Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1803
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Credit: Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    poffible. Thofe who riiftate, may do it walking. It has an excellent effedt frequently to read or fpeak aloud. This not only exercifes the lungs, but almoft the whole body. Hence ftudious people are greatly benefited by delivering difcourfes in public. Public fpeakers, indeed, fometimes hurt themfelves, by overacting their part; but this is their own fault. The martvr to mere vo- j .ciferation merits not our fvmpathy. The morning has, by all medical writers, been reck- oned the bed: time for ftudy. It is fo. But it is alfo the mod proper feafon for exerciiV, while the domach is empty, and the fpirits refreflied with deep. Studious people fhould therefore fometimes fpend the morning in walking, riding, or fome manly diverdons without doors. This would make them return to dudy with greater alacrity, and would be of more fervice than twice the time after their fpirits are worn cut with fa- tigue. It is not fufficient to take diverdon only when we can think no longer. Every ftudious perfon fhould make it a part of his bufinefs, and fhou'd let nothing interrupt his hours of recreation more than thofe of dudy. Mufic has a very happy effect in relieving the mind when fatigued with ftudy. It would be well if every ftudious perfon were fo far acquainted with that fcience as to amufe himfelf after ievere thought by playing fuch airs as have a tendency to raife the fpirits, and in- fpire cheerfulncfs and good humour. It is a reproach to learning, that any of her votaries* to relieve the mind after ftudy, fhould Retake themfelves to the ufe of ftrong liquors. This indeed is a remedy ; but it is a defperate one, and always proves deftrudtive. Would fuch perfons, when their [pints are low, get on horfeback, and ride ten or a dozen miles, they would find it a more cffe&ual remedy than any cordial medicine in the apothecary’s ihop, or ail the ftrong liquors in the world. The following is my plan, and I cannot recommend a better to others. When my mind is fatigued with ftudy, or other ferious bufinefs, 1 mount my horle, and .E 4 ride