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. To which is now first added the following new treatises: sea-bathing, etc / By J. Baker.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Date:
1809
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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. To which is now first added the following new treatises: sea-bathing, etc / By J. Baker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    G. Gangrene. Mortification, Giimmata. 1 -r. , Ganglia, f ^ excrelcences. Gymnajiic. Exercife taken with a view to preferve or re- ftore health.—The ancient phyficians reckoned this an important branch of medicine, H, He£iic Fever, A flow confuming fever, generally attending a bad habit of body, or fome incurable and deep root- ed difeafe. Hamorrhoids, The piles. Hemorrhage, Difcha'rge of blood. Hypochondriacifm. Eow fpirits. Hypochondriac VIfcera. The liver, fpleen, &c, fo termed from their fituation in the hypochondria or upper and lateral parts of the belly, I. Ichor. Thin bad matter. Jmpodhume. A collection of purulent matter. Inflammation. A furcharge of blood, and an increafed action of the vefTels, in any particular part of the body, L. Ligature- Bandage, Lixivium. Ley. M. Miliary Eruption. Eruption of fmall pultules refembling the feeds of millet. Morbific. Caufing difeafe, or difeafed. Mucus, The matter difehargeJ from the nofe, lungs, &c; Myjentery. A double membrance which connects the in- teflines to the back bone. N, Nervous. Irritable, N.uf a. An inclination to vomit. Nodes. l^.nLrgement of the bones produced by the venereal difeafe. P. Pelioral. Medicines adapted to cure difeafes of the breaft. Pelvis. The bones ficuated at the lower p.irt of the trunk; thus named from their refembling in fome meafure » bafon.