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 / by William Buchan, M.D. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1786
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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 / by William Buchan, M.D. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. PART I. Of the general Caufes of Difeafes. CHAP. I. OF Children Page l —Difealed Parents 7 —-Clothing of Children 10 —Food of ditto - 17 —Exercife of ditto ^ - 24 —Bad eiFedts of unwholefome Air, upon ditto - 34 —Nurfes - - 37 CHAP. II. Of the Laborious, &c. , 42 —^the Sedentary - 53 — the Studious - - 61 CHAP. III. Of Aliment Of Urine - - Page 13.7 — Perfpiration - 139 — being afFedled by Changes in the Atmofphere - 140 —Wet Clothes - 141 —Wet Feet - - i<\2 —Night Air - - il. — Damp Beds - 143 —Damp Houfes - 144 —SuddenTranfitions from Heat to Cold - - 146 PART II. Of Difeafes. 69 50 CHAP. IV. Of Air CHAP. V, Of Exercife CHAP. VI. Of Sleep - - 97 — Clothing - - 100 CHAP. VII. Of Intemperance - 104 CHAP. VIII. Of Cleanlinefs - in CHAP. IX, Of Infcftion - - 118 CHAP. X. Of the PalTions —Anger —FtAT —Grief —Love - . —Religious Melancholy t^} CHAP. XI. Of the Common Evacuations —Stool - i]j 124 125 ib. CHAP. XII. Of the Knowledge and Cure of Difeafes - - 15 b CHAP. xm. Of Fevers ia general ~ iJ'S CHAP. XIV. Of in termitting Fevers or Agues 163 CRAP. XV. Of an-Acute Continual Feve^ CHAP. XVI. Of the Pleurify - 181 Baftard ditto - 188 Paraphrenitis - 189 CHAP. xvii. Inflammation of the Lungs ib. CHAP. xviii. Of Confumptions - 193 CHAP. XIX. Of the Slow or Nervous Fever CHAP, XX, Malignant, Putrid, or Spotted Fever - - iiO CHAP. xxr. Miliary Fever - 2*7 CHAP. xxt:. Remitting F'?v?r -