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, M.D.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1807
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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, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    /ise by the particles of metal which adhere to their skin, lothes, &c. These are absorbed, or taken up into the ody, and occasion palsies, vertigoes, and other nervous Sections, which often prove fatal. Fallopius observes, lat those who work in mines of mercury seldom live a- ove three or four years. Lead, and several other metals* *e likewise very pernicious to the health. Miners ought never to go to work fasting* nor to con- nue too long at work. Their food ought to be nourish- ;g, and their liquor generous ; nothing more certainly .irts them than living too low. They should by all means roid costiveness. This may either be done by chewing little rhubarb, or taking a sufficient quantity of sallad 1. Oil not only opens the body, but sheaths and defends e intestines from the ill effects of the metals* All who Drk in mines or metals ought to wash carefully, and to iange their clothes as soon as they give over working athing would tend more to preserve the health of such oplethan a strict* and almost religious regard to cleanli- i^SS* Plumbers, painters, gilders, smelters* makers of white d, and many others who work in metals, are liable to ; same diseases as miners, and ought to observe the same ections for avoiding them. Tallow-chandlers, boilers of oil* and all who work in tnd animal substances, are likewise liable to suffer from i unwholesome smells or effluvia of these bodies. They ft to pay the same regard to cleanliness as miners * . when they are affected with nausea* sickness, or indi- - ion, we would advise them to take a vomit or a gentle ge. ouch substances ought always to be manufactured >oon as possible. When long kept* they not only be- ie unwholesome to those who manufacture them, but wise to people who live in the neighbourhood. C exceed the limits of this part of our ) ct, to specify the diseaes peculiar to persons of every upation ; we shall therefore consider mankind unde? g 013 classes of Laborious, Sedentary, and Studious* H IV.