The new 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. ... ; To which is now first added, memoirs of the life of Dr. Buchan : and important extracts from other works, particularly his Advice to mothers, ... / by William Buchan.

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1813
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    Seton, sometimes has extraordinary effects in an inflammation of the eyes, 239. Is of service in preventing apoplexies, 374. Shoes, tight, the bad consequences resulting from, S3. The high heels of women’s shoes, 84. Sibbins, a venereal disorder so termed in the west of Scotland, how to cure, 466, note. Sick, the mutual danger incurred by unnecessary visitors to, 97. Persons in health to be kept at a distance fr/im the sick, 9S. Proper nurses ought to be employed about thjhn, 100. Instruc- tions for avoiding infection, ibid. Physicians too unguarded in their visits to them, ibid, note. Tolling of bfells for the dead very dangerous to, 104. Their fears ought not to-be alarmed, 105. Sight, injured by studying by candle-light, 53. Sleep, the due proportion of, not easy to fix, 79. How to make it refreshing, 80. Complaints of the want of, chiefly made by the indolent, ibid. Heavy suppers cause uneasy nights, ibid. Anxiety destructive to sleep, ibid. That in the fore part of the night most refreshing, 81. Early risers the longest livers, ibid, note. Sleeping in the sun, the danger of, 39. Small-pox. See Pox. Sjnell, injuries to which the sense is liable, with the remedies ap- plicable to, 417. Soap, Alicant, recommended in the stone, 295. Soap-lees, how to take, 296. Solanum. See Nightshade. Soldiers, exposed to many disorders from the hardships they under- go, 40. Ought to be employed in moderate labour in times of peace, ibid, note. Soups. See Broths. Spine, often bent by artists working in unfavourable postures, 46. Spirits, lowness of, the general forerunner of a nervous fever, 172. The proper remedies for, 403. Cautions to persons under this complaint, ibid. Spirituous liquors, when good in the cholic, 269. And for gouty complaints in the stomach, 329. Should be avoided by all per- sons afflicted with nervous disorders, 383. The use of, often fatal, 551. Spitting of blood. See Blood. Sponge, may be used to supply the want of agaric as a styptic, 517^ note. Its use in extracting substances stopped in the gullet 537. Sports, active, far more wholesome than sedentary amusements, 77. Golflfa better exercise than cricket, ibid, note. Spots in the eye, how to treat, 414. St/uinting, how to correct the habit of, 414. Stays, a ridiculous and pernicious article of females dress, 13, S3. The wearing of, tends to produce cancers m the breasts, 418. Sternutatories, preparations of, recommended for restoring lost smell, 4!8. S/ft\fo'w£-plaster is the best application for slight wounds, 51S.