The Compleat Cook eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 95 pages of information about The Compleat Cook.

The Compleat Cook eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 95 pages of information about The Compleat Cook.

52.  Milk for Children; a plain and easie method teaching to read and write, usefull for Schools and Families, by L.  Thomas, D.D.

53.  The Painting of the Ancients; the History of the beginning, progress, and consummating of the practice of that noble Art of Painting; by F.  Junius

Excellent and approved Treatises in Physick, Chyrurgery, & other more familiar Experiments in Cookery, Preserving, &c.

54. Culpeper’s Semiatica uranica, his Astrological judgement of Diseases from the decumbiture of the sick, much enlarged:  the way and manner of finding out the cause, change, and end of the Disease; also whether the sick be likely to live or dye, & the time when recovery or death is to be expected, according to the judgement of Hipocrates, and Hermes Trismegistus; to which is added Mr. Culpeper’s censure of Urines.

55. Culpeper’s last Legacy, left to his Wife for the publick good, being the choicest and most profitable of those secrets in Physick and Chyrurgery; which whilst he lived, were lockt up in his breast, and resolved never to be published till after his death.

56.  The Yorkshire Spaw; or the virtue and use of that water in curing of desperate diseases, with directions and rules necessary to be considered by all that repair thither.

57.  Most approved Medicines and Remedies for the diseeses in the body of Man:  by A.  Read Dr. in Physick.

58.  The Art of Simpling:  an introduction to the knowledg of gathering of Plants, wherein, the definitions, divisions, places, descriptions, differences, names, virtues, times of gathering, uses, tempratures of them are compendiously discoursed of:  also a discovery of the lesser World, by W.  Coles.

59. Adam in Eden, or Natures Paradise:  the History of Plants, Herbs and Flowers, with their several original names, the places where they grow, their descriptions and kindes, their times of flourishing and decreasing; as also their several signatures, anatomical appropriations, and particular physical virtues; with necessary Observations on the seasons of planting and gathering of our English plants.  A work admirably useful for Apothecaries, Chyrurgeons, and other Ingenuous persons, who may in this Herbal finde comprised all the English physical simples, that Gerard or Parkinson, in their two voluminous Herbals have discoursed of, even so as to be on emergent occasions their own physitians, the ingredients being to be be had in their own fields & gardens, Published for the general good by W.  Coles M.D.

60.  The Compleat Midwive’s practice, in the high & weighty concernments of the body of Mankinde:  or perfect Rules derived from the experiences and writings, not onely of our English, but the most accomplisht and absolute practices of the French, Spanish, Italians, and other Nations; so fitted for the weakest capacities, that they may in a short time attain to the knowledge of the whole art; by Dr. T.C. with the advice of others, illustrated with Copper figures.

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