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, some important observations concerning sea-bathing, and the use of the mineral waters; with many other additions / by William Buchan.

  • Buchan William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1805
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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, some important observations concerning sea-bathing, and the use of the mineral waters; with many other additions / 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.

    45/804
    I *u ] CONTENTS. PART I. Of the general Caufes of Difeafes. Page i CHAP, I. OF Children Difeafed Parents 6 —Clothing of Children 9 •—Food of ditto — 14. —Exercife of ditto — 20 •—Bad Effe&s of unvrholefome Air upon ditto •— 28 ■—Nurfes — CHAP. 11. Of the Laborious, &c. 33 —-the Sedentary —. 44. —the Studious — 50 chap. hi. Of Aliment — ^ CHAP. IV. Of Air _ _ 69 _ CHAP. V. Of Exercife — CHAP. VI. - 81 —Clothing — — 84 CHAP. TII. Of Intemperance ™ chap. VIII. Of Cleanlinefs - .. _ _ CHAP. IX. Of Infection chap. x. Of the Paffions —Anger -—Fear •—Grief 95 i©o 107 108 fb. 114 0fDL°ve ~ Page 113 —Religious Melancholy 115 chap. XI. 1 the Common Evacuations —Stool __ —Urine __ ug — Perfpiration — I20 Being affeded by Changes in the Atmofphere JK -Wet Clothes __ 12 ; -Wet Feet \2Z —Night Air — ;b# ■—Damp Beds . f[j Damp Houfes - I2. —Sudden Tranfxtions from Heat to Cold — I2S PART II. Of Difeafes. chap. xii. OF the Knowledge and Cure of Ddeafes _ l2g _ CHAP. XIII. Fevers in general — . . c.Hap- xiv. Ot intermitting Fevers or Agues 141 chap. xv. Of an acute continual Fever 151 CHAP. xvi. Of the Pleurify lP,_ Baftard diyo Paraphrenitis ib. ' CHAP. XVII. inflammation of the Lungs i(J4 >