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The actor: a treatise on the art of playing. Interspersed with theatrical anecdotes, critical remarks on plays, and occasional observations on audiences.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: MDCCL. [1750]
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Virtues of British herbs. With the history, description, and figures of the several kinds; An Account of the Diseases they will cure; The Method of giving them; and Management of the Patients in each Disease: Containing Cures of Head-Achs by Feverfew Tea, with Two Singular Instances. Cures of Consumptions by Coltsfoot Tea, Hectic Fevers by the Daisy, Colics by Leaves of Chamomile, And Agues by its Flowers. A Recommendation of the Bidens Cernua to supply the Place of the Ceylon Acmella, so celebrated in the Gravel; but not to be had with us. And a Case, with all its Circumstances and Symptoms, of the Hooping - Cough, cured by a Tea of the fresh Root of Elecampane. The Whole illustrating that important Truth, That the Plants of our own Country will cure all its Diseases. To which are added, Cautions against the Two Othonnas, destructive of Sheep. A Work intended to be useful to the Sick, and to their Friends; to private Families; and to the Charitable, who would help their Neighbours. No.1. - To be continued occasionally, as new Virtues are discovered in Plants; or neglected, or doubtful ones ascertained by Experience. By John Hill, M. D. Member of the Imperial Academy.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]
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Virtues of British herbs. With their history, and figures, and an account of the diseases they will cure; containing, cures-of consumptions by coltsfoot tea; of hectic fevers by the ... of colics by leaves of chamomile; of agues by its flowers. And a case, of the hooping cough, cured by a tea of the fresh root of elecampane. Cures-of the gravel by a tea of golden-rod; of the scurvy by ...; of the piles by yarrow; an account of the eminent virtues of petasite root in pestilential and all other fevers, and the plague itself: of tanzy for the worms; consound as a vulnerary; and an instance of a stomach-complaint cured by a tea of the flowers of sweet feverfew. By John Hill, M.D. member of the Imperial Academy.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]
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The sleep of plants, and cause of motion in the sensitive plant, explain'd ... In a letter to C. Linnaeus ... / [John Hill].
Hill, John, 1714?-1775Date: 1757
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Hypochondriasis. A practical treatise on the nature and cure of that disorder; commonly called the hyp and hypo. By J. Hill, M.D.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: M.DCC.LXVI. [1766]
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Virtues of British herbs. With the history, description, and figures, of the several kinds; an account of the diseases they will cure; the method of giving them; and management of the patients in each disease ... No. I ... / [John Hill].
Hill, John, 1714?-1775Date: 1770
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The gardener's pocket-book: or, Country gentleman's recreation. Being the kitchen, fruit, and flower garden displayed in alphabetical order. Exhibiting at one view the seeds, roots and all sorts of flowers; together with the method of propagating them; their situation, soil, height, time of flowering, and method of culture. With many curious hints towards the improvement of tress, fruits, and flowers. The whole calculated according to the new style. By R.S. Gent.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: M,DCC,LVI. [1756]
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The old man's guide to health and longer life: with rules for diet, exercise, and physick; for preserving a good constitution, and preventing disorders in a bad one / [Anon.] by J. Hill, M.D.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: 1771
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The oeconomy of human life. Translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin. Found soon after that which contained the original of the first part. By the same author. In a second letter from an English gentleman, now residing at China, to the Earl of Chesterfield.
Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]
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Virtues of British herbs. With the history, description, and figures, of the several kinds; an account of the diseases they will cure; the family methods of giving them; and the management of the patients in each disease: containing, Cures of Head-Achs by Feverfew Tea, with Two Singular Instances. Cures of Consumptions by Coltsfoot Tea, Of Hectic Fevers by the Daisy, Colics by Leaves of Chamomile, And Agues by its Flowers. A Recommendation of the Bidens Cernua to supply the Place of the Ceylon Acmella, so celebrated in the Gravel; but not to be had with us. And a Case, with all its Circumstances and Symptoms, of the Hooping-Cough, cured by a Tea of the fresh Root of Elecampane. The Whole illustrating that important Truth, That the Plants of our own Country will cure all its Diseases. To which are added, Cautions against the Two Othonnas, destructive of Sheep. A work intended to be useful to the Sick, and to their Friends; to private Families; and to the Charitable, who would help their Neighbours. No.1. To be continued occasionally, as new Virtues are discovered in Plants; or neglected, or doubtful ones ascertained by Experience. By John Hill, M. D. Member of the Imperial Academy.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: M.DCC.LXXI. [1771]
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The vegetable system. Or, a series of experiments, and observations tending to explain the internal structure, and the life of plants; their Growth, and Propagation; The number, proportion, and disposition of their constituent parts; with the true course of their Juices; The formation of the embryo, the construction of the Seed, and the encrease from that State to perfection. Including a new anatomy of plants. The whole from nature only. By John Hill, M.D.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]
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Orpheus: an English opera. By Mr. John Hill. With a preface, appealing to the publick for justice, and laying before them a fair and impartial account of the quarrel between the author and Mr. Rich, who intends in a few Weeks to perform such an Entertainment without his Concurrence.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]
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The oeconomy of human life: in two parts. Translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin. To which is prefixed, an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered. In a letter from an English gentleman, residing in China, to the Earl of ****.
Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764.Date: 1793
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The oeconomy of human life. In two parts. Translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin. To which is prefixed, an account of the mannner [sic] in which the said manuscript was discovered. In a letter from an English gentleman, residing in China, to the Earl of ****.
Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]
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The oeconomy of human life, in two parts: translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin. To which is prefixed, an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered. In two letters from an English gentleman now residing in China, to th Earl of ***. To which is added, an Appendix to the true oeconomy of human life, in a letter to the Earl of Chesterfield.
Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764.Date: Printed in the Year M,DCC,LX [1760]
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Spatogenesia. The origin and nature of spar; its qualities and uses: with a description and history of eighty-nine species; arranged, 1. In an Artificial and 2. In a Natural Method. A specimen of a general distribution of fossils. By J. Hill, M. D. member of the Imperial Academy.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]
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Lucina Sine Concubitu. A letter humbly addres'd to the Royal Society; In which is proved by most incontestible evidence, drawn from reason and practice, that a woman may conceiv and be brought to bed without and commerce with man.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: 1750
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[Theophrastou peri tōn lithōn biblion] = Theophrastus's history of stones. With an English version, and notes ... Also, Observations on the new Swedish acid, and of the stone from which it is obtained; and with an idea of a natural and artificial method of fossils / By John Hill.
Theophrastus.Date: 1774
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The management of the gout, by a physician from his own case. With the virtues of an English plant bardana, not regarded in the present practice; but safe and effectual in alleviating that Disease. George Crine, M.D.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: 1758
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An answer to the many plain and notorious lyes advanc'd by Mr. John Rich, Harlequin; And contain'd in a Pamphlet, which he vainly and foolishly calls, an answer to Mr. Hill's preface to Orpheus. By Mr. John Hill.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: [illegible] [1740]
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The naval history of Britain, from the earliest periods of which there are accounts in history, to the conclusion of the year M.DCC.LVI. Compiled from the papers of the late Honourable Captain George Berkley, Commander of His Majesty's Ship Windsor. And illustrated with A great Number of Figures, on Folio Copper-Plates, of Sea Charts, Heads Engagements, and other Subjects.
Berkley, George, -1747.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]
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The usefulness of a knowledge of plants: illustrated in various instances, relating to medicine, husbandry, arts, and commerce. With the easy means of information. By J. Hill, M.D.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]
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The construction of timber, from its early growth; Explained by the microscope, and proved from experiments, in a great variety of kinds: in five books. On the parts of trees; their vessels; and their encrease by growth: and on the different disposition of those parts in various kinds; and the particularities in their vessels. With figures of their various appearances; of the instrument for cutting them; and of the microscope thro' which they were viewed. By John Hill, M.D. member of the Imperial Academy.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]
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The virtues of wild valerian in nervous disorders ... With directions for gathering and preserving the root; and for chusing the right kind when it is bought dry. Shewing that the uncertainty of effect in this valuable medicine, is owing to adulteration or ill management / [John Hill].
Hill, John, 1714?-1775.Date: 1772
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The family practice of physic : or, a plain, intelligible, and easy method of curing diseases with the plants of our own country. The asthma with bittersweet. The gravel with uva ursi. The dropsy with bark of elder. Bleedings with juice of nettles. And other disorders with simple medicines prepared from such plants: which are safe, and effectual in any hands: to be had at a small price in all places in town or country; and accompanied with such directions that any person may use them successfully for himself or family: saving to all, the danger of rough medicines; and to the poor, the expence of physicians and apothecaries ... with figures of the plants engraved from nature / by J. Hill.
Hill, John, 1714?-1775Date: 1769

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The actor: a treatise on the art of playing. Interspersed with theatrical anecdotes, critical remarks on plays, and occasional observations on audiences.

The sleep of plants, and cause of motion in the sensitive plant, explain'd ... In a letter to C. Linnaeus ... / [John Hill].

Hypochondriasis. A practical treatise on the nature and cure of that disorder; commonly called the hyp and hypo. By J. Hill, M.D.

Virtues of British herbs. With the history, description, and figures, of the several kinds; an account of the diseases they will cure; the method of giving them; and management of the patients in each disease ... No. I ... / [John Hill].

The old man's guide to health and longer life: with rules for diet, exercise, and physick; for preserving a good constitution, and preventing disorders in a bad one / [Anon.] by J. Hill, M.D.

The oeconomy of human life. Translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin. Found soon after that which contained the original of the first part. By the same author. In a second letter from an English gentleman, now residing at China, to the Earl of Chesterfield.

Orpheus: an English opera. By Mr. John Hill. With a preface, appealing to the publick for justice, and laying before them a fair and impartial account of the quarrel between the author and Mr. Rich, who intends in a few Weeks to perform such an Entertainment without his Concurrence.

The oeconomy of human life: in two parts. Translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin. To which is prefixed, an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered. In a letter from an English gentleman, residing in China, to the Earl of ****.

The oeconomy of human life. In two parts. Translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin. To which is prefixed, an account of the mannner [sic] in which the said manuscript was discovered. In a letter from an English gentleman, residing in China, to the Earl of ****.

Spatogenesia. The origin and nature of spar; its qualities and uses: with a description and history of eighty-nine species; arranged, 1. In an Artificial and 2. In a Natural Method. A specimen of a general distribution of fossils. By J. Hill, M. D. member of the Imperial Academy.

Lucina Sine Concubitu. A letter humbly addres'd to the Royal Society; In which is proved by most incontestible evidence, drawn from reason and practice, that a woman may conceiv and be brought to bed without and commerce with man.

[Theophrastou peri tōn lithōn biblion] = Theophrastus's history of stones. With an English version, and notes ... Also, Observations on the new Swedish acid, and of the stone from which it is obtained; and with an idea of a natural and artificial method of fossils / By John Hill.

The management of the gout, by a physician from his own case. With the virtues of an English plant bardana, not regarded in the present practice; but safe and effectual in alleviating that Disease. George Crine, M.D.

An answer to the many plain and notorious lyes advanc'd by Mr. John Rich, Harlequin; And contain'd in a Pamphlet, which he vainly and foolishly calls, an answer to Mr. Hill's preface to Orpheus. By Mr. John Hill.

The usefulness of a knowledge of plants: illustrated in various instances, relating to medicine, husbandry, arts, and commerce. With the easy means of information. By J. Hill, M.D.

The virtues of wild valerian in nervous disorders ... With directions for gathering and preserving the root; and for chusing the right kind when it is bought dry. Shewing that the uncertainty of effect in this valuable medicine, is owing to adulteration or ill management / [John Hill].