Ourselves, our food, and our physic / by Benjamin Ridge.

  • Ridge, Benjamin
Date:
1861
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Ourselves, our food, and our physic / by Benjamin Ridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    205/220 page 193
    Abdomek, cavity of, its contents explained, 4-5; pendulous conditions of, 8G. Ablutions, remarks on, 39. Absorbents, 5, 15. Acid elements, predominate over the alkaline, 35, 134 ; congestion of, 43-43. Acid or congestive diseases, 76. Acids, different kinds of, 152. Air, component parts of, 31; necessary in congestive, hurtful to inflammations of lungs, 81, 97. Albumen, comj)onent parts of, 28. Alkaline, or inflammatory diseases, 76. Alkalis and alkaloids, 152. ammonia, magnesia, potass, soda, &c., with .acids, fom citrates, muri- ates, nitrates, phosphates, &c., as component pai-tsof the structui'es of the body as well as the elements we take, 26, 27, 152. Anatomy, what it is, 1. Animal matters, what consist of, 27, 28. Ankles, flexibility of, 1. Antagonism, importance of in vital chemistry, 150, 179, 180. Aperients, their excessive use condemned,9, 11,161,163 ; useful after measles, 175; prescriptions for, 161, 162, 175. Apoplexy, congestive and inflammatory, 73; congestive, explained, with treat- ment of, &c., 104-108. Arms descriW, 1. Art and mysteiy of medicine, 152. Arteries explained, 5. Asthm.% treatment of, 86-87. Atmosphere, state of, important to life, 41. Auscultation and percussion, 47. Backboxe described, 2. Baths and bathing, when good, and the reverse, 39; healthful to some and injurious to others, 71. Bile and biliousness, remarks on, 78, 79, 155. chemical constituents of, 27. Bladder, situation of, 5 ; use of, 12. Blisters, 3. O
    No text description is available for this image
    No text description is available for this image
    No text description is available for this image