Thomas Short
Active Years
Min year: 1709, Max year: 1780, Max count: 5
As Author
- 1725: A rational discourse of the inward uses of water
- 1727: Vinum Britannicum: or, an essay on the properties and effects of malt liquors
- 1727: A discourse concerning the causes and effects of corpulency
- 1728: A discourse concerning the causes and effects of corpulency
- 1730: A dissertation upon tea
- 1732: Proposals for printing by subscription, The natural, experimental, and medicinal history of the mineral waters of Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire
- 1734: The natural, experimental, and medicinal history of the mineral waters of Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire
- 1740: An essay towards a natural, experimental, and medicinal history of the principle mineral waters
- 1746: Medicina britannica
- 1747: Medicina britannica
- 1749: The contents
- 1749: 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.
- 1749: The contents, virtues, and uses of Nevil-Holt spaw-water
- 1750: New observations
- 1750: Discourses on tea
- 1751: Medicina Britannica: or A treatise on such physical plants, as are generally to be found in the fields or gardens in Great-Britain
- 1753: A dissertation upon tea
- 1765: 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
- 1766: A general treatise on the different sorts of cold mineral waters in England; with a variety of experiments for examining and ascertaining their virtues and uses, and discovering their effects on the blood and juices of the human body
- 1767: A comparative history of the increase and decrease of mankind in England, and several countries abroad
- 1770: Information for Thomas Short
- 1779: In the House of Lords. Thomas Short, optician in Edinburgh, a pauper, - - - - - - appellant. John Short, nephew of James Short, optician in London; Doctor Donald Munro, and others, - - - - - - - respondents. The appellant's case
- 1780: In order to gratify, in some measure, the curiosity of the public, Mr Short has fitted up his great reflecting telescope, in one of the rooms of the west wing of Heriot's hospital, where any gentleman may have an opportunity of inspecting it
As Printer
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