Buchan enlarged. Domestic medicine; or, The family physician, 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. To which is added ... rules and regulations to be observed ... in the management of infants, etc / [William Buchan].

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Buchan enlarged. Domestic medicine; or, The family physician, 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. To which is added ... rules and regulations to be observed ... in the management of infants, etc / [William Buchan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    complefe pvei^erv'ative from the 6inall-[)(>x, ib. iMoHe of inocula- tion with, 44S. Description of the symptoms w’hich accompany the g^enuine, ib. Treatment, 451. Inoculation with, w'hen advisable, 452. Ctadits, on many accounts hurtful to children, 22. Cramp, ])roper remedies for, 317. Cramp of iht stomach, who most sub- ject to, 303. iMedical treatment of, ib. Crotchtis, how to use for extracting substances detained in the gullet, 418. Croup i)L children, described, 387. Its symptoms and proper treatment, 388. Cpdtr, the ill consequences of making it too weak, 48. D. Dancing, an excellent kind of exer- cise for young persons, 20. Daucus sylvestris. See Carrot. Deafwss, when afavourable symptom in the putrid fever, 141, note. Methods of cure according to its causes, 324. A new operation for the cure of proposed, 325, note. Death, the evidences of sometimes fallacious, anri ought not to be too soon credite<i, 4l(i-17, 421.. The rnC'Uis to l)e used for the recovery of persons from nearly the same in all cases, 438. Decoctions, gener.il remarks on, 493. P;ej)arations of the decoction of althaea, ib. Common decoction, ib. Of logwood, ib. Of bark, ib. Compound decoction of bark, 494. Of sarsa^>arilla, ib. Of seneka^ ib. White decoction, ib. Deforntiiy-, ol'teu occasioned by the injudicious manner of dressing children, 9. Is seldom found a- mong savage nations, ib. The usual causes of explained,, ib. Dews, night, dangerous to health, 91. Diahttes, wdio most liable to this disorder, 225, Its causes and symptoms, ib. Regimen and ine- tlicui treatment, 228. Distin- guished from incontiiiency of urine, 227. Diarrhoea. See Looseness. Diet, will often answer all the indi- . cations of cuse in rli5ease.s, 98,. Illustrations, ib. Genefal obser-’ vations on, 432. Improper diet affmts the mind as well as the body, 453. Vegetable ought to preponderate over animal food, ib. See Aliment. Digestion, the powders of equally im« paired by repletion or inanition, 49. Diseases, hereditary, cautious to persons alflieted with, 6. Peculiat* disorders attending particular oc- cupations, 26. Many of them in- fectious, 75. The knowledge of depends more upon experience and observation than upon scientifical principles, 98. Are to be distin- guished by the most obvious and permanent symptoms, ib. The differences of sex, age, and con- stitution, to be considered, ib. Of the mind, to be distinguished from those of the body, 97 Climate, situation, and occupation, to be attended to, ib. Otlier collateral circum.stances, ib. Many indica- tions of cure to be answered by diet alone, 98. Cures often effect-r- ed by fresh air, by exercise, or by cleanliness, 99. Nervous di.seases, of a complicated nature and dif- ficult to cure, 298. Dislocation, should be reduced before the swelling and inflammatioti come on, ami how, 407. Of the jaw, ib. Of the neck, 408. Of the ribs, 409 Of the shoulder, ib Of the elbow, 410. Of the thigh, ib. Of the knees, ancles,, and toes, ib. Diuretic inf us ion for the Dropsy, how to prepare, 267. Dug, symptoms of madness in, 335. Ought to be carefully preserved after hating any person to ascer- tain. whether he is mad or not, 336. Is often reputed mad when he is not so, ib. Symptoms of the bite of a mad dog, ib. The poison canitot lie many years dormant in the body, as is supposed, 337. Dr. Mead’s receipt for the bite, ib. The famous East Indian spe- cific for, ib. Other receipts, ib. Vinegar of considerable service in this disorder, 339. Medical course of treatment recommended, ib.- Regimen, ib Dipping in the sea' not to be relied on, ib- Dr.Tis- Sot’3 medical course for the cure