Short, Thomas, 1690?-1772
Short, Thomas, ca. 1690-1772
Short, Thomas
Thomas Short Scottish physician
VIAF ID: 17571781 ( Personal )
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Works
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A comparative history of the increase and decrease of mankind in England and several countries abroad : according to the different soils, situations, business of life, use of the non-naturals, &c. faithfully collected from and attested by above three hundred vouchers and many of them for a long course of years in two different periods : to which is added a syllabus of the general states of health, air, seasons, and food for the last three hundred years : and also a meteorological discourse | |
The contents : Virtues, and Uses of Nevil-Holt spaw-water, further proved, illustrated, and explained, from experiments and reason. With some histories of its Signal Effects in Various Diseases. Collected by several hands. Also rules and directions for its more Easy Use, and Greater Success | |
A discourse concerning the causes and effects of corpulency, 1727: | |
Discourses on tea, sugar, milk, made-wines, spirits, punch, tobacco, &c. : with plain and useful rules for gouty people | |
A dissertation upon tea : explaining its nature and properties by many new experiments; and demonstrating from philosophical principles, the various effects it has on different constitutions. To which is added The natural history of tea; And A Detection of the several Frauds used in preparing it. Also A discourse on the virtue of sage and water, and An enquiry into the reasons why the same food is not equally agreeable to all constitutions. In A Letter to the Right Honourable Mary Lady Malton. By Thomas Short, M.D. | |
Dr. Short's history of mineral waters, &c. | |
A general chronological history of the air, weather, seasons, meteors, &c. in sundry places and different times; ... with some of their most remarkable effects on animal (especially human) bodies, and vegetables. In two volumes. .. | |
A general treatise on various cold mineral waters in England, but more particularly on those at Harrogate, Thorp-Arch, Dorst-Hill, Wigglesworth, Nevill-Holt, and others of the like Nature. With Their Principles, Virtues and Uses. Also a short discourse on solvents of the stone in the Kidneys and Bladder | |
Medicina Britannica | |
Medicina britannica : or, a treatise on such physical plants, as are generally to be found in the fields or gardens in Great-Britain: containing a particular account of their nature, virtues, and uses. Together with The Observations of the most learned Physicians, as well ancient as modern, communicated to the late ingenious Mr. Ray, and the learned Dr. Sim. Pauli. Adapted More especially to the Occasions of those, whose Condition or Situation of Life deprives them, in a great Measure, of the Helps of the Learned. To which are added, three indexes: The First containing the English and Latin Names of the Plants treated of: The Second of the Diseases, and their Remedies: The Third to the Notes. By Tho. Short, of Sheffield, M. D. | |
The natural, experimental, and medicinal history of the mineral waters of Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire, particularly those of Scarborough : wherein, they are carefully examined and compared, their contents discovered and divided, their uses shewn and explained, and an account given of their discovery and alterations : together with the natural history of the earths, minerals, and fossils through which the chief of them pass : the groundless theories and false opinions of former writers are exposed, and their reasonings demonstrated to be injudicious and inconclusive : to which are added large marginal notes, containing a methodical abstract of all the treatises hitherto published on these waters, with many observations and experiments : as also, four copper-plates representing the crystals of the salts of thirty four of those waters | |
New observations, natural, moral, civil, political, and medical on city, town, and country bills of mortality : to which are added large and clear abstracts of the best authors who have wrote on that subject : with an appendix on the weather and meteors | |
Observations | |
A rational discourse of the inward uses of water : Shewing its nature, choice, and agreeableness to the blood; Its Operation on the Solids and Fluids; In what Constitutions and Times proper; How it promotes necessary, and abateth hurtful Evacuations: In what Diseases Restorative, and wherein Prejudicial. By Tho. Short, M.D. | |
Vinum Britannicum: or, an essay on the properties and effects of malt liquors : Wherein is considered, in what cases, and to what constitutions, they are either beneficial or injurious. With a plain mechanical account, how they are serviceable or disserviceable to human bodies. By a physician in the country. |