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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    Liver, inflammation of, its causes and symptoms, 21 ti. Regimen and medical treatment, ib. Ab- scess in, ho«v to be treated, 217. Cautions in the event of a schirrous being formed, ib. Lobelia, an American plant used by the natives in the veneral disease, SJ9. Lochia, a suppression of, how to be treated, 37.5. Longings, in diseases, are the calls of nature, and often point out what may be of real use, 104-. Looseness habitual, general directions for persons subject to, 87. Its general causes, 2-20. A periodical looseness ought never to be stop- ped, 221. Medical treatment of according to its various causes ib. Means of checking it when neces- sary, 222. In children, proper treatment of, 385. Love, why perhaps the strongest of all the passions, 84. Is not rapid in its progress, and may therefore be guarded against at its com- mencement, ib. To pretend to it for amusement cruelty to the ob- ject, 85. Children often real mar- tyrs between inclination and duty, ib. note. Lues, confirmed, symptoms of, 357. Mercury the only certain remedy known in Europe for this disease, 358. Saline preparations of mer- cury more efficacious than the ointment, ib. How to administer corrosive sublimate, ib. American method of curing, 359. Mercury properly administered never fails to cure this disease, 364. Lungs;, injured by artists working in bending postures, 34. Studious persons liable to consumptions of 39. Luxury, highly injurious to the organs of taste and smell, 325. IM. MacJcensde, Dr. his arguments in fa- vour of inoculating in the small- pox, 164, note. Mad dog. See Dog. ]}tUig7iesia alba, a remedy for the heart-burn, 295. Is the best me- dicine in all cases of acidity, 383. Magnets, artificial, their reputed vir« iue in the tooth-ach, 254. Malt liquors hurtful in the 287. See Beer. Man, w-^hy inferior to brutes in the management of his young, 1. Was never inteiideii to be idle, 61. Manufactures, the growth of produc- ed the rickets in children, 15i More favourable to riches than tct health, 19, Some, injurious to health by confining artists in un- wholesome air, 26. Cautions to the workmen, 27. Compared with agriculture, 33. Are injurious to health from artists being crowded together, 34. And from their working in confined postures, 36. Cautions offered to sedentary artists, ib. Sedentary arts better suited to women than to men, 59. note. Matrimony ought not to be contract- ed without a due attention to health and form, 7. Mead, Dr. his famous recipe for the bite of a mad dog, 337. His character as a physician, ib. note. Meals ought to be taken at regular times, 49. Reasons for this uni-> formily, 50. Measles, have great affinity with the small-pox, 170. Causes and Sym- ptoms, ih. Proper regimen and medicine, 171, 172. Inoculatidu of might prove very salutary, 173,' note. Mechanics ought to employ their leisure hours in gardening, 37. Meconium, the best mode of expel- ling it, 11, 381. Medicine, the origin of the art of, x. The operation of doubtful at best, ib. Is made a mystery of by its professors, xii. The study of ne- glected by gentlemen, xv. This’ ignorance lays men open to pre- tenders, ib. Ought to be generally understood, xvi. A diffusion of tile knowledge of would destroy quackery, xviii. Oijections to the cultivation of medical knowledge ans wered, xix. The theory of can never supply the want of experi- ence and observation, 95. Medicines have more virtue attributed to them than they deserve, 98. Ought not to be administered by the ignorant, nor without caution^ 100. Want of perseverance ih the ttse of one reason' why chronic