Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. To which are added, observations on the diet of the common people; recommending a method of living less expensive, and more conducive to health, than the present / by William Buchan.

  • Buchan William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. To which are added, observations on the diet of the common people; recommending a method of living less expensive, and more conducive to health, than the present / by William Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    EfFeds of extreme CoM P. 616 Heat 618 CHAP. LIV. Of Fainting Fits, and othef Cafes which require, imme- diate Affiftance - 618 —Intoxication - 623 —Suffocation & Strangling 626 —Perfons who expire in Con- vulliori Fits - 629 ^ H A P. LV. Cautions concerning Cold Bath- ing, and drinking the Mine- ral Waters - 633 ' G H A p. Lvr. Obfervations concerning the Diet of the Common people ; recommending a method of living lefs expenfive, and more conducive to health,than the prefent Page 647 General Obfervations on Ali- ment - 649 Of Bread - 651 Of Boiled Grain ■< < 657 Of Butter - - 66r Of Fruits and Roots 665 Of Broths and Soups > 672 Conclufion ^ 677 CONTENTS of the APPENDIX. INTRODUCTION - 683 Lift of Simples - 688 Medical Preparations. Balfams - 691 Bolufes - 692 Cataplafms and Slnapifms 693 Clyfters - - 694 Collyrla, or Eye-waters 696 Confedlions - 697 Conferves and Preferves 698 Decoftions - - 699 Draughts - ']02 Eledtuaries - - Emulfions ' - ']o6 Extradfs - - 7p7 Fomentations - ib. A GLOSSARY INDEX Gargles - Page Infufions - Juleps Mixtures Ointments, )LinimcntSy Cerates Pills Plafters Powders - * Syrups* Tindfures, Elixirs, &c. Vinegars • - Waters by InfuCon, &e'. Simple difiilled Waters Spirituous diftilled Waters Wheys Wines 708 yto 712 714 and 715 718 722 724 728 ib. 733 735 737 738 ib. 739 I 742 747 PART i