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Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

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• Drugs -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
• Medicine, Ayurvedic -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
• Traditional medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions

• Prescriptions

• Useful Prescriptions (Cincinnati: Lloyd Brothers, 1935), by Cloyce Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Medical Formulary (with additions from the 6th London edition; Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1856), by Henry Beasley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Fenner's Working Formulae: A Hand-Book of the Old and the New Pharmacopoeias, Containing Weight and Measure Standards, Working Processes, Working Formulae, the Medicinal Properties and Doses of Drugs and Their Preparations, and Being a Comparison of the 1870 with the 1880 Pharmacopoeia, with Remarks, Suggestions, Original Processes and Formulae, and Other Matter of Interest and Value to Druggists and Physicians (second edition; Westfield, NY: B. Fenner, c1886), by B. Fenner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cook's Pocket-Companion and Compleat Family-Guide: Being a Collection of the Very Best Receipts (London: Printed for J. Staples, 1758), by Lydia Honeywood (page images at NIH)
• The Southern Gardener and Receipt-Book: Containing Valuable Information, Original and Otherwise, on All Subjects Connected With Domestic and Rural Affairs, Gardening, Cookery, Beverages, Dairy, Medical, Veterinary, and Miscellaneous (third edition; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and co., 1860), ed. by Mary L. Edgeworth, contrib. by P. Thornton
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA

• 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 (London: Printed for L. White, 1676), by John Ponteus (page images at NIH)
• Natura Exenterata: or, Nature Unbowelled by the Most Exquisite Anatomizers of Her (London: H. Twiford et al., 1655), by Philiatros
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• Nature's Assistant to the Restoration of Health In a Variety of Complaints: To Which Is Added, an Address to Parents, Tutors, and Schoolmasters, With Advice to Young Men and Boys, Respecting a Destructive Habit of a Private Nature (13th edition; London: Printed by E. Hodson, 1794), by James Hodson (page images at NIH)
• Nature's Assistant to the Restoration of Health; To Which is Added a Short Treatise on the Venereal Disease, Recommending a Safe, Easy, and Proper Mode of Treatment; Also, an Essay on Gleets, Seminal Weaknesses, and the Destructive Habit of Self-Pollution (6th edition; London: J. Matthews, 1789), by James Hodson (page images at NIH)
• Nature's Assistant to the Restoration of Health; To Which is Added a Short Treatise on the Venereal Disease, Recommending a Safe, Easy, and Proper Mode of Treatment; Also, an Essay on Gleets, Seminal Weaknesses, and a Destructive Habit of a Private Nature (11th edition; London: E. Hodson, 1791), by James Hodson (page images at NIH)
• The New Dispensatory: The Whole Interspersed with Practical Cautions and Observations (sixth edition; London: Printed for F. Wingrave et al., ca. 1799), by William Lewis (page images at NIH)
• The Poor Man's Physician, or The Receipts of The Famous John Moncrief of Tippermalloch: Being a Choice Collection of Simple and Easy Remedies For Most Distempers; To Which Is Added, The Method of Curing The Small Pox and Scurvy (second edition; Edinburgh: Printed for J. Paton, 1716), by John Moncrief, contrib. by Archibald Pitcairn (page images at NIH)
• Here Begynneth a Good Booke of Medecines Called, the Treasure of Poore Men (London: T. Colwell, 1565) (page images at NIH)
• 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 (London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, ca. 1710), by Giles Parsons (page images at NIH)
• Observationes in Morbos Nautarum: Prout in Classe Serenissimi Magnae Britanniae Regis Occurrunt, Cum Remediorum Specimine (in Latin; London: The author, 1733), by Henry Huntley (page images at NIH)
• Dr. Colbatch's Legacy, or the Family Physician: Containing an Account of All the Diseases Incident to the Human Body, Alphabetically Digested (London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1733), by John Colbatch (page images at NIH)
• A Practical Treatise on the Small-Pox and Measles (Worcester, UK: Printed by S. Bryan, 1745), by Thomas Tanner (page images at NIH)
• 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 (6th edition; London: Printed for C. Henderson, ca. 1755), by Arabella Fairfax (page images at NIH)

• Pharmacopoeia Londinensis, or, The London Dispensatory: Further Adorned by the Studies and Collections of the Fellows, Now Living in the Said Colledg: Being That Book by Which All Apothecaries are Bound to Make Up All the Medicines in Their Shops (London: Printed by Peter Cole, 1665), by Nicholas Culpeper (page images at NIH)

• Chakradatta: A Treatise on Hindu Medicine (second edition, in Sanskrit with English title page; Kolkata: Saraswati Press, 1888), by Cakrapāṇidatta, ed. by Jīvānanda Vidyāsāgara Bhaṭṭācāryya
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
• The Materia Medica of the Hindus, Compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works (with a glossary of Indian plants; Kolkata: Thacker, Spine and Co., 1877), by Udoy Chand Dutt, contrib. by George King (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Chemical Formulary, ed. by H. Bennett (partial serial archives)

• 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 (London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, ca. 1710), by Giles Parsons (page images at NIH)
• 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 (London: Printed for L. White, 1676), by John Ponteus (page images at NIH)

• Recipe Book (manuscript, 1705), by D. Petre (page images here at Penn)

• 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 (London: Printed for L. White, 1676), by John Ponteus (page images at NIH)
• 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 (London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, ca. 1710), by Giles Parsons (page images at NIH)

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