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].

  • William Buchan
Date:
1786
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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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    V. Vapour of fermenting liquors, noxious nature of, 677, Vegetables, wholefome corrections of the bad qualities of animal food, 73. Their extraordinary effects in the fcurvy, ^qo. Venereal difeaje, why omitted in a former edition of this work, 541. Unfavourable circumflances attending this diforder, 542. The virulent gcnorrhaea, 543. Gleets, 553, Swelled tefiides, 556. Eubces, 558. Chancres, 559. Stranguary, 561. Phymofis* 563. A confirmed lues, 564. American method of curing this difeafe, 568. General obfervations, 569. Cleanlinefs a great preservative againlf, 572. The ufe of medicines ought not to be haftily dropped, 574. Is often too much difregarded. 575- Ventilators, the moft 86. ufeful of all modern medical improvements. Vertigo, often produced by intenfe ftudy, 63. Vinegar, a great antidote againft difeafes, and ought to be ufed by all travellers, 52. Should be fprinkled in frek chambers, 122:. 178. 221. Is of confiderable fervice in the bite of a mad dog, 532. And in any kind of poifon, 538. Its medical properties, 758. Is of ufe to extract the virtues of feveral medicinal fub- Itances, ibid. Howto prepare vinegar of litharge, ibid. Vine- gar of rofes, 759. Vinegar of fquills, ibid. Viper, the bite of, the fufficiency of the greafe for the cure of, doubted, 537. Method of treatment recommended, 538. Vitriol, elixir of, an excellent medicine in weakness of the ftomach, 461. And for windy complaints, 470. Vitus, St. his dance, method of cure, 482. JJlcers, proper treatment of, according to their different natures, 644. Lime water a good remedy, 646. Dr. Whytt’s method of treating them, ibid. Fiftulous ulcers, 647. Vomits, their ufe in agues, 166. And in the nervous fever, 212. Caution for adminiitering in the putrid fever, 223. Ought by xo means to be adminillered in an inflammation of the ftomach, 322. Are ufeful in cafes of repletion, 346. Are powerful re- medies in the jaundice, 412. Are the firlt object to be purfued when poifon has been received into the ltomach, 523. Their ufe in the hooping-cough, and how to administer them to children, 317. Midwives too rafh in the ufe of, 507, note. Form of a gentle one for infants difordered in the bowels, 603. Vomiting, the feveral caufes of, 349. Medical treatment of, 350; Saline draught for flopping of, 3^1. Caufes of, in children, 609. How to be treated, 610. Of blood. See Blood. Vo,age, along one frequently cures a confumption, 197. Voyages have an excellent effedt on perfons afflicted with nervous dif- erders, 468. Ureters, and their ufe, deferibed, 336, note. Urine, the appearances and quantity of, too uncertain to form any determined judgment from, 137. Dr. Cheyne’s judgment as. to *}-< due quantity of, not tQ be fcljed on, ibid* The fecretion
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