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21. The practice of physick, or, the law of God (called nature) in the body of man: confuting by manifest and manifold experiences many learned men, as well as the authors, the rules and methods conserning sicknesses and changes in mans body ... : In the second part of this book is a Practice of physick, drawn from the best of moderns ... : to which is added, A treatise of diseases from witchcraft

24. Choice and profitable secrets both physicall, and chirurgical: formerly concealed, by the deceased Dutchess of Lenox, and now published for the use and benefit of such as live far from physicians and chirurgions : being approved of by eminent doctors, and published by their charitable advice for the publique good : whereunto is annexed, A discovery of the natures and properties of all such herbs which are most commonly known, and grow in countrey gardens

25. Man and woman their own doctor, or, a salve for every sore: being a book full of rare receipts for the most dangerous distempers incident to the bodies of men, women, and children : and very fit to be in all families, in this crasie, sickly, and bad times : gathered out of the library of that famous traveller, Docter Ponteous ; and now published for the good, and benefit of all people whatsoever

26. The Compleat midwife's practice enlarged: in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man : containing a perfect directory, for rules for midwives and nurses : and also a guide for women in their conception, bearing and nursing of children : from the experience of our English authors : viz. Sir Theodore Mayern, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich. Culpeper, and other foreign nations : with instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter, a little before her death, touching the practice of the said art : as also a farther discovery of those secrets kept close in the breast of Sir Theodore Mayern, Mr. Nicholas Culpeper, and other English writers, not made publick 'till now

28. A little book of rare receipts for the cure of several distempers: viz, The King's evil, stone, chollick, black and yellow jaundice, piles, ague, worms, black thrush in children's mouths, breakings out in their infancy, rickets, small-pox, the itch, etc. : set forth for the benefit of all poor Christians

29. Bartholinus anatomy: made from the precepts of his father, and from the observations of all modern anatomists : together with his own : with one hundred fifty and three figures, cut in brass, much larger and better than any have been heretofore printed in English : in four books and four manuals, answering to the said books

30. The displaying of supposed witchcraft: wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of deceivers and impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of melancholy and fancy : but that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the devil and the witch, or that he sucks on the witches body, has carnal copulation, or that witches are turned into cats, dogs, raise tempests, or the like, is utterly denied and disproved : wherein also is handled, the existence of angels and spirits, the truth of apparitions, the nature of astral and sydereal spirits, the force of charms, and philters, with other abstruse matters