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

  • Ridge, Benjamin.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Ourselves, our food, and our physic / by Benjamin Ridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Bizxiness, 85. Doctors not agreeing, 46, 57, 75. Dropsies, the result of, 122. Drugs, their divisions, 64 ; combination of^ !54, Duodenum, or chemical stomach, where situated, 4. Dysenterj explained. 111. Eae-bose3 described, 2. Ears, 20. Earthly matters, what they consist of, 27. Education, early, important, 38. Electric power and galvanic actions, 32-33, 150. telegraph analogous to nervous system, 24, 33. Elements, chemical, battle of opposite, 64; act by antagonism, 150. Emetics, prescriptions for, 158. Empiricism eulogizes the mercurials, 12&. English school of medicine, 186. Engorgement explained, 77. Epithelium, organized mucus, 21. Epsom-salts, use of, 163. Errol'S in medicine, 44-45. Eruptions, distinct course of the meades and scai'let-fever, 125. Evacuants, the regular and irregular, 10. Exercise, mental, 37 ; bodily, 38. Expectoration, 95, 160. Eyes, sti'ueture of, 19 ; prescription for, 166. Faculty, the, constantly condemned by the public, 184-185. FaKial matter requisite for stufBng large intestines, 60. Falls or contusions, treatment of, 69-70. Fat, 3. Feet, use of, 1. Female servants subject to pleurisy, 90, 127. Fermentation, 153. Fevere, giving aperients for, condemned, 11 ^ congestive and inflammatory, 62, 73; scarlet, explained, with treatment of, &c., 58-59, 121-126; the op- probrium of medicine, 133 ; quotidian, tertian, quartan, are venous, 135 j congestive, or venous and acid, 135-136 ; treatment of, 139-143 ; inflam- matory, or arterial and alkaline, 137-138; treatment of, 141-143; typhus, 138; emetics check them, 159 ; presciiptions for, 167-169. Fibrine, composition of, 28. Flatulence, causes pain, 62 ; tmatment of, 85. Food, quantity and quality important, 36 ; its passage downwards traced, 6-9 ; and physic, 57, 61 ; fresh, almost wholly alkaline, 59, 146, 150 ; uitio- genized and non-nitrogenizeil, 60. Foot-bath, pernicious use of, 40. Framework of body, 1-3. French school of medicine, 186. Functional disease, 46, 159.