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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    A child is gejicraUy laid to (lecp vyitli all it dothe^ pn;aiKl if a nmnber of otliers are licapccl above them, it muft be overheated ; by which means it cannot fuij to catch cold on being taken out of the cradle, and ex- pofed to fhe open air with only its uA;al clothing, whiclj is too frecjuently the cafe. Children who are kept within doors all day, and flecpall night in warm clore apartipents, may, Avith great propriety be compared to plants, nurfed in a hot-houfe, inftead of the open air. Though fuch plant^may by thi^ means be kept alive for feme time, they will never ar: rive at that degree of ftrength, vigour, ancl magnitude] which they would h^»’’e acquired in the opeii air, nop would they be able to bear it afterwards^ fiiould they be expoled,to It. Children brought up iq the country, who jiaye been accuftomed to open air, rtiould not be too early feiit to great towns, where it is confined and vniwhplefoinc. This is fiequently done with a view to forvyapd their education, hat proves .very hurtful tp their health. All fbhools and feminaries of learning oiighf, if polfible, tp be fo fituated as to have Relh, dry, whoiefome air, an4 mould never be too much crowded. ^Vithout entering into a detail cf the particular ad- vantages of whoiefome afr to children, or of the bad confequences which proceed from the want of it, I fball only obferve, tliat of feyeral thoufands of children which have been under my care, I do not remember one inftance of a fingle child who continued hcaltliy in aclofeconfined fituation; but have often known the moll obftinate difeafes cured by removing them from fuch a lituation to an open free air. ‘ ' O/' Nurfe's. It IS not here intended to lay down rules for the choice of nurfes. This would be walling time Cqm- mexn fenfe will diredt every one to choofe a woman who