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

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.

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$dren, 23. The utility of exercife demonftrated from the or- ganical ftrufture of children, 24. Philofophical arguments ftiewing the neceflity of exercife, ibid. Ought not to be fent to fchool too foon, 25. Nor be put too foon to labour, 28. Dancing an excellent exercife for them, 29. The cold bath] ibid. Want of wholefome air deftruttive to children, 30. To wrap them up clofe in cradles, pernicious, 32. Are treated like plants in a hot-houfe, ibid. The ufual faulty conduft of nurfes pointed out, 34. Are crammed with cordials by in- dolent nurfes, 35. Eruptions ignorantly treated by nurfes, ibid. Loofe Hod's, the proper treatment of, ibid. Every method ought to be taken to make them ftrong and hardy, 37. Indications of the fmall-pox in, 214. Chincough. See Cough. Cholera morbus, the diforder defined, with its caufes and fymp- toms, 309. Medical treatment, 510. Churches, the feveral circumftances that render the air in, un- wholefome, 76. Churching of women after lying-in, a dangerous cuftom, 54Z. Church yards, the bad confequences of having them in large towns, 76. Cities, large, the air in, contaminated by various means, 76. The bad effects of burying the dead in, ibid. Houfes ought to be ventilated daily, 77. The danger attending fmall apartment?, 78. All who can ought to fleep in the country, ibid. Disorders that large towns are peculiarly hurtful to, 79. Cleanlinefs not iufficiently attended to in, tot. Should be fupplied with plenty of water, 105, note. The beft means to guard againft infection in, 109. Clare, Mr. his method of applying faline preparations of mercury in venereal cafes, 512. Cleanlinefs, an important article of attention in thedrefsof chil- dren, 14; and to fedentary artifts, 52. Finery in drefs often covers dirt, 93. Is neceflary to health,*ioo. Diforders origi- nating from the want of, ibid, is not Iufficiently attended to in large towns, 101. Nor by country peafants, 102. Greatatten- tion paid to, by the ancient Romans, ibid. note. Neceflity of confuhing cleanlinefs in camps, 103. Was the principal object of the whole fyftem of the Jewifh laws, ibid. \% a great part of the religion of the Eaftern countries, ibid. Bathing and wafh- mg greatly conducive to health, 104. Cleanlinefs peculiarly neceflary on board of ftiips, ibid, and to the fick, ibid. Gene- ral remarks on, 105. Many diforders may be cured by clean- Jjnefs alone, 140. The want of, a very general caufe of putrid fevers, 196. Is a great prefervative againll venereal infection, 517; and againft galling in infants, 550. Clergy, exhorted to remove popular prejudices againft inocula- tion, 231. Might do great good by undertaking the practice of it thcmfelves, 236. Clothing,$