Domestic medicine, or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners.

  • William Buchan
Date:
1791
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Credit: Domestic medicine, or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Grief, Its effects permanent, and often fatal, 116. Danger of the mind dwelling long upon one fubjeft, efpecialiy if of a difaqreeable nature, 117. The mind requires exercife as well as the body, 118. Innocent amufements not to be negledled, ibid. Is productive of nervous dil'eafes, 421. Gripes in infants, proper treatment of, 549. <juaiacum, gum, a good remedy for the quinfey, 268 ; and rheumatilm, 390. Gullet, how to remove fubftances detained in, 603. Cautions for the ufe of crotchets with this intention, ibid. Other mecha- nical expedients, 604. Treatment if the obftru&ion cannot be removed, 607. Gums of children, applications to, during teething, and how to cut them, 561. Gutta ferena, proper treatment of, 458. H. Hremoptoe, fpitting of blood. See Blood. Haemorrhages. See Blood. Harrowgate water, an excellent medicine for expelling worms, 368. And for the jaundice, 373. In the feurvy, 391. Hsad-ach, the fpecies of, diftinguifhed, 332. Caufes of, 353. Reoimeo, 354. Medical treatment, 355. Health of the people in general, a proper obje£l of attention for the magillrates, xi Ought to be attended to in matrimonial con- trails, 8. Is often laboured for after it is deftroyed, 6i. Rules given by Celfus for the preservation of, 134. Heart-bum, the nature of this diforder, with its caufes, and re- medies for, 418. Heat, extreme, ho.v to recover perfons overcome by, 618. Hemlock, a good remedy in the King’s evil, 402. Is recom- mended by Dr. Storck for the cure of cancers, 469. Hemp-feed, a decodtion of, good in the jaundice, and how to pre- pare it, 373. Hiccup, its caufes, and method of treatment, 436. Hoffman, his rules for guarding child-bed women againft the miliary fever, 538. Honey, a wholefome article of food for children, 21. Is recom- mended in the ftone, 328. Hooping-cough. See Cough. Hofpitals, the want of frefh air in, more dangerous to the pa- tients than their diforders, 8i. Cleanlinefs peculiarly ne- ceffary in, 105. Often fpread infection by being fituated in the middle of populous towns, 108. How they might beren- dered proper receptacles for the fick, 110. Particularly in infe&ious diforders, in. The fick in, ought not to be crowded together, 219, note. Horfe-radijh, the chewing of, will rellore fenlibility to the organs of tafte when injured, 465. Houfes9