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. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh.
- William Buchan
- Date:
- 1792
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.
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![Bread, proper food for children, as foon as they can chew it, 17, A cruft of, the beft gum-ftick, ibid. The bell modes of pre- paring it in food for children, 18. Good, the qualities of, and for what purpofe adulterated by the bakers, 70. Toafted] a deco&ion of, good to check the vomiting in a cholera mor- bus, 310. Brhnjlone. See Sulphur. Broth, gelatinous, recommended in the dyfentery, how to make, 347- Bruifes, why of worfe confequence than wound?, 582. Proper treatment of, ibid. The exfoliation of injured bones a yery flow operation, 583. How to cure fores occadoned by, ibid. Buboes, two kinds of, diftinguifhed, with their proper treat- ment, 504. Burdens, heavy, injurious to the lungs, 40. Burgundy pitch, a plafter of, between the moulders, an excellent remedy in a cough, 281. In a hooping-cough, z8S. And for children in teething, 560. Burials, the dangers attending their being allowed in the midft of populous towns, 76. Burns, flight, how to cure, 580. Treatment of, when violent, ibid. Extraordinary cafe of, 581. Liniment for, 680. Butchers, their profeflional artifices explained, and condemned, 65. Butter ought to be very fparingly given to children, 21. C. Cabbage leaves, topical application of, in a pleurify, 167. Camphor, why of little ufe in eye-waters, 66z. Camphorated oil, preparation of, 684. Camphorated fpirit of wine, 699. Camps, the greateft neceflity of confulting cleanlinefs in, 103. Cancer, its different ftages defcribed, with the producing caufes, 466. Symptoms, 467. Regimen, and medical treatment, 468. Dr. Storck's method of treating this diforder, 469. Cautions for avoiding it, 472. Cancer fcroti, a diforder peculiar to chimney-fweepers, owing to want of cleanlinefs, 100, note. Carriages, the indulgence of, a facrifice of health to vanity, 82. Carrot, wild, recommended in the (lone, 328. CcQ-tot poultice for cancers, how to prepare, 471. Cafuahies, which apparently put an end to life, neceflary cau- tions refpefting, 600. 608. 613. 631. p ■ ' fubllances Hopped in the gullet, 602. . ■ drowning, 609. ». noxious vapours, 613. — extremity of cold, 616. . —- extreme heat, 618. Catapla/ms, their general intention, 659. Preparation of the diicutient cataplafm, ibid. Ripening cataplalm, ibid. Cataracl,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21441005_0758.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
