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1. 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

Author(s):: Fairfax, Arabella.
Publication:: London : Printed for C. Henderson, [ca. 1755]
Subject(s):: Cooking
Alcoholic Beverages
Medicine, Traditional

2. The progress of physic: a poem ; with notes and observations from antient authors

Author(s):: Cowper, Ashley, -1788
Publication:: London : Printed for C. Corbet, MDCCL [1750]
Subject(s):: Medicine
Wit and Humor as Topic

3. A guide to health through the various stages of life: ... the whole illustrated with useful annotations

Author(s):: Lynch, Bernard, -1745
Publication:: London : Printed for M. Cooper, 1754
Subject(s):: Health
Health Promotion

4. Hell in an uproar: a satyr : occasioned by a scuffle which lately happened between the lawyers and physicians for superiority

Author(s):: Burridge, Richard, 1670-
Publication:: London : Printed for T. Watkins ... and sold by the booksellers at Charing-Cross, the Royal Exchange, and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, 1750
Subject(s):: Physicians
Lawyers

5. The cook's pocket-companion and complete family-guide: being a collection of the very best receipts

Author(s):: Honeywood, Lydia.
Publication:: London : Printed for J. Staples ..., MDCCLVIII [1758]
Subject(s):: Cooking
Medicine, Traditional

6. Discourses on tea, sugar, milk, made-wines, spirits, punch, tobacco, &c: with plain and useful rules for gouty people

Author(s):: Short, Thomas, 1690?-1772
Publication:: London : Printed for T. Longman ; and A. Millar, MDCCL [1750]
Subject(s):: Beverages
Balneology
Gout

7. An essay on the expediency of inoculation and the seasons most proper for it

Author(s):: Macleane, Lauchlin, 1728?-1777
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed by William Bradford, at the corner-house of Market- and Front-Streets, 1756
Subject(s):: Smallpox -- prevention & control

8. Medicina Britannica, or A treatise on such physical plants, as are generally to be found in the fields or gardens in Great-Britain: containing a particular account of their nature, virtues, and uses ; together with the observations of the most learned physicians, as well ancient as modern, communicated to the late ingenious Mr. Ray, and the learned Dr. Sim. Pauli ; adapted more especially to the occasions of those, whose condition or situation of life deprives them, in a great measure, of the helps of the learned

Author(s):: Short, Thomas, 1690?-1772
Publication:: [Philadelphia] : London printed : Philadelphia re-printed, and sold by B. Franklin, and D. Hall, at the post-office, in Market-Street, MDCCLI [1751]
Subject(s):: Botany
Plants, Medicinal
Phytotherapy