The new domestic medicine ... / abridged from Dr. Buchan; also ... the notes of J. Hunter, and other eminent physicians.
- William Buchan
- Date:
- [between 1790 and 1799?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The new domestic medicine ... / abridged from Dr. Buchan; also ... the notes of J. Hunter, and other eminent physicians. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[278] on the Tick, they ought to keep conftantly m their nofes fome rue, tanfey, or if they can bear it the leaves of tobacco. The room in which the patient lays fhould be Iprinkled every day with boiling vinegar, and the nurfes fhould never go into company till they have changed their cloaths, and waftied their hands, left they carry along with them the infection. Nay there have been many cafes where the phyfician by his own imprudence has caught the infection in confequence of fitting too long on the patient’s bed ; and thus while he was difcharging his duty he was at the fame time by want of prudence doing an injury to him- felf, and carrying the difeafe along with him to others, who would receive it without know- ing from whence it came. Air, as well as water, is of great fervice to the human frame, and wherever great numbers of people are crowded together into one place, fo as to prevent a free circulation of the air, there is great reafon to fear that it will become infectious. It is owing to this that too many perfons faint, and become fick when they are crowded up in churches or other populous af- femblies. There is a moft wretched cuftom that has long taken place in this country, and it feems to be the effeft of fuperftition, namely, that of having church yards, or burying places, in the moft centrical parts of populous cities.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2875864x_0290.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
