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Total number of records: 2335
Count of Record type
Top 10: Collection group
| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Brotherton Collection | 293 |
| Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse | 82 |
| Cookery Collection | 75 |
| Novello Cowden Clarke Collection | 72 |
| English Literature | 49 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 41 |
| Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections | 38 |
| Quaker Collection | 34 |
| Joseph Wood Collections | 27 |
| Letters Database | 17 |
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Anonymous | 35 |
| Boerhaave, Herman (1668-1738) | 35 |
| Haller, Albrecht Von (1708-1777) | 28 |
| Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738 | 21 |
| Swieten, Gerard Freiherr Van (1700-1772) | 21 |
| Ruysch, Frederik (1638-1731) | 17 |
| Boerhaave, Herman | 16 |
| Cullen, William (1710-1790) | 16 |
| Lettsom, John Coakley (1744-1815) | 15 |
| Mead, Richard (1673-1754) | 14 |
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Title: On health
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: On health, praising it as a feature of a simple country life of virtuous
labour, absent from the luxurious excesses of town and court
Title: A health
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 46
Contents: Jacobite drinking song asserting the claim to the throne of
James Stuart, the Old Pretender, anticipating the happiness of
his coming
Title: A health
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 46
Contents: Jacobite drinking song, asserting the claim to the throne of
James Stuart, the Old Pretender, and attacking the Hanoverian
succession
Title: Thoughts in health
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem, requesting God's help in attaining heaven when death shall
come
Title: An ode to health
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Praising health as necessary to and desired by all conditions of men, giving
thanks for his own recovery from illness with the help of medicine
Title: A health to the Czar
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 1698?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Satirical health to Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, especially on his
drinking habits
Title: A health to the Prince of Baden
Author: Hall, Henry, the elder
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 5
Contents: Satirical Jacobite health to William III
Title: An health to King George
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 171- or 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: Drinking song praising George I as defender of the faith of the Church of England in the face of religious controversy
The art of preserving health : a poem
Armstrong, John (1709-1779)
1744
Line 440 of Book 2 is misnumbered 450, and throughout the remainder of the book the numeration is too many. Anon., by John Armstrong.