Novtmher, 1820. 



BOOKS, 



PRINTED FOR SHERWOOD, NEEI.Y, AND JONES, 



PATERNOSTER-ROW, LONDON, 



On the \it of December next, will be published, Price 2s. 6d. 



PART I. 



OF A NEW A^TD INTERESTING WORK, ENTITLED, 



THE 



FAMILY CYCLOPEDIA; 



BEING 



^ manual 



OF 



USEFUL AND NECESSARY KNOWLEDGE, 



ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED : 

 COSIFRISING 



All the recent Inventions, Discoveries, and Improvements, 



IN 



DOMESTIC ECONOMY, AGRICULTURE, AND CHEMISTRY; 



WITH THE 



BEST APPROVED METHODS OF CURING DISEASES; 



The Mode of Treatment in Cases of Drowning, other Accidents, and 

 Poisons; Observations on Diet and Regimen; a comprehensive Ac- 

 count of the most striking Objects in Natural History, animate and 

 inanimate ; and a Detail of various Processes in the *' 



3ixt^ anti ^attuf acture^ ; 



Also, a concise View of the Human Mind and the Passions, with their 

 particular Application to our Improvement in Education and Morals, 



BY JAMES JENNINGS. 



Thb Family Cvclop.^dia will contain plain and familiar Directions for curing 

 every Disease incident to the Human Body, with the mode of treating Accidents 

 generally ; and, as it is of importance to know ■vrhen the attendance of a Me- 

 dical Practitioner is absolutely necessary, in the Author's' remarks on every 

 Disease, this will invariably be pointed out. An account of every useful 

 Medicine and Drug will also be givt-n, and their Doses, — with the manner of 

 preparing those most common and useful : to which will be added, the Compo- 

 sition of almost every Quack Medicine, (that its utility or inutility may be 

 known,) from peciliar sources of Information. 



On the subjects cl Diet and REGr:>iKN, lie flatters himself, his observations 

 will be found explicit and important, and highly deserving tlie attention of all 

 who desire either to obtain, or to retain, good health, that most valuable of 

 blessings. He hopes wliat he has stated under the -articles Disestion^ Dinner^ ^ 

 Exercise, &c. will not be found leas deserving of attention. 



Considering the various Accidents to which persons are continually exposed, 

 lie has devoted much care and atteutiou to the treatment of such as hare 



