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.

  • William Buchan
Date:
1803
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    ( JcU ] -T ■ — *r ■ .T'.- '* ::r- ; ♦<“» CONTENTS. e.r: :<ttj PART I. Of the general Caiifes of Difeafes. i ■ rfc * . . CHAP. X. OF Children Page * Difeafed Parents 6 —Clothing of Children 9 — Food of ditto — 14 —f xercife of ditto — 20 —Bad Effefts of unwholefome Air upon ditto — 28 —Nurfes — 30 CHAP. It. Of the Laborious, &c. —the Sedentary — —the Studious — chap. in. Of Aliment — Of Air CH/WP. IT. CHAP. V. Of Excrcife — CHAP. VI. Of Sleep — —Clothing — *— CHAP. VII. Of Intemperance — CHAP. VIII. Of Cleanline fs — chap. ix. Of Infediion — CHAP. X. Of the Paffions — — Anger — *—Fear — —Grief — 35 44 5° SI 69 75 81 84 95 too ic7 ic8 ib. 112 Of Love — Page It, —Keligious Melancholy j j ^ CHAP. XI. Of the Common Evacuations —Stool — —Urine — , ,3 —Perfpiration — 12o —Being affedted by Changes in the Atmofphere — -Wet Clothes — J —Wet Feet — —Night Air —Damp Beds .— —Damp Houfes — J2+ — Sudden Tranfitions from Heat to Cold — V2S part ir. 122 ib. ib. 124 Of Difeafes. CHAP. xtl. Of the Knowledge and Cure of Difeafes . 129 CHAP. XIII. Fevers in general — ^ CHAP. XIV. Of intermitting Fevers or Ague* 141 CHAP. XV. Of an acute continual Fever 15* 1 CHAT. XVt. ' Of the Fleurify — Baftard ditto j'g, Paraphrenitis CHAT. XVII. Inflammation of the Lungs 164 r