Domestic medicine; or, The family physician: being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases. Chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines. / By William Buchan, M.D. ; [Four lines in Latin from Cicero]

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Author:	Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
Title:	Domestic medicine; or, The family physician: being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases. Chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines. / By William Buchan, M.D. ; [Four lines in Latin from Cicero]
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THE CONTENTS.

PART I. OF PREVENTING DISEASES.

CHAP. I.

OF CHILDREN.

OF DISEASED PARENTS.

OF THE CLOATHING OF CHILDREN.

OF THE FOOD OF CHILDREN.

OF THE EXERCISE OF CHILDREN.

OF THE BAD EFFECTS OF UNWHOLESOME AIR UPON CHILDREN.

OF NURSES.

As many people can understand the meaning of a short rule, who are not able to attend to a chain of reasoning, we shall reduce the leading principles of nursing under the following general heads.

CHAP. II.

OF ADULTS.

COMMON CAUSES OF CATCHING COLD.

UNWHOLESOME FOOD.

IRREGULARITIES IN DIET, SLEEP, &c.

BAD AIR.

WANT OF CLEANLINESS.

INTEMPERANCE.

INACTIVITY.

INFECTION.

THE PASSIONS.

CHAP. III.

OF ARTIFICERS, LABOURERS, &c.

The LABORIOUS.

The SEDENTARY.

The STUDIOUS.

PART II. OF DISEASES.

CHAP. IV.

OF DISTINGUISHING DISEASES.

OF FEVERS IN GENERAL.

OF INTERMITTING FEVERS OR AGUES.

OF AN ACUTE CONTINUAL FEVER.

OF THE PLEURISY.

OF A PERIPNEUMONY, OR INFLAM|MATION OF THE LUNGS.

OF CONSUMPTIONS.

THE SLOW OR NERVOUS FEVER.

OF THE MALIGNANT, PUTRID, OR SPOTTED FEVER.

OF THE MILIARY FEVER.

OF THE SMALL-POX.

OF THE MEASLES.

OF THE SCARLET FEVER.

OF THE ERYSIPELAS, OR ST. ANTHONY's FIRE.

OF THE INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN.

OF THE INFLAMMATION OF THE EYES.

OF THE QUINSEY, OR INFLAMMATION OF THE THROAT.

OF THE MALIGNANT QUINSEY, OR PUTRID, ULCEROUS SORE THROAT.

OF COLDS.

OF COUGHS.

OF THE CHIN-COUGH.

INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH.

OF THE ILIAC PASSION.

OF THE COLIC.

INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS.

INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER.

INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER.

OF THE CHOLERA MORBUS, OR VO|MITING AND LOOSENESS.

OF A DIARRHOEA, OR LOOSENESS.

OF THE DYSENTERY, OR BLOODY-FLUX.

OF A DIABETES, OR EXCESSIVE DISCHARGE OF URINE.

OF A SUPPRESSION OF URINE.

OF COSTIVENESS.

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 VOMITING.

OF THE HEADACH.

OF THE TOOTHACH.

OF THE EARACH.

OF THE HEART-BURN.

PAIN OF THE STOMACH.

OF WORMS.

OF THE JAUNDICE.

OF THE DROPSY.

OF THE GOUT.

OF THE RHEUMATISM.

OF THE SCURVY.

OF THE SCROPHULA, OR KING's EVIL.

OF THE RICKETS.

OF THE ITCH.

OF THE ASTHMA.

OF THE APOPLEXY.

OF THE PALSY.

OF THE EPILEPSY, OR FALLING SICKNESS.

OF NERVOUS, HYSTERIC, AND HYPOCHONDRIAC DISORDERS.

OF MELANCHOLY AND MADNESS.

OF POISONS.

OF THE STONE AND GRAVEL.

OF THE HICCUP.

CRAMP OF THE STOMACH.

WANT OF APPETITE.

OF DEAFNESS.

OF THE NIGHT-MARE.

OF SWOONINGS.

DISEASES OF WOMEN.

OF PREGNANCY.

OF CHILDBIRTH.

OF BARRENNESS.

DISEASES OF CHILDREN.

RETENTION OF THE MECONIUM.

THE APHTHAE OR THRUSH.

OF ACIDITIES.

GALLING AND EXCORIATION.

STOPPAGE OF THE NOSE.

OF ERUPTIONS.

OF DIFFICULT BREATHING.

OF TEETHING.

OF WOUNDS.

OF BURNS.

OF BRUISES.

OF DISLOCATIONS.

OF BROKEN BONES.

OF STRAINS.

OF ULCERS.

OF IMPOSTHUMES, OR BOILS.

OF WHITLOWS.

OF RUPTURES.

OF CASUALTIES.

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PREFACE.

A DISSERTATION ON THE GOUT, &c.

Of INDOLENCE.

Of INTEMPERANCE.

Of VEXATION.

Of the Cure of the Gout and all other Chronic Diseases, and the Repair of a broken Constitution.

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