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

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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$nourifhing, and their liquor generous: nothing more certainly hurts them than living too low. They Itiould by all means avoid coftivenefs. This may either be done by chewing a little rhubarb, or taking a fufficient quantity of falad oil. Oil not only opens the body, but ftieaths and defends the inteftines from the ill effefts of the metals. All who work in mines or metals ought to walh carefully, and change their clothes as foon as they give over working. Nothing would tend more to preferve the health of fnch people, than a ftrict and almoft religious regard to cleahlinefs. Plumbers, painters, gilders, fmelters, makers of white lead, and many others who work in metals, are liable to the fame difeafes as miners; and ought to obferve the fame direftions for avoiding them. Tallow-chandlers, boilers of oil, and all who work in putrid animal fubftances, are likewife liable . to fuffer from the unwholelbme fmells or effluvia of thefe bodies. They ought to pay the fame regard to dean- linefs as miners; and when they are affected with nau- fea, fickneis, or indigeftion, we would advife them to take a vomit or a gentle purge. Such fubflances ought always to be manufaftued as foon as poffible. When long kept, they not only become unwholefome to thole who manufacture them, but likewife to people w'ho live in the neighbourhood. It would greatly exceed the limits of this part of t>ur fubjeCt, to fpecify the difeafes peculiar to perfons of every occupation; we {hall therefore confider man- kind under the general clalTes of Laborious^ Scdcjitar^^ and Sttidious, . THE LABORIOUS. , i Though thofe who follow laborious employments are i in general the moft healthy of mankind, yet the nature ] of their occupations, and the places where they are car- i ried on, expofe them more particularly to lome. dif- rafes. Hufbandmen; for example, arc expofed to all the vicillitudes of the weather, which in this count|y, |$