The medical companion, or family physician treating of the diseases of the United States, with their symptoms, causes, cure and means of prevention ... ; a dispensatory for preparing family medicines, and glossary explaining technical terms To which are added a brief anatomy and physiology of the human body ... an essay on hygiene, or the art of preserving health, without the aid of medicine an American materia medica, pointing out the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants also, the nurse's guide. Embracing a treatise on epidemic ... cholera / By James Ewell.

  • Ewell, James, 1773-1832.
Date:
1836
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Credit: The medical companion, or family physician treating of the diseases of the United States, with their symptoms, causes, cure and means of prevention ... ; a dispensatory for preparing family medicines, and glossary explaining technical terms To which are added a brief anatomy and physiology of the human body ... an essay on hygiene, or the art of preserving health, without the aid of medicine an American materia medica, pointing out the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants also, the nurse's guide. Embracing a treatise on epidemic ... cholera / By James Ewell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cosmetics, observations on 310 Siesnution, on teething 463 _ Costiveness, remarks on 282 Detergent gargles ~ 611 a iaaben effects of, in preg- -Devil’s list, vermifuge, &c. 489 nancy 90 | Dewberry, useful in dj ysentery 489 is oF infants 460 | Dexter, Bromensce pitied to praise 474 Cough, management of 213 Diabetes, or incontinence of urine _ 260 symptomatic — 214 | Diaphragm, use of 49 danger | of using patent medicines Diaphoretics, class of » 589 in 215 | —— drops. 585, 590 mixture, how prepared 595. Diarrheea, or looseness, 294 ~ Countenance, prognostic. of disease — 195 | Diet, for a healthy state, - dete 7 ‘Cow parsnip, useful in epilepsy), 485 | —— for the sick, Filys 572 Cow pox, or vaccine disease 244 | —— mode of preparing Rew CUBES ~ Cox, Professor, praise due. to 474 | Difficulty of urine, - | 260, 391 Craik, Dr. and Mrs.. hee death and eins | Digestion, how performed, 49, 51 acter 524 | Dill, good aromatic, ABS - Crains-bill powerful sanene i 486 | Directions for peeerrng vegetable sub-.. ~Cramp, or tetances 275} stances _ 660 in pregnancy 393 | Diseases of pregnancy 389 of the stomach 9715} of childbed » 414 —— of the legs: 275 | ——-— proenostics of 195 colic | 283 Dislocations, observations on 336 - Crawford, Wm. H. Hon., testifies to the Dislocation of the jaw. . 337 “efficacy of onions in croup 521 -—-———- of the shoulder, 338 Crawford, Dr., his treatment. of a hypochon- ———--—— of the elbow, 338 . driac ———--—— of the wrist or finger 338 Cream of tartar, doses of 581 | —— of the thigh 339 » Cross-wort, useful in fevers 487 | Dislocation of the knees and ankles 339 Croup or hives 469 | Dispensatory 587 | » Crow-foot, excites blisters _ .487.| Disposition of children, how tobe managed 444 Cruelty; instances of ~~ 110} Diuretics, class of. 593 Cucko d, useful in jaundice 487 | Diuretic infusion and pills © 594 ~ Cuckow pint, used externally for blistering 487 | Dock water, purifies the blood — 489 Cucumber-root, useful in dropsies 488 | Dog-wood, best substitute for the Peruvian: ~ Cullen, Dr., celebrates horse-radish in ce ae 489 hoarseness 507 | Domestic remedies for Bungee cough 596 Cupping, how performed 344 |. — for rheumatism 562 Cure-all, excellent. tonic. 488 | Dorsey, Professor; his ays for sore | Currant wine, how to make - 488] | eyes » 226 Currie, Dr., his improvement in.the treat- . — notice of his ent and char acter. 291 -— ment of nervous fever. Sey 179 | Doses of medicines, table of » 581 _ Custard apple, a good purgative . - 488 | Dover’s Powders, how prepared 591 - pudding, how made 678 | -—— doses 0 585 ~ Cutaneous eruptions 310 | Dragon’s claw, useful in fevers. 490 - Cutbush, Dr., his successful practice in the © Dragon’ $ root, used for blisters | 490 , epidemic, bears testimony of the effica- Drastic purges 588 y of acids in scurvey, 510 ; of sobecte _ | Dressing of: infants 438 in dropsy 546! Dress, love of, natural 134, “Cutler, Rev. Dr., deserving high commen- — neglect of, improper » 136 dations 474 | ——— advantages of wearing flannel 137 siincLeciiock testifies to the | Dropsy of the belly hut) 206 efficacy of emetic weed and skunk'cab- | - of the cellular. membrane, or or anat-) > _ bage in asthma. Naat «Aoi, 537 Saree” ais “298 . —— of the head hie 468 Dog Yuka ‘| ——— of the ovarium = . > 431 . lg - of the falloipan tubes. 432 Dugdetion, usefal i in viscera obstructions 488 | Drowned persons how to be treated $17 _ Darwin, Dr.,. gives an account of a parsi- | Drunkards, reclaimed, instances of. 124 --. Monious surgeon kalling himself By 106 —— ludicrous discription gh, > 316 - Darwin, Dr., cites a case in which pride Drunkenness, its horrid’ ee 5 423 was effectually cured 130 | Dysentery, treatment of - 264 ——-— his remedy to correct bad breath 240'| the ee « Davidge, Professor, his remedy for croup 470 De la « Daviess, Colonel, his dying words 143. YB,’ _ Deadly night-shade, 1 useful in rheumatism, 489 Ke : - Deafness, treatment of 4 238 Bar, description oh ; tiie AD ~ ‘Death, overmuch feared by some + - 106°} —— noise in, progosi of’ eg ¥99 ~ Deerberry, useful in ashma 489 | Far-ache i : 238 . - Delirium, treatment of ae hac 423, 566 | Esaymosis : _ 344 - Delivery, or child-birth inte , 401. Effervescing draught pty OPO i , Denman, Dr., his mode of preventing con- _| Exgg soup, how made’ JM TES. vulsions 395 Eginardus, anecdote of 89 ‘prmermea ~ his remarks on preternatural la.) Elder,e common aperient' 490° bor, 8 ——— wine, how made “490 a ee ae ee