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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    Incontinency of, 289. Suppression of, medical treatment in, 290., Cautions to persons subject to this disorder, 291. Bloody, causes of, 292. Medical treatment of, ibid. An obstinate deafness cured by warm urine, 4*04, note. Urine doctors, their impudence, and great success from the credulity of the populace, 127, note. ZJva ursi, a remedy in present request for the stone, 294. Walls, high, unwholesome, by obstructing the free current of air, 90. Ward's essence, preparation of, COB. His fistula paste, a popular remedy that may deserve trial, 505. Wars occasion putrid fevers, by tainting the air with the effluvia of dead carcases, 186. Wasps, hornets, or bees, how the bite, of, ought to be treated, 424. Water, frequently unwholesome by mineral impregnations, 80. Cautions for the choice of, ibid. Cold, the danger of drinking Wren a person is hot, 133. Water in the head, is a disorder chiefly incident to children, 490. Its causes, symptoms, and proper treatment, ibid. 1 he nature of the dis- order seldom discovered in due time for cure, 491, note. Waters by infusion, how to prepare : Lime water, 610. Compound lime water, ibid. Sublimate water, ibid. Styptic water, .611. I ar water, ibid. Waters, simple distilled, their medical uses, 611. Preparation of cinna- mon water, ibid. Pennyroyal water, 612. Peppermint water, ibid. Spearmint water, ibid. Rose water, ibid. Jamaica pepper water, ibid. Waters, spirituous distilled, how to prepare : Spirituous cinnamon water, 613. Spirituous Jamaica pepper water, ibid. Watery eye, how to cure, 402. jWeaning of children from the breast, the proper mode of, 38. Weather, states of, which produce the putrid fever, 186. Wells, caution to persons going down into them, 89, note. Deep, ought not to be entered until the air in, is purified, 527. Whey, an excellent drink in a dysentery, 311. and in the rheumatism, 345. Orange whey, how to make, 156. Alum whey, 61o. Mustard whey, ibid. Scorbutic whey, ibid. Whitlow, 496* Whytt, Dr, his remedies for flatulences, 339. Wind. See Flatulences. Windows, the danger of throwing them open on account oi heat, and sit- ting near them, 133. . Wine good, almost the only remedy necessary m a nervous fever, 134. Wines, the medical properties of, #14. Their use in extracting the virtues of medicinal substances, ibid. Preparation of anthelminthic wine, ibid. Antimonial wine, 615. Bitter wine, ibid.. Ipecacuanha wine, ibid. Chalybeate, or steel wine, ibid. Stomachic wme, 616. Womb, inflammation of, its symptoms, 465. Medical treatment of, ibid. Women errors in their education pointed out, 27. Why subject to hy- sterics 79. Are better adapted to follow sedentary occupations than men, U, note. In child-bed, often die from their apprehensions of death, Uq] Their disorders rendered epidemical by the force of imagination,