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

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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$uretic draught, ibid. Purging d aught, ibid. Sweating draught, 5 77. Vonui ng uraught, ibid. I Hr ess. See Clothing. : Hr inking, persons who are seldom intoxicated may nevertheless iniure their constitutions by, 10j. 1 lie habit of ii'inking ii'e;.j_i£iiily o lginates from misfortunes, I0o. Freq len .ly destroys the pbw ; , qf the^m ,,d, ibid. Persons often forced to it by mistaken hospitality, ibid. note. Leads to other vices, 107. [Dropsy, the several distinctions of, with its causes, 3.52. Symptoms, 333. lvegimen, ibid. Medical treatment, 334. Tapping, a safe and simple operation, 336. fDropsy of the brain. See Water in the head. [Drownedpersons, ought not to be rashly given up for dead, 523. Pro- per trials for the recovery of, ibid. Endeavours ought not to be sus- pended upon the hrst returns of life, 52o. Success of the Amsterdam society for the recovery of, 541. {Drunkenness. See Intoxication. [Dumb persons may be taught to read, write, and discourse, 403, note. [Dysentery, where and when most prevalent, 30S Its causes and symp- toms, ibid. Regnnen, 309. Fruit one of the best remedies for, 3il.- Proper drink for, ibid, lvledical treatment, 312. Cautions to prevent a relapse, ibid- Ear, the several injuries it is liable to, 402. Deafness, medical treatment o!, according to its causes, 403. Ought not be tarn ered with, 404. Ear-ach, its causes, and proper treatment for, 321. How to drive m eets out of, ibid. Education of children, should be begun at home by the parents, 46, note. That of gills hurtful to their constitution, 47. Effluvia, putrid, will occasion the spotted fever, 186. , f electricity, beneficial in the paisy, 373. fElectuaries, general rules for making, 577. Preparation of lenitive elec- tuary, 573. Electuary for the dysentary, ibid. For the epileosy, ibid. For he gonorrhoea, ibid. Of the bark, 579. For the piles, ibid. ’ For the pal y, ibid. For the rheumatism, ibid. I Elixir, paregoric, how to prepare, 609. Sacred elixir, ibid. Storm chic elixir, ibid. Acid elixir of vitriol, ibid. • ; Emulsions, their uses, 580. Preparation of the common emulsion, H. •>/. Arabic emulsion, ibid. Camphorated emulsion, ibid. Emulsion of gum ammoniac, ibid. Oily emulsion, 581. HEngleman, Dr, his account of the German method of recovering persons from fainting fits, 533. [Entrails. See Intestines. '■Epilepsy, the disorder defined, 379. It* causes and symptoms, 380. Due regimen, 381. Medical treatment, ibid. > Eruption in children often free them from bad humours, but are mistaken and ill-treated by nurses, 54. Ought never to be stop; ed without pro- per advice, ibid. In fi vers, how to be treated, S~t. 191. ] 93. 197 {:1 the small-pox, 204. 207. In children, the causes of, 479. How to cure, ibid. Erysipelas, a disorder incident to the laborious, 59. Its causes explabe k$