Medical cautions, chiefly for the consideration of invalids : containing essays on Fashionable diseases, The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, An enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, On quacks, quack medicines, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged / published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath by James Makittrick Adair.

  • Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.
Date:
1787
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Credit: Medical cautions, chiefly for the consideration of invalids : containing essays on Fashionable diseases, The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, An enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, On quacks, quack medicines, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged / published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath by James Makittrick Adair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Humours, morbid, their nature and caufes not well undcr- ftood, 284. Hypochondriacs, advice and caution to them, 124, &c Jaundice, why not an effect of abundant bile, 25, 26. Inanition, what, 151. Invalids, who deemed fuch, 319. Why often difappointed in the ufe of mineral waters,.65, he. Imaginary, ufeful cautions to them, 123, &c. 32 r. Why they ought to ftudy principles of regimen, 129. Ufeful hints to them, 307, 309. Regimen of diet adapted to them, 323, &c. Breakfaft, ib. Dinner, 328, &c. 330, 352, 354. Supper, remarks on, 331. Their drinks, ib. Why change of climate necelTary for them, 384. Climate moft proper, ib. Clothing adapted to them, 392, hc- Bed warming why injurious, 397. Exercife beft adapted to them, 407, &c. To the gouty, 408. Why their appetites and paffions to be regulated, 422, &c. IJJiies, and other drains, danger of drying them up, 491. Kindnefs, who may be faid to be killed by it, 305. Ladies, fafhionable, why they cannot be fubjedt to bile, 32. Literary, qualified to fill profeflbr's chairs, 108, note. Bountiful, their rife and decline, 108, he. 207, 224. Lady Dotlors, why more refpe£table practitioners than quacks, 105. Definition of them and Gentlemen Doc- tors, 106. Succeflbrs of the Lady Bountifuls, ib. The degree of their medical knowledge, 106. When diffi- dent of their (kill, ib. note. Why not fo ufeful as their predecefibrs, no. Their apologies for practice confi- dered and refuted, in, &c. Why the means of ac- quiring their knowledge inadequate, 126. Domeftic > Medicine,