Lectures on diet and regimen : being a systematic inquiry into the most rational means of preserving health and prolonging life : together with physiological and chemical explanations, calculated chiefly for the use of families, in order to banish the prevailing abuses and prejudices in medicine / by A. F. M. Willich, M.D.

  • Willich, A. F. M. (Anthony Florian Madinger)
Date:
1799
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Credit: Lectures on diet and regimen : being a systematic inquiry into the most rational means of preserving health and prolonging life : together with physiological and chemical explanations, calculated chiefly for the use of families, in order to banish the prevailing abuses and prejudices in medicine / by A. F. M. Willich, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PACE Cautions how to place children in bed -621, 62 z The phenomenon of fneezing explained - - 623 Of the Senfe of Hearing - - -624—628 . mechanifm of this fenfe - - 625—628 A better fubftitute than the common ear-trumpets fuggefted - - - - 627 Of the fenfe of Smell and its mechanifm - 628—63 r Of the different fize of the nerves in man and animals 629 On the improvement of the fenfe of Smell - 630 Anecdote of Leon hard Zollikofer's dog - 631 Of the fenfe of Tafte, its mechanifm and funftions 631—633 Remarks on animal motion, or mufcular adtion - 634 Summary of the powers inherent in the human body tb. Defcription of a Mufcle ;—their number in human and animal bodies ; their peculiar ftructure and power ----- 634—637 Account of the bur/a mucofie - - 638 - - ■ ■ the blood and its conftituent parts - 63S, 639 Concluding remarks on the variety of Tempera- ments ... 639, 640 Chap. XII. On the treatment and pre~ fervation of the Eyes - 641—-672 I. On the importance of beftowing proper care on thefe . organs - 641, 642 II. Of Short-fightednefs, and the revcrfe - 642—646 Directions for preventing fhort-fightednefs in chil- dren - 643, 644. for the ufe of concave fpeclacles - 645 Of Far-fightednefs in particular - - 645, 646 III. General Rules for the prefervation of the Eyes 646—648 IV. Of the conduct to be obferved in weak eyes 649 — 660 On the ufe of Candles—the moft proper Screens de- fcribed - 650, 651 How to manage the Eyes in the morning - 651 1 — in writing and reading 651—65 3 The bed fituation of a fitting-room - - 653, 654 a Dcflc pointed out - - 654 Cautions relative to the expofurcof the eyes to candle- light and objects ftrongly illumined - - 655 9 Cautions