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._
Introduction ---- Page 1
The first Cause of Depopulation, Emigrations ---- _ib._
The second Cause, Luxury ---- 6
Third Cause, Decay of Agriculture ---- 10
Fourth Cause, the pernicious Treatment of Diseases ---- 12
Means for rendering this Treatise useful ---- 15
Explanation of certain physical Terms, and Phrases ---- 26
_Chapter I._
_The most common Causes of popular Sickness_ ---- 31
First Cause, excessive Labour ---- _ib._
Second Cause, the Effect of cold Air, when a Person is hot ---- 33
Third Cause, taking cold Drink, when in a Heat ---- _ib._ _&_ 34
Fourth Cause, the Inconstancy and sudden Change of the Weather ---- 35
Fifth Cause, the Situation of Dunghills, and Marshes, near inhabited
Houses, and the bad confined Air in the Houses ---- 37
Sixth Cause, Drunkenness ---- 38
Seventh Cause, the Food of Country People ---- 39
Eighth Cause, the Situation, or Exposure of Houses ---- 42
Concerning the Drink of Country People ---- 43
_Chap. II._
_Of Causes which increase the Diseases of the People, with general
Considerations_ ---- 47
First Cause, the great Care employed to force the Sick to sweat, and the
Methods taken for that Purpose ---- _ib._ _&_ 48
The Danger of hot Chambers ---- 49
The Danger of hot Drinks and heating Medicines ---- 50
Second Cause, the Quantity and Quality of the Food given sick Persons
---- 53
Third Cause, the giving Vomits and Purges at the Beginning of the
Disease ---- 57
_Chap. III._
_Concerning what should be done in the Beginning of Diseases, and the
Diet in acute Diseases_ ---- 61
Signs which indicate approaching Diseases; with Means to prevent them
---- 62
The common Regimen, or Regulations, for the Sick ---- 64
The Benefits of ripe sound Fruits ---- 68
Cautions and Means to be used, on Recovery ---- 73, 74
_Chap. IV._
_Of the Inflammation of the Breast_ ---- 77
The Signs of this Disease ---- _ib._ _&_ 78
The Advantage of Bleeding ---- 81
Signs of Recovery ---- 85
Of _Crises_, and the Symptoms that precede them ---- 86
The Danger of Vomits, of Purges, and of Anodynes ---- 88
Of the Suppression of Expectoration, and the Means to restore it.
---- 89
Of the Formation of _Vomicas_, or Imposthumes in the Lungs, and the
Treatment of them ---- 90
Of the Danger of Remedies, termed Balsamics ---- 103
The Inefficacy of the Antihectic of _Poterius_ ---- 104
Of an _Empyema_ ---- 105
Of a Gangrene of the Lungs ---- 106
Of a _Scirrhus_ of the Lungs ---- _ib._
_Chap. V._
_Of the Pleurisy_ ---- 108
The Danger of heating Remedies ---- 112 to 115
Of frequent, or habitual, Pleurisies ---- 116
Of Goats Blood; the Soot of a stale Egg, and of the Wormwood of the
Alps, in Pleurisies ---- 117, 118
_Chap. VI._
_Of Diseases of the Throat_ ---- 119
Of their proper Treatment ---- 124
Of the Formation of an Abscess there ---- 127
Of swelled Ears, from the Obstruction of the parotid and maxillary
Glands ---- 131
Of the epidemic and putrid Diseases of the Throat, which prevailed in
1761 at _Lausanne_ ---- 132
_Chap. VII._
_Of Colds_ ---- 139
Different Prejudices concerning Colds ---- _ib._ _&_ 140
The Danger of drinking much hot Water, and of strong spirituous Liquors,
_&c._ ---- 146
Means for strengthening and curing Persons very subject to Colds
---- 148
_Chap. VIII._
_Of Diseases of the Teeth_ ---- 150
_Chap. IX._
_Of the Apoplexy_ ---- 158
Of sanguine Apoplexy ---- _ib._ _&_ 159
Of a serous, or watery, Apoplexy ---- 162
Means to prevent relapsing into them ---- 164 _& seq._
_Chap. X._
_Of morbid Strokes of the Sun_ ---- 167
_Chap. XI._
_Of the Rheumatism_ ---- 177
Of the acute Rheumatism, attended with a Fever ---- _ib._
Of the flow, or chronical, without a Fever ---- 186
The Danger of spirituous and greasy Remedies ---- 191, 192
_Chap. XII._
_Of the Bite of a mad Dog_ ---- 194
_Chap. XIII._
_Of the Small Pocks._ ---- 207
Of the preceding Symptoms of this Disease ---- 209
--The Danger of sweating Medicines ---- 217
--The Treatment of the benign distinct Small Pocks ---- 220
--The Use of Bleeding ---- 222
--The Fever of Suppuration ---- 223
--The Necessity of opening the ripe Pustules ---- 226
--The Danger of Anodynes ---- 228
Of the striking in of the Eruptions ---- 229
Preparations for receiving it favorably ---- 230
_Chap. XIV._
_Of the Measles_ ---- 235
Of their Treatment and the Means to prevent any of their bad
Consequences, to ---- 243
_Chap. XV._
_Of the hot, or burning, Fever_ ---- 244
_Chap. XVI._
_Of putrid Fevers_ ---- 248
_Chap. XVII._
_Of malignant Fevers_ ---- 257
The Danger of applying living Animals in them ---- 267
_Chap. XVIII._
_Of intermitting Fevers_ ---- 269
--Spring and Autumn Intermittents ---- 272
Method of Cure by the Bark ---- 275
Method of treating the Patient in the Fit ---- 277
Of other Febrifuges, besides the Bark ---- 278
The Treatment of long and obstinate Intermittents ---- 279
Of some very dangerous Intermittents ---- 284
Of some periodical Disorders, which may be termed, Fevers disguised
---- 285
Of Preservatives from unwholesome Air ---- 286
_Chap. XIX._
_Of an_ Erisipelas, _or St._ Anthony's _Fire._ ---- 288
Of a frequent or habitual _Erisipelas_ ---- 295
Of the Stings or Bites of Animals ---- 296
_Chap. XX._
_Of Inflammations of the Breast, and of Bastard and bilious Pleurisies_
---- 298
--Of the false Inflammation of the Breast ---- 300
--The false Pleurisy ---- 303
_Chap. XXI._
_Of Cholics_ ---- 306
Of the inflammatory Cholic ---- 307
--the bilious Cholic ---- 312
--the Cholic from Indigestion, and of Indigestions ---- 314
--the flatulent, or windy, Cholic ---- 317
--the Cholic, from taking Cold ---- 319
_Chap. XXII._
_Of the_ Miserere, _or Iliac Passion, and of the_ Cholera Morbus
---- 322
The _Miserere_ ---- _ib._ _&_ 323
The _Cholera Morbus_ ---- 327
_Chap. XXIII._
_Of a_ Diarrhoea, _or Looseness_ ---- 332
_Chap. XXIV._
_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
_Chap. XXV._
_Of the Itch_ ---- 347
_Chap. XXVI._
_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
Of a Cancer ---- 373
_Chap. XXVII._
_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
Of Convulsions ---- 391
Methods necessary to make them strong and hardy, with general Directions
about them ---- 396 _& seq._
_Chap. XXVIII._
_Of Assistances for drowned Persons_ ---- 403
_Chap. XXIX._
_Of Substances stopt between the Mouth and the Stomach_ ---- 411
_Chap. XXX._
_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 Chilblains ---- 462
Of Ruptures ---- 474
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
_Chap. XXXI._
_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 Haemorrhages, or Fluxes of Blood ---- 508
Of Convulsion Fits ---- 512
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 Poisons ---- 526
Of acute and violent Pains ---- 529
_Chap. XXXII._
_Of giving Remedies by Way of Precaution_ ---- 531
Of Bleeding ---- 532
Of Purges ---- 540
Remedies to be used after excessive Purging ---- 544
Reflections on some other Remedies ---- 546, _&c._
_Chap. XXXIII._
_Of Quacks, Mountebanks, and Conjurers_ ---- 551
_Chap. XXXIV._
_Questions necessary to be answered by any Person, who goes to consult a
Physician_ ---- 579
The Table of Remedies ---- 584