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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    €}hild~hed fever. See Fever, Child-birth, the season of, requires due care after the labour pains are over, 480. Medical advice to women in labour, 481. Ill effecls of collecting a number of women on such occasions, ib. note. How to guard against the miliary fever, 483. Symp. tnms of the puerperal fever, ibid. Proper treatment ofiliis fe; ver, 4S4. General cautions for women at this season, 4S6. Instructions respecting, 589. Women much better calculated than men to assist in deliveries, ib. The use of instruments too often fatal, ib. British ladies’ institution for the instruction of female mid wives, SQO, note. Instructions to nurses during labour, 5,91*—593. Children, their diseases generally acute, and delay dangerous, 5. Their disorders less complicated and easier cured than those of adults, 6. Are often the heirs of the diseases of their pa- rents, ib. Those born of diseased parents require peculiar care in the nursing, 8. Are often killed or deformed by injudicious clothing, 9, How treated in Africa, 10, note. The usual cau - ses ofdeformity in explained, ib. Their clothes ought to be fastened on with strings, 12. General rule for clothing them, 13. Cleanliness an important article in their dress, 14. Tlie milk of the mother the most natural food for, ib. Absurdity of giving them drags as their first food, 15. The best method of expelling the meconium, ib. How they ought to be weaned from the breast, 16. A crust of bread the best gum-stick for theni, ib. How to prepare bread in their food, ib. Cautions as to giving them animal food, 17. Cautions as to the quaniitv of their food, ib. Errors in the quality of their food more fre- quent than in the quantity, 18. The food of adults improper for children, ib. Strong liquors expose them to inflammatory disorders, ib. Ill effects of unripe fruit, ib. Butter^ 19. Ho- ney, a wholesome article of food for them, ibid. The import- ance of exercise to promote theif growth and strength, 20. Rules for their exercise, 21. Poverty of parents occasions their neglect of children, 22. The utility of e.xefcise demon- strated from the organical structure of children, ib. Philoso- phical arguments shewing the necessity of exercise, 23. Ouglit not to be sent to school too soon, ib. Nor to put too soon to labour, 26. Dancing an excellent exercise for them, 27. The cold bath, ib. Want of wholesome air destructive to children,28. To wrap them up close in cradles pernicious, 29. Are treated like plants in a hot-house, 30. The usual faulty conduct of nurses pointed out, 31.' Arc crammed vvith cordials by indolent nurses, ib. Loose stools, the proper treatment of, 33. Every method ought to be taken to make them strong and hardy, ib. Indications ot the small-pox in, 196. Chin-cough. Set Cough. . ^ ^ Cholera morbus, the disorder defined, with its causes and symp- toms, 281. Medical treatment, 283. Churches, the several circumstances Umt render the air in un* wliolesoiue, 68.