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:
1797
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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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    CONTENTS. PART I. Of thfe general Caufes of Difeafes. CHAP. I. Children P ^ Difeafed Parents 'age I 7 —Clothing of Children 9 —Food of ditto 15 — Exercife of ditto 21 —Bad effedls of unwholeforae Air tipon ditto 30 —Nurfes 33 C H A P. 11. Of the laborious, &c. 37 —‘■the Sedentary 47 —the Studious 54 CHAP. Ill, Of Aliment 62 CHAP. IV. OfAir 75 CHAP. V. Of Exercife 8i CHAP. VI. Of Sleep 87 —Clothing 89 c HAP- vir. Of intemperance 94 CHAP. viir. Of Cleanlinefs 100 CHAP. IX. Of Infedion 106 CHAP. X. Of the Paffions III — Anger 112 —Fear - ib. —Grief 116 —Love 119 <—Religious Melancholy 120 CHAP. XI. Of the common evacuations 12 1 —Stool - » ib. Of Urine - Page 123 —Perfpiration - 125 —being affe^ed by Changes in the Atmofphere - 126 —Wet Clothes - 127 —Wet Feet ib. —Night Air 128 —Damp Beds ib. —Damp Houfes 130 —Sudden Tranfitions from Heat to. Cold 131 P.ART II. Of Difeafes. CHAP. XII. Of the Knowledge and Cure of Difeafes 135 CHAP. Xlll. Fevers In general 140 CHAP. XIV, Of intermitting Fevers or Agues 147 CHAP. XV. Of an acute continual Fever 157 CHAP. XVI. Of the Pleurify 163 — Ballard ditto 169 —Paraphrenitis 170 CHAP. XVII. Inflammation of the Lungs 171 CHAP. XVIII. Of Confumptions 174 CHAP. XIX. Of the Slow or Nervous Fever 188 CHAP. XX. Malignant, Putrid, or Spotted Fever - ' - i95 C H A P. XXI. Miliary Fever 205 CHAP. xxri. Remitting Fever 210