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 are added, some important observations concerning sea-bathing, and the use of the mineral waters; with many other additions / by William Buchan.

  • Buchan William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1805
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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. ... to which are added, some important observations concerning sea-bathing, and the use of the mineral waters; with many other additions / by William Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    tion, this admirable contrivance can have no effect. This part of the animal oeconomy proves to a demon- ftration the neceftity of exercife for the prefervation of health. Arguments to (hew the importance of exercife might be drawn from every part of the animal oeconomy; without exercife, the circulation of the blood cannot be properly carried on, nor the different fecretions duly performed ; without exercile, the fluids cannot be pro- perly prepared, nor the folids rendered flrong or firm. The action of the heart, the motion of the lungs, and all the vital fundtions, are greatly aflifted by exercife. But to point out the manner in which thefe effedts are produced, would lead us farther into the oeconomy of the human body, than moft of thofe for whom this trea- tife is intended would be able to follow. We (hall there- fore only add, that when exercife is negledted, none of the animal functions can be duly performed ; and when this is the cafe, the whole conftitution muff go to wreck. A good conftitution ought certainly to be our firlt object in the management of children. It lays a foun- dation for their being ufeful and happy in life: and whoever neglects it, not only fails in his duty to his offspring, but to fociety. , ' One very common error of parents, by which they hurt the conftitutions of their children, is the fending them too young to fchool. This is often done folely to prevent trouble. When the child is at fchool, he needs no keeper. Thus the fchool-mafter is made the nurfe ; and the poor child is fixed to a feat feven or eight hours a-day, which time ought to be fpent in exercife and diverfions. Sitting fo long cannot fail to produce the word effects upon the body ; nor is the mind lefs injured. Early application weakens the faculties, and often fixes in the mind an averfion to books, which continues for life *. But 1 It is undoubtedly the duty of parents to inftruft their chil- dren, at lead till they are of an age proper to take feme care of C 4 them-