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. To which are added, observations on the diet of the common people ... / [William Buchan].

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Date:
1798
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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. To which are added, observations on the diet of the common people ... / [William Buchan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fsar, the inflaence of very great, in occafioning and aggravating difeafes, 112. Its various operations, 113. feet, injured by wearing tight (hoes, 91. The wa(hing of, an agreeable articleof cleaniinefs, 104. Wet, the danger of, 127. Bathing them in warm w?»ter, a good remedy in a cold, 279. And in the hooping cough, 288. ^ Fermentation, the vapour of liquors In a (late of, noxious, 614. Fevers, of a bad kind, often occafioned among labourers by poor living, 43. Frequently attack fedentary perfons after hard drinking, 52. Nervous, often the confequence of intenfe ftudy, 57. Putrid and malignant, often occafioned by want of clean- linefs, too. The moft general caufes of, enumerated, 140. The diftinguHhing fymptoms of, 141. The feveral fpecies of. Is an effort of nature, which ought to be alfifted, 142. How this is to be done, 143. Cordials and fweetineats im- proper in, 144. Frefh air of great importance in, 145. The mind of the patient ought not to be alarmed with religious ter- rors, i6id. Cautions as to bleeding and fweating in, 146. Long- ings, the calls of nature, and deferve attention. Hid. Cautions to prevent a relapfe. Fever, acute continual, who moft liable to, 157. Caufes, ihid. Symptoms, 158. Regimen, ibid. Medical treatment, 161. Symptoms favourable and unfavourable, ibid. Regimen to be obferved during recovery, 162. Fever, bilious, general time of its appearance, 247. Proper treatment of, according to its fymptoms, 24S. Fever, intermitting. See jigue. Fever, miliary, from what the name derived, and its general appearances, 205. Who moft liable to it, Caufes, Symptoms, 206. Regimen, 207. Account of a miliary fever at Strafburgh, 208, tiete. Proper medical treatment, 209. Cautions for avoiding this difordcr, 210. How to prevent, in child-bed-women, 538. Fever, milk, how occafioned, 537. How to prevent, 541. Fever, nervous, why more common now than formerly, and who moft liable to it, 188. Its caufes, ibid Symptoms and pro- per regimen, 1S9. Medical treatment, 191. Fever, puerperal, or childbed, the time of its attack, and fymp- toms, 538. Medical treatment of, 539. Cautions for the prevention of this fever 541. Fever, putrid, is of a pellilential nature, and who moft liable to it, 195. Its general caufes,/irV. Symptoms of, 196. Other fevers may be converted to this, by improper treatment, 197. Favourable and unfavourable fymptoms of, ibid. Regimen, 198. Medical treatment, 201. Cautions for the prevention of this diforder, 203. Fever, remitting, derivation of its] name, 2 lo. Its caufes and fymptoms, 211. Proper regimen, 212. Medical treatment, 213. Cautions for avoiding this fever, ibid. Fever,