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, M.D. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh.

Buchan, William, 1729-1805.

Date:: 1786

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, M.D. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$their negle£t of children, 27. The utility of txerc'ue demcn- ftiated from the organical Itrufture of children, ii>iJ. Philofo-. phica! arguments fliewing the neceflity of exercife, 28, Ought rot to be fent to Ichool too foon, il/iiJ, Nor be put too foon to labour, 32. Dancing, an excellent exercife for them, 33. The cold bath, iiiJ. Want of wholefome air deftrutlive to children, 34, To wrap them up clofe in cradles, pernicicuf, :55. Are treated like plants in 3 hot-houfe, 36, The ufual faulty ccnduft of nurfes pointed out, 38, Are crammed with cordials by indolent nurfes, 39, Eruptions ignorantly tieated by nurfes, i6i4. Loofe llools, the proper treatment of, 40. Every method ought to be raken 10 make them Ilrong and hardy, 41. Indications of the ■fmall-pox in, 238. Chin-cough. See Cough. Cholera morbus, the dUorder defined, with its caufes and fymptoms, 343. iViedical treatment, 344. Churches, the feveral circumllances that render the ait in, unwhole- fome, 35. ' Churching of ui^omen after lying in, a dangerous cuftom, 6oo. Church yards, the bad confequences of having them in large ■ ' towns, 85. Cities, large, the air in, contaminated by various means, 84. The bad effects of burying the dead in, 85. Houfes ought to be ventilated daily, 86. The danger attending fmall apartment?, 87. All who can ought to fleep in the country, ibid. Diforders that large towns are peculiarly hurtful to, 88. Cleanlinefs not fufRciently attended to in, 113, Should be fupplied with plenty of water, 118, note. The bell means to guard againft infeftioo in, 121. Clare, Mr. his method of applying faline preparations of mercury in venereal cafes, 566. Cleanlinefs, an important article of attention in the drefs of children, 16 and to fcJentary ariifts, 58. Finery in drefs often covers dirt, 104, Is nectfTary to health, m. Diforders oiiginating from the want of, i j 2. Is not fufficiently attended to in large towns, J 13. Nor by country peafnnts, I14. Great attentioa paid to by the ancient Romans, ibid. note. NecetEty of con- fulting cleanlinefs in camps, ri5. Was the principal objeit of the whole f) ftem f f the Jewilli laws, ibid. Is a great part of the religion of'rhe Eallem Countries, ibid. Bathing and wafliing greatly conducive to health. 116. Cleanlinefs peculiarly necel- fary on board of fnipa, ibid, and to the fick, 117. General remarks on, ibid. Many diforders may be cured by cleanlinefs - alone, 155. The want of, a very general cauie of putrid fevers, 217. Is a great prcfervative againit venereal infedion, 572, and againR galling in infants, 608. Clergy, exhorted to lemove popular prejudices again inoculation, 21^6. Might do great good by underta{ung the praftice of it tjiern'elves, 263. Cflotpin^,$