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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    Menstruation | th. —— cessation of 374 —— painful, 375 -—-——— suppression of 377 profuse 380 Mercurial pills, how prepared — . 606 —— solution 606 —— ointment 614 Mezereon, useful in venereal and cutane- ous affections — a Punt het Midriff, description and use of 49 Miliary fever _ 249 ——— eruptions © 424 Milk fever 416 —— blotch 456 ~ Milk, or silk weed, usefulin gravel, &c. 516 Milkwort, useful in coughs and colds 516 Mind or soul, observations on 44 Mindererus’ spirits, how prepared 591 Mint, allays vomiting — 516 Mineral tonics 605 Miscarriage _ 397 Misleto, useful in fits 516 Mitchell, professor, deserving high com- mepaation yey) hk4, —AT4 Modesty, its great influence 130 Mole, or false conception — pe 430 Moore, Dr., cites a case relative to imagi- __ nation 389 Moorwort, remedy for toe itch 516 Mortification, or gangrene - 335°. Moschetoes, bite of 319 Motherwort, useful in nervous affections 516 Mountain tea, promotes menstrual dis- charge 517 Mouth root, tonic bitter 517 Mugwort, good stomachic 517 Mulberry tree, an excellent purgative 517 518 579 518 — wine, how made Mulled wine, to prepare Mullein, good for piles Mumps, treatment of 225 Muscles, description of 35 Mustard, excellent stimulant 518 — whey, how made 978 Music, powerful effects of 112 Mutton Broth, how made 576 Narcotics, observations on Navel cord, or string, manner of tying 404, 437 —— presentation of 410 Neopolitan, manifests unbounded love for his wife 92 Nervous fever , 174 head ache =. : 236 Nerves, description and use of 36 Nettle-rash, treatment of it 311 Nettle, stinging, an excellent stimulant 519 Night-shade, useful in rheumatism and in tic douloureaux 519 ——_—— deadly, used in palsy, epilepsy, i 51 &e. 9 Night-mare, or incubus 278 Nipples, sore Oa 419 ! - mode of preventing 420 Nitre, doses of 583 Nitric acid, diluted ~ ; 607 -—-—~ lac ammoniac, how prepared, 595 Nitrous lozenges; how prepared 596 Nose, bleeding from 251 Nostrils, description anduse of ™ 42 ” Nostrums, dangerous consequences of 27, 215° Nurse’s Guide ; 562 Nurse, duty of 563 ~~ caution to _ 565, 567, 576 Nursing infants a 443, Nutrition, proper for children 439 QO. Oak, astringent, tonic, and antiseptic 520 | Oak, poison, good for palsy | 621 Obstructed menses 377 Ointment, simple 614 saturnine , 614 ———— basilicon 614 bi mercurial 614 —— hemorrhoidal 614 —_— tar 614 —— itch pitt 614 thorn-apple 540 Qmentum or caul, description of | 63. Onions, remedy in liver complaint. and. croup | “. . 521 Opiates, caution in the use of 229 Opium, doses of on 583 Opodeldoc, how prepared 609 Orange-tree, antiscorbutic — 522 wine, how made -. 522 Original imperfections 451 Ovaria, ovaries, situation and use 55 Oxygen, or pure air . 64 P. Pagan religion, account of 104 Painful affection of the face, or tic doulou- reaux — : 243. Pain of the ear ¥ 238 head 236 —— stomach ; 275 Pains, after, of lying-in women 415 —- false in pregnancy. 393 \)' of the back, thighs, and abdomen, in “ pregnancy — Rei 393 Painful menstruation te BIO. Palate, elongation of | 224 Palmer, Mr., anecdote of 301 Palpitation of the heart 193, 277 in pregnancy 391 Palsy, treatment of : 271 Pancreas, or sweet bread, its use 2 BAbe Panadd, how made ae 575 | Papau, purgative 522 Papoose root, useful in obstructed menses _ and dropsy ‘thie ‘ hy 522 Raraphymosis ~ k 303 __ Parents, caution to _ 445 Paragoric elixir, doses of me ———— how prepared. — hae Parrot, killed, by eating the berries of pride of China 531 Parsley, leaved, yellow root, a good sto- machic laity 522 wild, useful in gravel 623 Passions, the active forces of the soul 88 Patent medicines, why dangerous 26, 27,214 Patriotism, definition of =~ 140 | ——-—— Themistocles 14] ——-~-—— of French soldier 142 |——+—— of English sailor 142 — of Americans _ 143 Peach-tree, a mild cathartic 523