Domestic medicine. Or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines; with observations on sea-bathing, and the use of the mineral waters to which is annexed, a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / From the 22d English ed., with considerable additions and notes.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Date:
1828
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Credit: Domestic medicine. Or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines; with observations on sea-bathing, and the use of the mineral waters to which is annexed, a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / From the 22d English ed., with considerable additions and notes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    place near the areola, and spreads gradually to a considerable part of the body. It consists of patches, slightly elevated, and is at- tended with symptoms of fever. On the eleventh or twelfth day, as the areola decreases, the surface of the vesicle becomes brown at the centre, and is not so clean at the margin; the cuticle gives way, and there is found a glassy hard scab, of a reddish brown colour, which is not detached, in general, till the twentieth day. When it falls. off, a scar about half an inch in diameter is seen, and having as many pits as there were cells in the vesicles. During the progress of the vesicle, there is often some disorder of the constitution ; and occasionally a papulous eruption, hke scrophulus, appears next the vesicle. As security against the small- pox is not secured by spurious vaccine vesicles, it becomes necessa- ry to study carefully the character of the genuine disease, which is here briefly described. CHAP. XVII. SEA-SICKNESS. Tue cause of this distressing affection is the well-known motion of a vessel on the surface of the water. Some thousands are an- nually, nay daily, prevented from going to sea, either upon busi- ness, health or pleasure, in consequence of the ferror of the waves. The most alarming, nay even fatal, consequences have been known to result from the violent retching and vomiting produced by the motion of the vessel, without it being in the power of any one to stop it; for, if it be true that sea-sickness is only to be cur- will acquire this habit, without inconvenience, and without risk ; such as the bursting of a blood vessel, apoplexy,idiotcy, blindness, abortion, &c., which have been known to result from excessive straining and vomiting ? People of delicate constitutions are kuown to derive considera- ble benefit from sailing on the sea; though frequentiy the good they have received has been more than counterbalanced by the in- * With the exception of Dr. Stevenson’s Jmperial Marine Tincture, which, for the last ten or twelve years, has been privately made and sold, we never before heard of any preparation having a decided effect on this peculiar malady. It is, however, but common justice to confess, that this tincture has, in conjunction with its other virtues, every claim to the appellation of a specific for this affection, as was witnessed by us in no less than twelve passengers, male and female, from London to Leith; and on nearly an equal number, with the same effect, from Leith to London, in the year 1817, and frequently since. It possesses also the no less singular quality of completely ar- resting the distressing vomiting to which ladies at various stages of pregnancy are lia- ble. In general debilities and relaxation from long residence in hot climates, the abuse of mercury, excessive drinking, and other species of intemperance; excessive and debilitating evacuations in women, and the concomitant nervous affections, indiges- tion, &c. the Imperial Marine Tincture is one of the most valuable remedies that ever the ingenuity or talent of man could possibly devise for the relief of suffering hu- manity. It is an elegant preparation. purely vegetable ; its properties are those of an agreeable tonic, requiring no increase of dose to reproduce or keep up its effects; it promotes the general circulation, and communicates a congenial warmth over the whole system, which its use invigorates and enlivens, &c. Its analysis has frequently been attempted, but without success. | ‘ ]