Domestic Medicine

About this eBook

Author

Buchan, William, 1729-1805

Title

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

Original Publication

London: printed for A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1791.

Credits

Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

RC: Medicine: Internal medicine

Subject

Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 74359

Release Date

September 3, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.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.
2. 2.TO Sir JOSEPH BANKS, Bart. PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
3. 3.ADVERTISEMENT.
4. 4.PREFACE.
5. 5.INTRODUCTION.
6. 6.CONTENTS. — CONTENTS of the APPENDIX.
7. 7.PART I. OF THE GENERAL CAUSES OF DISEASES. — CHAP. I. OF CHILDREN. — Of Diseased Parents. — Of the Clothing of Children. — Of the Food of Children. — Of the Exercise of Children. — The bad Effects of unwholesome Air upon Children. — Of Nurses. — CHAP. II. OF THE LABORIOUS, THE SEDENTARY, AND THE STUDIOUS. — THE LABORIOUS. — THE SEDENTARY. — THE STUDIOUS. — CHAP. III. OF ALIMENT. — CHAP. IV. OF AIR. — CHAP. V. OF EXERCISE. — CHAP. VI. OF SLEEP AND CLOTHING. — Of Clothing. — CHAP. VII. OF INTEMPERANCE. — CHAP. VIII. OF CLEANLINESS. — CHAP. IX. OF INFECTION. — CHAP. X. OF THE PASSIONS. — Of Anger. — Of Fear. — Of Grief. — Of Love. — Of Religious Melancholy. — CHAP. XI. OF THE COMMON EVACUATIONS. — Of the Evacuation by Stool. — Of Urine. — Of the Perspiration. — Changes in the Atmosphere. — Wet Clothes. — Wet Feet. — Night Air. — Damp Beds. — Damp Houses. — Sudden Transitions from Heat to Cold.
8. 8.PART II. OF DISEASES. — CHAP. XII. OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND CURE OF DISEASES. — CHAP. XIII. OF FEVERS IN GENERAL. — CHAP. XIV. OF INTERMITTING FEVERS, OR AGUES. — CHAP. XV. OF AN ACUTE CONTINUAL FEVER. — CHAP. XVI. OF THE PLEURISY. — CHAP. XVII. OF A PERIPNEUMONY, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE LUNGS. — CHAP. XVIII. OF CONSUMPTIONS. — CHAP. XIX. OF THE SLOW OR NERVOUS FEVER. — CHAP. XX. OF THE MALIGNANT, PUTRID, OR SPOTTED FEVER. — CHAP. XXI. OF THE MILIARY FEVER. — CHAP. XXII. OF THE REMITTING FEVER. — CHAP. XXIII. OF THE SMALL-POX. — OF INOCULATION. — CHAP. XXIV. OF THE MEASLES. — OF THE SCARLET FEVER. — OF THE BILIOUS FEVER. — CHAP. XXV. OF THE ERYSIPELAS, or St. ANTHONY’S FIRE. — CHAP. XXVI. OF THE PHRENITIS, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN. — CHAP. XXVII. OF THE OPHTHALMIA, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES. — CHAP. XXVIII. OF THE QUINSEY, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE THROAT. — CHAP. XXIX. OF COLDS AND COUGHS. — OF A COMMON COUGH. — OF THE HOOPING-COUGH, OR CHIN-COUGH. — CHAP. XXX. INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH, AND OTHER VISCERA. — INFLAMMATION OF THE INTESTINES. — OF THE COLIC. — INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS. — INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER. — INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER. — CHAP. XXXI. OF THE CHOLERA MORBUS, AND OTHER EXCESSIVE DISCHARGES FROM THE STOMACH AND BOWELS. — OF A DIARRHŒA, or LOOSENESS. — OF VOMITING. — CHAP. XXXII. OF THE DIABETES, AND OTHER DISORDERS OF THE KIDNEYS AND BLADDER. — OF A SUPPRESSION OF URINE. — OF THE GRAVEL AND STONE. — CHAP. XXXIII. OF INVOLUNTARY DISCHARGES OF BLOOD. — OF BLEEDING AT THE NOSE. — OF THE BLEEDING AND BLIND PILES. — SPITTING OF BLOOD. — VOMITING OF BLOOD. — OF BLOODY URINE. — OF THE DYSENTERY, OR BLOODY FLUX. — CHAP. XXXIV. OF THE HEAD-ACH. — OF THE TOOTH-ACH. — OF THE EAR-ACH. — PAIN OF THE STOMACH, &c. — CHAP. XXXV. OF WORMS. — CHAP. XXXVI. OF THE JAUNDICE. — CHAP. XXXVII. OF THE DROPSY. — CHAP. XXXVIII. OF THE GOUT. — OF THE RHEUMATISM. — CHAP. XXXIX. OF THE SCURVY. — OF THE SCROPHULA, OR KING’S EVIL. — OF THE ITCH. — CHAP. XL. OF THE ASTHMA. — CHAP. XLI. OF THE APOPLEXY. — CHAP. XLII. OF COSTIVENESS, AND OTHER AFFECTIONS OF THE STOMACH AND BOWELS. — WANT OF APPETITE. — OF THE HEART-BURN. — CHAP. XLIII. OF NERVOUS DISEASES. — OF MELANCHOLY. — OF THE PALSY. — OF THE EPILEPSY, OR FALLING SICKNESS. — OF THE HICCUP. — CRAMP OF THE STOMACH. — OF THE NIGHT-MARE. — OF SWOONINGS. — OF FLATULENCIES, OR WIND. — OF LOW SPIRITS. — OF HYSTERIC AFFECTIONS. — OF HYPOCHONDRIAC AFFECTIONS. — CHAP. XLIV. DISORDERS OF THE SENSES. — OF THE EYE. — OF THE EAR. — OF THE TASTE AND SMELL. — OF THE TOUCH. — CHAP. XLV. OF A SCIRRHUS AND CANCER. — CHAP. XLVI. OF POISONS. — OF THE BITES OF POISONOUS ANIMALS. — CHAP. XLVII. OF THE VENEREAL DISEASE. — OF THE VIRULENT GONORRHŒA. — OF GLEETS. — OF THE SWELLED TESTICLE. — OF BUBOES. — OF CHANCRES. — OF A CONFIRMED LUES. — GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. — CHAP. XLVIII. DISEASES OF WOMEN. — OF THE MENSTRUAL DISCHARGE. — OF PREGNANCY. — OF CHILD-BIRTH. — OF BARRENNESS. — CHAP. XLIX. DISEASES OF CHILDREN. — OF THE MECONIUM. — THE APHTHÆ OR THRUSH. — OF ACIDITIES. — GALLING AND EXCORIATION. — STOPPAGE OF THE NOSE. — OF VOMITING. — OF A LOOSENESS. — OF ERUPTIONS. — OF THE CROUP. — OF TEETHING. — OF THE RICKETS. — OF CONVULSIONS. — OF WATER IN THE HEAD. — CHAP. L. OF SURGERY. — OF BLEEDING. — OF INFLAMMATIONS AND ABSCESSES. — OF WOUNDS. — OF BURNS. — OF BRUISES. — OF ULCERS. — CHAP. LI. OF DISLOCATIONS. — DISLOCATION OF THE JAW. — DISLOCATION OF THE NECK. — DISLOCATION OF THE RIBS. — DISLOCATION OF THE SHOULDER. — DISLOCATION OF THE ELBOW. — DISLOCATION OF THE THIGH. — CHAP. LII. OF BROKEN BONES, &c. — OF STRAINS. — OF RUPTURES. — CHAP. LIII. OF CASUALTIES. — OF SUBSTANCES STOPT BETWEEN THE MOUTH AND STOMACH. — OF DROWNED PERSONS. — OF NOXIOUS VAPOURS. — EFFECTS OF EXTREME COLD. — EFFECTS OF EXTREME HEAT. — CHAP. LIV. OF FAINTING FITS, AND OTHER CASES WHICH REQUIRE IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE. — OF INTOXICATION. — OF SUFFOCATION AND STRANGLING· — OF PERSONS WHO EXPIRE IN CONVULSION FITS. — CHAP. LV. CAUTIONS CONCERNING COLD BATHING, AND DRINKING THE MINERAL WATERS. — Of drinking the Mineral Waters.
9. 9.APPENDIX: — CONTAINING — INTRODUCTION. — A LIST of SIMPLES, and of such MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS, as ought to be kept in readiness for private Practice. — MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS. — BALSAMS. — BOLUSES. — CATAPLASMS AND SINAPISMS. — CLYSTERS. — COLLYRIA, or EYE-WATERS. — CONFECTIONS. — CONSERVES AND PRESERVES. — DECOCTIONS. — DRAUGHTS. — ELECTUARIES. — EMULSIONS. — EXTRACTS. — FOMENTATIONS. — GARGLES. — INFUSIONS. — JULEPS. — MIXTURES. — OINTMENTS, LINIMENTS, and CERATES. — PILLS. — PLASTERS. — POWDERS. — SYRUPS. — TINCTURES, ELIXIRS, &c. — VINEGARS. — WATERS BY INFUSION, &c. — SIMPLE DISTILLED WATERS. — SPIRITUOUS DISTILLED WATERS. — WHEYS. — WINES. — A GLOSSARY.
10. 10.INDEX.

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