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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    Medicine acl, impolicy of, 95. A fubftitute propofed, Preface p. xii. note. Medicines, abfurdity of taking them as preventives, 15, &c. Whether, proper with mineral waters, 64. Why ne- ceffary fometimes, 73. Danger of ufing them on flight occafions, 111, &c. Difference between them and diet, 113, 148. General rules for ufing them, 519. MH its properties, 193. Whey, its qualities, 194. Probably the only animal food in the earlieft ages, 268. Why a ufeful part of alterative diet, 377. When butter-milk and whey preferable, 378. Narcotics, remarks on: fee Opium. Nations, different, diverfity of their foods, 267, &c. Naufeatives, what, and their operation, 49 r. Nervous Difcafes, when fafhionable, 14. Regimen in, 318, &c. Nonnaturals, what, 141. Effay upon, 381. Noji rum-mongers: fee Empirics. No/irums, generally ftolen from regular practice. Evidence of it, ib. Some very powerful, and therefore dangerous when unfkilfully adminiftered, 86, &c. Often bad in their kind, ib. Inftances of their dangerous effects, 95, &c. How far they may be fanctioned by law, 103. Nourijhment, conveyed in different ways, 150. Novelty of Practice, how dangerous to phyficians, 523. Opium, remarks on its medical ufes, 472, &c. Parents, caution to, 52. Paffions, excefs of, why injurious, 420. How to be re* gulated, 421 ♦ Peppers,