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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![To prevent the ricketts, free air is abfolute- ]y n&ceffary, and therefore when children are fent to nurfe, they fhould not be confined up in private clofe rooms, but their parents fhould take care that they are carried out as often as the weather will permit. If children are fuffer- cd to fit, without being properly exercifed, they muft contrail rickettyjoints, although the feeds of that diforderwas not communicated to them by their parents. To prevent which, they fliould always be kept in motion, except when they are afleep ; for without proper exercife no child will ever acquire ftrength. It is acknowledged by the beft phyficians, that there are but few medicines that can be adminiftered to children, in order to prevent or cure the rickets; for the nurfe, if fhe ails confiftent with the nature of her duty, will ren- der them all unneceffary. But ftill on fome occafions, they may be of fervice, and there- fore the firft, and in moil cafes that which proves efteilual, is the cold bath, but it muft be ufed with much prudence, and the utmoft c ircumfpeilion. The cold bath fhould always be ufed in the warm feafons, and it is attended with the moft healthful confequences in the mornings. When they come out of the water they fliould be rubbed with a warm dry cloth, and if they feem to become weakly, then the ufe of the bath fhould be difcontinued. Sometimes rhu- barb](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2875864x_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
