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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    4 618 Of R U'PT UR Ess. Ir any fymptoms of a gangrene or mortifica- tion appear, as a black, pale, or livid colour of the parts, &c. the patient muft have immediate recourfe to the bark, a dram of which mutt be taken every, two or three hours. The part mult alfo be {carified, and fomented with a {trong decoction of the bark, or camomile flow- ers; to which fome fpirit of fea-falt, or ftrong vinegar, may be added. As whitlows and mortifications of the extre- mities are often the effects of violent cold, we would advife people who have been expofed to an exceflive degree of it, if their hands or feet are greatly benumbed, to wafh them in cold wa- ter, or rub them, for fome time with fnow, and to keep at a diftance from the fire. This would not only prevent whitlows, but is the only me- thod of refloring frozen limbs, and of prevent: ing a mortification from extreme cold. OF RU PT.U RES. Tuts difeafe happens moft frequently to chil- dren and old people. Men are greatly more li- able to it than women, efpecially thofe who are naturally of a weak and relaxed habit. In in- fants it is generally occafioned by exceflive cry- ing, violent coughing, repeated efforts to vo- mit, &c. In adults it is commonly the effect of blows, violent exertions of the firength, as leap- ing, carrying great weights, &c An oily or ve- ry moift diet, by inducing a general relaxation of