Tabes. A species of consumption.
Temperament. A peculiar habit of body, of which there are generally reckoned four, viz. the sanguine, the bilious, the melancholic, and the phlegmatic.
U.
Vertigo. Giddiness.
Ulcer. An ill conditioned sore.
Ureters. Two long and small canals which convey the urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
Urethra. The canal which conveys the urine from the bladder.
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].
- Acidities in the bowels of infants, the origin of, [548].
- Method of cure, [549].
- 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 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- Blood, vomiting of, its causes and symptoms, [341].
- Medical treatment, [342].
- 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].
- Bread, proper food for children, as soon as they can chew it, [17].
- 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].
- Burials, the dangers attending their being allowed in the midst of populous towns, [76].
- Burns, slight, how to cure, [580].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- Chilblains, cause of, [556].
- How to cure, ibid.
- 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].
- 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].
- Medical treatment, [310].
- 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];
- 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.
- and to the sick, 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.
- Colic, different species of, [296].
- 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].
- —— 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- Cough, the proper remedies for, [280].
- Cough, hooping, who most liable to, with its disposing causes, [284].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- Dropsy, the several distinctions of, with its causes, [374].
- Dropsy of the brain. See Water in the head.
- Drowned persons, ought not to be rashly given up for dead, [608].
- Drunkenness. See Intoxication.
- Dumb persons may be taught to read, write, and discourse, [461], note.
- Dysentery, where and when most prevalent, [345].
- E.
- Ear, the several injuries it is liable to, [460].
- 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].
- 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].
- Eruption in children often free them from bad humours, but are mistaken and ill-treated by nurses, [35].
- Erysipelas, a disorder incident to the laborious, [41].
- Evacuations of the human body, the principal, specified, [121].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- Fever, milk, how occasioned, [537].
- How to prevent, [541].
- Fever, nervous, why more common now than formerly, and who most liable to it, [188].
- Fever, puerperal, or child-bed, the time of its attack, and symptoms, [538].
- Fever, putrid, is of a pestilential nature, and who most liable to it, [195].
- Fever, remitting, derivation of its name, [210].
- Fever, scarlet, why so named, and its usual season of attack, [245].
- Fever, secondary, in the small-pox, proper treatment of, [224].
- Flatulencies in the stomach, remedies against, [363].
- Flatulent colic, its causes, and seat of the disorder, [296].
- Remedies for, ibid.
- 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].
- 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.
- 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].
- Glover, Mr. his course of treatment for the recovery of a hanged man, [628].
- Gonorrhœa, virulent, the nature of, and its symptoms, [491].
- 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].
- Green-sickness originates in indolence, [523].
- Grief, its effects permanent, and often fatal, [116].
- Gripes in infants, proper treatment of, [549].
- Guaiacum, gum, a good remedy for the quinsey, [268];
- and rheumatism, [390].
- Gullet, how to remove substances detained in, [603].
- 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].
- Head-ach, the species of, distinguished, [352].
- Health of the people in general, a proper object of attention for the magistrates, xi.
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- Hysterics, a disorder produced by the habitual use of tea, [66].
- Hysteric colic, symptoms and treatment of, [299].
- J.
- Jails, why malignant fevers are often generated in them, [77].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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.
- 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].
- 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].
- Liver, schirrous, produced by sedentary employments, [56].
- Liver, inflammation of, its causes and symptoms, [306].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- See Beer.
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- Confinement injurious to growing young women, [523];
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- See Passions.
- Miners, exposed to injuries from unwholesome air, and mineral particles, [38].
- Cautions to, [39].
- Mineral waters, the danger of drinking them in too large quantities, [319].
- 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];
- and air, [31].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- Oils, essential, of vegetables, the proper menstruum for, [694].
- Ointment for the itch, [403].
- Ophthalmia. See Eye.
- Opiates, efficacious in a cholera morbus, [311].
- 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].
- Medical treatment, [431].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- Pickles, provocatives injurious to the stomach, [67].
- Piles, bleeding and blind, the distinction between, [334].
- 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].
- Pleurisy, the nature of the disorder explained, with its causes, [163].
- 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].
- Poultices proper for inflamed wounds, [579].
- Powders, general instructions for making and administering, [691].
- 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].
- 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].
- Pustules in the small-pox, favourable and unfavourable appearances of, [215], [216].
- 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].
- ——, malignant, who most subject to, and its causes, [271].
- 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].
- 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].
- Rickets, the appearance of, in Britain, dated from the growth of manufactures and sedentary employments, [23].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- Medical treatment, ibid.
- 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].
- See Cancer.
- Scrophula, nature of this disease, and its causes, [398].
- Scurvy, why prevalent among the English, [65].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- Spirituous liquors, when good in the colic, [296].
- 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].
- Stone, the formation of, in the bladder, explained, [124].
- Stool, loose, the benefit of, to children, [35].
- 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].
- 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].
- Sugar, an improper article in the food of children, [18].
- Sulphur, a good remedy for expelling worms, [368].
- And for the itch, [403].
- 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].
- Sydenham, Dr. his method of treating fevers in children from teething, [560].
- Symptoms, diseases better distinguished by, than by the systematical arrangement of, [135].
- 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].
- Taste, how to restore the sense of, when injured, [465].
- Taylors, are exposed to injuries from breathing confined air, [49].
- Tea, the customary use of, injurious to female constitutions, [7].
- Teething, the disorders attending, [559].
- 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.
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- %center%V.
- 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].
- Vomits, their use in agues, [150];
- 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].
- 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].
- 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];
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
- 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].
THE END.