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

  • Ridge, Benjamin.
Date:
1861
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    Cleansing of body important, 36, 38 ; of the feet, 40. Clerical sore-throat, 84-85. Cod-liver oil, 94. Cold applications, when necessary, 69. Colii-s, ti-eatment of, 86. Combination of drugs, 155. Combustion, union of elements by antagonism, 18. Congestion, explained, 77 ; of stomach, 78. Congestive apoplexy explained, with treatment of, &c., 104-108. consumption explained, with treatment of, &c., 90-96. rheumatism explained, with treatment of, &c., 98-101. Constipation, 85; when beneficial, 116, 141, 142. Constitution, the British, 85. Consumption, from what developed, 40 ; congestive and inflammatory, 62, 73 ; hospital for, 73; not a purely lung disease, 93; congestive, explained, with ti-eatinent of, &c., 93-96 ; inflammatory, explained, with treatment of, 96-98. Consumptive patients, proper localities for, 95, 97. Contusions, treatment of, 69-70. Convulsions, infant, treatment of, 105-106. Cough, congestive and inflammatory, 82 ; tiacheal, or throat and stomach, 84 ; asthmatic, 87, 161. Counter irritants, more useful in congestive than inflammatoiy actions, 89 ; natural and artificial, 120, 131. Deafness, remarks on, 20. Death, decomposition after, 110. Diagnosis, or the art of discovering disease, 47. Diarrhoea, explained, 109-112; ti cjitment of, 113; congestive and inflamma- tory, 109-110 ; produced by fear, 112. Diet, attention to recommended, 36 ; variety of necessary, 59-60; is medi- cine, 63, 149 ; division into three, 64 ; ditlereut in the two forms of con- sumption, 97. Dietaries of Government pernicious, 61. Dietitians, principles of, condemned, 36 ; eiTors of, 60. Digestion, shows the uses of organs, 6 ; powers of, depend on food, 7. Digestive and stomach tract on tlie tongue, 49. Diluting phenomena, 7, 17. Diphtheria, what it is, and treatment of, 79, 80. Disbelief in medicines by old physicians, the cause of, 145. Discoverers, their fate, 15-16. Disease, never been properly understood, 41 ; e.xplained, 42 ; treatment of, can- not be rehearsed, 44; specific, 44 ; Nature's cure of, 45 ; functional and or- ganic, 46 ; aid of chemistry in, 47 ; first actions are of an acid or congestive character, 52 ; progress and retrogression of, 54 ; empirical treatment of, 56 ; congestive and infl.ammatory, 62, 74 ; little real, 66, 148 ; arrange- ment of, 72; confusion of, 73; deiiends on certain conditions of the system, 76; first act of, 77; drug, 131; gradation of, 128, 134, 138; functional, 159. Disorders of the system, 45.