Domestic medicine. 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:
1821
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Credit: Domestic medicine. 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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    CONTENTS. MEMOIRS of Dr. Buchan ... i Preliminary Discourse or Advice to Mothers ix PAK T I. OF THE GENERAL CAUSES OF DISEASES. CHAP. I. PAGE Of Children 1 Of Diseased Parents (j Of Clothing of Children — Of Food of ditto 14 Of Exercise of ditto 2G Of bad effects of unwhole- some Air upon ditto 28 Of Nurses 30 CHAP. H. Of the Laborious, &c Of the Sedentary - 4>3 Of the Studious 49 CHAP. HI. Of Aliment 55 CHAP. IV. Of Air 67 CHAP. V. Of Exercise 73 CHAP. VI. Of Sleep 79 Of Clothing 81 CHAP. VH. Of Intemperance 8b CHAP. VJH. Of Cleanliness 91 CHAP. IX. Of Infection 97 CHAP. X. Of the Passions 102 Of Anger 102 Of Fear • • • • • 103 Of Grief 106 Of Love 108 Of Religious Melancholy • • 109 CHAP. XL PAGE Of the Common Evacuations J11 Of Stool Ill Of Urine 113 Of Perspiration 114 Of being affected I)}’ Changes in the Atiuosphere .... 1,15 Oi Wet Clothes ........ 116 Ox Wet, Feet 116 Of Nig it Air lib Of Damp Beds 117 Of Damp Houses ...... 118 Of sudden d’runsitions from Heat to Cold 1J 9 P-AllT 11. , OF DISEASES. CHAP. XIL Of tlie Knowledge and Cure of Diseases CHAP. XII[. 123 Fevers in genera] 128 CHAP. XIV. Of intennittini’’ Fevers or Agues 1^5 CHAP. XV. Of an acute continual Fever 144 CHAP. XVI. Of the Pleurisy 149 Of the Bastard ditto...... 155 Of the Paraphreiiitis •••• 155 CHAP. XVIL Inflammation of the Lungs 156 CHAP. XVHL Of Consumptions 159 CHAP. XIX. Oftheslowor Nervous Fever 172 CHAP XX. Malignant, Putrid, or Spotted Fever 178 CHAP. XXL Miliary Fever 187