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.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1807
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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bttfhnoT, Dr, his advice in the inflammation of the lungs, 167. His ad- /ice to persons troubled with costiveness, 365, note, eem'c, the effects of, on the stomach, 414. Medical treatment when he symptoms appear, ibid, s. See Manufactures, rites. See Dropsy. r’s milk, why it seldom does any good, 173. Instructions for taking : t, ibid. / inna, the different kinds of this disorder distinguished, with its causes, 358. Symptoms, ibid. RegirAen, 359. Medical treatment, 360. Re- medies proper in the moist asthma, ibid, no sphere. See Air„ /As purging vermifuge powder, preparation of, 32S. •sam's, how to prepare. Anodyne balsam, 565. Locatelli’s balsam, bid. Vulnerary balsam, ibid. -idages, tight, produce most of the bad consequences attending fractured cones, 512. h, Peruvian, the best antidote for sailors against disorders on a foreign mast, 34. How to. be administered in the ague. 149. Distinction be- ween the red bark and quill bark, 150, note. A decoction, or infusion )t, may be taken by those who cannot swallow it in substance, 151. Is often adulterated, ibid. note. Is the only medicine to be depended on n agues, 153. How it may be rendered more palatable, ibid. May be administered by clyster, 154. Cold water the best menstruum for ex- acting the virtues of this drug, 177. How to be administered,in the jutrid fever, 191 \ and in the erysipelas, 132. In an inflammation of he eyes, 241. Its efficacy in a malignant quinsey, 250. In the hoop- ng cough, 262. A good medicine in vomiting, when it proceeds from veakness of the stomach, 2S5. Its efficacy in a diabetes, and how to ake it, 289. Is good against the piles, 301 \ and worms', 327. Its \se dangerous for preventing a fit of the gout, 341. A good remedy u the king’s evil, 354 ; and in the faior a lb us, 459. dey water, how made, 161. renness in women, the general causes of, 470. Course of relief, ibid. Dr Cheyne’s observations on, ibid. note, h waters, good in the gout, 342. h, cold, the good effects of, on Children, 49. Recommended to the tudious, 76. Is peculiarly excellent for strengthening the nervous sys- em, 373, Therefore should never be omitted in gleets, 436. Is good or rickety children, 4S7. Cautions concerning the improper use of, in . dults, 542—547. //, warm, of great service in an inflammation of the stomach, 264. king, a religious duty under the Judaic and Mahometan laws, 110. Is onducive to health, ibid. •r’s foot, recommended as a powerful remedy against worms, 328. s, instead ol being made up again as soon as persons rise from them, ught to be turned down and exposed to the air, SS. Bad effects of oo great indulgence in bed, 94. Damp, the danger of, 131. Soft, are njurious to the kidneys, 288, 291.