The new 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 is now first added, memoirs of the life of Dr. Buchan : and important extracts from other works, particularly his Advice to mothers, ... / by William Buchan.

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1813
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    but of those who have the management of them. It were to be wished, that they were both more numerous and upon a more respectable footing, as that would in- duce people to go into them with less reluctance. This is the more to be desired, because most of the putrid fevers, and other infectious disorders, break out among the poor, and are by them communicated to the better sort. Were proper attention paid to the first appear- ance of such disorders, and the patients early conveyed to an hospital, we should seldom see a putrid fever, which is almost as infectious as the plague, become epidemic. From the preceding observations it may be inferred, that the frequent and unnecessary visits made, espe^ ciaily by country people, to their friends and neigh- bours, when in fevers, may be, and frequently are, attended with the worst and most fatal consequences. T he sick person is thus incommoded, and the ill-judged officiousness of the visitors are often attended with the worst consequences. The infection is carried into other families, and spread far and wide. Here, in cases of epidemical diseases, the servants of a family should never be suffered to act as attendants on the patient^ but proper nurses be hired on purpose. CHAP. X. OF TIIE PASSIONS. THE passions have great influence both in the cause and cure of diseases. How the mind affects the body will, in all probability, ever remain a secret. It is suffi- cient for us to know, that there is established a reciprocal influence between the mental and corporeal parts; and that whatever injures the one disorders the other. Of Anger. The passion of anger ruffles the mind, distorts the countenance, hurries on thfe circulation of the blood.