Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : containing observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, with instructions for performing the operation, an essay, enabling puptured [sic] persons to manage themselves, with engravings of bandages, which every person may prepare for himself, and a family herbal / by William Buchan, M.D. of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh ; to which are added, such useful discoveries ... as have transpired since the demise of the author.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1823
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Credit: Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : containing observations on the comparative advantages of vaccine inoculation, with instructions for performing the operation, an essay, enabling puptured [sic] persons to manage themselves, with engravings of bandages, which every person may prepare for himself, and a family herbal / by William Buchan, M.D. of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh ; to which are added, such useful discoveries ... as have transpired since the demise of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I he natural heat of the nurse cannot fail to augment the fever of llie child ; but if she too proves feverish, which is often the case, ttu danger must be increased. • r . i I have known a nurse, who had the small-pox before so mfected by lying constantly in bed with a child ui a bad kmd of sma 1-pox^ that she had not only a great number of pustules, which broke out all over her body, but afterwards a maliguant fever which terminat- ed in a number of impostumes or biles, and from which she narrowly escaped witli her life. We mention this, to put others upon tlieir guard against the danger of this virulent infection. Laving several children who have the small-pox, m the same bed. has many ill consequences. They ought if possible, never to be in the same chamber, as the perspiration, the hea . the smell, &c. all tend to augment the fever, and to heighten the disease. It is com- mon among the poor, to see two or three children lying m the same bed. with such a load of pustules, that even their skins stick toge- ther One can hardly view a scene of this kmd without bemg sick- ened by the sight. But how must the effluvia affect the poor pa- tients, many of whom perish by this usage !! Thi obse^ation is likewise applicable to hospitals work-houses.&c wherenumbers of children happen to have thesmall-pox at Oie sa™e time. I have seen above forty children cooped up in one apartment all the while they had the disease, without any of them being admitted to breach the frlsh air. No one can be at a loss to the |mpro^^^^^^^^ of such conduct. It ought to be a rule. only'° ^^^l^/ /X^^^^ small-pox. but likewise for other diseases This is a matter to which too litUe Regard is paid. In most hospitals and mfirmaries, the sick, the dying and the dead, are often to be seen in the same apartment A ve4 dirty custom prevails among the lower class of people, ot aldinTchildL in theWpox. ^o^eep on Uie sa^^^^^^^^^^^^ the whole period of that loathsome disease. This is done est tney LTd catc^ cold; but it has many.ill -nsequeoces.^^^^^^^^ comes hard by the moisture which it absorbs, and trets the tenaer kTn It HkewYse occasions abad smell, which is very pernicious.^^^^^^^^ ^tissiMn^t ^r:dtobed^ ■ ^'''h:mTScc .0 tot^^^^^ huve seen fZ, «o.nea tnj Uiem m the U-P; ^fXh, ,beir arms eovered ivill. (he pu^ K ;:^it»idtn Sl'neof .hes.eW.areo died b,.h,s