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Archive Print Item: YAS 1430

Holden's Human osteology : comprising a description of the bones; with delineations of the attachments of the muscles, the general and microscopic structure of bone and its development

Holden, Luther (1815-1905)

1887

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Archive Print part: YAS 0276

Hydrologia chymica : or, the chemical anatomy of the Scarbrough [sic], and other spaws in York-Shire. Wherein are interspersed, some animadversions upon Dr. Wittie's lately published treatise of the Scarbrough-Spaw. Also, a short description of the spaws at Malton and Knaresbrough [sic]. And a discourse concerning the original of hot-springs and other fountains : with the causes and cures of most of the stubbornest diseases (either chronic or acute) incident to the body of man. Also, a vindication of chymical physick; where a probable way is propounded for the improvement of experimental philosophy : with a digression concerning an universal character. Likewise a short account of the principles of all concretes, whether vegetable, animal or mineral. Lastly, is subjoyned an appendix of the original of springs ; with the author's ternary of medicines : And the epilogue to the whole, of the essence of the Scarbrough-Spaw

Simpson, W (fl. 1665-1677)

1669

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Archive Print part: YAS 0276

Hydrological essayes; or, a vindication of Hydrologia chymica: being a further discovery of the Scarbrough Spaw... and of the sweet spaw and sulphur well at Knarsbrough, with a brief account of the allom works, at Whitby. Together with a return to some queries, propounded by Dr Dan. Foot, concerning mineral waters. To which is annexed, an answer to Dr Tunstal's book, concerning the Scarbrough Spaw. With an appx of the anatomy of the German-spaw, and... observations on the dissection of a woman who died of the jaundice. All grounded in reason and experiment

Simpson, William (fl.1665-1677)

1670

Written in reply to Robert Wittie's Pyrologia mimica. Simpson's Hydrologia chymica, published 1669. Tonstall's Scarbrough spaw, 1670.

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Archive Print Item: YAS 1008

An universal etymological English dictionary : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue, either ancient or modern, from the Ancient British, Saxon, Danish, Norman and Modern French, Teutonic, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, as also from the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew Languages, each in their proper characters : and also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words derived from any of the aforesaid languages; and terms of art relating to anatomy, botany, physick, pharmacy, surgery, chymistry, philosophy, divinity, mathematicks, grammar, logick, rhetorick, musick, heraldry, maritime affairs, military discipline, horsemanship, hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing, gardening, husbandry, handicrafts, confectionary, carving, cookery, &c. : together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases us’d in our ancient statutes, charters, writs, old records, and processes at law ; and the etymology and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great Britain : also the dialects of our different counties. Containing many thousand words more than either Harris, Philips, Kersey, or any English Dictionary before extant. To which is added a collection of our most common proverbs, with their explication and illustration. The whole work compil’d and methodically digested, as well for the entertainment of the curious, as the information of the ignorant, and for the benefit of young students, artificers, tradesmen and foreigners, who are desirous thorowly to understand what they speak, read, or write

Bailey, N (1742)

MDCXXVIII [1728]

Indexed in: ESTC,

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