The family physician; or, Domestic medical friend : containing plain and practical instructions for the prevention and cure of diseases, according to the newest improvements and discoveries; with a series of chapters on collateral subjects; comprising every thing relative to the theory and principles of the medical art, necessary to be known by the private practitioner; the whole adapted to the use of those heads of families who have not had a classical or medical education / by Alexander Thomson, M.D.

  • Thomson, Alexander, M.D.
Date:
1801
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Credit: The family physician; or, Domestic medical friend : containing plain and practical instructions for the prevention and cure of diseases, according to the newest improvements and discoveries; with a series of chapters on collateral subjects; comprising every thing relative to the theory and principles of the medical art, necessary to be known by the private practitioner; the whole adapted to the use of those heads of families who have not had a classical or medical education / by Alexander Thomson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    543 generally taken in too small cmantity, 197. Directions relative to its use, ibid. Asparagus, its quality, 47. Promotes urine, ibid. J.'iLuma, distinguished into humoural and nervous, 271. Description of' tire paroxysm, 272. Causes of, ibid. J leatment ol, 273. V\ hen dependant on some other dis- ease, ibid. Means of prevention, 274. Atmosphere. See Air. Atrophy, or nervous consumption, its causes and symptoms, 20S. Method of cure, 203, 209. B. Adm, its virtues and use, 117. Ailsams, artificial, how to prepare, 492. Anodyne baL* , sa”> ]‘ . Locate!ii\s balsam, ib. Vulnerary balsam, 493. andages, tight, highly prejudicial in fractured bones, 361. Peruvian, different kinds of, 417. The mod effica- cious remeuy in intermittent fevers, 133. Serviceable ?'S° 1,1 remittent fevers, during the remission, 149. And m continued fevers of the nervous and putrid kind, 141. M-4. Howto be given in the ague, 153. When the siomach cannot bear it, it may be given in the form of a clyster, 154. Directions for this purpose, ibid. A powerful medicine in the malignant sore throat, 180. In the hooping-cough, 108. Of great advantage in the confluent small-pox, 1 16. Employed with success in the acute rueurnattsm, 292. A powerful remedy in gangrenes, scrofula, and various other disorders, 41S. ^ Useful to persons recovering from diseases, ibid. irley water, preparation of, orenness in women, general causes of, 330. Means of removing, 33 1. dh, cold, a powerful strengthener of the body, 68 The unnTu U69W70h 'T exPbh.’e,d-. Directions for r.fe c ^ Cases in which it is improper, 70. Be- Jieni of the shower-bath, ibid. Very young children ought to be gradually accustomed to theAldiath, 892 in inflammation °f the weiltS;i;ic;dqiui,it>''4s- ap‘ to - ^ <>» tidlV the °f a bul,ock okmiddle age affords good and stmng nourishment, 42. Often sits upon stomach that cun digest no other kind of food, Ibid.