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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    “Pectoral drink, how made _ 5741! Purgative electuary, doses, eid how pre- — fixture or emulsion, doses of. 586] pared 586, 589 Penny-royal, promotes the menses _ 524 — pills * es ;\:) Peppermint, allays vomiting 524] Purging, or diarrhoea 5: 285 Pepper, red, stimulant ~ 626} .— — of infants 438 Peripneumony, or inflammation of the lungs 230] Putrid fevers 174 Peritoneal inflammation 422 - sore throat. 22} Perspiration produced by external appli- ’ ; _ cations 68, 192 ! Petechial fever, 174] - ; Q. Philemon, died laughing 102 Phrensy, or inflammation of the brain 217} Quacks, cause of their increase 26 Philopeemon, the great, taken for a servant 136 | Quaker girl’s attraction 139 Phymosis 303 | Queen of the meadows, diuretic 532 Physic, Dr., his excellent advice in hemor- Quince tree, mucilaginous _ §32 rhage of the extremities 331 | Quinine, preparation of 604 Piles ; 202 —— solution of 606 Pills, mercurial -606 sulphate, pills of 606 purgative . '~ 589} Quinsy, or inflammatory sore throat 219 of sugar of lead, and ipecacuanha 602 —— camphor and asafcetida 600 |, Pink-root, excellent vermifuge 525 R. Pins, swallowing of ah 322 Piss-wort, promotes urine and menses 525 | Radish, antiscorbutic Sane Placenta, or after birth, mode of extract- Raleigh, Sir Walter, forbearance of ge 4 gl ing se 405, 411 | Ramsay, Dr., his melancholy death ~ 333 Plantain, antidote against the bite of ve- Rash, nettle 311 _ nomous insects 525 | Raspberry dissolves tartar on the teeth 532 Plaster, blistering, how made — : 615 | Rattlesnake root, remedy for croup and warm and stimulating 610 cold 532 Pleurisy, treatment of ae | —- violet 534 - root, remedy in cold and pleurisy 526 | Rayschachius, sudden death of, from grief 103 - Plurality of children - 409 | Rattlesnake, bite of 320 Plutarch’s observations on bashfulness 133 | Red cedar, substitute for savin 534 Poison, swallowed 318 | Red gum 455 oak, useful in paralytics 526 | Regimen, importance of in sickness 31, 562, 570 antidote for . 527 | Religion, promotes health + © 144, 151 Poke weed, useful in rheumatism - &27)/— extremes in, to be avoided _ 144 Polygonum, promotes urine 528 | ————— purifies and enhances our en- Polypody, mild laxative + 628] ‘joyments 147 Polypus, in the womb 428 | Remittent, or bilious fever 162 Pomegranate, mild astringent bit 528 | Respiration, prognostic of disease 198 Poplar tree, good tonic, &c. 528 | Resuscitation of persons apparently dead 317 Poppy, white, anodyne 528 | Revenge, horrid instance of 113 sirup of 529 advice to the Romans respecting 114 mode of cultivating and collecting —— Bolea’s way of taking 115 ’ the juice ; ' 529 | Rheumatism 240 Potato fly, mode of collecting 529 | Rheumatic tincture, how prepared 608 Potato, sweet, nutritious 529 Rhubarb, wild, purgative ont hee wild, purgative 530 Ribs, description and use of ek 35 pudding, how made : 578 | Rice milk, how made 575 Potter, professor, his remarks on stimu- caudle, do. 576 lants, as used in*fevers «© _ 183 | —— pudding do. ‘ 578 Pox, treatment of ; __ 306 | Rickets 471 Prejudices, ill consequences of 27, 568 | Ring worm _ ' 312 Pregnancy, signs of _ | 385 | Rose or erysipelas 458 —— force of imaginationin ~ 389 | Rose, damask, mild laxative 534 diseases of - 389. willow, remedy in gleet, &c, 534 Preliminary observations 25 | Routs, dangerous tendency of © 65 Preternatural labor . ‘408 | Rue, produces blisters, &c. 534. | Prickly ash, remedy in rheumatism, &c. 530 | Ruptures eh aks 323, 453 pear, remedy for corns i 531 | Rush, Professor, esteems wine a preven- Pride of China, remedy for worms, scald _ tive of disease head, &c. 531 | —— his death and character ; 190 Progress of labor 401 | Rust of steel, doses of : 583 Prognostics of fever 195 Prometheus, his history of intemperance 121 , Prostrate glands, situation and use of 55 Ss. hy - Ptolemeus, cries for jo 101 Puccoon, good for jaundice 532 | Sage, was supposed by the ancients to pro- Puerperal fever 424} Jong life, ‘Pulse, its action described 196 0 jelly, how prepared . 574 Purgative infusion, how prepared 588 | Sailor, American, patriotism of 143 — powder _ 89 | Sailors, deserve kind treatment 32