Rare Books

The natural history of lac, amber, and myrrh; : with a plain account of the many excellent virtues these three medicinal substances are naturally possessed of, and well adapted for the cure of various diseases incident to the human body. And a restorative balsamic tincture, which in many extraordinary cases give speedy relief, as are fully described in the following treatise

Image not available

Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: MDCCLXX. [1770].
Call number: 618629
Creator: Cook, John (approximately 1705-1777)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: On long-term loan from the Los Angeles County Medical Association, 1992.
Dimensions: 21 cm (8vo)
Associated people: Woodfall, George, (active 1742-1771,); Parker, Charles (-1808,); Flexney, William,
Associated organization: Los Angeles County Medical Association,
Find out more: View in the Library catalog(Opens in new tab)

You might also be interested in

Image not available
Amicus reipublicae. = The Common-Wealths friend., Or an exact and speedie course to justice and right, and for preventing and determining of tedious law-suits. With many other things very considerable for the good of the publick. All which are fully controverted and debated in law
Rare Books
436574
Image not available
A treatise of moral and intellectual virtues; : wherein their nature is fully explained, and their usefulness proved, as being the best rules of life. And the causes of their decay are enquired into; concluding with such arguments as tend to revive the practice of them. With a preface shewing the vanity and deceitfulness of vice
Rare Books
287050
Image not available
Unum necessarium: or, The poore mans case: : being an expedient to make provision for all poore people in the kingdome. Humbly presented to the higher powers: begging some angelicall ordinance, for the speedy abating of the prises of corne, without which, the ruine of many thousands ... is inevitable. In all humility propounding, that the readiest way is a suppression or regulation of innes and ale-houses, ... proving them by law to be all in a praemunire, and the grand concernment, that none which have been notoriously disaffected, and enemies to common honesty and civility, should sell any wine, strong ale, or beere, but others to be licensed by a committee in every county, upon recommendation of the minister, and such of the inhabitants in every parish, where need requires, that have been faithfull to the publike. Wherein there is a hue-and-cry against drunkards, as the most dangerous antinomians: and against ingrossers, to make a dearth, and cruell misers, which are the caterpillar
Rare Books
98625
Image not available
The compleat herbal of physical plants. : Containing all such English and foreign herbs, shrubs and trees, as are used in physick and surgery. And to the virtues of those that are now in use, is added one receipt, or more, of some learned physician. The doses or quantities of such as are prescribed by the London-physicians, and others, are proportioned. Also directions for making compound-waters, syrups simple and compound, electuaries, pills, powders, and other sorts of medicines. Moreover, the gums, balsams, oyls, juices, and the like, which are sold by apothecaries and druggists, are added to this herbal; and their virtues and uses are fully described
Rare Books
375491
Image not available
A general natural history, or, New and accurate descriptions of the animals, vegetables, and minerals, of the different parts of the world : with their virtues and uses, as far as hitherto certainly known, in medicine and mechanics : illustrated by a general review of the knowledge of the ancients, and the discoveries and improvements of later ages in these studies : including the history of the materia medica, pictoria, and tinctoria, of the present and earlier ages : as also observations on the neglected properties of many valuable substances known at present, and attempts to discover the lost medicines, &c. of former ages, in a series of critical enquiries into the materia medica of the ancient Greeks : with a great number of figures, elegantly engraved
Rare Books
752223
Image not available
The physician's pulse-watch; or, An essay to explain the old art of feeling the pulse, and to improve it by the help of a pulse-watch. : In three parts. I. The old Galenic art of feeling the pulse is describ'd, and many of its errors corrected: the true use of the pulses, and their causes, differences and prognostications by them, are fully explain'd, and directions given for feeling the pulse by the pulse-watch, or minute glass. II. A new mechanical method is propos'd for preserving health, and prolonging life, and for curing diseases by the help of the pulse-watch, which shews the pulses when they exceed or are deficient from the natural. III. The Chinese art of feeling the pulse is describ'd; and the imitation of their practice of physick, which is grounded on the observation of the pulse, is recommended. To which is added, An extract out of Andrew Cleyer, concerning the Chinese art of feeling the pulse
Rare Books
618697

You might also be interested in

Amicus reipublicae. = The Common-Wealths friend., Or an exact and speedie course to justice and right, and for preventing and determining of tedious law-suits. With many other things very considerable for the good of the publick. All which are fully controverted and debated in law