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 / [William Buchan].

Buchan, William, 1729-1805

Date:: 1786

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 / [William Buchan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Liquors, firing, expofe children to inflammatory diforders, 22. fermented, the qualities of, examined, 76. The bad confe- quences of making them too weak, 77. Why all families ought to prepare their own liquors, ibid. Cold, the danger of drink- ing, when a perfon is hot, 14$. Liver, fcirrhous, produced by fedentary employments, 62. Liver, inflammation of, its caufes and fymptoms, 339. Regimen and medical treatment, 34.0. Abfcefs in, how to be treated, 34!, Cautions in the event of a feirrhus being formed, 342. Lobelia, an American plant ufed by the natives in the venereal dif- eafe, 568. Lochia, a fuppreflion of, how to be treated, 594. Longings, in dileafes, are the calls of nature, and often point out what may be of real ufe, 163. Loofenefs, habitual, general dire&ions for perfons fubjett to, 136. Its general caufes, 346. A periodical loofenefs ought never to be flopped, 347. Medical treatment of, according 10 its various caufes, ibid. Means of checking it when neceffary, 349. In children, proper treatment of, 611. Love, why perhaps the ftrongeft of all the paffions, 132. Is not rapid in its progrefi, and may therefore be guarded againfl at it? commencement, ibid. To pretend to it for amufement, cruelty to the objed, 133. Children often real martyrs between in- clination and duty, ibid, note. Lues, confirmed, fymptoms of, 564. Mercury the only certain remedy known in Europe for this difeafe, 566. Saline prepara- tions of mercury more efficacious than the ointment, ibid. How to adminifler corrofive fublimate, 567. American method of curing this difeafe, 568. L^rgs, injured by aitifts working in bending poftures, 56. Studi- ous perfons liable to confumptions of, 63 Luxury, highly injurious to the organs of tafte and fmell, 512, M. Mackenzie, Dr. his arguments in favour of inoculating in the fmall- pox, £57, note. Mad deg. See Dog. Magnefia alba, a remedy for the heatt-burn, 463. Is the bell me- dicine in all cafes of acidity, 607. Magnets, artificial, their reputed virtue in the tooth-ach, 398. Malt liquors, hurtful in the aflhma, 451. See Beer. Alan, why inferior to brutes in the management of his young, 1. Was never intended to be idle, 97. ]{lanufaftures, the growth of, produced the rickets in children, 24. More favourable to riches than to health, 32. Some, injurious to health by confining artifts in unwholefome air, 42. Cautions to the workmen, ibid. Compared with agriculture, 54. Are injurious to health from artifls being crowded together, 55. ^And from their working in confined poftures, 56. Cautions offered$