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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    ibrmity, ibid. Why they so frequently die of convulsions, 35. Why exposed to fevers, ibid. And colds, 3d. Rules for their dress, ibid. Their food, 37. Reflections on the many evils they are exposed to, 471. Why their first disorders are in their bowels, ibid. How to cleanse their bowels, 472. The meconium, 473. Thrush, ibid, Aci- dities, 474. Gripes, 475. Galling and excoriations, 476. Stoppage of the nose, ibid. Vomiting, 477. Looseness, 478. Eruptions, 479. Scabbed-heads, 4§0. Chilblains, 4S.1. The croup, ibid. Teething, 4S3. Rickets, 485. Convulsions, 4S8.' Water in the head, 4yu. How to recover infants seemingly dead, 533. Ought never to sleep in the same bed with their mothers or nurses, 537, note. Case of the re- covery of an overlaid infant, ibid. Case of an infant killed by a strong convulsion fit, and recovered, 539. See Children, if action, th.e danger of, incurred by injudicious or unnecessary attendance on the sick, 112. And on funerals, 113. Is often communicated, by clothes, ibid. Is frequently imported, 114. Is spread by hospitals and jails being situated in the middle of populous towns, ibid. How to pie- vent infection in sick chambers, 115. Physicians liable to spread infec- tion, ibid. note. In what respects the spreading of infection might be checked by the magistrate, ibid. Bleeding and purging increase the y danger of, by debilitating the body, 193. Small-pox, 201. Of the small-pox may be received again, 205, note, inflammations, how the laborious part of mankind expose themselves to, 60^ Proper treatment of, 495. inflammation, of the bladder. See Bladder. . of the brain. See Brain. ~ of the eyes. See Eyes. , _ of the intestines. See Intestines. of the kidnies. See Kidmes. — of the liver. See Liver. of the lungs. See Peripnewnomj. of the stomach. See Stomach. of the throat. See ^uinsey. of the w omb. See Womb. Infusions, advantages of, over decoctions, 584. _ How to obtain rich in- t fusions from weak vegetables, ibid. Preparation of the bitter infusion, ibid. Infusion of the bark, ibid. Infusion of carduus, 5S5. Of lin- seed, ibid. Of roses, ibid. Of tamarinds and senna, ibid. Spanish in- fusion, 5S6. For the palsy, ibid. rnns, 'the^reat danger of meeting with damp beds in them, 131. The sheets in, how treated to save washing, 132. Inoculation, of the small-pox, more favourably received here than in neigh- bouring countries, 212. Cannot prove of general utility while kept in the hands of a few, ibid. No mystery in the process, ibid. May safely he performed by parents or nurses, 213. Various methods of doing it, ibid. The clergy exhorted to remove the prejudices against the opera- tion, 215. Arguments cited from Dr M‘Kenzie in favour of inocula- tion, ibid. note. Ought to be rendered universal, 217. Means of ex- tending the practice of, ibid. 1 wo obstacles to the progress of, stated, 219. Might be performed by clergymen, or by parents themselves,