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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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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    ibid. How to produce a regularity of, 126. Frequent recdurse t3 medicines for costiveness, injurious to the constitution, ibid. Storcl, Dr, his method of treating cancers, 410. Strabismus. See Squinting. Strains, proper method of treating, 513. The safest external applications, 514, note. Strangury, from a blistering plaster, how to guard against, 1G3. In the small-pox, how to relieve, 207. From a venereal cause, described, with its proper treatment, 441. Strangulation, course of treatment for the recovery of persons from, 53S. Strasburgh, successful treatment of a miliary fever there, 196. note. Strength, the folly of trials from emulation, 58, 61. Study, intense, injurious to health, 70. The disorders occasioned by, ibid. Character of a mere student, 73. Hints of advice to studious persons, ibid. Danger of their having recourse to cordials, 74. Health often neglected while in possession, and laboured for after it is destroyed, 75. No person ought to study immediately after a full meal, 76. Diatetical advice to the studious, 84. The general effects of, on the constitution, 369. Sublimate, corrosive, how to administer in venereal cases, 445. Sujjocation, by the fumes of charcoal, liable to happen in close chambers. 527. General causes of suffocation, 537. Overlaying of infants, ibid. Sugar, an improper article in the food of children, 40. Sulphur, a good remedy for expelling worms, 327. And for the itch, 355. Suppers, ought not to destroy the appetite for breakfast, 85. Heavy sup- pers sure to occasion uneasy nights, 89. Surgery, many of the operations of, successfully performed by persons un- skilled in anatomy, 491. Humanity induces every one more or less to be a surgeon, ibid. Sweating, generally excited in an improper manner, in fevers, 146, 15 7. Swoonings, the several causes of, described, 3S6. Proper treatment of tins disorder, 387. 531. Cautions to persons subject to them, 534. Sydenham, Dr, his method of treating fevers in children from teething, 484. Symptoms, diseases better distinguished by, than by the systematical ar- rangement of, 137. . The differences of sex, age, and constitution, to be considered, ibid. Diseases of the mind to be distinguished from those of the body, 138. Syncope, proper treatment m, 531. Syrups, the general intention of, 602. How to make simple syrup, and to modify it for particular purposes, ibid. Tacitus, his remark on the degeneracy of the Roman ladies, 27, note. Tallow-chandlers, and others working on putrid animal substances, cau- tions to, 57. Tapping for the dropsy, a safe and simple operation, 336. / Tar, .Barbadoes, its efficacy in the nervous colic, 27!. Tartar, soluble, a good remedy for the jaundice, 332. Cream o., a good remedy in a dropsy, 336. And rheumatism, ^45. Taste, how to restore the sense of, when, injured, 4' 6 Taylors, are exposed to injuries from breathing confined air, 6 ,. ansumptions, ibid. note. Ortc.n lose the use ot i. c r ° * j subject to consume — Hints of instruction offered to them in regard to tueir heal. >-