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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    60 OF RUPTURES, decoction, with a large fpoonfui of butter and a little falt, may be afterwards thrown up. If thefe fhould not prove fucceisiul, recourie muft be had to preflure. If the tumour be very hard, confiderable force will be neceflary ; but it is not force alone which fucceeds here. The operator, at the fame time that he makes a preflure with the palms of his hands, mutt _ with his fingers conduét the gut im by the fame aperture- thro’ which it came out. The man- ner of doing this can be much eafier conceived than defcribed. Should all theie endeavours prove ineffectual, clyfters of the fmoke of to- bacco muft be tried Thefe have been often known to fucceed where every other method failed. | | An adult, after the gut has been returned, _ muft wear a fleel-bancdage. It is needlets to de: {cribe thefe, as they are only to be had from the ’artiftS who make them. ‘They are generaily uneafy to the wearer for fome time, but by cu- ficm they become quite eafy. No perfon who has had a rupture, after he arrived at man’s eftate, fhould ever be without one of thefe ban- dages, | 7 Persons who have a rupture ought carefully | to avoid all violent exercife, carrying great weights. leaping, running, and the like. They fhould likewife avoid windy aliment and ftron liquors; and fhould carefully guard saint catching cold. Or