Table of the several Chapters, and their principal Contents.

Introduction —— Page 1
The first Cause of Depopulation, Emigrations —— ib.
The second Cause, Luxury —— 6
Third Cause, Decay of Agriculture —— 10
Fourth Cause, the pernicious Treatment of Diseases —— 12
Means for rendering this Treatise useful —— 15
Explanation of certain physical Terms, and Phrases —— 26
Chapter I.
The most common Causes of popular Sickness —— 31
First Cause, excessive Labour —— ib.
Second Cause, the Effect of cold Air, when a Person is hot —— 33
Third Cause, taking cold Drink, when in a Heat —— ib. & 34
Fourth Cause, the Inconstancy and sudden Change of the Weather —— 35
Fifth Cause, the Situation of Dunghills, and Marshes, near inhabited Houses, and the bad confined Air in the Houses —— 37
Sixth Cause, Drunkenness —— 38
Seventh Cause, the Food of Country People —— 39
Eighth Cause, the Situation, or Exposure of Houses —— 42
Concerning the Drink of Country People —— 43
Chap. II.
Of Causes which increase the Diseases of the People, with general Considerations —— 47
First Cause, the great Care employed to force the Sick to sweat, and the Methods taken for that Purpose —— ib. & 48
The Danger of hot Chambers —— 49
The Danger of hot Drinks and heating Medicines —— 50
Second Cause, the Quantity and Quality of the Food given sick Persons —— 53
Third Cause, the giving Vomits and Purges at the Beginning of the Disease —— 57
Chap. III.
Concerning what should be done in the Beginning of Diseases, and the Diet in acute Diseases —— 61
Signs which indicate approaching Diseases; with Means to prevent them —— 62
The common Regimen, or Regulations, for the Sick —— 64
The Benefits of ripe sound Fruits —— 68
Cautions and Means to be used, on Recovery —— 73, 74
Chap. IV.
Of the Inflammation of the Breast —— 77
The Signs of this Disease —— ib. & 78
The Advantage of Bleeding —— 81
Signs of Recovery —— 85
Of Crises, and the Symptoms that precede them —— 86
The Danger of Vomits, of Purges, and of Anodynes —— 88
Of the Suppression of Expectoration, and the Means to restore it. —— 89
Of the Formation of Vomicas, or Imposthumes in the Lungs, and the Treatment of them —— 90
Of the Danger of Remedies, termed Balsamics —— 103
The Inefficacy of the Antihectic of Poterius —— 104
Of an Empyema —— 105
Of a Gangrene of the Lungs —— 106
Of a Scirrhus of the Lungs —— ib.
Chap. V.
Of the Pleurisy —— 108
The Danger of heating Remedies —— 112 to 115
Of frequent, or habitual, Pleurisies —— 116
Of Goats Blood; the Soot of a stale Egg, and of the Wormwood of the Alps, in Pleurisies —— 117, 118
Chap. VI.
Of Diseases of the Throat —— 119
Of their proper Treatment —— 124
Of the Formation of an Abscess there —— 127
Of swelled Ears, from the Obstruction of the parotid and maxillary Glands —— 131
Of the epidemic and putrid Diseases of the Throat, which prevailed in 1761 at Lausanne —— 132
Chap. VII.
Of Colds —— 139
Different Prejudices concerning Colds —— ib. & 140
The Danger of drinking much hot Water, and of strong spirituous Liquors, &c. —— 146
Means for strengthening and curing Persons very subject to Colds —— 148
Chap. VIII.
Of Diseases of the Teeth —— 150
Chap. IX.
Of the Apoplexy —— 158
Of sanguine Apoplexy —— ib. & 159
Of a serous, or watery, Apoplexy —— 162
Means to prevent relapsing into them —— 164 & seq.
Chap. X.
Of morbid Strokes of the Sun —— 167
Chap. XI.
Of the Rheumatism —— 177
Of the acute Rheumatism, attended with a Fever —— ib.
Of the flow, or chronical, without a Fever —— 186
The Danger of spirituous and greasy Remedies —— 191, 192
Chap. XII.
Of the Bite of a mad Dog —— 194
Chap. XIII.
Of the Small Pocks. —— 207
Of the preceding Symptoms of this Disease —— 209
—The Danger of sweating Medicines —— 217
—The Treatment of the benign distinct Small Pocks —— 220
—The Use of Bleeding —— 222
—The Fever of Suppuration —— 223
—The Necessity of opening the ripe Pustules —— 226
—The Danger of Anodynes —— 228
Of the striking in of the Eruptions —— 229
Preparations for receiving it favorably —— 230
Chap. XIV.
Of the Measles —— 235
Of their Treatment and the Means to prevent any of their bad Consequences, to —— 243
Chap. XV.
Of the hot, or burning, Fever —— 244
Chap. XVI.
Of putrid Fevers —— 248
Chap. XVII.
Of malignant Fevers —— 257
The Danger of applying living Animals in them —— 267
Chap. XVIII.
Of intermitting Fevers —— 269
—Spring and Autumn Intermittents —— 272
Method of Cure by the Bark —— 275
Method of treating the Patient in the Fit —— 277
Of other Febrifuges, besides the Bark —— 278
The Treatment of long and obstinate Intermittents —— 279
Of some very dangerous Intermittents —— 284
Of some periodical Disorders, which may be termed, Fevers disguised —— 285
Of Preservatives from unwholesome Air —— 286
Chap. XIX.
Of an Erisipelas, or St. Anthony's Fire. —— 288
Of a frequent or habitual Erisipelas —— 295
Of the Stings or Bites of Animals —— 296
Chap. XX.
Of Inflammations of the Breast, and of Bastard and bilious Pleurisies —— 298
—Of the false Inflammation of the Breast —— 300
—The false Pleurisy —— 303
Chap. XXI.
Of Cholics —— 306
Of the inflammatory Cholic —— 307
—the bilious Cholic —— 312
—the Cholic from Indigestion, and of Indigestions —— 314
—the flatulent, or windy, Cholic —— 317
—the Cholic, from taking Cold —— 319
Chap. XXII.
Of the Miserere, or Iliac Passion, and of the Cholera Morbus —— 322
The Miserere —— ib. & 323
The Cholera Morbus —— 327
Chap. XXIII.