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Page 4, Line 6, for os read [of]. p. 16, l. 16, for be read [me]. p. 29, l. 12, after [it] add . p. 49, l. 12, dele [and] at the End of it. p. 51, in the running Title, for Causss read Causes. ib. l. 2, dele [and]. ib. l. 7, dele [and]. p. 57, last line, for hurtsul read [hurtful]. p. 67, l. 17, after Water, add, [may be placed within the Room]. p. 74, line last but two, after [never], dele , p. 96, l. 11, for Aiiment read [Ailment]. p. 106, l. 23, for the second is read [has]. p. 126, l. 21, for breath read [breathe]. p. 137, l. 13, for Efflorescene read [Efflorescence], p. 145, l. 1, for Water read [Tea]. p. 148, l. 19, for beomes read [becomes]. p. 163, l. 30. in the Note, for occured read [occurred]; p. 171, l. 20, dele [and]. p. 189, l. 28, dele [of]. p. 199, l. 6, for Paulmier read [Palmarius], being the Latinized Name of that Physician; as we say for Fernel Fernelius, Holler Hollerius, &c. N. B. His Powder for the Bite of a mad Dog consisted of equal Parts of Rue, Vervain, Plantain, Polypody, common Wormwood, Mugwort, Bastard Baum, Betony, St. John's Wort, and lesser Centaury Tops, to which Default adds Coraline.——p. 237, l. 2, for Streakes read [Streaks]. p. 256, first line of the Note * dele the first [often]. p. 261, l. 15, for happens read [happen]. p. 270, l. 12, dele t in [Switsserland]. p. 282, l. 23, for enters read [enter]. p. 283, l. 23, for Stomach read [Stomachs]. p. 284, l. 12, for it read [them]. p. 287, Note * l. 25, for here read [there]. p. 303, l. 14, for doubtsul read [doubtful]. p. 311, l. 18, for abate read [abates]. p. 337, l. 7, for glary read [glairy]. N. B. In the first Page that is folio'd 445 read 345. p. 346, l. 19, for two read [too]. p. 351, l. 25, after Waters add, [such as Infusions of Tea, &c.] p. 375, l. 7, for two read [too]. p. 392, last line, for Leaves read [Flowers]. p. 393, l. 26, after them, insert [and]. p. 397, l. 1 and 2, for Temparrament read [Temperament]. p. 422, l. 6, between several and Consequences insert [bad]. p. 454, l. 5, for Diflocation read [Dislocation]. p. 459, l. 17, in [Ice-thaws] dele - p. 466, l. 16, to [Constitution] add s. p. 486, l. 29, after or add [if]. p. 487, l. 12, for Parts read [Part]. p. 511, l. 12, for not read [nor]. p. 533, l. 12, for arrives read [arises]. p. 542, l. 22, for Patient read [Patients]. p. 562, l. 14, for fays read [says]. p. 573, l. 10, after [Cause], dele Comma.
Table of the several Chapters, and their principal Contents.
[The first Cause of Depopulation, Emigrations] —— [ib.]
[The second Cause, Luxury] —— [6]
[Third Cause, Decay of Agriculture] —— [10]
[Fourth Cause, the pernicious Treatment of Diseases] —— [12]
[Means for rendering this Treatise useful] —— [15]
[Explanation of certain physical Terms, and Phrases] —— [26]
[The most common Causes of popular Sickness] —— [31]
[First Cause, excessive Labour] —— [ib.]
[Second Cause, the Effect of cold Air, when a Person is hot] —— [33]
[Third Cause, taking cold Drink, when in a Heat] —— [ib.] & [34]
[Fourth Cause, the Inconstancy and sudden Change of the Weather] —— [35]
[Fifth Cause, the Situation of Dunghills, and Marshes, near inhabited Houses, and the bad confined Air in the Houses] —— [37]
[Sixth Cause, Drunkenness] —— [38]
[Seventh Cause, the Food of Country People] —— [39]
[Eighth Cause, the Situation, or Exposure of Houses] —— [42]
[Concerning the Drink of Country People] —— [43]
[Of Causes which increase the Diseases of the People, with general Considerations] —— [47]
[First Cause, the great Care employed to force the Sick to sweat, and the Methods taken for that Purpose] —— [ib.] & [48]
[The Danger of hot Chambers] —— [49]
[The Danger of hot Drinks and heating Medicines] —— [50]
[Second Cause, the Quantity and Quality of the Food given sick Persons] —— [53]
[Third Cause, the giving Vomits and Purges at the Beginning of the Disease] —— [57]
[Concerning what should be done in the Beginning of Diseases, and the Diet in acute Diseases] —— [61]
[Signs which indicate approaching Diseases; with Means to prevent them] —— [62]
[The common Regimen, or Regulations, for the Sick] —— [64]
[The Benefits of ripe sound Fruits] —— [68]
[Cautions and Means to be used, on Recovery] —— [73], [74]
[Of the Inflammation of the Breast] —— [77]
[The Signs of this Disease] —— [ib.] & [78]
[The Advantage of Bleeding] —— [81]
[Of Crises, and the Symptoms that precede them] —— [86]
[The Danger of Vomits, of Purges, and of Anodynes] —— [88]
[Of the Suppression of Expectoration, and the Means to restore it.] —— [89]
[Of the Formation of Vomicas, or Imposthumes in the Lungs, and the Treatment of them] —— [90]
[Of the Danger of Remedies, termed Balsamics] —— [103]
[The Inefficacy of the Antihectic of Poterius] —— [104]
[Of a Gangrene of the Lungs] —— [106]
[Of a Scirrhus of the Lungs] —— [ib.]
[The Danger of heating Remedies] —— [112] to [115]
[Of frequent, or habitual, Pleurisies] —— [116]
[Of Goats Blood; the Soot of a stale Egg, and of the Wormwood of the Alps, in Pleurisies] —— [117], [118]
[Of Diseases of the Throat] —— [119]
[Of their proper Treatment] —— [124]
[Of the Formation of an Abscess there] —— [127]
[Of swelled Ears, from the Obstruction of the parotid and maxillary Glands] —— [131]
[Of the epidemic and putrid Diseases of the Throat, which prevailed in 1761 at Lausanne] —— [132]
[Of Colds] —— [139]
[Different Prejudices concerning Colds] —— [ib.] & [140]
[The Danger of drinking much hot Water, and of strong spirituous Liquors, &c.] —— [146]
[Means for strengthening and curing Persons very subject to Colds] —— [148]
[Of Diseases of the Teeth] —— [150]
[Of sanguine Apoplexy] —— [ib.] & [159]
[Of a serous, or watery, Apoplexy] —— [162]
[Means to prevent relapsing into them] —— [164] & seq.
[Of morbid Strokes of the Sun] —— [167]
[Of the acute Rheumatism, attended with a Fever] —— [ib.]
[Of the flow, or chronical, without a Fever] —— [186]
[The Danger of spirituous and greasy Remedies] —— [191], [192]
[Of the Bite of a mad Dog] —— [194]
[Of the Small Pocks.] —— [207]
[Of the preceding Symptoms of this Disease] —— [209]
—[The Danger of sweating Medicines] —— [217]
—[The Treatment of the benign distinct Small Pocks] —— [220]
—[The Use of Bleeding] —— [222]
—[The Fever of Suppuration] —— [223]
—[The Necessity of opening the ripe Pustules] —— [226]
—[The Danger of Anodynes] —— [228]
[Of the striking in of the Eruptions] —— [229]
[Preparations for receiving it favorably] —— [230]
[Of their Treatment and the Means to prevent any of their bad Consequences], to —— [243]
[Of the hot, or burning, Fever] —— [244]
[Of malignant Fevers] —— [257]
[The Danger of applying living Animals in them] —— [267]
[Of intermitting Fevers] —— [269]
—[Spring and Autumn Intermittents] —— [272]
[Method of Cure by the Bark] —— [275]
[Method of treating the Patient in the Fit] —— [277]
[Of other Febrifuges, besides the Bark] —— [278]
[The Treatment of long and obstinate Intermittents] —— [279]
[Of some very dangerous Intermittents] —— [284]
[Of some periodical Disorders, which may be termed, Fevers disguised] —— [285]
[Of Preservatives from unwholesome Air] —— [286]
[Of an Erisipelas, or St. Anthony's Fire.] —— [288]
[Of a frequent or habitual Erisipelas] —— [295]
[Of the Stings or Bites of Animals] —— [296]
[Of Inflammations of the Breast, and of Bastard and bilious Pleurisies] —— [298]
—[Of the false Inflammation of the Breast] —— [300]
—[The false Pleurisy] —— [303]
[Of the inflammatory Cholic] —— [307]
—[the bilious Cholic] —— [312]
—[the Cholic from Indigestion, and of Indigestions] —— [314]
—[the flatulent, or windy, Cholic] —— [317]
—[the Cholic, from taking Cold] —— [319]
[Of the Miserere, or Iliac Passion, and of the Cholera Morbus] —— [322]
[The Miserere] —— [ib.] & [323]
[Of a Diarrhœa, or Looseness] —— [332]
[Of a Dysentery, or Bloody-Flux] —— [335]
[The Symptoms of the Disease] —— [336]
[The Remedies against it] —— [338]
[Of the beneficial Use of ripe Fruits] —— [341]
[Of the Danger of taking a great Number of popular Remedies in it] —— [345]
[Directions peculiar to the Sex] —— [352]
[Of the monthly Customs] —— [353]
[Of Gravidation, or going with Child] —— [365]
[Of Labours or Deliveries,] —— [367]
[Of their Consequences] —— [371]
[Directions with Regard to Children] —— [375]
[Of the first Cause of their Disorders, the Meconium] —— [377]
—[the second, the souring of their Milk] —— [379]
—[the Danger of giving them Oil] —— [ib.]
—[Disorders from their Want of Perspiration, the Means of keeping it up, and of washing them in cold Water] —— [381] & [382]
—[the third Cause, the cutting of their Teeth] —— [386]
—[the fourth Cause, Worms] —— [387]
[Methods necessary to make them strong and hardy, with general Directions about them] —— [396] & seq.
[Of Assistances for drowned Persons] —— [403]
[Of Substances stopt between the Mouth and the Stomach] —— [411]
[Of Disorders requiring the Assistance of a Surgeon] —— [435]
[Of Burns] —— [436]
[Of Wounds] —— [437]
[Of Bruises, and of Falls] —— [444]
[Of Ulcers] —— [454]
[Of frozen Limbs, or Joints] —— [458]
[Of Phlegmons, or Boils] —— [480]
[Of Fellons, or Whitlows] —— [481]
[Of Thorns, Splinters, &c. in the Skin or Flesh] —— [486]
[Of Warts] —— [488]
[Of Corns] —— [490]
[Of some Cases which require immediate Assistance] —— [491]
[Of Swoonings, from Excess of Blood] —— [492]
[Of Swoonings, from great Weakness] —— [494]
[Of Swoonings, occasioned by a Load on the Stomach] —— [497]
[Of Swoonings, resulting from Disorders of the Nerves] [500]
[Of Swoonings, occasioned by the Passions] —— [504]
[Of the Swoonings, which occur in Diseases] —— [506]
[Of Hæmorrhages, or Fluxes of Blood] —— [508]
[Of suffocating, or strangling Fits] —— [514]
[Of the violent Effects of great Fear] —— [516]
[Of Accidents produced by the Vapours of Charcoal, and of Wine] —— [519]
[Of acute and violent Pains] —— [529]
[Of giving Remedies by Way of Precaution] —— [531]
[Of Purges] —— [540]
[Remedies to be used after excessive Purging] —— [544]
[Reflections on some other Remedies] —— [546], &c.
[Of Quacks, Mountebanks, and Conjurers] —— [551]
[Questions necessary to be answered by any Person, who goes to consult a Physician] —— [579]