Domestic medicine; or, the family physician; being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases. Chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines / [William Buchan].

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1769
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Credit: Domestic medicine; or, the family physician; being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases. Chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines / [William Buchan]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    we muft conclude this article by recommend- ing the practice of that virtue to people of all tations and conditions in life. We do not in- deed pretend to rank cleanlinefs amongift the cardinal virtues ; but we would recommend it as ~neceflary for fupporting the dignity of human nature, as ufeful'and agreeable to fociety, and as highly conducive to health, INTEMPERANCE A modern author * obferves, that temperance and exercife are the two beft phyficians in the world. He might have added, that if thefe were duly regarded, there would be little occafion for any other. Temperance may Jjuftly be call- ed the parent of health ; but numbers of man- kind aét as if they thought difeafes and death too flow in their progrefs, and by intemperance and debauch feem, as it were, to follicit their ap- proach. Tue danger of intemperance appears from the very conftruction of the human body. Health depends on that ftate of the folids and duids which fits them for the due performance of the vital funétions ; and fo long as thefe go regular- ly on, we are found and well; but whatever difturbs them, neceflarily impairs health. Intem- perance never fails to diforder the whole animal ceconomy ; # Roufleaw.