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. To which is now first added the following new treatises: sea-bathing, etc / By J. Baker.

  • William Buchan
Date:
1809
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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. To which is now first added the following new treatises: sea-bathing, etc / By J. Baker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Iroufe without a dunghill before the door, and frequently the cattle and their mafters lodge under the fame roof. Feafants are likewife extremely carelefs with refpect to change of apparel, keeping their houfes, See. clean, Xhis is merely the elFeft of indolence and a dirty dif* pofition. Habit may indeed render it lels difagreeable to them, but bo habit can ever make it faiutary to wear dirty clothes, or breathe unwholefome air. As many articles of diet come through the hands of peafants, every method fhould be taken to encourage and promote habits of cleanlinels among them. This, for example, might be done by giving a fmall premium to the perfon who brings the cleaned; and bed; article ©f ^ny kind to market, as butter, cheefe. Sec. and by pnnidiing feverely thofe who bring it dirty. The l&.me method diould be taken with butchers, bakers, brewers, and all who are employed in preparing the meceflaries of life. In camps the Ifridleft regard fhould be paid to clean- jfiinefs. By negligence in this manner, infectious difeafes are often fpread amongft a whole army ; and frequently more die of thefe than by the fword. The jews during their encampments in the wildernefs, received parti- cular inflrudions with refpe£t to cleanlinefs;];. The rules enjoined them ought to be obferved by all in the like fituation. Indeed the whole fyftem of Jaws de- Evered to that people has a manifed; tendency to pro- mote eleanlinefs. Whoever confiders the nature of their climate, the difeafes to which they were liable, and their dirty difpofition, will fee the propriety cf fiich laws. It is remarkable that, in mod; eaftern countries, clean- linefs makes a great part of their religion. The Ma- ' hometan as well as the Jewifh religion enjoins various bathings, wafhings and, and purifications. No doubt thefe might he defigned to reprefent inward purity j Thou shall have a place also without the camp, whilhtr thou &halt go lorih abroad ; and thou ihalt have a paddle u^on thy weapon ; anfi it shall be when thou shall ease thyseli abroad, thou sliall dig tlierewith, and aliall turn back, and cover that which coineilt Iroxn Deuter, chap, xxiii. ver. 12,13.