Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : containing observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, with instructions for performing the operation, an essay, enabling puptured [sic] persons to manage themselves, with engravings of bandages, which every person may prepare for himself, and a family herbal / by William Buchan, M.D. of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh ; to which are added, such useful discoveries ... as have transpired since the demise of the author.
- Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
- Date:
- 1823
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : containing observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, with instructions for performing the operation, an essay, enabling puptured [sic] persons to manage themselves, with engravings of bandages, which every person may prepare for himself, and a family herbal / by William Buchan, M.D. of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh ; to which are added, such useful discoveries ... as have transpired since the demise of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![died of itself, seem to have a strict regard to health ; and ought to hr observed by Christians as well as Jews. Animals never die H'crase^ves without some previous disease; but how a diseased annual should be .vholcsorae food, is inconceivable: even those which die by accident must be hurtful, as their blood is mixed with the flesh, and soon turns ''Animals which feed grossly, as tame ducks, hogs &c. are neithef so easily digested, nor aftnrd such wholesome nourishment as others. •No animal can be wholesome which does not take sufficient exercise. Most of our stalled cattle are crammed with gross tood, but not a - lowed exercise nor free air; by which means they mdeed grow fat but their juices not being properly prepared or ass.mulaled, remain crude, and occasion indigestions, gross humours, and oppression of the spirits, in those that feed upon them. , , . i * j ' AnimaU are often rendered unwholesome by being overheated. Excessive heat causes a fever, exalts the animal salts, and ™'^es the blood so intimately with the flesh, that it cannot be -separated For this reason, butchers should be severely punished who overdrive their cattle No person would chuse to eat the flesh of an ananal which hadld^^^ fever; yet that is the -se with aU ove.dn,ve cattle- and the fever is often raised even to a degree of madness. But thh is not the only way by which butchers render meat un- whollml l^^e abominable LsLm of filling the ceUjilar meudKane of animals with air, in order to make them appear ^^J; ^ '^^^^ nractised This not only spoils the meat, and rendeis it unht tor Tep nfbut is such a dirty trick, that the very idea of it is sufficient fo disi'st a person of any delicacy at every thing which comes from t?ie hamlles^ Who can bear the thought of eating meat winch has been blowrup with air from the lung, of a dirty fellow, perhaps la- bourin under the very worst ot diseases] ^ . ,r i No people in the world eat such quantities of -'-1 ^ jjj English which is one reason why they are so generally tain ed wuh lie sc.i;vy and its numerous train of consequences, indigestion, low it ts h/pochondriacism, &c. Animal food was surely dcsigiied fo nan. ^n/, with a proper mixture of vegetables, it will be O^^^nd the mos( wholesome; but to gorge beef, mutton, y>-;^'^^\^^^^ twice or thrice a day. is certainly too much .^U ^^ho value hca in ouht to be contented with making one meal of flesh m the twcnt) more used in diet, we should have less scurvy, and likewise le^^er putrid and inflammatory fevers. , „ MnUt ali- ' Our ahment ought neither to be too mois nor too d--y_Mo t a i rr.ent relaxes the solids, and renders the body feeble Thus we see females who live much on tea and other watery diet, gcne'-a ^ cretak and unable to digest solid ^^^^^^ Sal and all their dreadful consequences, the olhei h^^^^^^^ lo is t6o dry renders the solids m a manner rigid, and tlie num](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21441017_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
