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Campanella revived, or An enquiry into the history of the Royal Society : whether the virtuosi there do not pursue the projects of Campanella for the reducing England unto popery. Being the extract of a letter to a person of honour from H.S. with another letter to Sir N.N. relating the cause of the quarrel betwixt H.S. and the R.S. and an apology against some of their cavils. With a postscript concerning the quarrel depending betwixt H.S. and Dr. Merrett
Author · 1670
The miraculous conformist, or, An account of severall marvailous cures performed by the stroaking of the hands of Valentine Greatarick : with a physicall discourse thereupon, in a letter to Robert Boyle. With a letter relating some other of his miraculous cures, attested by E. Foxcroft
Author · 1666
Lex talionis; sive vindiciae pharmacoporum: or a short reply to Dr. Merett's book; and others, written against the apothecaries: wherein may be discovered the frauds and abuses committed by doctors professing and practising pharmacy
Author · 1670
Medice cura teipsum : or the apothecaries plea in some short and modest animadversions, upon a late tract entituled A short view of the frauds and abuses of the apothecaries, and the onely remedy by physicians making their own medicines by Christopher Merret...
Author · 1671
The Lord Bacons relation of the sweating-sickness examined, in a reply to George Thomson ... Together with a defence of phlebotomy in general, and also particularly in the plague, smallpox, scurvey, and pleurisie in opposition to the same author and the author of Medela medicinae [i.e. M. Nedham], Doctor Whitaker, and Doctor Sydenham. Also a relation concerning the strange symptomes happening upon the bite of the adder: and a reply, by way of preface to the calumnies of Eccebolius [i.e. Joseph] Glanvile
Author · 1671
A censure upon certain passages contained in the History of the Royal Society [by Thomas Sprat] as being destructive to the established religion and Church of England
Author · 1671
Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society : wherein, besides the several errors against common literature, sundry mistakes about the making of salt-petre and gun-powder are detected, and rectified: whereunto are added two discourses, one of Pietro Sardi, and another of Nicolas Tartaglia relating to that subject. Translated out of Italian. With a brief account of those passages of the authors life, which the virtuosi intended most to censure, and expatiate upon ... Together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c
Author · 1670
The Indian Nectar, or, A discourse concerning Chocolata : Wherein the Nature of the Cacao-nut, and the other Ingredients of that Composition, is examined, and stated according to the Judgment and Experience of the Indians, and Spanish writers, who lived in the Indies, and others; with sundry additional Observations made in England: The ways of compounding and preparing Chocolata are enquired into; its Effects, as to its alimental and Venereal quality, as well as Medicinal (especially in Hypochondriacal Melancholy) are fully debated. Together with a Spagyrical Analysis of the Cacao-nut, performed by that excellent Chymist, Monsieur le Febure, Chymist to His Majesty.
Author · 1662
A Bacon-Face no Beauty, or, a Reply to George Thomson, Pretender to Physick and Chymistry. Whereunto is added, A Defence of Phlebotomy In general, and also particularly In the Plague, Small-Pox, Scurvey, and Pleurisie. In opposition to the same Author, and the Author of Medela medicinae [M. Nedham], Doctor Whitaker, and Doctor Sydenham. Also A Relation concerning the strange Symptomes happening upon the Bite of an Adder. And A Reply, by way of Preface to the Calumnies of Eccebolius Glanvile
Author · 1671
Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society : wherein, besides the several errors against common literature, sundry mistakes about the making of salt-petre and gun-powder are detected, and rectified: whereunto are added two discourses, one of Pietro Sardi, and another of Nicolas Tartaglia relating to that subject. Translated out of Italian. With a brief account of those passages of the authors life, which the virtuosi intended most to censure, and expatiate upon ... Together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c
Author · 1670
