[Domestic medicine].

  • Buchan William, 1729-1805.
Date:
[1786+]
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Credit: [Domestic medicine]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    CONTENTS PART I. Of General Caufes of Dif- eafes. CHAP. I. OF Children Page i —Difeafed Parents 8 —Cloathing of Children 11 -—Food » - i8 —Exercife - - 26 —Air - - 37 —Nurfes - - 39 CHAP. It. Of Artificers, &c. - 45 —the Laborious • 48 ■—the Sedentary - - 58 —the Studious - 66 CHAP. III. Of Aliment - 76 CHAP. IV. Of Air - 92 CHAP. V. Of Exercife - - 100 CHAP. VI. Of Sleep and Cloathing 108 CHAP. ^M. Of IntemperancP*' - 116 CHAP. vin. Of Cleanlinefs - 124* CHAP. IX. Of Jnfeflion - 1^2 CHAP. X. Of the Pallions - 139 —Anger . - ib —Fear - . i.q —Grief - - T' Religious Melancholy 149 chap. xr. Of the Cuftomary Evacuations Page 151 —Stool ' - ib —Urine 153 —Perfpiration 156 —being affefted by Changes in the Atmofphere 157 —Wet Cloaths ib —Wet Feet 158 —Night Air ib —Damp Beds - . 159 —Damp Houfes 160 —Sudden Tranfitions from Heat to Cold i6z PART II. Of Difeafcs 166 CHAP. xir. General Obfervations ib CHAP. XIII. Of Fevers in general 174 CHAP. XIV. Of Intermitting Fevers or Agues 00 CHAP. XV. Of an Acute Continual Fe- ver 194 CHAP. XVI. Of the Pleurify 2-2 —the Ballard Pleurify 211 —the Paraphrcnitia ib CHAP. XVII. Inflammation of the Lungs 213 CHAP. XVIII. Confumptions 21S