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

Ridge, Benjamin

Date:: 1861

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$Plethora, result of, 43. Pleural tract on the tongue, 49. , Pleurisy, explained, with treatment of, 89-90, 127, 129, 130; frequent ,t> female servants, 90, 127. Plexus, half-moon and solar, a network of nen-es, 22. Pneumonia, explained, 126; treatment of, 129, 130. Poisons, their var ieties, 144-146. Poverty, remarks on, 91. Predisposition, 105, 129, 132, 143. Prescriptions, for all simple disorfers, 15o-157; for making emetics, 15_8, 177; for bronchial congestion, 160, Ibl; for aperients, 161, for piles, 162; for inflammatory rheumatism, 162, 163, 178; for diarrhoea or cholera, 163, 164; for lotions and gargles, 165; for bron- chitis, 166, 167; for fevers, 167-169; for infants and children, 170- 172; ’for scarlet-fever, 173 ; for women, 177; for opium, 178. Progress and retrogression of disease, 54. Public, the, and the medical profession, 65. Purging, its excessive use condemned, 11; i-ecommended after measles, 120, 175. {See also Aperients.) QuntiNE, its properties, 140, 187; beneficial in fever, 140, 167; prescrip- tions of, 168. Quinsies explained, with treatment of, 79-81. Red-GCM, 36. Respiratory and lung-tract on the tongue, 49. Rete vasculare, use of and remarks on, 30-31, Revolution in medicine required, 46, 74. Rheumatic-gout in females, 43 ; treatment of, 103. + „ ro 70 . pnn- lOieumatism, how produced, 42; congestive and inflammatory, 6^, (3, con gestive, explained, with treatment of, &c„ 98-101; mllainmatory, ex- ^ined, with treatment of, 101-103; in upper and lower extremities, dil- ferently tieated, 103 ; prescriptions for, 162, 163. Saliva, chemical constituents of, 26. lirieifever, explained, with tieatment of, &c.. .58-59, 121-126 ; prescriptions for, 173. Schools, trammels of, 109. Sciatica, treatment of, 99, 101. Science and art of medicine, distinct, 125. ^ . i, rr 1 .a and charlatanism, the former will ultimately triumph, 66, 148. . does not advance hy concealii^ its knowletlge, 7b. ^ . 1.10 — of prescribing medicine, 149.^ «? nmtV'l’tiGS. ^retio;;‘'‘thriVroIvent properties, 7 ; general state of, in all diseases, 62 ; the cooling fountains of the body, 137. Self-dependence of animal lifc, 17, 29, 30, do* torture, prevalence of, 67-71. Sempstivs-scs, habits of, 66. Serum, properties of, 2<.$

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