Domestic medicine, or, 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 / by William Buchan.

Buchan, William, 1729-1805.

Date:: 1797

Credit: Domestic medicine, or, 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 / by William Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$School, fending children there too young, \ts bad confequences, 25. Ought to be feated in a dry air, and not to be too much crowded, 33. - Scirrhiis in the liver, proper regimen in the cafe of, 308. See . Cancer. ; Scrophiila, nature of this difeafe, and itscaufes, 398, Symptoms, and regimen, 399. Medical treatment, 400. Scurvyi why prevalent among the Englilh, 65. Where moh pre- valent, and the two dihindtions of, 393. Caufes of, ibid. Symptoms and cure, 394. Inftrudlions to fea-faring men, 395. Extraordinary effedls of milk, 396. Proper liquors, ibid. Sedentary life, includes the greater part of the human fpecies, 47. Few perfons follow agriculture who are capable of other bufi- nefs, 48. Sedentary and adive employments ought to be intermixed, for the fake of ibid. Artiils fuffer from unwholefome air, by being crowded together, ibid. The poftures artii];6 are confined to, iiqurious to health, 49. Dif- orders produced by, ibid. Cautions offered to the fedentar}’-, 50. Sedentary amufements improper for fedentary perfons', 51. Hints relating to improper food, 52. Exercife, a furer relief for low fpirits than drinking, ibid. Gardening a wFolefome amufement for the fedentary, Diforders occafioned by in- tenfe fludy, 55. Dietetical advice to the fedentary, 71. Seden- tary occupations better adapted to women than men, 83, note. Sea water, a good remedy in the king’s evil, 400. Senfes, diforders of, 456. Seton, fometimes has extraordinary effedfs in an infiammation of the eyes, 262. Is of fervice for preventing apoplexies, 413* The beft method of making it, 430.. Shoes, tight, the bad confequences refulting from, 91. The high heels of women’s fhoes, 92. Sibbins, a venereal diforder fo termed in the weft of Scotland, how* to cure, 518, note. , . Sick, the mutual danger Incurred by iinneceffary vifitors to, lo5, Perfons in health to be kept at a diftanco from the fick, 107. Proper nurfes ought to be employed about them, 109. In- ftrudfcions for avoiding infeclion, ibid. Phyficians too un- guarded in their vifits to them, ibid. note. Tolling of bells for the dead very dangerous to, 114. Their fears ought not to be alarmed, 116. Sight injured by ftudying by candle-light, 57. Simples, a lift of thofe proper to be kept for private pradf ice, 654. Sinapifms, the general intentions of, 660. Diredions for making of, ibid. Sleep, the due proportion of, not eafy to fix, 87. How to make it refrefhing, 88, Complaints of the want of, chiefly made by the indolent, ibid. Heavy fuppers caufe uneafy nights, ibid. Anxiety deftrudive of fleep, 89. That in the fore-part of the night$