INDEX.
- A.
- Ablutions, Jewish and Mahometan, well calculated for the preservation of health, 103.
- Abortion, causes and symptoms of, 531.
- Means of prevention, 532.
- Proper treatment in the case of, ibid.
- Abscesses, how to be treated, 308. 573.
- Accidents. See Casualties.
- Acids, of peculiar service in consumptions, 183.
- In putrid fevers, 199.
- Not suitable to the measles, 242.
- Acidities in the bowels of infants, the origin of, 548.
- Ackworth, foundling hospital at, cause of the children there being afflicted with scabbed heads, and fatal consequences of their ill treatment, 555, note.
- Addison, his remark on the luxury of the table, 95.
- Æther, very serviceable in removing fits of the asthma, 409.
- Is excellent for flatulencies, 444.
- Æthiops mineral, strongly recommended by Dr. Cheyne in inflammations of the eyes, 263.
- Africans, their treatment of children, 11, note.
- Agaric of the oak, its merit as a styptic, 577.
- Method of gathering, preparing, and applying it, ibid. note.
- Agriculture, a healthful, constant, and profitable employment, 48.
- Is too much neglected in favour of manufactures, ibid.
- Gardening the most wholesome amusement for sedentary persons, 53.
- Ague, a species of fever no person can mistake, and the proper medicine for, generally known, 147.
- Causes of, 148.
- Symptoms, ibid.
- Regimen for, ibid.
- Under a proper regimen will often go off, without medicine, 150.
- Medical treatment of, 151.
- Often degenerates into obstinate chronical diseases, if not radically cured, 154.
- Peruvian bark the only medicine to be relied on in, 155.
- Children how to be treated in, ibid.
- Preventive medicine for those who live in marshy countries, 156.
- Air, confined, poisonous to children, 30.
- A free open air will sometimes cure the most obstinate disorders in children, 33.
- Occupations which injure the health by unwholesome air, 37. 49.
- The qualities of, act more sensibly on the body, than is generally imagined, 75.
- The several noxious qualities of, specified, ibid.
- In large cities, polluted by various circumstances, 76.
- The air in churches, how rendered unwholesome, ibid.
- Houses ought to be ventilated daily, 78.
- The danger attending small apartments, ibid.
- Persons whose business confines them to town ought to sleep in the country, ibid.
- High walls obstruct the free current of air, 79.
- Trees should not be planted too near to houses, ibid.
- Fresh air peculiarly necessary for the sick, 80.
- The sick in hospitals in more danger from the want of fresh air, than from their disorders, ibid.
- Wholesomeness of the morning air, 84.
- The changeableness of, one great cause of catching cold, 126.
- Those who keep most within doors, the most sensible of these changes, 127.
- Of the night, to be carefully guarded against, 128.
- Fresh air often of more efficacy in diseases than medicine, 139.
- Its importance in fevers, 145. 160.
- States of, liable to produce putrid fevers, 195.
- Must be kept cool and fresh in sick chambers under this disorder, 199.
- Change of, one of the most effectual remedies for the hooping-cough, 285.
- The qualities of, a material consideration for asthmatic patients, 408.
- The various ways by which it may be rendered noxious, 614.
- Confined, how to try, and purify, ibid.
- Method of recovering persons poisoned by foul air, 615.
- Fresh, of the greatest importance in fainting fits, 622.
- Aitken, Mr. his treatise on the nature and cure of fractures, recommended, 594, note.
- Alcali, caustic, recommended in the stone, 327.
- How to prepare it, ibid. note.
- Aliment is capable of changing the whole constitution of the body, 62.
- Will in many cases answer every intention in the cure of diseases, ibid.
- The calls of hunger and thirst, sufficient for regulating the due quantity of, 63.
- The quality of, how injured, ibid.
- A due mixture of vegetables necessary with our animal food, 65.
- To what the bad effects of tea are principally owing, 65.
- Water, good and bad, distinguished, 66.
- Inquiry into the qualities of fermented liquors, with instructions for the due making of them, 69.
- The qualities of good bread, and why adulterated by bakers, 70.
- General rules for the choice of food, ibid.
- Ought not to be too uniform, 71.
- Meals ought to be taken at regular times, 72.
- Long fasting injurious both to old and young, 73.
- Breakfasts and suppers, ibid.
- Changes of diet ought to be gradually made, 74.
- Amaurosis. See Gutta serena.
- American Indians, their method of curing the venereal disease, 513.
- Amusements, sedentary, improper for sedentary persons, 51.
- Ought always to be of an active kind, 85.
- Anasarca. See Dropsy.
- Anger, violent fits of, injurious to the constitution, 112.
- Tranquillity of mind essential to health, ibid.
- Animal food, cautions in giving it to children, 18.
- Animals that die of themselves, unfit for food, 63.
- Overdriven cattle rendered unwholesome, 64.
- The artifices of butchers exposed, 65.
- Too great a quantity of, generates the scurvy, ibid.
- Animals and plants, the analogy in the nourishment of, stated, 94.
- Anthony’s Fire, St. See Erysipelas.
- Aphthæ. See Thrush.
- Apoplexy, who most liable to this disorder, 410.
- Causes, ibid.
- Symptoms and method of cure, 411.
- Cautions to persons of an apoplectic make, 413.
- Apothecaries weights, a table of, 653.
- Apparel, See Clothing.
- Appetite, want of, causes and remedies for, 417.
- Arbuthnot, Dr. his advice in the inflammation of the lungs, 172.
- His advice for persons troubled with costiveness, 415, note.
- Arsenic, the effects of, on the stomach, 474.
- Medical treatment when the symptoms appear, ibid.
- Arts. See Manufactures.
- Ascites. See Dropsy.
- Asses milk, why it seldom does any good, 179.
- Instructions for taking it, ibid.
- Asthma, the different kinds of this disorder distinguished, with its causes, 406.
- Symptoms, 407.
- Regimen, ibid.
- Medical treatment, 408.
- Remedies proper in the moist asthma, 409.
- Atmosphere. See Air.
- B.
- Ball’s purging vermifuge powder, preparation of, 369.
- Balsams, how to prepare.
- Anodyne balsam, 657.
- Locatelli’s balsam, ibid.
- Vulnerary balsam, ibid.
- Bandages, tight, produce most of the bad consequences attending fractured bones, 595.
- Bark, Peruvian, the best antidote for sailors against disorders on a foreign coast, 47.
- How to be administered in the ague, 151.
- Distinction between the red bark and quill bark, ibid. note.
- A decoction or infusion of, may be taken by those who cannot swallow it in substance, 153.
- Is often adulterated, ibid. note.
- Is the only medicine to be depended on in agues, 155.
- How it may be rendered more palatable, ibid.
- May be administered by clyster, 156.
- Cold water the best menstruum for extracting the virtues of this drug, 185.
- How to be administered in the putrid fever, 202; and in the erysipelas, 252.
- In an inflammation of the eyes, 263.
- Its efficacy in a malignant quinsey, 274.
- In the hooping-cough, 288.
- A good medicine in vomiting, when it proceeds from weakness of the stomach, 317.
- Its efficacy in a diabetes, and how to take it, 321.
- Is good against the piles, 336; and worms, 368.
- Its use dangerous for preventing a fit of the gout, 385.
- A good remedy in the King’s evil, 401;
- and in the fluor albus, 529.
- Barley water, how made, 165.
- Barrenness in women, the general causes of, 542.
- Course of relief, 543.
- Dr. Cheyne’s observations on, ibid. note.
- Bath waters, good in the gout, 386.
- Bath, cold, the good effects of, on children, 29.
- Recommended to the studious, 62.
- Is peculiarly excellent for strengthening the nervous system, 425.
- Therefore should never be omitted in gleets, 501.
- Is good for rickety children, 564.
- Cautions concerning the improper use of, in adults, 633–639.
- Bath, warm, of great service in an inflammation of the stomach, 291.
- Bathing, a religious duty under the Judaic and Mahometan laws, 103.
- Is conducive to health, 104.
- Bears foot, recommended as a powerful remedy against worms, 369.
- Beds, instead of being made up again as soon as persons rise from them, ought to be turned down and exposed to the air, 77.
- Bad effects of too great indulgence in bed, 84.
- Damp, the danger of, 128.
- Soft, are injurious to the kidneys, 320. 324.
- Beer, the ill consequences of making it too weak, 69.
- Pernicious artifices of the dealers in, ibid.
- Bells, parish, the tolling them for the dead, a dangerous custom, 114.
- Biles, 575.
- Bilious colic, symptoms and treatment of, 298.
- Bilious fever. See Fever.
- Bite of a mad dog. See Dog.
- Bitters, warm and astringent, antidotes to agues, 151.
- Are serviceable in vomiting when it proceeds from weakness in the stomach, 317.
- Bladder, inflammation of, its general causes, 305.
- Medical treatment of, ibid.
- Bladder, stone in. See Stone.
- Blast. See Erysipelas.
- Bleeding, cautions for the operation of, in fevers, 146.
- In the ague, 150.
- Its importance in the acute continual fever, 161.
- In the pleurisy, 166.
- When necessary in an inflammation of the lungs, 173.
- Caution against, in a nervous fever, 192.
- In the putrid fever, 201.
- In the miliary fever, 209.
- When necessary in the small-pox, 221.
- When useful in the measles, 243.
- When necessary in the bilious fever, 247.
- Under what circumstances proper in the erysipelas, 251.
- Mode of, proper in an inflammation of the brain, 257.
- Is always necessary in an inflammation of the eyes, 261.
- When proper, and improper, in a cough, 280.
- When proper in the hooping-cough, 285.
- Is almost the only thing to be depended on in an inflammation of the stomach, 290.
- And in an inflammation of the intestines, 292.
- Is necessary in an inflammation of the kidneys, 303.
- Its use in a suppression of urine, 323.
- Is proper in an asthma, 409.
- Is dangerous in fainting fits, without due caution, 442.
- Cautions proper in the puerperal fever, 539.
- Is an operation generally performed by persons who do not understand when it is proper, 570.
- In what case it ought to be had recourse to, ibid.
- The quantity taken away, how to be regulated, 571.
- General rules for the operation, ibid.
- Objections to bleeding by leeches, 572.
- Prevailing prejudices relating to bleeding, ibid.
- The arm the most commodious part to take blood from, 573.
- Bleeding at the nose, spontaneous, is of more service, where bleeding is necessary, than the operation with the lancet, 321.
- Ought not to be stopped without due consideration, ibid.
- How to stop it when necessary, 332.
- Cautions to prevent frequent returns of, 334.
- Blind persons, when born so, might be educated to employments suited to their capacity, 456, note.
- Blisters, peculiarly advantageous in the nervous fever, 192.
- When only to be applied in the putrid fever, 201.
- When proper in the miliary fever, 209.
- Seldom fail to remove the most obstinate inflammation of the eyes, 262.
- A good remedy in the quinsey, 269.
- Proper for a violent hooping-cough, 288.
- Is one of the best remedies for an inflammation of the stomach, 291.
- Are efficacious in the tooth-ach, 359.
- Blood, involuntary discharges of, often salutary, and ought not to be rashly stopped, 329.
- The several kinds of these discharges, with their usual causes, ibid.
- Methods of cure, 330.
- Blood, spitting of, who most subject to, and at what seasons, 337.
- Its causes, ibid.
- Symptoms, 339.
- Proper regimen in, ibid.
- Medical treatment, 340.
- Cautions for persons subject to it, 341.
- Blood, vomiting of, its causes and symptoms, 341.
- Blood-shot eye, how to cure, 450.
- Bloody-flux. See Dysentery.
- Boerhaave, his observation on dress, 93, note.
- His mechanical expedients to relieve an inflammation of the brain, 256.
- Boluses, general rules for the preparing of, 658.
- The astringent bolus, ibid.
- Diaphoretic bolus, ibid.
- Mercurial bolus, ibid.
- Bolus of rhubarb and mercury, 659.
- Pectoral bolus, ibid.
- Purging bolus, ibid.
- Bones, the exfoliation of, a very slow operation, 583.
- Bones, broken, often successfully undertaken by ignorant operators, 593.
- Regimen to be adopted after the accident, 594.
- Hints of conduct if the patient is confined to his bed, ibid.
- Cleanliness to be regarded during this confinement, 595.
- The limb not to be kept continually on the stretch, ibid.
- Cautions to be observed in setting a bone, ibid.
- Tight bandages condemned, 596.
- How to keep the limb steady by an easy method, ibid.
- Fractures of the ribs, ibid.
- Bowels, inflammation of. See Stomach.
- Boys, the military exercise proper for them, 26.
- Braidwood, Mr. his skill in teaching the dumb to speak, 461, note.
- Brain, inflammation of, who most liable to it, with its causes and symptoms, 254.
- Regimen, 256.
- Medical treatment, 257.
- Bread, proper food for children, as soon as they can chew it, 17.
- A crust of, the best gum-stick, ibid.
- The best modes of preparing it in food for children, 18.
- Good, the qualities of, and for what purpose adulterated by the bakers, 70.
- Toasted, a decoction of, good to check the vomiting in a cholera morbus, 310.
- Brimstone. See Sulphur.
- Broth, gelatinous, recommended in the dysentery, how to make, 347.
- Bruises, why of worse consequence than wounds, 582.
- Proper treatment of, ibid.
- The exfoliation of injured bones a very slow operation, 583.
- How to cure sores occasioned by, ibid.
- Buboes, two kinds of, distinguished, with their proper treatment, 504.
- Burdens, heavy, injurious to the lungs, 40.
- Burgundy pitch, a plaster of, between the shoulders, an excellent remedy in a cough, 281.
- In a hooping-cough, 288.
- And for children in teething, 560.
- Burials, the dangers attending their being allowed in the midst of populous towns, 76.
- Burns, slight, how to cure, 580.
- Treatment of, when violent, ibid.
- Extraordinary case of, 581.
- Liniment for, 680.
- Butchers, their professional artifices explained, and condemned, 65.
- Butter ought to be very sparingly given to children, 21.
- C.
- Cabbage leaves, topical application of, in a pleurisy, 167.
- Camphor, why of little use in eye-waters, 662.
- Camphorated oil, preparation of, 684.
- Camphorated spirit of wine, 699.
- Camps, the greatest necessity of consulting cleanliness in, 103.
- Cancer, its different stages described, with the producing causes, 460.
- Symptoms, 467.
- Regimen, and medical treatment, 468.
- Dr. Stork’s method of treating this disorder, 469.
- Cautions for avoiding it, 472.
- Cancer scroti, a disorder peculiar to chimney-sweepers, owing to want of cleanliness, 100, note.
- Carriages, the indulgence of, a sacrifice of health to vanity, 82.
- Carrot, wild, recommended in the stone, 328.
- Carrot poultice for cancers, how to prepare, 471.
- Casualties, which apparently put an end to life, necessary cautions respecting, 600. 608. 613. 631.
- —— substances stopped in the gullet, 602.
- —— drowning, 609.
- —— noxious vapours, 613.
- —— extremity of cold, 616.
- —— extreme heat, 618.
- Cataplasms, their general intention, 659.
- Preparation of the discutient cataplasm, ibid.
- Ripening cataplasm, ibid.
- Cataract, the disorder and its proper treatment described, 458.
- Cattle, stall fed, are unwholesome food, 64.
- Overdriven, are killed in a high fever, ibid.
- The artifices of butchers exposed, 65.
- Cellars, long shut, ought to be cautiously opened, 78.
- And sunk stories of houses, unhealthy to live in, 130.
- Of liquors in a state of fermentation, dangerous to enter, 614.
- How to purify the air in, ibid.
- Celsus, his rules for the preservation of health, 134.
- Chancres, described, 506.
- Primary, how to treat, ibid.
- Symptomatic, 507.
- Charcoal fire, the danger of sleeping in the fume of, 613.
- Charity, the proper exercise of, 43.
- Cheyne, Dr. his persuasive to the use of exercise, 83.
- His judgment of the due quantity of urine, not to be relied on, 124.
- Strongly recommends Æthiops mineral in inflammations of the eyes, 263.
- His observations on barrenness, 543, note.
- Chilblains, cause of, 556.
- Child-bed women, how to be treated under a miliary fever, 210.
- Child-bed fever. See Fever.
- Child-birth, the season of, requires due care after the labour pains are over, 533.
- Medical advice to women in labour, 534.
- Ill effects of collecting a number of women on such occasions, 535, note.
- How to guard against the miliary fever, 538.
- Symptoms of the puerperal fever, ibid.
- Proper treatment of this fever, 539.
- General cautions for women at this season, 541, 542.
- Children, their diseases generally acute, and delay dangerous, 6.
- Their disorders less complicated, and easier cured, than those of adults, ibid.
- Are often the heirs of the diseases of their parents, 7.
- Those born of diseased parents, require peculiar care in the nursing, 8.
- Are often killed or deformed by injudicious clothing, ibid.
- How treated in Africa, 11, note.
- The usual causes of deformity in, explained, ibid.
- Their clothes ought to be fastened on with strings, 13.
- General rule for clothing them, 14.
- Cleanliness an important article in their dress, ibid.
- The milk of the mother the most natural food for, 15.
- Absurdity of giving them drugs as their first food, 16.
- The best method of expelling the meconium, ibid.
- How they ought to be weaned from the breast, 17.
- A crust of bread the best gum-stick for them, ibid.
- How to prepare bread in their food, 18.
- Cautions as to giving them animal food, ibid.
- Cautions as to the quantity of their food, ibid.
- Errors in the quality of their food more frequent than in the quantity, 19.
- The food of adults improper for children, ibid.
- Strong liquors expose them to inflammatory disorders, ibid.
- Ill effects of unripe fruit, 20.
- Butter, 21.
- Honey, a wholesome article of food for them, ibid.
- The importance of exercise to promote their growth and strength, ibid.
- Rules for their exercise, 22.
- Poverty of parents occasions their neglect of children, 23.
- The utility of exercise demonstrated from the organical structure of children, 24.
- Philosophical arguments shewing the necessity of exercise, ibid.
- Ought not to be sent to school too soon, 25.
- Nor be put too soon to labour, 28.
- Dancing an excellent exercise for them, 29.
- The cold bath, ibid.
- Want of wholesome air destructive to children, 30.
- To wrap them up close in cradles, pernicious, 32.
- Are treated like plants in a hot-house, ibid.
- The usual faulty conduct of nurses pointed out, 34.
- Are crammed with cordials by indolent nurses, 35.
- Eruptions ignorantly treated by nurses, ibid.
- Loose stools, the proper treatment of, ibid.
- Every method ought to be taken to make them strong and hardy, 37.
- Indications of the small-pox in, 214.
- Chincough. See Cough.
- Cholera morbus, the disorder defined, with its causes and symptoms, 309.
- Churches, the several circumstances that render the air in, unwholesome, 76.
- Churching of women after lying in, a dangerous custom, 542.
- Church-yards, the bad consequences of having them in large towns, 76.
- Cities, large, the air in, contaminated by various means, 76.
- The bad effects of burying the dead in, ibid.
- Houses ought to be ventilated daily, 77.
- The danger attending small apartments, 78.
- All who can ought to sleep in the country, ibid.
- Disorders that large towns are peculiarly hurtful to, 79.
- Cleanliness not sufficiently attended to in, 101.
- Should be supplied with plenty of water, 105, note.
- The best means to guard against infection in, 109.
- Clare, Mr. his method of applying saline preparations of mercury in venereal cases, 512.
- Cleanliness, an important article of attention in the dress of children, 14;
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- and to sedentary artists, 52.
- Finery in dress often covers dirt, 93.
- Is necessary to health, 100.
- Disorders originating from the want of, ibid.
- Is not sufficiently attended to in large towns, 101.
- Nor by country peasants, 102.
- Great attention paid to, by the ancient Romans, ibid. note.
- Necessity of consulting cleanliness in camps, 103.
- Was the principal object of the whole system of the Jewish laws, ibid.
- Is a great part of the religion of the Eastern countries, ibid.
- Bathing and washing greatly conducive to health, 104.
- Cleanliness peculiarly necessary on board of ships, ibid.
- General remarks on, 105.
- Many disorders may be cured by cleanliness alone, 140.
- The want of, a very general cause of putrid fevers, 196.
- Is a great preservative against venereal infection, 517;
- and against galling in infants, 550.
- Clergy, exhorted to remove popular prejudices against inoculation, 231.
- Might do great good by undertaking the practice of it themselves, 236.
- Clothing, the only natural use of, 9.
- That of children, has become a secret art, 10.
- Ought to be fastened on infants with strings instead of pins, 13.
- Pernicious consequences of stays, 14.
- Importance of cleanliness to children, ibid.
- The due quantity of, dictated by the climate, 94.
- Should be increased in the decline of life, ibid. and adapted to the seasons, ibid.
- Is often hurtful by being made subservient to the purposes of vanity, 91.
- Pernicious consequences of attempting to mend the shape by dress, ibid.
- Stays, ibid.
- Shoes, ibid.
- Garters, buckles, and other bandages, 92.
- The perfection of, to be easy and clean, 93.
- General remarks on, ibid.
- Wet, the danger of, and how to guard against it, 127.
- Clysters, a proper form of, for an inflammation of the stomach, 291.
- And for an inflammation of the intestines, 293.
- Of tobacco smoke, its efficacy in procuring a stool, 300, note.
- Of chicken broth salutary in the cholera morbus, 310.
- Their use in a suppression of urine, 323.
- Ought to be frequently administered in the puerperal fever, 539.
- Of tobacco, to excite a vomit, 606.
- Of tobacco fumes, to stimulate the intestines, 610.
- The general intention of, 660.
- Preparation of the emollient clyster, 661.
- Laxative clyster, ibid.
- Carminative clyster, ibid.
- Oily clyster, ibid.
- Starch clyster, 662.
- Turpentine clyster, ibid.
- Vinegar clyster, ibid.
- Cœliac passion, proper treatment for, 351.
- Coffee berries recommended in the stone, 328.
- Cold, extreme, its effects on the human frame, 616.
- The sudden application of heat dangerous in such cases, ibid.
- How to recover frozen or benumbed limbs, 617.
- Cold Bath. See Bath.
- Colds, frequently occasioned by imprudent changes of clothes at the first approaches of summer, 90, note.
- Various causes of, specified, 126.
- Their general causes, 276.
- Proper regimen on the symptoms of, appearing, ibid.
- Danger of neglecting the disorder, 278.
- The chief secret for avoiding, 280.
- Colic, different species of, 296.
- Medical treatment of, according to their species and causes, 297.
- Bilious colic, 298.
- Hysteric colic, 299.
- Nervous colic, ibid.
- Cautions necessary to guard against the nervous colic, 300.
- General advice in colics, 301.
- Collyria. See Eye-waters.
- Commerce often imports infectious disorders, 107.
- Means suggested to guard against this danger, 108, note.
- Confections often very needlessly compounded, 663.
- Preparation of the Japonic confection, 664.
- Conserves and preserves, general remarks on, and their composition, 664.
- Of red roses, ibid.
- Of sloes, 665.
- Candied orange-peel, ibid.
- Constitution, good or bad, the foundation of, generally laid during infancy, 1.
- Consumptions, the increase of this disorder may be attributed to hard drinking, 97.
- Who most liable to, and its causes, 174.
- Symptoms, 176.
- Regimen, 177.
- Riding, ibid.
- Much benefit to be expected from going a long voyage, 178.
- Travelling, ibid.
- Diet, 179.
- Great efficacy of milk in, ibid.
- Medical treatment, 182.
- —— Nervous, defined, and the persons most liable to, 186.
- Proper treatment of, ibid.
- —— Symptomatic, the treatment of, must be directed to the producing cause, 187.
- Convulsions, why new-born infants are so liable to, 12.
- Those preceding the eruption in the small-pox favourable symptoms, 217.
- The general causes of, 565.
- Proper treatment of, 566.
- Extraordinary recovery of an infant seemingly killed by, 629.
- Farther instructions in like cases, 630.
- Cook, Captain, the circumnavigator, his means of preserving the health of his men, 46, note.
- Cookery, the arts of, render many things unwholesome, that are not naturally so, 67.
- Cordials, ought not to be given to infants, 16.
- Are the common refuge of nurses who neglect their duty to children, 35.
- Are often fatal in an inflammation of the stomach, 290.
- When good in the colic, 297.
- Ought not to be given to a pregnant woman during labour, 534.
- Corn, damaged, will produce the putrid fever, 195.
- Corns in the feet are occasioned by wearing tight shoes, 91.
- Cortex. See Bark.
- Costiveness, a frequent recourse to medicines for the prevention of, injurious to the constitution, 122.
- Is rather to be removed by diet than by drugs, 123.
- Its general causes, and ill effects, 414.
- Regimen, ibid.
- Remedies for, 416.
- Cough, the proper remedies for, 280.
- A plaster of Burgundy pitch laid between the shoulders an excellent remedy for, 281.
- The stomach cough, and cough of the lungs, distinguished, 282.
- Treatment for the nervous cough, 283.
- Cough, hooping, who most liable to, with its disposing causes, 284.
- Remedies, 285.
- Is infectious, ibid.
- Vomits, their use, and how to administer them to children, 286.
- Garlic ointment a good remedy for, 287.
- Cough, phthisical, incident to sedentary artificers, from their breathing confined air, 49.
- Cradles, on many accounts hurtful to children, 32.
- Cramp, proper remedies for, 451.
- Cramp of the stomach, who most subject to, 438.
- Medical treatment of, ibid.
- Crotchets, how to use for extracting substances detained in the gullet, 603.
- Croup in children, described, 557.
- Its symptoms and proper treatment, ibid.
- Cyder, the ill consequences of making it too weak, 69.
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- Dancing, an excellent kind of exercise for young persons, 29.
- Daucus sylvestris. See Carrot.
- Deafness, when a favourable symptom in the putrid fever, 198, note.
- Methods of cure, according to its causes, 461.
- Death, the evidences of, sometimes fallacious, and ought not to be too soon credited, 601. 608. 612. 631.
- The means to be used for the recovery of persons from, nearly the same in all cases, 632.
- Decoctions, general remarks on, 665.
- Preparation of the decoction of althæa, ibid.
- Common decoction, 666.
- Of logwood, ibid.
- Of bark, ibid.
- Compound decoction of bark, ibid.
- Of sarsaparilla, 667.
- Of seneka, ibid.
- White decoction, ibid.
- Deformity, often occasioned by the injudicious manner of dressing children, 9.
- Is seldom found among savage nations, 10.
- The usual causes of, explained, ibid.
- Dews, night, dangerous to health, 128.
- Diabetes, who most liable to this disorder, 319.
- Its causes and symptoms, ibid.
- Regimen, and medical treatment, 320.
- Distinguished from incontinency of urine, 322.
- Diarrhœa. See Looseness.
- Diet, will often answer all the indications of cure in diseases, 138.
- Illustrations, 139.
- See Aliment.
- Digestion, the powers of, equally impaired by repletion or inanition, 72.
- Diseases, hereditary, cautions to persons afflicted with, 8.
- Peculiar disorders attending particular occupations, 38.
- Many of them infectious, 106.
- The knowledge of, depends more upon experience and observation than upon scientifical principles, 135.
- Are to be distinguished by the most obvious and permanent symptoms, ibid.
- The differences of sex, age, and constitution, to be considered, 136.
- Of the mind, to be distinguished from those of the body, ibid.
- Climate, situation, and occupation, to be attended to, 137.
- Other collateral circumstances, ibid.
- Many indications of cure, to be answered by diet alone, 138.
- Cures often effected by fresh air, by exercise, or by cleanliness, 139.
- Nervous diseases, of a complicated nature, and difficult to cure, 420.
- Dislocations, should be reduced before the swelling and inflammation come on, and how, 587.
- Of the jaw, 588.
- Of the neck, 589.
- Of the ribs, 590.
- Of the shoulder, ibid.
- Of the elbow, 591.
- Of the thigh, 592.
- Of the knees, ancles, and toes, ibid.
- Diuretic infusion for the Dropsy, how to prepare, 377, 378.
- Dog, symptoms of madness in, 477.
- Ought to be carefully preserved after biting any person, to ascertain whether he is mad or not, 478.
- Is often reputed mad when he is not so, ibid.
- Symptoms of the bite of a mad dog, 479.
- The poison cannot lie many years dormant in the body, as is supposed, ibid.
- Dr. Mead’s receipt for the bite, 480.
- The famous East Indian specific for, ibid.
- Other recipes, 481.
- Vinegar of considerable service in this disorder, ibid.
- Medical course of treatment recommended, ibid.
- Regimen, 481.
- Dipping in the sea not to be relied on, 483.
- Dr. Tissot’s medical course for the cure of the hydrophobia, 484.
- Remarks on the Ormskirk medicine, 485, note.
- Doses of medicines, the relative proportions of, for different ages, 653.
- Drams ought to be avoided by persons afflicted with nervous disorders, 423.
- Draught, is the proper form for such medicines as are intended for immediate operation, 668.
- How to prepare the anodyne draught, ibid.
- Diuretic draught, ibid.
- Purging draught, ibid.
- Sweating draught, 669.
- Vomiting draught, ibid.
- Dress. See Clothing.
- Drinking, persons who are seldom intoxicated may nevertheless injure their constitutions by, 97.
- The habit of drinking frequently originates from misfortunes, 98.
- Frequently destroys the powers of the mind, 99.
- Persons often forced to it by mistaken hospitality, ibid. note.
- Leads to other vices, ibid.
- Dropsy, the several distinctions of, with its causes, 374.
- Symptoms, 375.
- Regimen, 376.
- Medical treatment, 377.
- Tapping, a safe and simple operation, 379.
- Dropsy of the brain. See Water in the head.
- Drowned persons, ought not to be rashly given up for dead, 608.
- Proper trials for the recovery of, ibid.
- Endeavours ought not to be suspended upon the first returns of life, 612.
- Success of the Amsterdam society for the recovery of, 631.
- Drunkenness. See Intoxication.
- Dumb persons may be taught to read, write, and discourse, 461, note.
- Dysentery, where and when most prevalent, 345.
- Its causes and symptoms, ibid.
- Regimen, 346.
- Fruit, one of the best remedies for, 348.
- Proper drink for, 349.
- Medical treatment, ibid.
- Cautions to prevent a relapse, 350.
- E.
- Ear, the several injuries it is liable to, 460.
- Deafness, medical treatment of, according to its causes, 461.
- Ought not to be tampered with, 462.
- Ear-ach, its causes, and proper treatment for, 360.
- How to drive insects out of, ibid.
- Education of children, should be begun at home by the parents, 25, note.
- That of girls hurtful to their constitution, 27.
- Effluvia, putrid, will occasion the spotted fever, 195.
- Electricity beneficial in the palsy, 431.
- Electuaries, general rules for making, 669.
- Preparation of lenitive electuary, 670.
- Electuary for the dysentery, ibid.
- For the epilepsy, ibid.
- For the gonorrhœa, ibid.
- Of the bark, 671.
- For the piles, ibid.
- For the palsy, ibid.
- For the rheumatism, ibid.
- Elixir, paregoric, how to prepare, 698.
- Sacred elixir, ibid.
- Stomachic elixir, ibid.
- Acid elixir of vitriol, 699.
- Emulsions, their uses, 672.
- Preparation of the common emulsion, ibid.
- Arabic emulsion, ibid.
- Camphorated emulsion, ibid.
- Emulsion of gum ammoniac, ibid.
- Oily emulsion, 673.
- Engleman, Dr. his account of the German method of recovering persons from fainting fits, 622.
- Entrails. See Intestines.
- Epilepsy, the disorder defined, 432.
- Its causes and symptoms, 433.
- Due regimen, 434.
- Medical treatment, ibid.
- Eruption in children often free them from bad humours, but are mistaken and ill-treated by nurses, 35.
- Ought never to be stopped without proper advice, 36.
- In fevers, how to be treated, 193. 201. 207. 209.
- In the small-pox, 217. 221.
- In children, the causes of, 551.
- How to cure, 554.
- Erysipelas, a disorder incident to the laborious, 41.
- Its causes explained, and who most subject to it, 249.
- Its symptoms, ibid.
- Regimen, 250.
- Medical treatment, 253.
- The scorbutic erysipelas, 253.
- Instructions for those who are subject to this disorder, ibid.
- Evacuations of the human body, the principal, specified, 121.
- By stool, ibid.
- Urine, 123.
- Perspiration, 125.
- Exercise, the importance of, to promote the growth and strength of children, 21.
- All young animals exert their organs of motion as soon as they are able, 22.
- The utility of, proved from anatomical considerations, 24.
- And from philosophical deductions, ibid.
- Military exercise recommended for boys, 26.
- Benefits of dancing, 29.
- Is better for sedentary persons under lowness of spirits than the tavern, 52.
- Gardening the best exercise for the sedentary, 53.
- Violent, ought not to be taken immediately after a full meal, 61.
- Is as necessary as food for the preservation of health, 81.
- Our love of activity, an evidence of its utility, 82.
- Indolence relaxes the solids, ibid.
- The indulgence of carriages as absurd as pernicious, ibid.
- Is almost the only cure for glandular obstructions, 83.
- Will prevent and remove those disorders that medicine can not cure, ibid.
- Is the best cure for complaints in the stomach, 84.
- How to be taken within doors, when not to be done in the open air, 85.
- Active sports better than sedentary amusements, ibid.
- The golf, a better exercise than cricket, ibid. note.
- Exercise should not be extended to fatigue, 86.
- Is as necessary for the mind as for the body, 118.
- Is often of more efficacy than any medicine whatever, 139.
- The best mode of taking it in a consumption, 177.
- Is of the greatest importance in a dropsy, 376.
- Muscular, for the gout, 385.
- Is necessary for the asthmatic, 408.
- Is superior to all medicine in nervous disorders, 423.
- And in the palsy, 432.
- Is proper for pregnant women, unless they are of a very delicate texture, 533.
- Want of, the occasion of rickets in children, 563.
- Extracts, general rules for making; but are more conveniently purchased ready made, 673.
- Eyes, inflammation of, its general causes, 258.
- Symptoms, 259.
- Medical treatment, 260.
- How to be treated when it proceeds from a scrophulous habit, 263.
- Advice to those who are subject to this complaint, 264.
- Are subject to many diseases which are difficult to cure, 456.
- The means by which they are frequently injured, 457.
- General means of prevention, ibid.
- The several disorders of, with their medical treatment, 458.
- Eye-waters, general remarks on, and their principal intentions, 662.
- Collyrium of alum, 663.
- Vitriolic collyrium, ibid.
- Collyrium of lead, ibid.
- F.
- Fainting fits, how to cure, 441. 618.
- Cautions to persons subject to them, 623.
- Falling sickness. See Epilepsy.
- Fasting, long, injurious to those who labour hard, 43.
- Is hurtful both to old and young, 73.
- Fathers, culpably inattentive to the management of their children, 5.
- Their irregular lives often injure the constitution of their children, 7.
- Fear, the influence of, very great, in occasioning and aggravating diseases, 112.
- Its various operations, 113.
- Feet, injured by wearing tight shoes, 91.
- The washing of, an agreeable article of cleanliness, 104.
- Wet, the danger of, 127.
- Bathing them in warm water, a good remedy in a cold, 279.
- And in the hooping-cough, 288.
- Fermentation, the vapour of liquors in a state of, noxious, 614.
- Fevers, of a bad kind, often occasioned among labourers by poor living, 43.
- Frequently attack sedentary persons after hard drinking, 52.
- Nervous, often the consequence of intense study, 57.
- Putrid and malignant, often occasioned by want of cleanliness, 100.
- The most general causes of, enumerated, 140.
- The distinguishing symptoms of, 141.
- The several species of, ibid.
- Is an effort of nature, which ought to be assisted, 142.
- How this is to be done, 143.
- Cordials and sweetmeats improper in, 144.
- Fresh air of great importance in, 145.
- The mind of the patient ought not to be alarmed with religious terrors, ibid.
- Cautions as to bleeding and sweating in, 146.
- Longings, the calls of nature, and deserve attention, ibid.
- Cautions to prevent a relapse, 147.
- Fever, acute continual, who most liable to, 157.
- Causes, ibid.
- Symptoms, 158.
- Regimen, ibid.
- Medical treatment, 161.
- Symptoms favourable and unfavourable, ibid.
- Regimen to be observed during recovery, 162.
- Fever, bilious, general time of its appearance, 247.
- Proper treatment of, according to its symptoms, 248.
- Fever, intermitting. See Ague.
- Fever, miliary, from what the name derived, and its general appearances, 205.
- Who most liable to it, ibid.
- Causes, ibid.
- Symptoms, 206.
- Regimen, 207.
- Account of a miliary fever at Strasburg, 208, note.
- Proper medical treatment, 209.
- Cautions for avoiding this disorder, 210.
- How to prevent, in child-bed-women, 538.
- Fever, milk, how occasioned, 537.
- Fever, nervous, why more common now than formerly, and who most liable to it, 188.
- Its causes, ibid.
- Symptoms and proper regimen, 189.
- Medical treatment, 191.
- Fever, puerperal, or child-bed, the time of its attack, and symptoms, 538.
- Medical treatment of, 539.
- Cautions for the prevention of this fever, 541.
- Fever, putrid, is of a pestilential nature, and who most liable to it, 195.
- Its general causes, ibid.
- Symptoms of, 196.
- Other fevers may be converted to this, by improper treatment, 197.
- Favourable and unfavourable symptoms of, ibid.
- Regimen, 198.
- Medical treatment, 201.
- Cautions for the prevention of this disorder, 203.
- Fever, remitting, derivation of its name, 210.
- Its causes and symptoms, 211.
- Proper regimen, 212.
- Medical treatment, 213.
- Cautions for avoiding this fever, ibid.
- Fever, scarlet, why so named, and its usual season of attack, 245.
- Proper treatment of, 246.
- Is sometimes attended with putrid and malignant symptoms, ibid.
- Medicines adapted to this stage of the malady, ibid.
- History of a fever of this kind at Edinburgh, 247, note.
- Fever, secondary, in the small-pox, proper treatment of, 224.
- Flatulencies in the stomach, remedies against, 363.
- The several causes of, 443.
- Medical treatment of, 444.
- Flatulent colic, its causes, and seat of the disorder, 296.
- Flower-de-luce, the yellow water, the root of, recommended for the tooth-ach, 358.
- Fluor albus described, with its proper treatment, 529.
- Fomentations, how to make and apply, 673.
- General intentions of, ibid.
- Anodyne fomentation, 674.
- Aromatic fomentation, ibid.
- Common fomentation, ibid.
- Emollient fomentation, ibid.
- Strengthening fomentation, 675.
- Food. See Aliment.
- Forgiveness of injuries, ought to be practised from a regard to our own health, 112.
- Fractures. See Bones, broken.
- Frozen limbs, how to recover, 617.
- Fruit, unripe, very hurtful to children, 20.
- One of the best medicines, both for the prevention and cure of a dysentery, 348.
- Funerals, the great number of visitors attending them, dangerous to their health, 107.
- G.
- Galling, in infants, the cause and cure of, 550.
- Gangrene, proper treatment of, 574.
- Gardening, a wholesome amusement for sedentary persons, 52.
- Gargles for the throat, how to make, 267. 270. 274.
- General intentions of, 675.
- Method of making the attenuating gargle, ibid.
- Common gargle, ibid.
- Detergent gargle, ibid.
- Emollient gargle, ibid.
- For the mouth of infants in the thrush, 548.
- Garlic ointment, a North British remedy for the hooping-cough, how to apply it, 287.
- Generals of armies, how they ought to consult the health of the men they command, 44.
- Gilders. See Miners.
- Ginger, syrup of, how to prepare, 694.
- Girls, the common mode of education prejudicial to their constitution, 27.
- Means of rectifying it recommended, ibid.
- Gleet, how occasioned, and its symptoms, 500.
- Method of cure, ibid.
- Regimen, 501.
- Obstinate gleets cured by mercurial inunctions, 502.
- How to apply bougies, ibid.
- Glover, Mr. his course of treatment for the recovery of a hanged man, 628.
- Gonorrhœa, virulent, the nature of, and its symptoms, 491.
- Regimen, 492.
- Medical treatment, 493.
- Is often cured by astringent injections, ibid.
- Cooling purges always proper in, 494.
- Mercury seldom necessary in a gonorrhœa, 496.
- How to administer it when needful, 497.
- Goulard, M. preparation of his celebrated extract of Saturn, 700.
- His various applications of it, ibid.
- Gout, the general causes of, 55.
- How to treat a looseness occasioned by repelling it from the extremities, 313.
- The sources of this disorder, and its symptoms, 380, 381.
- Regimen for, 382.
- Wool the best external application in, 383.
- Why there are so many nostrums for, 384.
- Proper medicines after the fit, ibid.
- Proper regimen in the intervals between fits to keep off their return, 385.
- How to remove it from the nobler parts to the extremities, 386.
- General cautions to prevent danger by mistaking it for other disorders, 387.
- Gravel, how formed in the bladder, 125.
- How distinguished from the stone, 324.
- Causes and symptoms, ibid.
- Regimen, 325.
- Medical treatment, 326.
- Green-sickness originates in indolence, 523.
- Grief, its effects permanent, and often fatal, 116.
- Danger of the mind dwelling long upon one subject, especially if of a disagreeable nature, 117.
- The mind requires exercise as well as the body, 118.
- Innocent amusements not to be neglected, ibid.
- Is productive of nervous diseases, 421.
- Gripes in infants, proper treatment of, 549.
- Guaiacum, gum, a good remedy for the quinsey, 268;
- Gullet, how to remove substances detained in, 603.
- Cautions for the use of crotchets with this intention, ibid.
- Other mechanical expedients, 604.
- Treatment if the obstruction cannot be removed, 607.
- Gums of children, applications to, during teething, and how to cut them, 561.
- Gutta serena, proper treatment of, 458.
- H.
- Hæmoptoe, spitting of blood. See Blood.
- Hæmorrhages. See Blood.
- Harrowgate water, an excellent medicine for expelling worms, 368.
- And for the jaundice, 373.
- In the scurvy, 391.
- Head-ach, the species of, distinguished, 352.
- Causes of, 353.
- Regimen, 354.
- Medical treatment, 355.
- Health of the people in general, a proper object of attention for the magistrates, xi.
- Ought to be attended to in matrimonial contracts, 8.
- Is often laboured for after it is destroyed, 61.
- Rules given by Celsus for the preservation of, 134.
- Heart-burn, the nature of this disorder, with its causes, and remedies for, 418.
- Heat, extreme, how to recover persons overcome by, 618.
- Hemlock, a good remedy in the King’s evil, 402.
- Is recommended by Dr. Stork for the cure of cancers, 469.
- Hemp-seed, a decoction of, good in the jaundice, and how to prepare it, 373.
- Hiccup, its causes, and method of treatment, 436.
- Hoffman, his rules for guarding child-bed women against the miliary fever, 538.
- Honey, a wholesome article of food for children, 21.
- Is recommended in the stone, 328.
- Hooping-cough. See Cough.
- Hospitals, the want of fresh air in, more dangerous to the patients than their disorders, 81.
- Cleanliness peculiarly necessary in, 105.
- Often spread infection by being situated in the middle of populous towns, 108.
- How they might be rendered proper receptacles for the sick, 110.
- Particularly in infectious disorders, 111.
- The sick in, ought not to be crowded together, 219, note.
- Horse-radish, the chewing of, will restore sensibility to the organs of taste when injured, 465.
- Houses, instead of contrivances to make them close and warm, ought to be regularly ventilated, 78.
- In marshy situations unwholesome, 80.
- Ought to be built in a dry situation, 130.
- Danger of inhabiting new-built houses before thoroughly dry, ibid.
- Are often rendered damp by unseasonable cleanliness, ibid.
- Are dangerous when kept too close and hot, 133.
- Husbandmen, the peculiar disorders they are exposed to, from the vicissitudes of the weather, 40.
- Huxham, Dr. recommends the study of the dietetic part of medicine, xiii.
- Hydrocephalus. See Dropsy.
- Hydrophobia, Dr. Tissot’s method of curing, 484.
- Hydrops pectoris. See Dropsy.
- Hypochondriac affections, frequently produced by intense study, 58.
- Their causes, and who most subject to them, 452.
- The general intentions of cure, ibid.
- Regimen, 454.
- Hysterics, a disorder produced by the habitual use of tea, 66.
- General causes of, 447.
- Symptoms, 448.
- Proper treatment of, ibid.
- Regimen, 449.
- Medicines adapted to, 450.
- Hysteric colic, symptoms and treatment of, 299.
- J.
- Jails, why malignant fevers are often generated in them, 77.
- Often spread infection by being situated in the middle of populous towns, 108.
- Ought to be removed, 110.
- Janin, M. his relation of the recovery of an overlaid infant, 627.
- And of a man who had hanged himself, 628.
- Jaundice, the different stages of its appearance, with the causes of this disorder, 370, 371.
- Symptoms and regimen, 371.
- Medical treatment, 372.
- Jesuits Bark. See Bark.
- Jews, the whole system of their laws tending to promote cleanliness, 103. 107.
- Iliac passion, a particular kind of inflammation of the intestines, 292.
- Imposthume in the breast, in consumptions, how to make it break inwardly, when not to be discharged by other means, 185.
- Imposthumes after the small-pox, proper treatment of, 227.
- Incontinency of urine, distinguished from a diabetes, 322.
- Expedient for relief, ibid.
- Indigestion, is one consequence of intense study, 56.
- General causes, and remedies for, 416.
- Indolence, its bad effects on the constitution, 82.
- Occasions glandular obstructions, 83.
- Ill consequences of too much indulgence in bed, 84.
- Is the parent of vice, 86.
- Is the general cause of most nervous disorders, 455.
- Infancy, the foundation of a good or bad constitution, generally laid in this season of life, 1.
- Infants, nearly one half of those born in Great Britain die under twelve years of age, 1.
- Perish mostly by art, 2.
- Ought not
- to be suckled by delicate women, 3.
- Importance of their being nursed by their mothers, 4.
- Often lose their lives, or become deformed, by errors in clothing them, 9.
- How the art of bandaging them became the province of the midwife, 10.
- How treated in Africa, 11, note.
- Philosophical observations on their organical structure, and on the causes of deformity, ibid.
- Why they so frequently die of convulsions, 12.
- Why exposed to fevers, 13.
- And colds, 14.
- Rules for their dress, ibid.
- Their food, 15.
- Reflections on the many evils they are exposed to, 544.
- Why their first disorders are in their bowels, ibid.
- How to cleanse their bowels, 545.
- The meconium, 546.
- Thrush, 547.
- Acidities, 548.
- Gripes, 549.
- Galling and excoriations, 550.
- Stoppage of the nose, ibid.
- Vomiting, 551.
- Looseness, 552.
- Eruptions, 553.
- Scabbed heads, 555.
- Chilblains, 556.
- The croup, 557.
- Teething, 559.
- Rickets, 562.
- Convulsions, 565.
- Water in the head, 567.
- How to recover infants seemingly dead, 622.
- Ought never to sleep in the same bed with their mothers or nurses, 626, note.
- Case of the recovery of an overlaid infant, 627.
- Case of an infant seemingly killed by a strong convulsion fit, and recovered, 629.
- See Children.
- Infection, the danger of, incurred by injudicious or unnecessary attendance on the sick, 106.
- And on funerals, 107.
- Is often communicated by clothes, ibid.
- Is frequently imported, 108.
- Is spread by hospitals and jails being situated in the middle of populous towns, ibid.
- How to prevent infection in sick chambers, 109.
- Physicians liable to spread infection, ibid. note.
- In what respects the spreading of infection might be checked by the magistrate, 110.
- Bleeding and purging increase the danger of, by debilitating the body, 204.
- Small-pox, 214.
- Of the small-pox may be received again, 218, note.
- Inflammations, how the laborious part of mankind expose themselves to, 42.
- Proper treatment of, 574.
- Inflammation of the bladder. See Bladder.
- —— of the brain. See Brain.
- —— of the eyes. See Eyes.
- —— of the intestines. See Intestines.
- —— of the kidneys. See Kidneys.
- —— of the liver. See Liver.
- —— of the lungs. See Peripneumony.
- —— of the stomach. See Stomach.
- —— of the throat. See Quinsey.
- —— of the womb. See Womb.
- Infusions, advantages of, over decoctions, 676.
- How to obtain rich infusions from weak vegetables, ibid.
- Preparation of the bitter infusion, ibid.
- Infusion of the bark, ibid.
- Infusion of carduus, 677.
- Of linseed, ibid.
- Of roses, ibid.
- Of tamarinds, and senna, ibid.
- Spanish infusion, 678.
- For the palsy, ibid.
- Inns, the great danger of meeting with damp beds in them, 128.
- The sheets in, how treated to save washing, 129.
- Inoculation of the small-pox, more favourably received here than in neighbouring countries, 227.
- Cannot prove of general utility while kept in the hands of a few, 228.
- No mystery in the process, ibid.
- May safely be performed by parents or nurses, 229.
- Various methods of doing it, ibid.
- The clergy exhorted to remove the prejudices against the operation, 231.
- Arguments cited from Dr. Mackenzie in favour of inoculation, ibid. note.
- Ought to be rendered universal, 233.
- Means of extending the practice of, 234.
- Two obstacles to the progress of, stated, 235.
- Might be performed by clergymen, or by parents themselves, 236.
- The proper seasons and age for performing it, 239.
- Will often mend the habit of body, ibid.
- Necessary preparation and regimen for, ibid.
- Insects, when they creep into the ear, how to force them out, 361.
- Poisonous, the bites of, how to be treated, 486.
- Intemperance, one great cause of the diseases of seamen, 45.
- The danger of, argued from the constructions of the human body, 94.
- The analogy in the nourishment of plants and animals, ibid.
- Is the abuse of natural passions, ibid.
- In diet, 95.
- In liquor and carnal pleasures, ibid.
- The bad consequences of, involve whole families, 96.
- Effects of drunkenness on the constitution, ibid.
- Persons who seldom get drunk, may nevertheless injure their constitutions by drink, 97.
- The habit of drinking frequently acquired under misfortunes, 98.
- Is peculiarly hurtful to young persons, 99.
- Leads to all other vices, ibid.
- Intermitting fever. See Ague.
- Intestines, inflammation of, general causes from whence it proceeds, 291.
- The symptoms, regimen, and medical treatment, 292.
- Cautions to guard against it, 295.
- Intoxication produces a fever, 96.
- Fatal consequences of a daily repetition of this vice, ibid.
- Persons who seldom get drunk, may nevertheless injure their constitution by drinking, ibid.
- Getting drunk, a hazardous remedy for a cold, 277.
- Often produces fatal effects, 623.
- Proper cautions for treating persons in liquor, 624.
- The safest drink after a debauch, ibid.
- Remarkable case, 625.
- Johnson, Dr. extraordinary recovery of an infant seemingly killed by a strong convulsion fit, related by, 629.
- Issues, how to make them take the best effect, 430.
- Itch, the nature and symptoms of this disease described, 403.
- Sulphur, the best remedy against, ibid.
- Great danger of the injudicious use of mercurial preparations for, 405.
- Cleanliness the best preservative against, 406, note.
- Juleps, the form of, explained, 678.
- Preparation of the camphorated julep, ibid.
- Cordial julep, 679.
- Expectorating julep, ibid.
- Musk julep, ibid.
- Saline julep, ibid.
- Vomiting julep, ibid.
- %center%K.
- Kermes mineral, recommended by Dr. Duplanil for the hooping cough, 287, note.
- Kidneys, inflammation of, its general causes, 301.
- Its symptoms and proper regimen, 302.
- Medical treatment, 305.
- Where it proceeds from the stone and gravel, ibid.
- Cautions for those subject to this disorder, ibid. See Gravel.
- King’s evil. See Scrophula.
- L.
- Laborious employments, the peculiar disorders incident to, 40.
- The folly of men emulating each other in trials of strength, 41.
- Disadvantages attending their diet, ibid.
- How they expose themselves to inflammations, 42.
- Danger of sleeping in the sun, ibid.
- Long fasting hurtful to them, ibid.
- Injuries arising from poor living, 43.
- Many of the diseases of labourers, not only occasioned, but aggravated, by poverty, ibid.
- Labour should not be imposed too early on children, 28.
- Labour in child-bed, medical advice for, 534.
- Inconveniencies of collecting a number of women at, 535, note.
- Laudanum, its efficacy in fits of an ague, 149, note.
- How to be administered in a cholera morbus, 311.
- In a looseness, 313.
- In a diabetes, 321.
- When proper for the head-ach, 356.
- How to apply, for the tooth-ach, 358.
- Will ease pain in the gout, 384.
- How to administer for the cramp in the stomach, 438.
- Is good for flatulences, 444.
- Effects of an over-dose of, 470.
- Medical treatment in this case, 476.
- Leading-strings, injurious to young children, 23.
- Leeches, may be successfully applied to inflamed testicles, 503, note.
- And to disperse buboes, 505, note.
- Are proper to apply to children where inflammations appear in teething, 560.
- Objections to bleeding with them, 572.
- Lemons. See Oranges.
- Leprosy, why less frequent in this country now than formerly, 398.
- Requires the same treatment as the scurvy, ibid.
- Lientery, proper treatment for, 351.
- Life may frequently be restored, when the appearances of it are suspended by sudden casualties, 601. 608. 613. 631.
- Lightning, persons apparently killed by, might possibly be recovered by the use of proper means, 631.
- Lime-water recommended to prevent gravel in the kidneys from degenerating to the stone in the bladder, 326.
- Is a good remedy for worms, 368.
- Happy effects of, in the cure of obstinate ulcers, 585.
- Lind, Dr. his prescription to abate fits of an ague, 149, note.
- His directions for the treatment of patients under putrid remitting fevers, 212, note.
- Liniment for burns, preparation of, 683.
- White liniment, 684.
- For the piles, ibid.
- Volatile liniment, ibid.
- Liquors, strong, expose children to inflammatory disorders, 19.
- Fermented, the qualities of, examined, 68.
- The bad consequences of making them too weak, 69.
- Why all families ought to prepare their own liquors, ibid.
- Cold, the danger of drinking, when a person is hot, 131.
- Liver, schirrous, produced by sedentary employments, 56.
- Liver, inflammation of, its causes and symptoms, 306.
- Regimen and medical treatment, 307.
- Abscess in, how to be treated, 308.
- Cautions in the event of a schirrous being formed, ibid.
- Lobelia, an American plant used by the natives in the venereal disease, 514.
- Lochia, a suppression of, how to be treated, 537.
- Longings, in diseases, are the calls of nature, and often point out what may be of real use, 146.
- Looseness, habitual, general directions for persons subject to, 122.
- Its general causes, 312.
- A periodical looseness ought never to be stopped, 313.
- Medical treatment of, according to its various causes, ibid.
- Means of checking it when necessary, 314.
- In children, proper treatment of, 552.
- Love, why perhaps the strongest of all the passions, 119.
- Is not rapid in its progress, and may therefore be guarded against at its commencement, ibid.
- To pretend to it for amusement, cruelty to the object, ibid.
- Children often real martyrs between inclination and duty, 120, note.
- Lues, confirmed, symptoms of, 510.
- Mercury the only certain remedy known in Europe for this disease, 511.
- Saline preparations of mercury more efficacious than the ointment, 512.
- How to administer corrosive sublimate, ibid.
- American method of curing this disease, 513.
- Lungs, injured by artists working in bending postures, 50.
- Studious persons liable to consumptions of, 56.
- Luxury, highly injurious to the organs of taste and smell, 463.
- M.
- Mackenzie, Dr. his arguments in favour of inoculating in the small-pox, 231, note.
- Mad dog. See Dog.
- Magnesia alba, a remedy for the heart-burn, 419.
- Is the best medicine in all cases of acidity, 549.
- Magnets, artificial, their reputed virtue in the tooth-ach, 359.
- Malt liquors, hurtful in the asthma, 407.
- Man, why inferior to brutes in the management of his young, 1.
- Was never intended to be idle, 87.
- Manufactures, the growth of, produced the rickets in children, 21.
- More favourable to riches than to health, 28.
- Some, injurious to health by confining artists in unwholesome air, 37.
- Cautions to the workmen, 38.
- Compared with agriculture, 48.
- Are injurious to health from artists being crowded together, 49.
- And from their working in confined postures, ibid.
- Cautions offered to sedentary artists, 50.
- Sedentary arts better suited to women than to men, 83, note.
- Matrimony ought not to be contracted without a due attention to health and form, 8.
- Mead, Dr. his famous recipe for the bite of a mad dog, 480.
- His character as a physician, ibid. note.
- Meals ought to be taken at regular times, 72.
- Reasons for this uniformity, ibid.
- Measles, have great affinity with the small-pox, 240.
- Cause and symptoms, ibid.
- Proper regimen and medicine, 242, 243.
- Inoculation of, might prove very salutary, 245, note.
- Mechanics ought to employ their leisure hours in gardening, 54.
- Meconium, the best mode of expelling it, 16. 546.
- Medicine, the origin of the art of, xii.
- The operation of, doubtful at best, xiv.
- Is made a mystery of, by its professors, xxi.
- The study of, neglected by gentlemen, xxii.
- This ignorance lays men open to pretenders, xxiii.
- Ought to be generally understood, xxiv.
- A diffusion of the knowledge of, would destroy quackery, xxvii.
- Objections to the cultivation of medical knowledge answered, xxviii.
- The theory of, can never supply the want of experience and observation, 135.
- Medicines have more virtue attributed to them than they deserve, 138.
- Ought not to be administered by the ignorant, nor without caution, 140.
- Want of perseverance in the use of, one reason why chronic diseases are so seldom cured, 392.
- Many retained, which owe their reputation to credulity, 649.
- Are multiplied and compounded in proportion to ignorance of the causes and nature of diseases, ibid.
- Disadvantages of compounded medicines, ibid.
- Are often adulterated for the sake of colour, ibid.
- The relative proportions of doses of, for different ages, 652.
- A list of such medical preparations as ought to be kept for private practice, 654.
- Melancholy, religious, its effects, 120.
- Leads to suicide, ibid.
- Defined, with its causes, 426.
- Symptoms and regimen, 426, 427.
- Medicinal treatment, 428.
- Menstrual discharge in women, the commencement and decline of, the most critical periods of their lives, 522.
- Confinement injurious to growing young women, 523;
- and tight lacing for a fine shape, 524.
- Symptoms of the first appearance of this discharge, 525.
- Objects of attention in regimen at this time, ibid.
- Ought to be restored whenever unnaturally obstructed, and how, 526.
- When an obstruction proceeds from another malady, the first cause is to be removed, 527.
- Treatment under a redundancy of the discharge, 528.
- Regimen and medicine proper at the final decline of the menses, 529.
- Mercury, may be given in desperate cases of an inflammation of the intestines, 294.
- Cautions for administering it, ibid. note.
- Great caution necessary in using mercurial preparations for the itch, 405.
- Is seldom necessary in a gonorrhœa, 496.
- How to administer it when needful in that disorder, 497.
- Solution of mercury, how to make, 498, note.
- Is the only certain remedy known in Europe for the cure of a confirmed lues, 511.
- Saline preparations of, more efficacious than the mercurial ointment, ibid.
- How to administer corrosive sublimate in venereal cases, 512.
- Necessary cautions in the use of mercury, 515.
- Proper seasons for entering on a course of, 516.
- Preparations for, ibid.
- Regimen under a course of, 517.
- Mezereon root, a powerful assistant in venereal cases, 513.
- Midwifery, ought not to be allowed to be practiced by any woman not properly qualified, 534, note.
- Midwives, historical view of the profession, 9.
- How they became intrusted with the care of bandaging infants, with the ill effects of their attempts at dexterity in this office, 10.
- Instances of their rashness and officious ignorance, 540, note, 544, note.
- Miliary fever. See Fever.
- Military exercise recommended for boys to practise, 26.
- Milk, that of the mother, the most natural food for an infant, 15.
- Cows milk, better unboiled than boiled, 18.
- Is a good antidote against the scurvy, 66.
- Of more value in consumptions than the whole Materia Medica, 179.
- Its great efficacy in the scurvy, 396.
- A milk diet proper both for men and women, in cases of barrenness, 543.
- Milk fever. See Fever.
- Millipedes, how to administer for the hooping-cough, 287.
- Mind, diseases of, to be distinguished from those of the body, 136.
- Miners, exposed to injuries from unwholesome air, and mineral particles, 38.
- Mineral waters, the danger of drinking them in too large quantities, 319.
- Are of considerable service in weaknesses of the stomach, 417.
- Cautions concerning the drinking of, 639–646.
- Mixtures, general remarks on this form of medicines, 680.
- Composition of the astringent mixture, ibid.
- Diuretic mixture, ibid.
- Laxative absorbent mixture, ibid.
- Saline mixture, 681.
- Squill mixture, ibid.
- Molasses, an intoxicating spirit much used by the common people at Edinburgh, 91.
- Mothers, preposterous, when they think it below them to nurse their own children, 2.
- Under what circumstances they may be really unfit to perform this task, ibid.
- Importance of their suckling their own children, 3, note.
- Delicate mothers produce unhealthy short-lived children, 7.
- Their milk, the best food for children, 15.
- Ought to give their children proper exercise, 23;
- Mouth, cautions against putting pins or other dangerous articles into, 603.
- Muscular exercise a cure for the gout, 385.
- Mushrooms, a dangerous article of food, as other funguses are often gathered instead of them, 488.
- Music, the performance of, recommended as a proper amusement for studious persons, 60.
- Musk, extraordinary effects produced by, under particular circumstances, in the nervous fever, 193.
- Is a good remedy in the epilepsy, 435.
- Deafness cured by, 462.
- Mustard, white, a good remedy in the rheumatism, 391.
- N.
- Natural history, the study of, necessary to the improvement of agriculture, xx.
- Nervous diseases, the most complicated and difficult to cure of all others, 420.
- General causes of, ibid.
- Symptoms of, 421.
- Regimen, 422.
- Medical treatment, 424.
- A cure only to be expected from regimen, 426.
- The several symptoms of, though differently named, all modifications of the same disease, 453.
- Nervous colic, its causes and symptoms, 299.
- Medical treatment of, 300.
- Nervous fever. See Fever.
- Night-mare, its causes and symptoms described, 439.
- Proper treatment of, 440.
- Nightshade, an infusion of, recommended in a cancer, 469.
- Nitre, purified, its good effects in a quinsey, 268.
- Is an efficacious remedy for the dropsy, 378.
- Promotes urine and perspiration, 429.
- Nose, ulcer in, how to cure, 464.
- Stoppage of, in children, how to cure, 551.
- See Bleeding at.
- Nurses, their superstitious prejudices in bathing of children, 30.
- The only certain evidence of a good one, 33.
- Their usual faults pointed out, 34.
- Administer cordials to remedy their neglect of duty toward children, 35.
- Their mistaken treatment of eruptions, ibid.
- And loose stools, ibid.
- Are apt to conceal the disorders of children that arise from their own negligence, 36.
- Ought to be punished for the misfortunes they thus occasion, ibid.
- Sensible, often able to discover diseases sooner than persons bred to physic, 135.
- Are liable to catch the small-pox again from those they nurse in that disorder, 218, note.
- Nursery ought to be the largest and best aired room in a house, 31.
- O.
- Oil, an antidote to the injuries arising from working in mines or metals, 39.
- Sallad oil, the best application to the bite of a wasp or bee, 486.
- Camphorated, how to prepare, 684.
- Oils, essential, of vegetables, the proper menstruum for, 694.
- Ointment for the itch, 403.
- Use of ointments when applied to wounds and sores, 681.
- Preparation of yellow basilicum, ibid.
- Emollient ointment, 682.
- Eye ointments, ibid.
- Issue ointment, ibid.
- Ointment of lead, 683.
- Mercurial ointment, ibid.
- Ointment of sulphur, ibid.
- White ointment, ibid.
- See Liniment.
- Ophthalmia. See Eye.
- Opiates, efficacious in a cholera morbus, 311.
- In a diabetes, 320.
- When proper for the head-ach, 356.
- Recommended for the tooth-ach, ibid.
- Are delusive remedies in nervous diseases, 425.
- See Laudanum.
- Orange and lemon-peel, how to candy, 665.
- How to preserve orange and lemon-juice in the form of syrup, 694.
- Ormskirk medicine for the bite of a mad dog, remarks on, 485, note.
- Oxycrate, the most proper external application in a fracture, 596.
- Oysters of great service in consumptions, 182, note.
- P.
- Painters. See Miners.
- Palsy, the nature of this disorder explained, with its causes, 430.
- Paraphrenitis, its symptoms and treatment, 170.
- Parents, their interested views in the disposal of their children in marriage, often a source of bitter repentance, 120, note. See Fathers, and Mothers.
- Passions, intemperance the abuse of, 94.
- Have great influence both in the cause and cure of diseases, 111.
- Anger, 112.
- Fear, ibid.
- Grief, 116.
- Love, 119.
- Religious melancholy, 120.
- The best method of counteracting the violence of any of the passions, ibid.
- Peas, parched, good in cases of flatulency, 363.
- Peruvian bark. See Bark.
- Penis, ulcerated, cured, and partly regenerated, by a careful attention to cleanliness, 518, note.
- Peripneumony, who most subject to, 171.
- Its causes, symptoms, and proper regimen, ibid. 172.
- Perspiration, insensible, the obstruction of, disorders the whole frame, 126.
- The various causes of its being checked, ibid.
- Changes in the atmosphere, ibid.
- Wet clothes, 127.
- Wet feet, ibid.
- Night air, 128.
- Damp beds, ibid.
- Damp houses, 130.
- Sudden transitions from heat to cold, 131.
- Philosophy, advantages resulting from the study of, xxiii.
- Phrenitis. See Brain.
- Phymosis described, and how to treat, 509.
- Physicians, ill consequences of their inattention to the management of children, 5.
- Are liable to spread infection, 109, note.
- Their custom of prognosticating the fate of their patients, a bad practice, 115.
- Are seldom called in, until medicine can give no relief, 158.
- The faculty oppose every salutary discovery, 328.
- Pickles, provocatives injurious to the stomach, 67.
- Piles, bleeding and blind, the distinction between, 334.
- Who most subject to the disorder, ibid.
- General causes, ibid.
- Medical treatment of, 335.
- Periodical discharges of, ought not to be stopped, 336.
- Proper treatment of the blind piles, ibid.
- External ointments of little use, 337.
- Pills, purging, proper form of, for an inflammation of the intestines, 294.
- The general intention of this class of medicines, 684.
- Preparation of the composing pill, 685.
- Fœtid pill, ibid.
- Hemlock pill, ibid.
- Mercurial pill, ibid.
- Mercurial sublimate pills, 686.
- Plummer’s pill, ibid.
- Purging pill, 687.
- Pill for the jaundice, ibid.
- Squill pills, ibid.
- Strengthening pills, 688.
- Pins ought never to be used in the dressing of children, 13.
- Swallowed, discharged from an ulcer in the side, 603, note.
- Plasters, the general intentions of, and their usual basis, 688.
- Preparation of the common plaster, ibid.
- Adhesive plaster, 689.
- Anodyne plaster, ibid.
- Blistering plaster, ibid.
- Gum plaster, ibid.
- Mercurial plaster, ibid.
- Stomach plaster, 690.
- Warm plaster, ibid.
- Wax plaster, ibid.
- Pleurisy, the nature of the disorder explained, with its causes, 163.
- Symptoms, 164.
- Regimen, ibid.
- Medical treatment, 165.
- A decoction of seneka reckoned a specific in, 168.
- Bastard pleurisy, 169.
- Plumbers. See Miners.
- Poisons, the nature and cure of, a general concern, and easily acquired, 472.
- Mineral poisons, 473.
- Vegetable poisons, 475.
- Bites of poisonous animals, 477.
- Bite of a mad dog, 479.
- Bite of a viper, 485.
- The practice of sucking the poison out of wounds recommended, 486, note.
- Poisonous plants ought to be destroyed in the neighbourhood of towns, 487.
- Negro remedy to cure the bite of a rattle-snake, 488.
- General rules for security against poisons, 489.
- Poor living, the dangers of, 43.
- Porters subject to disorders of the lungs, 40.
- Postures, confined, injurious to the health of sedentary artists, 50.
- Poverty, occasions parents to neglect giving their children proper exercise, 23.
- Destroys parental affection, 24, note.
- Not only occasions, but aggravates, many of the diseases of labourers, 43.
- The poor great sufferers by the sale of bad provisions, 63.
- And by bad air in large cities, 77.
- Poultices proper for inflamed wounds, 579.
- Powders, general instructions for making and administering, 691.
- Astringent powder, preparation and doses of, 692.
- Powder of bole, ibid.
- Carminative powder, ibid.
- Diuretic powder, 693.
- Aromatic purging powder, ibid.
- Saline laxative powder, ibid.
- Steel powder, ibid.
- Sudorific powder, ibid.
- Worm powder, 694.
- Purging worm powder, ibid.
- Powder for the tape-worm, ibid.
- Pox, small, who most liable to, and at what seasons, 214.
- Its causes and symptoms, ibid. 215.
- Favourable and unfavourable symptoms in, 215, 216.
- Regimen, 216.
- How the patient ought to be treated during the eruptive fever, 217.
- Children in this disorder ought not to lie together in the same bed, 219.
- Should be allowed clean linen, ibid.
- Patients under this disorder ought not to appear in public view, 220.
- Medical treatment, ibid.
- The secondary fever, 224.
- When and how to open the pustules, 225.
- Of inoculation, 227.
- Pregnancy, how to treat vomiting when the effect of, 316.
- Rules of conduct for women under the disorders incident to, 530.
- Causes and symptoms of abortion, 532.
- How to guard against abortion, ibid.
- Treatment in cases of abortion, ibid.
- Childbirth, 533.
- Prescriptions, medical, patients exposed to danger by their being written in Latin, xxvi.
- Provisions, unsound, the sale of, a public injury, 63.
- Puerperal fever. See Fever.
- Purges, the frequent taking of them renders the habitual use of them necessary, 123.
- Their efficacy in agues, 150.
- Proper form of, for an inflammation of the intestines, 293.
- Cooling purges always proper in a gonorrhœa, 494.
- Midwives too rash in the giving of purges, 540, note.
- Form of a gentle purge for infants disordered in the bowels, 545.
- For the thrush, 547.
- Pustules in the small-pox, favourable and unfavourable appearances of, 215, 216.
- The suppuration of, to be promoted, 221.
- When and how to open, 225.
- Putrid fever. See Fever.
- Q.
- Quacks put out more eyes than they cure, 456.
- Quackery, how to destroy, xxv.
- Quakers, their mode of dressing recommended, 93.
- Quinsey, a common and dangerous disorder, and to whom most fatal, 264.
- Its causes, ibid.
- Symptoms, 265.
- Regimen, 266.
- Medical applications, 268.
- How to promote suppuration, 269.
- How to nourish the patient when he cannot swallow, 270.
- Advice to persons subject to this disorder, ibid.
- ——, malignant, who most subject to, and its causes, 271.
- Its symptoms, 272.
- Regimen and medical treatment, 273.
- R.
- Rattlesnake, Negro remedy for the cure of its bite, 488.
- Regimen ought to co-operate with medicine to accomplish the cure of diseases, xiii.
- Will often cure diseases without medicine, 140.
- See Aliment.
- Religion, true, calculated to support the mind under every affliction, 120.
- The instructions in, ought not to dwell too much on gloomy subjects, 121.
- Remitting fever. See Fever.
- Repletion, impairs the digestive power, 72.
- Diseases occasioned by, 74.
- How to treat a looseness produced by, 312.
- Resentment, the indulgence of, injurious to the constitution, 112.
- Resins, and essential oils, the proper menstruum for, 695.
- Respiration, how to restore in a drowned person, 609.
- Rheumatism acute and chronic, distinguished, 388.
- Causes, ibid.
- Symptoms, 389.
- Medical treatment, ibid.
- Cautions to persons subject to this disorder, 390.
- Rickets, the appearance of, in Britain, dated from the growth of manufactures and sedentary employments, 23.
- The causes of, 562.
- Symptoms, 563.
- Regimen, and medical treatment, ibid.
- Rollers, pernicious tendency of applying them round the bodies of infants, 12.
- Romans, ancient, their great attention to the cleanliness of their towns, 102, note.
- Roses, conserve of, its great virtue against hæmorrhages, 336, 341.
- Rosemary, the external application of, a popular remedy for the cramp, 451, note.
- Ruptures, are chiefly incident to children and very old persons, 598.
- The causes respectively, ibid.
- Method of treatment, ibid.
- Cutting should be avoided if possible, 599.
- Cautions for persons afflicted with a rupture, 600.
- Often prove fatal before discovered, ibid. note.
- Rutherford, Dr. his preparation for the cure of a dysentery, 347, note.
- S.
- Sailors, their health injured by change of climate, hard weather, and bad provisions, 45.
- Many of their diseases spring from intemperance, ibid.
- Ought to guard against wet clothes, ibid.
- How the ill effects of salt provisions might be corrected, ibid.
- Peruvian bark the best antidote to sailors on a foreign coast, 47.
- Cleanliness greatly conducive to their health, 103.
- Sal prunellæ, its good effects in a quinsey, 268.
- Saline draughts, of good use for stopping a vomiting, 318.
- Preparation of, for this purpose, ibid.
- Peculiarly good in the puerperal fever, 540.
- Salivation not necessary in the cure of the venereal disease, 511.
- Sarsaparilla, a powerful assistant in venereal cases, 513.
- Scabbed head in children, difficult to cure, 555.
- Scarlet fever. See Fever.
- School, sending children there too young, its bad consequences, 25.
- Ought to be seated in a dry air, and not to be too much crowded, 33.
- Scirrhus in the liver, proper regimen in the case of, 308.
- Scrophula, nature of this disease, and its causes, 398.
- Symptoms, and regimen, 399.
- Medical treatment, 400.
- Scurvy, why prevalent among the English, 65.
- Where most prevalent, and the two distinctions of, 393.
- Causes of, ibid.
- Symptoms and cure, 394.
- Instructions to sea-faring men, 395.
- Extraordinary effects of milk, 396.
- Proper liquors, ibid.
- Sedentary life, includes the greater part of the human species, 47.
- Few persons follow agriculture who are capable of other business, 48.
- Sedentary and active employments ought to be intermixed, for the sake of health, ibid.
- Artists suffer from unwholesome air, by being crowded together, ibid.
- The postures artists are confined to, injurious to health, 49.
- Disorders produced by, ibid.
- Cautions offered to the sedentary, 50.
- Sedentary amusements improper for sedentary persons, 51.
- Hints relating to improper food, 52.
- Exercise a surer relief for low spirits than drinking, ibid.
- Gardening a wholesome amusement for the sedentary, ibid.
- Disorders occasioned by intense study, 55.
- Dietetical advice to the sedentary, 71.
- Sedentary occupations better adapted to women than men, 83, note.
- Sea water, a good remedy in the King’s evil, 400.
- Senses, disorders of, 456.
- Seton, sometimes has extraordinary effects in an inflammation of the eyes, 262.
- Is of service for preventing apoplexies, 413.
- The best method of making it, 430.
- Shoes, tight, the bad consequences resulting from, 91.
- The high heels of women’s shoes, 92.
- Sibbins, a venereal disorder so termed in the west of Scotland, how to cure, 518, note.
- Sick, the mutual danger incurred by unnecessary visitors to, 106.
- Persons in health to be kept at a distance from the sick, 107.
- Proper nurses ought to be employed about them, 109.
- Instructions for avoiding infection, ibid.
- Physicians too unguarded in their visits to them, ibid. note.
- Tolling of bells for the dead very dangerous to, 114.
- Their fears ought not to be alarmed, 116.
- Sight injured by studying by candle-light, 57.
- Simples, a list of those proper to be kept for private practice, 654.
- Sinapisms, the general intentions of, 660.
- Directions for making of, ibid.
- Sleep, the due proportion of, not easy to fix, 87.
- How to make it refreshing, 88.
- Complaints of the want of, chiefly made by the indolent, ibid.
- Heavy suppers cause uneasy nights, ibid.
- Anxiety destructive of sleep, 89.
- That in the fore-part of the night most refreshing, ibid.
- Early risers the longest livers, 90, note.
- Sleeping in the sun, the danger of, 42.
- Small pox. See Pox.
- Smell, injuries to which the sense of, is liable, with the remedies applicable to, 463.
- Soap, Alicant, recommended in the stone, 327.
- Soap-lees, how to take, ibid.
- Solanum. See Nightshade.
- Soldiers, exposed to many disorders from the hardships they undergo, 44.
- Ought to be employed in moderate labour in times of peace, 44, note.
- Spine, often bent by artists working in unfavourable postures, 50.
- Spirit, rectified, the direct menstruum for resins and essential oils of vegetables, 695.
- Of wine, camphorated, how to prepare, 699.
- Spirit of Mindererus, ibid.
- Spirits, lowness of, the general forerunner of a nervous fever, 189.
- The proper remedies for, 446.
- Cautions to persons under this complaint, 447.
- Spirituous liquors, when good in the colic, 296.
- And for gouty complaints in the stomach, 363.
- Should be avoided by all persons afflicted with nervous disorders, 423.
- The use of, often fatal, 623.
- Spitting of blood. See Blood.
- Spunge, may be used to supply the want of agaric as a styptic, 577, note.
- Its use in extracting substances stopped in the gullet, 605.
- Sports, active, far more wholesome than sedentary amusements, 85.
- Golf, a better exercise than cricket, ibid. note.
- Spots in the eye, how to treat, 459.
- Squinting, how to correct the habit of, 459.
- Stays, a ridiculous and pernicious article of female dress, 14, 91.
- The wearing of, tends to produce cancers in the breasts, 467.
- Sternutatories, preparations of, recommended for restoring lost smell, 464.
- Sticking-plaster is the best application for slight wounds, 578.
- Stomach, exercise the best cure for disorders of, 84.
- Inflammation of, a disorder that calls for speedy assistance, 289.
- Its causes, ibid.
- Symptoms, ibid.
- Regimen, 290.
- Medical treatment, ibid.
- Pain in, its causes, 362.
- Remedies for, 363.
- Instructions for persons subject to, 364.
- Stone, the formation of, in the bladder, explained, 124.
- This disorder how distinguished from the gravel, 324.
- Causes and symptoms, ibid.
- Regimen, 325.
- Medical treatment, 326.
- Alicant soap and lime-water, how to take for this disorder, 327.
- The uva ursi, a remedy in present request for, 328.
- Stool, loose, the benefit of, to children, 35.
- Proper treatment of, when excessive, 36.
- The discharge by, cannot be regular, if the mode of living be irregular, 121.
- One in a day generally sufficient for an adult, 122.
- How to produce a regularity of, ibid.
- Frequent recourse to medicines for costiveness, injurious to the constitution, 123.
- Stork, Dr. his method of treating cancers, 469.
- Strabismus. See Squinting.
- Strains, proper method of treating, 597.
- The safest external applications, ibid. note.
- Strangury, from a blistering plaster, how to guard against, 167.
- In the small-pox, how to relieve, 222.
- From a venereal cause, described, with its proper treatment, 507.
- Strangulation, course of treatment for the recovery of persons from, 628.
- Strasburgh, successful treatment of a miliary fever there, 208, note.
- Strength, the folly of trials of, from emulation, 40. 44.
- Study, intense, injurious to health, 54.
- The disorders occasioned by, 55.
- Character of a mere student, 58.
- Hints of advice to studious persons, 59.
- Danger of their having recourse to cordials, 60.
- Health often neglected while in possession, and laboured for after it is destroyed, 61.
- No person ought to study immediately after a full meal, 62.
- Diatetical advice to the studious, 71.
- The general effects of, on the constitution, 420.
- Sublimate, corrosive, how to administer in venereal cases, 512.
- Suffocation, by the fumes of charcoal, liable to happen in close chambers, 613.
- General causes of suffocation, 626.
- Overlaying of infants, 627.
- Sugar, an improper article in the food of children, 18.
- Sulphur, a good remedy for expelling worms, 368.
- Suppers, ought not to destroy the appetite for breakfast, 73.
- Heavy suppers sure to occasion uneasy nights, 88.
- Surgery, many of the operations of, successfully performed by persons unskilled in anatomy, 569.
- Humanity induces every one more or less to be a surgeon, ibid.
- Sweating, generally excited in an improper manner, in fevers, 146. 160.
- Swoonings, the several causes of, described, 424.
- Proper treatment of this disorder, 425. 618.
- Cautions to persons subject to them, 622.
- Sydenham, Dr. his method of treating fevers in children from teething, 560.
- Symptoms, diseases better distinguished by, than by the systematical arrangement of, 135.
- The differences of sex, age, and constitution, to be considered, 136.
- Diseases of the mind to be distinguished from those of the body, 137.
- Syncope, proper treatment in, 619.
- Syrups, the general intention of, 695.
- How to make simple syrup, and to modify it for particular purposes, ibid.
- T.
- Tacitus, his remark on the degeneracy of the Roman ladies, 4, note.
- Tallow-chandlers, and others working on putrid animal substances, cautions to, 39.
- Tapping for the dropsy, a safe and simple operation, 379.
- Tar, Barbadoes, its efficacy in the nervous colic, 300.
- Tartar, soluble, a good remedy for the jaundice, 373.
- Cream of, a good remedy in a dropsy, 378.
- Taste, how to restore the sense of, when injured, 465.
- Taylors, are exposed to injuries from breathing confined air, 49.
- Are subject to consumptions, ibid. note.
- Often lose the use of their legs, 50.
- Hints of instruction offered to them in regard to their health, 51.
- Tea, the customary use of, injurious to female constitutions, 7.
- Destroys their digestive powers, and produces hysterics, 66.
- The bad qualities of, principally owing to imprudence in the use of it, ibid.
- Green, chewing of, a remedy for the heart-burn, 419.
- Has a powerful effect upon the nerves, 431, note.
- Is bad for persons troubled with flatulences, 445.
- Teething, the disorders attending, 559.
- Regimen, and medical treatment in, 560.
- Applications to the gums, and how to cut them, 561.
- Temperance, the parent of health, 94.
- Testicles, swelled, the cause of, 503.
- Regimen and medicine in, ibid.
- Treatment under a cancerous or scrophulous habit, 504.
- Thirst, how it may be quenched when a person is hot, without danger, 132.
- Thought, intense, destructive of health, 54.
- Thrush in infants, the disorder and its causes described, 547.
- Medical treatment of, ibid.
- Tinctures and elixirs, the proper medicines to exhibit in the form of, 696.
- Preparations of the aromatic tincture, ibid.
- Compound tincture of the bark, ibid.
- Volatile fœtid tincture, ibid.
- Volatile tincture of gum guaiacum, 697.
- Tincture of black hellebore, ibid.
- Astringent tincture, ibid.
- Tincture of myrrh and aloes, ibid.
- Tincture of opium, or liquid laudanum, ibid.
- Tincture of hiera picra, 698.
- Compound tincture of senna, ibid.
- Tincture of Spanish flies, ibid.
- Tincture of the balsam of Tolu, ibid.
- Tincture of rhubarb, 699.
- Tissot, Dr. character of his Avis au Peuple, xiv.
- His medical course for the cure of the hydrophobia, 484.
- His directions for gathering, preparing, and applying agaric of the oak as a styptic, 577, note.
- Instances from, of the recovery of drowned persons, 611.
- Tobacco, a clyster of a decoction of, useful to excite a vomit, 606.
- A clyster of the fumes of, will stimulate the intestines, and produce a stool, 300. 610.
- Toes, the free motion of, destroyed by wearing tight shoes, 92.
- Tooth ach, the general causes of, 357.
- Medical treatment of, ibid.
- When recourse must be had to extraction, 359.
- Directions for cleaning the teeth, 360.
- Touch, injuries to which the sense of, is liable, with the remedies applicable to, 465.
- Towns, great, the air of, destructive to the children of the poor, 30.
- Children bred in the country ought not to be sent too early into towns, 32.
- Cleanliness not sufficiently attended to in, 101.
- Ought to be supplied with plenty of water for washing the streets, 105, note.
- The best means to guard against infection in, 109.
- Trades, some injurious to health by making artists breathe unwholesome air, 37. 49.
- Transitions, sudden, from heat to cold, the ill effects of, to the constitution, 131.
- Travellers, the use of vinegar recommended to, 46.
- Ought to be very careful not to sleep in damp beds, 128.
- Fevers why often fatal to, 144.
- Trees should not be planted too near to houses, 79.
- Trefoil water, a good remedy in the rheumatism, 391,
- Tumours, proper treatment of, 574.
- Turnbull, Dr. his method of treating the croup in children, 558, note.
- Turner’s cerate, preparation of, 682.
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- Vapour of fermenting liquors, noxious nature of, 613.
- Vegetables, wholesome corrections of the bad qualities of animal food, 65.
- Their extraordinary effects in the scurvy, 397.
- Venereal disease, why omitted in the first edition of this work, 489.
- Unfavourable circumstances attending this disorder, 490.
- The virulent gonorrhœa, 491.
- Gleets, 500.
- Swelled testicles, 503.
- Buboes, 504.
- Chancres, 509.
- Strangury, 507.
- Phymosis, 509.
- A confirmed lues, 510.
- American method of curing this disease, 513.
- General observations, 515.
- Cleanliness a great preservative against, 517.
- The use of medicines ought not to be hastily dropped, 519.
- Is often too much disregarded, 520.
- Ventilators, the most useful of all modern medical improvements, 78.
- Vertigo often produced by intense study, 57.
- Vinegar, a great antidote against diseases, and ought to be used by all travellers, 56.
- Should be sprinkled in sick chambers, 109. 160. 199.
- Is of considerable service in the bite of a mad dog, 481;
- and in any kind of poison, 486.
- Its medical properties, 700.
- Is of use to extract the virtues of several medicinal substances, ibid.
- How to prepare vinegar of litharge, ibid.
- Vinegar of roses, 701.
- Vinegar of squills, ibid.
- Viper, the bite of, the sufficiency of the grease for the cure of, doubted, 486.
- Method of treatment recommended, ibid.
- Vitriol, elixir of, an excellent medicine in weaknesses of the stomach, 417.
- And for windy complaints, 425.
- Vitus, St. his dance, method of cure of, 436.
- Ulcers, proper treatment of, according to their different natures, 583.
- Lime-water a good remedy, 585.
- Dr. Whytt’s method of treating them, ibid.
- Fistulous ulcers, 586.
- Vomits, their use in agues, 150;
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- and in the nervous fever, 191.
- Caution for administering in the putrid fever, 201.
- Ought by no means to be administered in an inflammation of the stomach, 290.
- Are useful in cases of repletion, 312.
- Are powerful remedies in the jaundice, 372.
- Are the first object to be pursued when poison has been received into the stomach, 473.
- Their use in the hooping cough, and how to administer them to children, 286.
- Midwives too rash in the use of, 540, note.
- Form of a gentle one for infants disordered in the bowels, 545.
- Vomiting, the several causes of, 315.
- Medical treatment of, 316.
- Saline draught for stopping of, 317.
- Causes of, in children, 551.
- How to be treated, 552.
- Of blood: See Blood.
- Voyage, a long one frequently cures a consumption, 178.
- Voyages have an excellent effect on persons afflicted with nervous disorders, 423.
- Ureters, and their use, described, 303, note.
- Urine, the appearances and quantity of, too uncertain to form any determined judgment from, 123.
- Dr. Cheyne’s judgment as to the due quantity of, not to be relied on, 124.
- The secretion and discharge of, how obstructed, ibid.
- Bad consequences of retaining it too long, 125.
- Too great a quantity of, tends to a consumption, ibid.
- Stoppage of, its general causes, 305.
- Caution as to the treatment of, ibid.
- Diabetes, 319.
- Incontinency of, 322.
- Suppression of, medical treatment in, ibid.
- Cautions to persons subject to this disorder, 324.
- Bloody, causes of, ibid.
- Medical treatment of, 344.
- An obstinate deafness cured by warm urine, 462, note.
- Urine doctors, their impudence, and great success from the credulity of the populace, 124, note.
- Uva ursi, a remedy in present request for the stone, 328.
- W.
- Walls, high, unwholesome, by obstructing the free current of air, 79.
- Ward’s essence, preparation of, 699.
- His fistula paste, a popular remedy that may deserve trial, 586.
- Wars occasion putrid fevers, by tainting the air with the effluvia of dead carcases, 196.
- Wasps, hornets, or bees, how the bite of, ought to be treated, 486.
- Water, frequently unwholesome by mineral impregnations, 67.
- Cautions for the choice of, 68.
- Cold, the danger of drinking when a person is hot, 131.
- Water in the head, is a disorder chiefly incident to children, 567.
- Its causes, symptoms, and proper treatment, ibid.
- The nature of the disorder seldom discovered in due time for cure, 568, note.
- Waters by infusion, how to prepare: Lime-water, 701.
- Compound lime-water, 702.
- Sublimate water, ibid.
- Styptic water, ibid.
- Tar water, ibid.
- Waters, simple distilled, their medical uses, 703.
- Preparation of cinnamon water, ibid.
- Pennyroyal water, ibid.
- Peppermint water, ibid.
- Spearmint water, ibid.
- Rose-water, 704.
- Jamaica pepper water, ibid.
- Waters, spirituous distilled, how to prepare: Spirituous cinnamon water, 704.
- Spirituous Jamaica pepper water, ibid.
- Watery eye, how to cure, 460.
- Weaning of children from the breast, the proper mode of, 17, 18.
- Weather, states of, which produce the putrid fever, 195.
- Wells, caution to persons going down into them, 77, note.
- Deep, ought not to be entered until the air in, is purified, 614.
- Whey, an excellent drink in a dysentery, 349;
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- and in the rheumatism, 390.
- Orange-whey, how to make, 159.
- Alum whey, 321. 704.
- Mustard-whey, 705.
- Scorbutic whey, ibid.
- Whitlow, 575.
- Whytt, Dr. his remedies for flatulences, 444.
- Wind. See Flatulences.
- Windows, the danger of throwing them open on account of heat, and sitting near them, 133.
- Wine, good, almost the only medicine necessary in a nervous fever, 190.
- Wines, the medical properties of, 705.
- Their use in extracting the virtues of medicinal substances, 706.
- Preparation of anthelminthic wine, ibid.
- Antimonial wine, ibid.
- Bitter wine, ibid.
- Ipecacuanha wine, 707.
- Chalybeate or steel wine, ibid.
- Stomachic wine, ibid.
- Womb, inflammation of, its symptoms, 536.
- Medical treatment of, 537.
- Women, errors in their education pointed out, 4.
- Why subject to hysterics, 66.
- Are better adapted to follow sedentary occupations than men, 83, note.
- In child-bed, often die from their apprehensions of death, 113.
- Their disorders rendered epidemical by the force of imagination, 114.
- Every thing that can alarm them to be carefully guarded against, ibid.
- Evil tendency of tolling bells for the dead, ibid.
- How exposed to a miliary fever during pregnancy, 205.
- Their constitutions injured by living too much within doors, 521.
- Those who work in the open air almost as hardy as men, 522.
- Advice to, with reference to the menstrual discharge, ibid.
- At the commencement, 523.
- Fluor albus, with its proper treatment, described, 529.
- Advice to, at the ceasing of the menses, 530.
- Rules of conduct during pregnancy, ibid.
- Causes and symptoms of abortion, 531.
- How to guard against abortion, 532.
- Treatment in cases of abortion, ibid.
- Instructions at the time of child-birth, 533.
- Cause of the milk-fever, 537.
- How to guard against the miliary fever, 538.
- The puerperal fever, ibid.
- General cautions for women in child-bed, 542.
- Causes of barrenness, ibid.
- Wool, the best external application in the gout, 383.
- Workhouses poisonous to infants, 30.
- Worms, how to treat a looseness produced by, 314.
- Three principal kinds of, distinguished, 365.
- Symptoms of, ibid.
- Causes, 366.
- Medical treatment for, 367.
- Remedy for children, 368.
- General cautions for preserving children from them, 370.
- Danger of taking quack medicines for them, ibid. note.
- Wort, recommended for the scurvy, and proper to drink at sea, 396.
- Is a powerful remedy in cancerous cases, 471.
- Wounds, are not cured by external applications, 575.
- Are cured by nature, 576.
- Proper course of treatment, ibid.
- How to stop the bleeding, ibid.
- Caution against improper styptics, 577.
- Method of dressing them, 578.
- Poultices for inflamed wounds, 579.
- Regimen in, ibid.
- Writing, hints of advice to those who are much employed in, 56. 59.
- Y.
- Yaws, general hint for the cure of, 518, note.
- Young animals, all exert their organs of motion as soon as they are able, 22.
- Z.
- Zinc, the flowers of, a popular remedy for the epilepsy, 435.