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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    Fever, puerperal, or cliiltl-bed, the time of its attack, and symptoms, 337. xVledical treatment of, 338. Cautious for tlie preventiou of this fever, 339. Fever, putrid, of a pestilential nature, and who most liable to it.—Its ge- neral causes, 112. Symptoms of.—Other fevers may be converted to this by improper treatment, 113. Reeimen, 114. Medical treatment, 115. Cautious for the prevention of this disorder, 117. Fever, remitting, derivation of its name.—its causes and symptoms, 121. Proper regimen.—Medical treatment, 122. Cautions for avoiding this fever, 123. Fever, scarlet, why so named, and its usual season of attack.—Proper treatment of.—Is sometimes attended with putrid and malignant syni])- toms.—Medicines ada|)ted to this stage of the malady, 154. History of a fever of this kind at Edinburgh, 155. Fever, secondary, in the small pox, proper treatment of, 129. Flatulencies in the stomach, remedies against, 282. The several causes of.—Medical treatment of, 283. See Flatulencies also 424. Flatulent colic, its causes, and scat of the disorder.—Remedies for, 189. Flower cardamine, or cuckow-flower, useful in convulsive diseases, 481. Fluor albus described, with its proper treatment, 341, Fomentations, how to make and apply.—General intentions of.—Anodyne foaientation.—Aromatic fomentation.—Common fomentation.—Emol- lient fomentation.—Strengthening fomentation, 454. Food. See Aliment. Forgiveness of inj uries, ought to be practised from a regard to our owe health, 62. Fox, Mr. (dentist) bis remark on the effects of the preparations of quick- silver on the teeth, 324. Fractures. See BoN ES, broken. Frozen limbs, how to recover, 3' 9 Fruit, unripe, very hurtful to . Iiilaren, 12. One of the best medicines both for the prevention and cure of a dysentery, 219. Fumigation for houses, hospitals, or ships, and to obviate the danger of infection from contagious diseases, 61, 160. Funerals, the great number of visitors attending them, dangerous to theii health, 59. G Galling, in infants, the cause and cure of, 344. GaiK'rene, proper treatment of, 360, 434. Gardening, a wholesome amusement for sedentary persons, 30. Gargles for the throat, how to make, 172, 176. General intentions of, 4&1. Method of making the attenuating gargle.—Common sargle. Detergent gargle—Emollient gargle, 455. For the mouth of infants in the thrush, .343. For relaxed tonsils, 434. Garlic ointment, an old remedy for the hooping cough, how to apply it, 184. Generals of armies, how they ought to consult the health of the men they command, 25. Gilders. See Miners. Ginger, syrnp of, how to prepare, 40fi.