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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    Apparel. See Clothing. Appetite, want of, causes and remedies for, 377. Arbuthnot, Dr., liis advice in the inflammation of the lun«s, 157. His advice to persons troubled with costiveness, 376, note.° Arsenic, the effects of, on the stomach, 428. Medical treatment when the symptoms appear, ibid. Arts. See Manufactures. Ascites. See Dropsy. Asses milk, why it seldom does any good, 163. Instructions for taking it, ibid. Asthma, the different kinds of this disorder distinguished, with its causes, 368. Symptoms, ibid. Regimen, 369. Medical treatment, ibid. Remedies proper in the moist asthma, 370. Atmosphere. See Air. B. Ball’s purging vermifuge powder, preparation of, 334. Bandages, tight, produce most of the bad consequences attending fractured bones, 533. Bark, Peruvian, the best antidote for sailors against disorders on a foreign coast, 41. How to be administered in the ague, 139. Distinction between the red bark and quill bark, ibid, note. A decoction or infusion of, may be taken by those who cannot swallow it in substance, 140. It is often adulterated, ibid, note. Is the only medicine to be depended on in agues, 142. How it may be rendered more palatable, ibid. May be administered by clyster, 143. Cold water the best menstruum for extracting the virtues of this drug, 168. How to be administered in the putrid fever, 184; and in the eiysipelas, 230. In an inflam- mation of the eyes, 239. Its efficacy in a malignant quinsey, 250. In the hooping cough, 262. A good medicine in vomit- ing, when it proceeds from weakness of the stomach, 2S8. Its efficacy in a diabetes, and how to take it, 291. Is good against the piles, 304, and worms, 333. Its use dangerous for prevent- ing a fit of the gout, 348. A good remedy in the king’s evil, 362, and in the fluor albus, 476. Barley-wnter, how made, 151 • Barrenness in women, the general causes of, 487. Course of re- lief, ibid. Dr. Cheyne's observations on, ibid, note. Bath waters good in the gout, 349. , cold, the good effects of on children, 27. Recommended to the studious, 55. Is peculiarly excellent for strengthening the nervous system, 384. Therefore should never be omitted in gleets, 451. Is good for rickety children, 507. Apoplexies frequently occasioned by the improper use of, 558. Absurd prejudices against it, ibid. Nothing tends more to permanent health. 559. A single plunge or dip sufficient ; continuing too long in it dangerous, ibid. Morning the properest time for bath- ing, ibid. Sea water preferable to river water, 560. Rules to be observed in the use of, ibid, 561; Swellings of the glands,