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
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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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    Extracts, general rules for making; but are more conveniently pur- chased ready made, 453, Eyes, inflammation of, its general causes.—Symptoms.—Medical treat- ment, IGO. How to be treated when it proceeds from a scro]jhul<nis habit, 1G9. Advice to those who are subject to this complaint, 171. Are subject to many diseases which are difficult to cure, 289. The means by which they are frequently injured.--General means of pre- vention, 290. The several disorders of, with their medical treatment, 291, 292. Eye-waters, general remarks on, and their principal intensions.—Colly- riura of alum.—Vitriolic collyrium.—CoUyrium of lead, 447, F Fainting-fits, how to cure, 281, 381, Cautions to persons subject to them, 382. Falling-sickness, See Epilepsy, Falling down of the rectum or of the uterus, fomentation for, 4.S1, Fasting, long, injurious to those who labour hard, 24. Is hurtful both to old and young, 40. Fathers, culpably inattentive to the management of their chihhcn, 3. Their irregular lives often injure the constitution of their children, 4. Fear, the influence of very great in Occasioning and aggravating diseases, 62. Its various operations, 63. Feet, injured by wearing tight shoes, 51, The washing ©f, an agreeable article of cleanliness, 57, Wet, the danger of, 70, Bathing them in warm water, a good remedy in a cold, 174, And in the hooping cough, 184, Fermentation, the vapour of liquors in a state of, noxious, 378. Fevers, of a bad kind, often occasioned among labourers by poor living, 24, Frequently attack sedentary persons after hard drinking, 29, Nervous, often the consequence of intense study, 32. Putrid and malignant, often occasioned by want of cleanliness, 55, The most general causes of, enumerated, 77, The distinguishing symptoms of. —The several species of.—Is an effort of nature, which ought to be assisted, 78, Fresh air of great importance in.—The mind of the pa- tient ought not to be alarmed with religious terrors.—Cautions as to bleeding and sweating in, 80, Longings, the calls of nature, aiid de- serve attention.—Cautions to prevent a relapse, 81. Fever, acute continual, who most liable to.—Causes.—Symptoms.—Regi- men, 87. Medical treatment.—Symptoms favourable and unfavour able, 89. Regimen to be observed during recovery, 90, Fever, bilious, general time of its appearance, 161, Proper treatment of, according to its symptoms, 162. Sec Fever also 425, 436, 439. Fever, intermittent. See Ague, Fever, miliary, from what the name derived, and its general appearances, —Who most liable to it.—Causes, 118, Symptoms,-Regimen, 119, Account of a miliary fever at Strasburgh.—Proper medical treatment. -Cautions for avoiding this disorder, 120. How to prevent, in child- bed women, 337, Fever, milk, how occasioned, 337, How to prevent, 342. Fever, nervous, why more common now than formerly, and who most liable to it,-Its causes, 108. Symptoms and proper regimen.-Medi- cal trfatmant, 109.