  Published: (1714)