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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$» «»> •*<***»— PART I. Df the general Causes of Diseases. • 1 ^ • CHAF. i. DF Children Page 25 0;: Dise-.s-d Parents - 30 )1 Clo'hinj: o! Children - 32 — Food of ditto - - 31 — Exerc’se of ditto - 42 — Cad eif cts of unwholesome vir upon ditto - 50 Nurses - - 52 CHAP. TI. Df i;lie Laborious, &c. - 55 — the Sedentary - - 64 — the Studious - - 10 CHAP. HI. Df Aliment - - 16 CHAP. IV. Dr Air - - S6 CHAP. V. Df Exercise - - 92 CHAP. VI. Df Sleep 96 — Clothing - - 99 \ ' CHAP. VII. Df Intemperance - 102 CHAP. VIII. Df Cleanliness - - 101 CHAP. IX. Df Infection - - 112 CHAP. X. Of the Passions - HI «— Anger - - ib. Of Fear - Page 111 — Grief - 121 — Love - - 123 — Religious Melancholy 124 CHAP. XI. Of the Common Evacuations 125 — Stool - - ib. — Urine - - 121 — Perspiration - 128 — Being affected by Changes in the Atmosphere - ]29 — Wet Clothes - f 130 — W et Feet - - ib. — Night Air - ib. — Damp Eeds - - 131 — Damp Houses - 132 — Sudden Transitions from Heat to Cold - 133 PART II. Of Diseases. CHAP. XII. Of the Knowledge and Cure of Diseases - - 138 CHAP. XIII. Fevers in general - 141 CHAP. XIV. Of Intermitting Fevers or Agues - - 141 CHAP. XV. Of an Acute Continual Fever 155 \ CHAP. XVI. Of the Pleurisy - 160 . Bastard ditto - 165 ■ ■ ■ —» Paraphranitis - ib. CHAP. XVII. Inflammation of the Lungs 166$