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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    11 tuaLoii ! the moment they hold their peace, they are again committed to tlieir chains. ‘ ^ ^ If we conlidei-the body ofaii infant as a bundle of foft pipes, replenillied with fluids' i/i contimial motion the d.anger of prclfure will appear in the flrongeft light’ Nature in order to make way for the frt wth of chil-' dven, has formed tiieir bodies foft and flexible ; and left they flionid receive any injury from preffnre in the womb.has furrounclcc! the fcctus evei y w here with fluids This flicws the care which Nature takes to prevent all imcciual preifure on the bodies of infants, and to aefend them .againft every thing that miglit in the leaft cramn or coniine their motions. - ^ ^ Even the bones of an infant are fo foft and cartilari- nons. tliat they readily yield to the flighteft preffure and ea.iy aflumc a bad fliape, which can never .afterbe renie oied Hence it is.iliat fo many people appear with hiirh flionlders. crooked fpincs, and flat breafts, who werets w, h propomoned at their births as others, but had the misfortmic to be fqueezed out of fliape by the applica. tion of Hays and bandages. ^ IVelfure, by obftruaing the circulation likewife yevents the equal diftnbntion of nonrifliment to t le ifftrent parts of the body, by which means the growth becomes unequal. One part grows too larnf whil^ another remains too final]; and thus in time the ’wl o e flame becomes difproportioned and miflianen • we mnft add tliatvvhen a child is cramped in fts It It natnr,lHy flirinks from the part that i‘Inirt ■ ^ P ■■ clothing, Ninc.teiitlis, at leaft oft Wiong mankind, ninft be imputed to th s I fonned body is not only diligreeablc to the eye' bift “'r^' f-*flions’miift , 'pecieci, and oJt coiirie nealth imnoirpH tj.. «W people remaikaby milhapen are llrong or' healthy!.