Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan, M.D. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1790
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    Houfes, inftead of contrivances to make them clofe and warm, ought to be regularly ventilated, 78. In marftiy fituations un- wholefome, 80. Ought to be built in a dry fitnation, 130. Danger of inhabiting new-built houfes before thoroughly dry, ibid. Are often rendered damp by unfeafonable cleanlinefs, ibid. Are dangerous when kept too clofe and hot, 133. Hujbandmen, the peculiar diforders they are expofed to, from the viciflitudes of the weather, 40. Huxham, Dr. recommends the ftudy of the dietetic part of me- dicine, xiii. Hydrocephalus. See Dropjy. Hydrophobia, Dr. Tiflbt's method of curing, 484. Hydrops pecloris. See Drop/y. Hypochondriac affeclions, frequently produced by intenfe ftudy, 58. Their caufes, and who moft fubjedt to them, 452. The general intentions of cure, ibid. Regimen, 454. Hyjlerics, a diforder produced by the habitual ufe of tea, 66. General caulks of, 447. Symptoms, 448. Proper treatment of, ibid. Regimen, 419. Medicines adapted to, 450. Hyjleric colic, fymptoms and treatment of, 299. Jails, why malignant fevers are often generated in them, 77. Often fpread infection by being fituated in the middle of po- pulous towns, 108. Ought to be removed, 110. Janin, M. his relation of the recovery of an overlaid infant, 627. And of a man who had hanged himfelf, 6z8. Jaundice, the different ftages of its appearance, with the caufes of this diforder, 370, 371. Symptoms and regimen, 371. Medical treatment, 372. JefuitU Bark. See Bark. Jews, the whole fyftem of their laws tending to promote clean- linefs, 103. 107. Iliac pajjlon, a particular kind of inflammation of the inteftines, Impofthume in thebreajl, in confumptrons, how to make it break inwardly, when not to be difcharged by other means, 185. Impofthumes after the fmall-pox, proper treatment of, 227. Incontinency of urine, diftinguifhed from a diabetes, 322. Expe- dient for relief, ibid. Indigcftion, is one confequence of intenfe ftudy, 56. General caufes, and remedies for, 416. Indolence, its bad effedson the conftitution, 82. Occafions glan- dular obftruftions, 83. I!l confequences of too much indul- gence in bed, 84. Is the parent of vice, 86. Is the general caufe of molt nervous diforders, 455. . Infancy, the foundation of a good or bad conthtution, generally laid i'ji this feafoh of life, F. > '' . . , . Infants nearly one half of thofe born in Great Britain die under