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.

  • William Buchan
Date:
1807
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    giving them drugs as their first food, ibid. The best method of expell- ing the meconium, 38. How they ought to be weaned from the breast, ibid. A crust of bread the best gum-slick for them, 39. How to pre- pare bread in their food, ibid. Cautions as to giving them animal food, ibid. Cautions as to the quantity of their food, 40. Errors in the qua- lity of their food more frequent than in the quantity, ibid. 11|:‘e ° ’d of adults improper for children, ibid. Strong liquors expose them to indammatory disorders, 41. Ill effects of unripe fruit, ibid. Butter, 42. Honey, a wholesome arliele of food for them, ibid. . I he import- ance of exercise to promote their growth and strength, ibid. Buies tor their exercise, 43. Poverty of parents occasions then neglect of c u- dren, 44 1 he utility of exercise demonstrated iro n the organ cal Structure of children, 45. Philosophical arguments shewing the neces- sity of exercise, Hid. Ought not to be sent to school too soon, ibid. Nor !>e put too soon to labour, 4S- Dancing an excellent exc. ise for them, 49. The cold bath, ibid. Want of w iclesouie air destructive to children, 50. To wrap them up close in cradles, pernicious, 51. re treated like plains in a hot hot-house, ibid. I he usua* faulty conduct of nurses pointed out, 53. Are crammed with cordials by indolent nurses, ibid. Eruptions ignorantly treated by nurses, 54. Loose stonls, the proper treatment of, ibid. Every method ought to be taken la m Ee them strong and hardy, 55. Indications of the small-pox in, 20i. Chiricough. See Cough. Cholera morbus, the disorder defined, with its causes and symptoms, 2 <9. Medical treatment, ibid. Churches* the several circumstances that render the air in, unwholesome, SS. Churching of women after lying-in, a dangerous custom, 4'G9. Church-yards, the bad consequences of having them in large towns, 87. Cities, large, the air in, contaminated by various means, ibid. The bad effects of burying the dead in, ‘ibid, blouses ought to be ventilated dailv, SS. The danger attending small apartments, 80. All who cW. ought to sleep in the country, ibid. Disorders that .large towns are pe- culiarly hurtful to, ibid Cleanliness not sufficiently attended to in, 90. Should be supplied with plenty of w^ater, 112, note. The best means to guard against infection in, 114. Clare. Mr, his method of applying saline preparations cf mercury in vene- real cases, 445. CL onliness, an important article of attention in the dress„cf child.-en, 36 j and to sedentary artists, 68. Finery in dress often covers dirt, ] 01. Is necessary to health, 107. Disorders-originaling^rom the vv«nt of, 3 08. Is not sufficiently attended to in large towns, ibid. Nor by country peasants, 109. Great attention paid to, by the ancient P omans, itid. note. Necessity of consulting cleanliness in camps, ibid Was the principal object of the whole system of the Jewish laws, ibid. Jh a great part of the religion of the Eastern countries, 110. Bathing and washing greatly conducive to health, ibid. Cleanliness peculiarly ne- cessary on board of ships, 111 j and to the sick, ibid. General re- marks' on, ibid. Many disorder^ may be cured by cleanliness alone, 141. The want of, a very general cause of putrid fevers, 186 . h a.