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.

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    Nitre, purified, its good efFefls in a quinfey, 234- an effica“ cious remedy for the dropfy, 355* Promo^es urine and perfpira- tioh, 40Z. No/e, ulcer in, how to cure, 433. Stoppage of, in children, how to cure, 508. See Bleeding at. Nur/es, their fuperftitious prejudices in bathing of children* 27. The only certain evidence of a good one, 3t. Their ufual faults pointed out, ibid. Adminifter cordials to remedy their negleft of duty towards children, 32. Their miftaken treatment of erup- tions, ibid. And loofe ffools, 33. Are apt to conceal the dis- orders of children that arife from their own negligence, ibid. Ought to be punilhed for the misfortunes they thus occafion, ibid. Serifible, often able to difeover difeafes fooner than perfons hred to phyfic, 129. Are liable to catch the fmall-pox again from thofe they nurfe in that diforder, 208, note. Nur/ery ought to be the largeil and belt aired room in a houfe, 29. O Oats and barley, more wholefome when boiled, 628. Oatmeal, frequently made into bread, and peafants fed on it are healthy and rebuff, 629. Erroneoufly fuppofed to occafion lkin difeafes, 630. Oatmeal and milk a proper food for children, ibid. Oil, an antidote to the injuries arifing from working in mines or metals, 37. Salad oil, the belt application to the bite of a wafp or bee, 453. Camphorated, how to prepare, 685. Oils, effential, of vegecabbes, the proper menltruum for, 696. Ointment for the itch, 380. Ufe of ointments when applied to wounds and fores, 632. Preparation of yellow bafilicum, ibid.- Emollient ointment, 683. Eye ointments, ibid. Iflue ointment, ibid. Ointment of lead, ibid. Mercurial ointment, 684. Oint- ment of fulphur, ibid. Ointment for difeafes of the fkin, ibid. White ointment, ibid. See Liniment. Onions roalted, ufed by the Turks as bread, 642. Optbalmia. See Eye. Opiates, efficacious in a cholera morbus, 294. In a diabetes, 304. When proper for the head-ach, 335. Recommended for the tooth-ach, ibid. Are delufive remedies in nervous difeafes, 399. See Laudanum. Orange and lemon peel, how to candy, 668. How to preferve orange and lemon juice in the form of fyrup, 693. Ormjkirk medicine tor the bite of a mad dog, remarks on, 452, note. Oxycrate, thejmoft proper external application in a frafture, 346. Oy/lers of great fervice in confumptions, 173, note. P Painters. Se Miners. Palfy, the nature of this diforder explained, with its caufe^, 403. Medical treatment, 404. Paraphrenitis, its fymptoms and treatment, 163. , 3 B 2 Parents,