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.

Date:
1813
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * Chyle, A milky fluid separated from the aliment in the in- J testines, and conveyed by the absorbents into the blood to supply the waste of the animal body. Chronic, A disease whose progress is slow, in opposition to acute. . . Circulation. The motion of the blood, which is driven by the heart through the arteries, and returns by the veins. Comatose. Sleepy. Conglobate Gland. A single gland. Conglomerate. A compound gland. Contagion. Infectious matter. Cutis. The skin. Cutaneous. Of or belonging to the skin. Crisis. A certain period in the progress of a disease, from whence a decided alteration either for the better or the worse takes place, Critical. Decisive or important. Critical Days. The fourth, fifth, and seventh, ninth, eleventh, thirteenth, fourteenth, seventeenth,and twenty-first, are by some authors denominated critical days, because febrile complaints have been observed to take a decisive change at these periods. D Debility. Weakness. Delirium. A temporary disorder of the mental faculties. Diaphragm. A membrane separating the cavity of the chest from that of the belly. Diuretic. A medicine that promotes the secretion of urine. Drastic. Is applied to such purgative medicines as are violent or harsh in their operation. E Empyema. A collection of purulent matter in the cavity of the breast, Endemic. A disease peculiar to a certain district of country. Epidemic. A disease generally infectious. Exacerbation. The increase of any disease. F Faces. Excrements. Fatid. Emitting an offensive smell. Fatus. 1 he child before birth, or when born before the pro- per period, is thus termed. Flatulent. Producing wind. Fungus. Proud flesh.