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- 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 Sir JOSEPH BANKS, Bart. PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY.
- ADVERTISEMENT.
- PREFACE.
- INTRODUCTION.
- CONTENTS.
- CONTENTS of the APPENDIX.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- INDEX.
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