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.

William Buchan

Date:: 1786

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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$CasaraSl, the dlforder and its proper treatment defcr'bed. ^071, ■'■>-4 Cattle, rtall fed, are unwholefome food, 72. Ovei-d iven,' are killed in a high fever, ibid. The artifices of butchers e.vpofcd, ibid, Cttlars, long fliut, ought to be cautioufly opened, 87. And funk llories of houfef, unhealthy to live in, 145. Of liquors in a Hate of fermentation dangerous to enter, 677. How to purify the air in, 678. Cil/'ui, his rules for the prefervation of health, 149. Chancres, defcribed, 559. Primary, how to treat, 560. Symp- tomatic, 561. Charcoal fire, the danger of fleeping in the fume of, 677. Charity, the proper exercife of, 49. Chcyne, Dr. his perfuafive to thq ufe of exercife, 93. His judg- ment of the due quantity of urine, not to be relied on, i -^g. Strongly recommends ^thiops mineral in inflammations of the eye-, 292. His obfervations on barrennefs, 601^ note. Chilblains, caufe of, 614. How to cure, 615. Child-bed womGD, how to be treated under a miliary fever, 27?. Child bed fever. See Fever. ' Chtld.birth, the feafofi of, requires due care after the labour pains are over, 590. ^ Medical advice to women in labour, 591. Ill efrefls of cojlefling a number of women on fuch occafions, 592, mte. How to guard againft the miliary fever, 595, Symptoms of the puerperal fever, 596. Proper treatment of this fever, 597. General cautions for women at this feafon, 599. Children, their difeafes generally acute, and delay dangerous, 6. Their diforders ]efs complicated, and eafier cured, than thofe of gdults, 7. Are often the heiisof the difeafes of their parents, 8. Thofe born of difeafed parents, require peculiar care in the nur- fm?, iQ. Are often killed or deformed by injudicious clathing, %bzd Ho_^ treated in Africa, 12, note. The ufual caufes of deformity in, explained, 13. Their clothes ought to be fallened on with llnngs, 15. General rule for clothine them. 16. Clean- linefs an important article in their drefs, ibid. The milk of the inother the moft natural food for, 17. Abfurdity of eivin? them drugs as their firft food, ,8. The bell method of ext pellmg the meconium, ibid How they ought to be weaned from tne breaft, 19. A crull of bread the belt gum-ilick for them 20. How to prepare bread in iheir food, ibid. Cautions ES to givmg them animal food, ib^d. Cautions as to the quantity of their food. 21. Errors in the quality of their f .od more frequent than in the quantity, ibid. The food of ad>,lcs im; roper for children, 22. b.rong liquors expofe them to in- flarrimatory diPrder., zbid \\\ eff f^, of unripe fruit, ibid gutter, 23. Honey, a wholefome article of food lor them ibid Tne importance of exercife to promote their growth and flren.th' ?4. Rules for their exercife, 25. Pover y of parents occafVon's$