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

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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$Htufa, indead of contrivances to make them dofe and warm, ought to be regularly ventilated, 86. In marfhy fituations unwhole- fome, 89. Ought to be built in a dry fit'iation, Danger of inhabiting new built houfes before thoroughly (<ry, 1^5. Are often rendered damp by unfeafonable cleanlinefs, ibid. Are dangerous when l^ept too clofe and hot, 148. Hujhandmen, the peculiar diforders they are expofed to, from the vicifFiiudes of the weather, 45. Huxbam, Dr. recommends the lludy of the dietetic part of medi- cine, xiv. Hydrocephalus. See Dropfy. Hydrophobia, Dr. Tiflbt's method of curing, 536. Hydrops peBoris. See Dropfy. Hypoihondriuc affeciions^ frequently produced by intenfe ftudy, 64. Their caufe^, and who moft fubjeft to them, 500. The general intentions of cuie, 501. Regimen, 503. Hyfierics, a diforder produced by the habitual ufe of tea, 74. General caufes of, 495. Symptoms, ibid. ' Proper treatment of, 496. Regimen, 497. Medicines adapted to, 498. ,Hyfieric colic, fymptoms and treatment of, 331. J- Jails, why malignant fevers are often generated in them, 86. Often fpread mfedlion by being fituated in the middle of po- pulous towns, 121. Ought to be removed, \t^. Janin, M. his relation of the recovery of an ove/laid infant, 693. And of a man who had hanged himfelf, 693. <^'-- Jaundice, the different ilages of its appearance, with the caofes of this diforder^ 410. Symptoms and regimen, 411. Medical treatment, 412. Jefmt's Bark. See Bark. 'Jiiui, the whole fyilem of their laws tending to promote cleanlinefs 115. 120 Iliac pajfion, a particular kind of inflammation of the intefiines, 323. Impofthume in the Ireafl, in confumpcions, how to make it break in- wardly. When not to be difcharged by other means, 206. ]m»- pollhumes after the fmall-pox, proper treatment of, 252. Inconiinency of urine, dillinguifhed from a diabetes<-3^6. Expedient for relief, 357- . . _ Indigeflion, is one confequence of intenfe' -ftudy, 63. General caufes, and remedies for, 46't. Indolence, m bad efFefls on the conftitution, 91. Occafions-glan- dular obilrottions, 92. Ill confequence^ of too wiuch indul- gence in bed, 94. Is the parent of vice, 96; Ifrth* general cauie of moft nervous diforders, 504. ■ ' ' Infancy, the foundation of a good or bad' conftjtution, generally iaid in this feafon of life, 1. ' ^ ^, Infants, nearly one half of thofe born in Great Britain die wnder twelve-years of ager-1.i' Pcrifh moftly by'isr Oo-ght$