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

  • Ridge, Benjamin
Date:
1861
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    Blood, circulation of, 15; its duties, division into three, 16; arterial, 16; venous or residuary, 17; disease and purification of, 17-18; chemical constituents of, 26; heat of, 29 ; elementary poisons of, 36 ; deposit of its elements forms distinct structures, 44. fevers, venous and arterial, 118. letting improperly practis^, 107 ; beneficial in venous, prejudicial in arterial fever, 141. ——— poison, 36; effects of in fevers, 135, 136, 137, 138; how prodneed, 158, vessels, different kinds of, 5. Bodily exercise important, 38. Body, framework of, 1; chemical constituents of, 25, 149 ; commercially con- sidered, 34; cleansing of, important, 136. Boils, treatment of, 68, Bones, different kinds of explained, 1-2; number in the body, 2 ; chemical con- stituents of, 25. Books and their authors, 182. Brain, explained, 5 ; division of, 19 ; chemical constituents of, 25; tracts on tlie tongue, 49. Breasts, abscesses of, prevented, 177. Breath tainted before meals, 59. of life, 33. Bronchial congestion, how produced, 43, 45; how indicated on the tongne, 55-56 ; distinct from bronchitis, 73, 88; explained, with treatment of, 82 ; drescriptions for, 160. Bronchitis, how indicated on the tongue, 56 ; distinct from bronchial conges- tion, 73, 88 ; treatment of, 88. Bruises and blows, treatment of, 69-70. Calomel condemned, 130. Caloric, sec Heat. Capillaries, 5, 16. Cartilages, 2 ; chemical constituents of, 26. Castor-oil, a good liniment in rheumatism, 100, Causes, similar, produce many diseases, 182. Cellular tissue, 3. Charlatanism and science, the latter will ultimately triumph, 66. Charlatans, remarks on, 65. Chemical physicians, 144. Chest, formation of, 3 ; contents of, 4 ; uses of contents of, 15-19. Chicken-pock, cause of, 43 ; treatment of, 58. Children, their diseases easily managed, 169 ; prescriptions for, 170, 180. Cholera, congestive and inflammatory, 62, 73 ; inquiry into the epidemic one of 1854, 72, 113, 114; explained, 109; inflammatory, explained, with treatment of, 111-116 ; French prize offered, &c., 113. Chyle and chyme distinguished, 8. process of should be little interferred with, 154. ‘ Chymous,’ a truer term than ‘ bilious,’ 87. Circul.ation of the blood, 15. Classificatiou of medicines, 152.
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