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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    S.'VZ’/ injured by studying by candle-light, 72. 'Sinipies, a list of those proper to be kept for private practice, 56 2. 'Sinapisms, the general intentions of, 568. Directions for making of, ibid. Sleep, the due proportion of, not easy to fi£. 96. How to make it reirfesh- ing, 97. Complaints of the want of, chiefly made by the indolent, ibid. Heavy suppers cause uneasy nights, 98. Anxiety destructive of sleep, ibid. That in the fore-part of the night most refreshing, ibid. Early risers the longest livers, ibid. note. ■Sleeping in the sun, the danger of, 60. Small~po:c. See Pox. \ Smell, injuries to which the sense of, is liable, with the remedies applicable to, 405. Soap, Alicant, recommended in the stone, 294. Soap lees, howto take, ibid. Solatium. See Nightshade. Soldiers, exposed to many disorders from the hardships they undergo, 61. Ought to be employed in moderate labour in tunes of peace, ibid. note. Spine, often bent by artists working in unfavourable postures, 67. Spirit, rectified,,the direct menstruum for resins and essential oils of vege- tables, 603. Of wine, camphorated, how to prepare, 608. Spirit of MindererU's, ibid. Spirits, lowness of, the general forerunner of a nervous fever, 3 81. The proper remedies for, 391. Cautions to persons under this complaint, ibid. Spirituous liquors, when good in the colic, 265. And for gouty complaints in the stomach, 323.' Should be avoided by all persons afflicted with nervous disorders, 372. I he use of, often fatal, 595. Spitting of blood. See Blood. Sponge’ may be used to supply the want of agaric as a styptic, 498, note. Its use in extracting substances stopped in the gullet,.520. Sports, active, far more wholesome than sedentary amusements, 95., Golf, a better exercise than cricket, ibid. note. Spots in the eye, how to treat, 402.- Squinting, how to correct the habit of, ibid. Stays, a ridiculous and pernicious article of female dress, 36. 100. i he wearing of, tends to produce cancers in the breasts, 408. Sternutatories, preparations of, recommended for restoring lost smell, 40:.u Sticking-plaster is the best application for slight wound, 498. Stomach exercise the best cure for disorders of, 94. Inflammation of, a disorder that calls for speedy assistance, 262. Its causes, ibid. Symptoms, 263. Regimen, ibid. Medical treatment, ibid. Pain in, its causes, 322. Remedies for, 323. Instructions for persons subject to, 324. Stone, the formation of, in tlm bladder, explained, 128. This disorder how distinguished from the gravel, 291. Causes and symptoms, ibid. ,,e- gimen 292. Medical treatment, ibid. Alicant soap and lime-water, howto take for this disorder, 293. ihe uva ursi, a remedy in plesent request for, 294. f , , loose, the benefit of, to children, 54. Proper treatment of,* when excessive, ibid. The discharge by, cannot be regular, if the mode of living be irregular, 125. One in a day generally sufficient for an adult.