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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    I D E nefits of dancing, 21. Is better for sedentary persons unde;' lovvnessof spirits than the tavern, 48. Gardeningthe best ex- ercise for tlie sedentary, 49. Violent, ought not to be taken immediately after a full meal, 55. Isas ne'cessarVaslooffor the preservation of health, 73. Our love of activity, an evi' dence of its utility, 74. Indolence rela.xes the solids, ibid -The indulgence of carriages as absurd as pernicious ibid Is most the only cure for grandular obstructions, 75 Will pre- vent and remove those disorders that medicine cannot cure ibid. Is the best cure for complains in the stomach, ibid' How to be taken within doors, when not to be done in the* open mr 77. Active sports better than sedentary amusement, ibid. The golf, a better exercise than cricket, ibii note Exer- cise should not be extended to fatigue. 78. Is often of more efficacy than any medicine whatever, 127. The best mode of taking It in a consumption, 162. Is of the greatest importance in a dropsy, 341. Muscular, for the gout. 349. Is neces.-=arv for the asthmatic, 369. Is superior to all medicine in ner- vous disorders, 383. And in the palsy, 391. Is proper for of a very delic>ate texture 480. Want of, the occasion of the rickets in children 505 * Eyes, inflammation of, its general causes, 236- Symptoms 237 Medical treatment, 23i. How to be treated when it proceeds from a a scrophulous habit, 239. Advice to those who are subject to this complaint, ibid. Are subject to many diseases which are difficult to cure, 412. The means by which they are frequently injured, ibid. General means of preventions ibid The several disorders of, with their medical treaimeut, ’ibid.’ F. Fainting Jits,how to cure, 399, 546. Cautions to persons' subject to them, ibid. Bleeding dangerous in, 547. Falling sickness. See Epilepsy. Fasting, long, injurious to those who labour hard, 43. Is liuriful both to old and young, 66. Fathers, culpably inattenliveto the management of their children, 5. Their iiregular lives often injure the consitutiou of ibeir children, 7, Fear, the influence of, very great, in occasioning and aggrava- ting diseases, 106. Its various operations, 107. °° J^eet, injured by wearing tight shoes, 86. The washina- of an agre«ible article of cleanliness, 99. Wei, the danger of, 120. Bathing them in warm water, a good remedir in a cold And in the hooping cough, 262. ‘u, i. Fermentation, the vapour of lirjuors, in a state of, noxiou.s, 542. Fevers, of a bad kind, often occasioned among labourers by poor Jiving, 45. Frequently attack sedentary persons after hard drinking, 47. Nervous, often the consequence of intense study ^2. Putrid and malignant, often occasioned by want of clean- liness, 94. The most general causes of enumerated, 130. The