Publications of John Tennent

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  • Tennent, John. Every man his own doctor: or, The poor planter's physician. Prescribing plain and easy means for persons to cure themselves of all, or most of the distempers, incident to this climate, and with very little charge, the medicines being chiefly of the growth and production of this country. [Eight lines from Milton]. [Williamsburg, Va.]: Printed and sold by William Parks at his printing-office in Williamsburg, and Annapolis, 1734. ESTC No. W5401. Grub Street ID 354363.
  • Tennent, John. Every man his own doctor: or, The poor planter's physician. Prescribing, plain and easy means for persons to cure themselves of all, or most of the distempers, incident to this climate, and with very little charge, the medicines being chiefly of the growth and production o this country. [Eight lines from Milton]. Philadelphia: Re-printed and sold by B. Franklin, near the market, M,DCC,XXXIV. [1734]. ESTC No. W9430. Grub Street ID 358598.
  • Tennent, John. Every man his own doctor: or, The poor planter's physician. Prescribing, plain and easy means for persons to cure themselves of all, or most of the distempers, incident to this climate, and with very little charge, the medicines being chiefly of the growth and production o this country. [Eight lines from Milton]. Philadelphia: Re-printed and sold by B. Franklin, near the market, M,DCC,XXXVI. [1736]. ESTC No. W5402. Grub Street ID 354364.
  • Tennent, John. Every man his own doctor: or, The poor planter's physician. Prescribing plain and easy means for persons to cure themselves of all, or most of the distempers, incident to this climate, and with very little charge, the medicines being chiefly of the growth and production of this country. [Eight lines from Milton]. [Williamsburg, Va. and Annapolis, Md.]: Printed and sold by Wil. Parks, at his printing offices in Williamsburg, and Annapolis, 1736. ESTC No. W5403. Grub Street ID 354365.
  • Tennent, John. An essay on the pleurisy. By John Tennent. Williamsburg [Va.]: Printed and sold by William Parks, M,DCC,XXXVI. [1736]. ESTC No. W15619. Grub Street ID 325098.
  • Tennent, John. An epistle to Dr. Richard Mead, concerning the epidemical diseases of Virginia, particularly, a pleurisy and peripneumony: wherein is shewn the surprising efficacy of the seneca rattle-snake root, in Diseases owing to a Viscidity and Coagulation of the Blood; such as Pleurisies and Peripneumonies, these being epidemick, and very mortal in Virginia, and other Colonies on the Continent of America, and also the Lee-Ward Islands. To which is prefixt, A Cut of that most valuable Plant: And an appendix annexed, Demonstrating the highest Probability, that this Root will be of more extensive Use than any Medicine in the whole Materia Medica, and of curing the Gout, Rheumatism, Dropsy, and many nervous Diseases. By John Tennent. Edinburgh: printed by P. Matthie, and sold by most booksellers in town, M.DCC.XXXVIII. [1738]. ESTC No. T56712. Grub Street ID 283124.
  • Tennent, John. An essay on the pleurisy. By John Tennent. Williamsburg [Va.]: Printed and sold by William Parks, M,DCC,XL. [1740]. ESTC No. W5400. Grub Street ID 354362.
  • Tennent, John. A reprieve from death: in two physical chapters. Viz. Chap. I. Objections against the Use of Vinegar, or other Acids, to prevent or cure the Epidemic and Mortal Fever of the West-Indies, on Occasion of Vinegar being recommended by the College of Physicians, for that Purpose, to the English Squadron there. Chap. II. Reasons why all Medicines should be freely published. With an appendix. Dedicated to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole. By John Tennent. London: printed for John Clarke, at Homer's-Head the Corner of Essex-Street in the Strand, 1741. ESTC No. T44802. Grub Street ID 273164.
  • Tennent, John. Truth stifled, and an appeal to the genius of the ancient Romans. Being the case of Dr John Tennent, with respect to his free publication of his discovery of the farther efficacy of the Senekka Rattlesnake Root, which cures with, great certainty, the American Epidemical Fever, ... Which also contains enquiries into the operation of the rattle-snake's venom upon the human body; ... By John Tennent. London: printed for C. Corbett, 1741. ESTC No. N34548. Grub Street ID 22913.
  • Tennent, John. An essay on the pleurisy. By John Tennent. [New York]: Williamsburg, printed: New-York: re-printed and sold by James Parker, at the new printing-office in Hanover-Square, 1742. ESTC No. W39029. Grub Street ID 349804.
  • Tennent, John. A supplement to Physical enquiries, lately published: in a letter to ... William Pulteney, Esq; By John Tennent, M.D. London: printed by T. Gardner, and sold by Andrew Millar, and John Millan, 1742. ESTC No. N24618. Grub Street ID 13974.
  • Tennent, John. An epistle to Dr. Richard Mead, concerning the epidemical diseases of Virginia, particularly, a pleurisy and peripneumony: wherein is shewn the surprising efficacy of the seneca rattle-snake root, in Diseases owing to a Viscidity and Coagulation of the Blood; such as Pleurisies and Peripneumonies, these being epidemick, and very mortal in Virginia, and other Colonies on the Continent of America, and also the Lee-Ward Islands. To which is prefixt, A Cut of that most valuable Plant: And an Appendix annexed, Demonstrating the highest Probability, that this Root will be of more extensive Use than any Medicine in the whole Materia Medica, and of curing the Gout, Rheumatism, Dropsy, and many nervous Diseases. By John Tennent. Edinburgh: printed by P. Matthie, and sold by William Miller Bookseller, at his Shop a little above the Cross, North Side of the Street, M.DCC.XLII. [1742]. ESTC No. N6193. Grub Street ID 44445.
  • Tennent, John. Physical enquiries: discovering the mode of translation in the constitutions of northern inhabitants, on going to, and for some time after arriving in southern climates: ... By John Tennent, M.D. London: printed by T. Gardner, and sold by Andrew Millar, and John Millan, 1742. ESTC No. T56405. Grub Street ID 282863.
  • Tennent, John. Detection of a conspiracy, to suppress a general good in physic, and to promote error and ignorance in that important science: being the singular case of John Tennent, M.D. which has brought against him, maliciously, a trial at the Old Bailey for bigamy. London: printed for the author, in the year, 1743. ESTC No. N29134. Grub Street ID 18322.
  • Tennent, John. Physical disquisitions: demonstrating the real causes of the blood's morbid rarefaction and Stagnation, and that the Cure of Fevers, Acute and Chronic Diseases, in general, can be effected with greater Certainty than by the established Rules of the Practice of Physic: The Theory confirmed by an authentic Account of curing various Distempers, in America and London, wherein these Rules proved abortive: The Symptoms and Nature of each Case commented upon, and the Prescriptions stated in English. The Whole discovering, that the Simple Laws of Nature, and the Analogy of Diseases, have been very much perplexed in the Prolix and too Metaphysical Reasonings of numerous Authors, and that some Regulations in the Practice of Physic would obviate many Deaths. Humbly inscribed to His Grace Charles, Duke of Richmond. By John Tennent, M.D. London: printed for W. Payne, at Horace's Head in the Strand: and sold by the booksellers in town and country, 1745. ESTC No. N39440. Grub Street ID 26806.
  • Tennent, John. Ein jeder sein eigner Doctor, oder Des armen Land-Manns Artzt. In sich haltend: wie sich jedermann durch schlechte, und leichte Mittel von allen, oder doch von den meisten Kranckheiten, die in diesem Climate gemein sind, curiren kan, und das mit wenigen Kosten, weil die Mittel meistens in diesem Lande wachsen. Zuerst in englischer Sprache geschrieben und zum öfftern gedruckt, nun aber um seiner Vortrefflichkeit willen in das Teustche übersetzt, worden durch P.M. Philadelphia.: Gedruckt und zu finden bey Benjamin Fräncklin, und Johann Böhm, 1749. ESTC No. W18789. Grub Street ID 328403.
  • Tennent, John. Physical enquiries: discovering the mode of translation in the constitutions of northern inhabitants, on going to, and... arriving in southern climates: ... Illustrated with remarks upon a printed letter to a Member of Parliament, signed Philanthropos. By John Tennent, M.D. London: printed for R. Spavan, 1749. ESTC No. T11341. Grub Street ID 165351.
  • Tennent, John. Every man his own doctor: or, The poor planter's physician. Prescribing plain and easy means for persons to cure themselves of all, or most of the distempers, incident to this climate, and with very little charge, the medicines being chiefly of the growth and production of this country. [Eight lines from Milton]. Williamsburg [Va.]: Printed and sold by William Hunter, 1751. ESTC No. W9844. Grub Street ID 359033.