Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health: but particularly calculated for those, who are the most unlikely to be provided in time with the best assistance, in acute diseases, or upon any sudden inward or outward accident. : With a table of the most cheap, yet effectual remedies, and the plainest directions for preparing them readily. / Translated from the French edition of Dr. Tissot's Avis au peuple, &c. Printed at Lyons; ; with all the notes in the former English editions, and a few additional ones. By J. Kirkpatrick, M.D. ; [Two lines from Proverbs]

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Author:	Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797.
Title:	Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health: but particularly calculated for those, who are the most unlikely to be provided in time with the best assistance, in acute diseases, or upon any sudden inward or outward accident. : With a table of the most cheap, yet effectual remedies, and the plainest directions for preparing them readily. / Translated from the French edition of Dr. Tissot's Avis au peuple, &c. Printed at Lyons; ; with all the notes in the former English editions, and a few additional ones. By J. Kirkpatrick, M.D. ; [Two lines from Proverbs]
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The TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

The AUTHOR's DEDICATION. To the most illustrious, the most Noble and Magnificent Lords, the Lords President and Counsellors of the Chamber of Health, of the City and Republick of Berne.

THE AUTHOR's PREFACE.

TABLE of the several Chapters, and their principal Contents.

INTRODUCTION.

ADVICE TO THE PEOPLE, With Respect to their HEALTH.

CHAPTER I. Of the most usual Causes of popular Maladies.

CHAPTER II. Of the Causes which aggravate the Diseases of the People. General Considerations.

CHAPTER III. Of the Means that ought to be used at the Beginning of Diseases; and of the Diet in acute Diseases.

CHAPTER IV. Of an Inflammation of the Breast.

CHAPTER V. Of the Pleurisy.

CHAPTER VI. Of the Diseases of the Throat.

CHAPTER VII. Of Colds.

CHAPTER VIII. Of the Diseases of the Teeth.

CHAPTER IX. Of the Apoplexy.

CHAPTER X. Of the violent Influence, or Strokes, of the Sun.

CHAPTER XI. Of the Rheumatism.

CHAPTER XII. Of the Bite of a mad Dog.

CHAPTER XIII. Of the Small-Pocks.

CHAPTER XIV. Of the Measles.

CHAPTER XV. Of the ardent or burning Fever.

CHAPTER XVI. Of putrid Fevers.

CHAPTER XVII. Of malignant Fevers.

CHAPTER XVIII. Of intermitting Fevers.

CHAPTER XIX. Of the Erisipelas, and the Bites of Animals.

Of Stings, or little Wounds, by Animals.

CHAPTER XX. Of spurious, or false Inflammations of the Breast, and of spurious, bilious Pleurisies.

CHAPTER XXI. Of the Cholic and its different Kinds.

Of the inflammatory Cholic.

Of the bilious Cholic.

Of Cholics from Indigestions, and of Indigestion.

Of the flatulent or windy Cholic.

Of Cholics from Cold.

CHAPTER XXII. Of the Iliac Passion, and of the Cholera-morbus.

Of the Cholera-morbus.

CHAPTER XXIII. Of a Diarrhoea, or Looseness.

CHAPTER XXIV. Of the Dysentery, or Bloody-flux.

CHAPTER XXV. Of the Itch.

CHAPTER XXVI. The Treatment of Diseases peculiar to Women.

Of Disorders attending Gravidation, or the Term of going with Child.

Of Delivery, or Child-birth.

Of the Consequences of Labour, or Child-birth.

CHAPTER XXVII. Medical Directions concerning Children.

Of the Meconium.

Of Acidities, or sharp Humours.

Of washing Children.

Of the Cutting of the Teeth.

Of Worms.

Of Convulsions.

General Directions with Respect to Children.

CHAPTER XXVIII. Directions with respect to drowned Persons.

CHAPTER XXIX. Of Substances stopt between the Mouth and the Stomach.

CHAPTER XXX. Of external Disorders, and such as require chirurgical Ap|plication. Of Burns, Wounds, Contusions or Bruises: Of Sprains, Ulcers, frost-bitten Limbs, Chilblains, Ruptures, Boils: Of Fellons, Thorns or Splinters in the Fingers or Flesh: of Warts, and of Corns.

Of Burns.

Of Wounds.

Of Contusions, or Bruises.

Of Ulcers.

Of Frozen Limbs.

Of Kibes, or Chilblains.

Of Ruptures.

Of Phlegmons or Boils.

Of Fellons or Whitlows.

Of Thorns, Splinters, or other pointed Substances piercing into the Skin or Flesh.

Of Warts.

Of Corns.

CHAPTER XXXI. Of some Cases which require immediate Assistance; such as Swoonings; Haemorrhages, or involuntary Loss of Blood; Convulsion Fits, and Suffocations; the sudden Effects of great Fear; of Disorders caused by noxious Va|pours; of Poisons, and of acute Pains. Of Swoonings.

Of Swoonings occasioned by Excess of Blood.

Of Swoonings occasioned by Weakness.

Of Faintings occasioned by a Load, or Uneasiness, at Stomach.

Of these Swoonings, which arise from nervous Disorders.

Of Swoonings occasioned by the Passions.

Of symptomatical Swoonings, or such as happen in the Progress of other Diseases.

Of Haemorrhages, or an involuntary Loss of Blood.

Of Convulsions.

Of suffocating or strangling Fits.

Of the violent Effects of Fear.

Of Accidents or Symptoms produced by the Vapours of Coal, and of Wine.

Of Poisons.

Of acute Pains.

CHAPTER XXXII. Of Medicinces taken by Way of Precaution, or Prevention.

Of Bleeding.

Of Purges.

CHAPTER XXXIII. Of Mountebanks, Quacks, and Conjurers.

CHAPTER XXXIV. Containing Questions absolutely necessary to be answered exactly by the Patient, who consults a Physician.

TABLE Of the Prescriptions and Medicines, referred to the foregoing Treatise: Which, with the Notes beneath them, are to be read before the taking, or Application, of any of the said Medicines.