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:
1794
Catalogue details

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.

    47/804
    CON T ENT S PART I. Of the general Caufes of Difeafes. CHAP. i. QF Children Difeafed Parents Page 1 7 —Clothing of Children 9 —Food of ditto 15 —Exercile of ditto 21 —Bad effects of unwholefotne Air upon ditto 3° —Nurfes - - 33 CHAP. II. Of the Laborious, &c. 37 —the Sedentary 47 —the Studious 54 CHAP. in. Of Aliment - 62 CHAP. IV. Of Air 75 CHAP. V. Of Exercife 81 CHAP. VI. Of Sleep 87 —Clothing 89 CHAP. VII. Of Intemperance 94 CHAP. VIII. Of Cleaniinefs .100 C H A P. IX. Of Infe&ion 106 CHAP. X. Of the Pafiions 111 •—Anger 112 —Fear ib. —Grief 116 —Love 119 —Religious Melancholy 120 CHAP. XI. Of the common Evacuations —Stool 121 ib. Of Urine - - Page 123 —Perfpiration - 125 — being affected by Changes in the Atmofphere - 126 —Wet Clothes - 127 —Wet Feet * - jb. -r-Night Air - 128 —Damp Beds - ib. —DampHoufeS - 130 —Sudden Tranfuions from JHeat to Cold - 131 PART II. Of Difeafes. CHAP. XII. Of the Knowledge and Cure of Difeafes - l35 CHAP. XJ 11. Fevers in general - 140 CHAP. XIV. Of intermitting Fevers or Agues - *47 CHAP XV. Of an acute continual Fever J57 CHAP. xvi. Of the Pleursly - 163 Baftard ditto - 169 — -Paraphrenitis - 170 CHAP. XVII. Inflammation of the Lungs 171 c H A P. XVIII. Of Confumptions - 174. C H AP. XIX. Of the Slow or Nervous Fever 1 SB C H A ,P. XX. Malignant, Putrid, or Spotted Fever - - 195 CHAP. XXI. Miliary Fever - 205 CHAP. XXII. Remitting Fever 210