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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$When proper for the head-ach, 394. Recommended for the tooth-ach, 397. Are delufive remedies in nervous difeafes, 471. See Laudanum, Orange and lemon pee], how to candy, 718. How to preferve orange and lemon juice in the form of fyrup, 752. Ormjkirk medicine for the bite of a mad dog, remarks on, 537, note. ■'i^-i!'; Oxycrate, the moft proper external application in a fradlure, 658. Ojjlers of great fervice in confumptions, 202, note. , P. Paint en. S.ee Miners. Palfy, the nature of this diforder explained, with its caufes, 476. Medical treatment, 477. Paraphrenitis, its fymptoms and treatment, 189. . Parents, their interefted views in the difpofal of their chifdren in marriage, often a fource of bitter repentance, 133, note. Sec Fathers., and Mothers. Pajjions, intemperance the abufe of, 105. Have great influence both in the caufe and cure of difeafes, 124. Anger, 125. Fear, ibid. Grief, 130. Love, 132. Religious melancholy, 133. The beft method of counterading the violence of any of the paffions, I 34. P^flj, parched, good in cafes of flatulency^ 402. Peruvian bark. See Bark. penis, ulcerated, cured, and partly regenexated, by a careful at- tion to cleanlinefs, 573, not», PeripneumoHy, who moft fubject to, 189. jits caufes, fymptoms, and proper regimen, 190. Pey/piration, infenfible, the obftrudlion of, diforders the whole frame, 140. The various caufes of its being checked, ibid. Changes in the atmofpberp, jiJrV. Wet clothes, 141. Wet feet, 142. Night air, Damp beds, 143. Damp houfes, 144. Sudden tranfitions from heat to cold, 146. Pbilo/ophy, advantages refulting from the ftudy of, xx, Pbrenitis. See Brain. Phymofis defcribed, and how to treat, 563. Phyficians, ill confequences of their inattention to the management of children, 6. Are liable to fpread infeftion, \zz, note. Their cuftom of prognofticating the fate of their patients, a bad prac- tice, 128. Are feldom called in, until medicine can give no re- lief, 175, The faculty oppofe every falutary difcovery, 253. Pickles, provocatives injurious to the ftoniach, 7+. Piles, b'eeding and blind, the diftinftion between, 370. Who moft fubjeft to the diforder, ibid. General caufes, 371. Me- dical treatment of, ibid. Periodical difcharges of, ought not to be Hopped, 372. Proper treatment of the blin4 piles, ihid. External ointments of little ufe, 373. Pills, purging, proper form of, for an inflammation of the in- leftines, 326. The general intention of this clafs of medicines.$