In the ague, 150.
Its importance in the acute continual fever, 161.
In the pleurisy, 166.
When necessary in an inflammation of the lungs, 173.
Caution against, in a nervous fever, 192.
In the putrid fever, 201.
In the miliary fever, 209.
When necessary in the small-pox, 221.
When useful in the measles, 243.
When necessary in the bilious fever, 247.
Under what circumstances proper in the erysipelas, 251.
Mode of, proper in an inflammation of the brain, 257.
Is always necessary in an inflammation of the eyes, 261.
When proper, and improper, in a cough, 280.
When proper in the hooping-cough, 285.
Is almost the only thing to be depended on in an inflammation of the
stomach, 290.
And in an inflammation of the intestines, 292.
Is necessary in an inflammation of the kidneys, 303.
Its use in a suppression of urine, 323.
Is proper in an asthma, 409.
Is dangerous in fainting fits, without due caution, 442.
Cautions proper in the puerperal fever, 539.
Is an operation generally performed by persons who do not understand
when it is proper, 570.
In what case it ought to be had recourse to, _ibid._
The quantity taken away, how to be regulated, 571.
General rules for the operation, _ibid._
Objections to bleeding by leeches, 572.
Prevailing prejudices relating to bleeding, _ibid._
The arm the most commodious part to take blood from, 573.
_Bleeding_ at the nose, spontaneous, is of more service, where bleeding
is necessary, than the operation with the lancet, 321.
Ought not to be stopped without due consideration, _ibid._
How to stop it when necessary, 332.
Cautions to prevent frequent returns of, 334.
_Blind_ persons, when born so, might be educated to employments suited
to their capacity, 456, _note_.
_Blisters_, peculiarly advantageous in the nervous fever, 192.
When only to be applied in the putrid fever, 201.
When proper in the miliary fever, 209.
Seldom fail to remove the most obstinate inflammation of the eyes,
262.
A good remedy in the quinsey, 269.
Proper for a violent hooping-cough, 288.
Is one of the best remedies for an inflammation of the stomach, 291.
Are efficacious in the tooth-ach, 359.
_Blood_, involuntary discharges of, often salutary, and ought not to be
rashly stopped, 329.
The several kinds of these discharges, with their usual causes,
_ibid._
Methods of cure, 330.
_Blood_, spitting of, who most subject to, and at what seasons, 337.
Its causes, _ibid._
Symptoms, 339.
Proper regimen in, _ibid._
Medical treatment, 340.
Cautions for persons subject to it, 341.
_Blood_, vomiting of, its causes and symptoms, 341.
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.
Regimen, 256.
Medical treatment, 257.
_Bread_, proper food for children, as soon as they can chew it, 17.
A crust of, the best gum-stick, _ibid._
The best modes of preparing it in food for children, 18.
Good, the qualities of, and for what purpose adulterated by the
bakers, 70.
Toasted, a decoction of, good to check the vomiting in a _cholera
morbus_, 310.
_Brimstone._ See _Sulphur_.
_Broth_, gelatinous, recommended in the dysentery, how to make, 347.
_Bruises_, why of worse consequence than wounds, 582.
Proper treatment of, _ibid._
The exfoliation of injured bones a very slow operation, 583.
How to cure sores occasioned by, _ibid._
_Buboes_, two kinds of, distinguished, with their proper treatment,
504.
_Burdens_, heavy, injurious to the lungs, 40.
_Burgundy_ pitch, a plaster of, between the shoulders, an excellent
remedy in a cough, 281.
In a hooping-cough, 288.
And for children in teething, 560.
_Burials_, the dangers attending their being allowed in the midst of
populous towns, 76.
_Burns_, slight, how to cure, 580.
Treatment of, when violent, _ibid._
Extraordinary case of, 581.
Liniment for, 680.
_Butchers_, their professional artifices explained, and condemned, 65.
_Butter_ ought to be very sparingly given to children, 21.
C.
_Cabbage_ leaves, topical application of, in a pleurisy, 167.
_Camphor_, why of little use in eye-waters, 662.
_Camphorated_ oil, preparation of, 684.
_Camphorated_ spirit of wine, 699.
_Camps_, the greatest necessity of consulting cleanliness in, 103.
_Cancer_, its different stages described, with the producing causes,
460.
Symptoms, 467.
Regimen, and medical treatment, 468.
Dr. Stork’s method of treating this disorder, 469.
Cautions for avoiding it, 472.
_Cancer scroti_, a disorder peculiar to chimney-sweepers, owing to want
of cleanliness, 100, _note_.
_Carriages_, the indulgence of, a sacrifice of health to vanity, 82.
_Carrot_, wild, recommended in the stone, 328.
_Carrot_ poultice for cancers, how to prepare, 471.
_Casualties_, which apparently put an end to life, necessary cautions
respecting, 600. 608. 613. 631.
—— substances stopped in the gullet, 602.
—— drowning, 609.
—— noxious vapours, 613.
—— extremity of cold, 616.
—— extreme heat, 618.
_Cataplasms_, their general intention, 659.
Preparation of the discutient cataplasm, _ibid._
Ripening cataplasm, _ibid._
_Cataract_, the disorder and its proper treatment described, 458.
_Cattle_, stall fed, are unwholesome food, 64.
Overdriven, are killed in a high fever, _ibid._
The artifices of butchers exposed, 65.
_Cellars_, long shut, ought to be cautiously opened, 78.
And sunk stories of houses, unhealthy to live in, 130.
Of liquors in a state of fermentation, dangerous to enter, 614.
How to purify the air in, _ibid._
_Celsus_, his rules for the preservation of health, 134.
_Chancres_, described, 506.
Primary, how to treat, _ibid._
Symptomatic, 507.
_Charcoal_ fire, the danger of sleeping in the fume of, 613.
_Charity_, the proper exercise of, 43.
_Cheyne_, Dr. his persuasive to the use of exercise, 83.
His judgment of the due quantity of urine, not to be relied on, 124.
Strongly recommends Æthiops mineral in inflammations of the eyes,
263.
His observations on barrenness, 543, _note_.
_Chilblains_, cause of, 556.
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.
Medical advice to women in labour, 534.
Ill effects of collecting a number of women on such occasions, 535,
_note_.
How to guard against the miliary fever, 538.
Symptoms of the puerperal fever, _ibid._
Proper treatment of this fever, 539.
General cautions for women at this season, 541, 542.
_Children_, their diseases generally acute, and delay dangerous, 6.
Their disorders less complicated, and easier cured, than those of
adults, _ibid._
Are often the heirs of the diseases of their parents, 7.
Those born of diseased parents, require peculiar care in the nursing,
8.
Are often killed or deformed by injudicious clothing, _ibid._
How treated in Africa, 11, _note_.
The usual causes of deformity in, explained, _ibid._
Their clothes ought to be fastened on with strings, 13.
General rule for clothing them, 14.
Cleanliness an important article in their dress, _ibid._
The milk of the mother the most natural food for, 15.
Absurdity of giving them drugs as their first food, 16.
The best method of expelling the _meconium_, _ibid._
How they ought to be weaned from the breast, 17.
A crust of bread the best gum-stick for them, _ibid._
How to prepare bread in their food, 18.
Cautions as to giving them animal food, _ibid._
Cautions as to the quantity of their food, _ibid._
Errors in the quality of their food more frequent than in the
quantity, 19.
The food of adults improper for children, _ibid._
Strong liquors expose them to inflammatory disorders, _ibid._
Ill effects of unripe fruit, 20.
Butter, 21.
Honey, a wholesome article of food for them, _ibid._
The importance of exercise to promote their growth and strength,
_ibid._
Rules for their exercise, 22.
Poverty of parents occasions their neglect of children, 23.
The utility of exercise demonstrated from the organical structure of
children, 24.
Philosophical arguments shewing the necessity of exercise, _ibid._
Ought not to be sent to school too soon, 25.
Nor be put too soon to labour, 28.
Dancing an excellent exercise for them, 29.
The cold bath, _ibid._
Want of wholesome air destructive to children, 30.
To wrap them up close in cradles, pernicious, 32.
Are treated like plants in a hot-house, _ibid._
The usual faulty conduct of nurses pointed out, 34.
Are crammed with cordials by indolent nurses, 35.
Eruptions ignorantly treated by nurses, _ibid._
Loose stools, the proper treatment of, _ibid._
Every method ought to be taken to make them strong and hardy, 37.
Indications of the small-pox in, 214.
_Chincough._ See _Cough_.
_Cholera morbus_, the disorder defined, with its causes and symptoms,
309.
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_.
Various causes of, specified, 126.
Their general causes, 276.
Proper regimen on the symptoms of, appearing, _ibid._
Danger of neglecting the disorder, 278.
The chief secret for avoiding, 280.
Colic, different species of, 296.
Medical treatment of, according to their species and causes, 297.
Bilious colic, 298.
Hysteric colic, 299.
Nervous colic, _ibid._
Cautions necessary to guard against the nervous colic, 300.
General advice in colics, 301.
_Collyria_. See _Eye-waters_.
_Commerce_ often imports infectious disorders, 107.
Means suggested to guard against this danger, 108, _note_.
_Confections_ often very needlessly compounded, 663.
Preparation of the Japonic confection, 664.
_Conserves_ and _preserves_, general remarks on, and their composition,
664.
Of red roses, _ibid._
Of sloes, 665.
Candied orange-peel, _ibid._
_Constitution_, good or bad, the foundation of, generally laid during
infancy, 1.
_Consumptions_, the increase of this disorder may be attributed to hard
drinking, 97.
Who most liable to, and its causes, 174.
Symptoms, 176.
Regimen, 177.
Riding, _ibid._
Much benefit to be expected from going a long voyage, 178.
Travelling, _ibid._
Diet, 179.
Great efficacy of milk in, _ibid._
Medical treatment, 182.
—— Nervous, defined, and the persons most liable to, 186.
Proper treatment of, _ibid._
—— Symptomatic, the treatment of, must be directed to the producing
cause, 187.
_Convulsions_, why new-born infants are so liable to, 12.
Those preceding the eruption in the small-pox favourable symptoms,
217.
The general causes of, 565.
Proper treatment of, 566.
Extraordinary recovery of an infant seemingly killed by, 629.
Farther instructions in like cases, 630.
_Cook_, Captain, the circumnavigator, his means of preserving the
health of his men, 46, _note_.
_Cookery_, the arts of, render many things unwholesome, that are not
naturally so, 67.
_Cordials_, ought not to be given to infants, 16.
Are the common refuge of nurses who neglect their duty to children,
35.
Are often fatal in an inflammation of the stomach, 290.
When good in the colic, 297.
Ought not to be given to a pregnant woman during labour, 534.
_Corn_, damaged, will produce the putrid fever, 195.
_Corns_ in the feet are occasioned by wearing tight shoes, 91.
_Cortex._ See _Bark_.
_Costiveness_, a frequent recourse to medicines for the prevention of,
injurious to the constitution, 122.
Is rather to be removed by diet than by drugs, 123.
Its general causes, and ill effects, 414.
Regimen, _ibid._
Remedies for, 416.
_Cough_, the proper remedies for, 280.
A plaster of Burgundy pitch laid between the shoulders an excellent
remedy for, 281.
The stomach cough, and cough of the lungs, distinguished, 282.
Treatment for the nervous cough, 283.
_Cough_, hooping, who most liable to, with its disposing causes, 284.
Remedies, 285.
Is infectious, _ibid._
Vomits, their use, and how to administer them to children, 286.
Garlic ointment a good remedy for, 287.
_Cough_, phthisical, incident to sedentary artificers, from their
breathing confined air, 49.
_Cradles_, on many accounts hurtful to children, 32.
_Cramp_, proper remedies for, 451.
_Cramp of the stomach_, who most subject to, 438.
Medical treatment of, _ibid._
_Crotchets_, how to use for extracting substances detained in the
gullet, 603.
_Croup in children_, described, 557.
Its symptoms and proper treatment, _ibid._
_Cyder_, the ill consequences of making it too weak, 69.
D.
_Dancing_, an excellent kind of exercise for young persons, 29.
_Daucus sylvestris._ See _Carrot_.
_Deafness_, when a favourable symptom in the putrid fever, 198, _note_.
Methods of cure, according to its causes, 461.
_Death_, the evidences of, sometimes fallacious, and ought not to be
too soon credited, 601. 608. 612. 631.
The means to be used for the recovery of persons from, nearly the
same in all cases, 632.
_Decoctions_, general remarks on, 665.
Preparation of the decoction of althæa, _ibid._
Common decoction, 666.
Of logwood, _ibid._
Of bark, _ibid._
Compound decoction of bark, _ibid._
Of sarsaparilla, 667.
Of seneka, _ibid._
White decoction, _ibid._
_Deformity_, often occasioned by the injudicious manner of dressing
children, 9.
Is seldom found among savage nations, 10.
The usual causes of, explained, _ibid._
_Dews_, night, dangerous to health, 128.
_Diabetes_, who most liable to this disorder, 319.
Its causes and symptoms, _ibid._
Regimen, and medical treatment, 320.
Distinguished from incontinency of urine, 322.
_Diarrhœa._ See _Looseness_.
_Diet_, will often answer all the indications of cure in diseases, 138.
Illustrations, 139.
See _Aliment_.
_Digestion_, the powers of, equally impaired by repletion or inanition,
72.
_Diseases_, hereditary, cautions to persons afflicted with, 8.
Peculiar disorders attending particular occupations, 38.
Many of them infectious, 106.
The knowledge of, depends more upon experience and observation than
upon scientifical principles, 135.
Are to be distinguished by the most obvious and permanent symptoms,
_ibid._
The differences of sex, age, and constitution, to be considered, 136.
Of the mind, to be distinguished from those of the body, _ibid._
Climate, situation, and occupation, to be attended to, 137.
Other collateral circumstances, _ibid._
Many indications of cure, to be answered by diet alone, 138.
Cures often effected by fresh air, by exercise, or by cleanliness,
139.
Nervous diseases, of a complicated nature, and difficult to cure,
420.
_Dislocations_, should be reduced before the swelling and inflammation
come on, and how, 587.
Of the jaw, 588.
Of the neck, 589.
Of the ribs, 590.
Of the shoulder, _ibid._
Of the elbow, 591.
Of the thigh, 592.
Of the knees, ancles, and toes, _ibid._
_Diuretic infusion for the Dropsy_, how to prepare, 377, 378.
_Dog_, symptoms of madness in, 477.
Ought to be carefully preserved after biting any person, to ascertain
whether he is mad or not, 478.
Is often reputed mad when he is not so, _ibid._
Symptoms of the bite of a mad dog, 479.
The poison cannot lie many years dormant in the body, as is supposed,
_ibid._
Dr. Mead’s receipt for the bite, 480.
The famous East Indian specific for, _ibid._
Other recipes, 481.
Vinegar of considerable service in this disorder, _ibid._
Medical course of treatment recommended, _ibid._
Regimen, 481.
Dipping in the sea not to be relied on, 483.
Dr. Tissot’s medical course for the cure of the hydrophobia, 484.
Remarks on the Ormskirk medicine, 485, _note_.
_Doses_ of medicines, the relative proportions of, for different ages,
653.
_Drams_ ought to be avoided by persons afflicted with nervous
disorders, 423.
_Draught_, is the proper form for such medicines as are intended for
immediate operation, 668.
How to prepare the anodyne draught, _ibid._
Diuretic draught, _ibid._
Purging draught, _ibid._
Sweating draught, 669.
Vomiting draught, _ibid._
_Dress._ See _Clothing_.
_Drinking_, persons who are seldom intoxicated may nevertheless injure
their constitutions by, 97.
The habit of drinking frequently originates from misfortunes, 98.
Frequently destroys the powers of the mind, 99.
Persons often forced to it by mistaken hospitality, _ibid._ _note_.
Leads to other vices, _ibid._
_Dropsy_, the several distinctions of, with its causes, 374.
Symptoms, 375.
Regimen, 376.
Medical treatment, 377.
Tapping, a safe and simple operation, 379.
_Dropsy of the brain._ See _Water in the head_.
_Drowned persons_, ought not to be rashly given up for dead, 608.
Proper trials for the recovery of, _ibid._
Endeavours ought not to be suspended upon the first returns of life,
612.
Success of the Amsterdam society for the recovery of, 631.
_Drunkenness._ See _Intoxication_.
_Dumb persons_ may be taught to read, write, and discourse, 461,
_note_.
_Dysentery_, where and when most prevalent, 345.
Its causes and symptoms, _ibid._
Regimen, 346.
Fruit, one of the best remedies for, 348.
Proper drink for, 349.
Medical treatment, _ibid._
Cautions to prevent a relapse, 350.
E.
_Ear_, the several injuries it is liable to, 460.
Deafness, medical treatment of, according to its causes, 461.
Ought not to be tampered with, 462.
_Ear-ach_, its causes, and proper treatment for, 360.
How to drive insects out of, _ibid._
_Education of children_, should be begun at home by the parents, 25,
_note_.
That of girls hurtful to their constitution, 27.
_Effluvia_, putrid, will occasion the spotted fever, 195.
_Electricity_ beneficial in the palsy, 431.
_Electuaries_, general rules for making, 669.
Preparation of lenitive electuary, 670.
Electuary for the dysentery, _ibid._
For the epilepsy, _ibid._
For the gonorrhœa, _ibid._
Of the bark, 671.
For the piles, _ibid._
For the palsy, _ibid._
For the rheumatism, _ibid._
_Elixir_, paregoric, how to prepare, 698.
Sacred elixir, _ibid._
Stomachic elixir, _ibid._
Acid elixir of vitriol, 699.
_Emulsions_, their uses, 672.
Preparation of the common emulsion, _ibid._
Arabic emulsion, _ibid._
Camphorated emulsion, _ibid._
Emulsion of gum ammoniac, _ibid._
Oily emulsion, 673.
_Engleman_, Dr. his account of the German method of recovering persons
from fainting fits, 622.
_Entrails._ See _Intestines_.
_Epilepsy_, the disorder defined, 432.
Its causes and symptoms, 433.
Due regimen, 434.
Medical treatment, _ibid._
_Eruption_ in children often free them from bad humours, but are
mistaken and ill-treated by nurses, 35.
Ought never to be stopped without proper advice, 36.
In fevers, how to be treated, 193. 201. 207. 209.
In the small-pox, 217. 221.
In children, the causes of, 551.
How to cure, 554.
_Erysipelas_, a disorder incident to the laborious, 41.
Its causes explained, and who most subject to it, 249.
Its symptoms, _ibid._
Regimen, 250.
Medical treatment, 253.
The scorbutic erysipelas, 253.
Instructions for those who are subject to this disorder, _ibid._
_Evacuations_ of the human body, the principal, specified, 121.
By stool, _ibid._
Urine, 123.
Perspiration, 125.
_Exercise_, the importance of, to promote the growth and strength of
children, 21.
All young animals exert their organs of motion as soon as they are
able, 22.
The utility of, proved from anatomical considerations, 24.
And from philosophical deductions, _ibid._
Military exercise recommended for boys, 26.
Benefits of dancing, 29.
Is better for sedentary persons under lowness of spirits than the
tavern, 52.
Gardening the best exercise for the sedentary, 53.
Violent, ought not to be taken immediately after a full meal, 61.
Is as necessary as food for the preservation of health, 81.
Our love of activity, an evidence of its utility, 82.
Indolence relaxes the solids, _ibid._
The indulgence of carriages as absurd as pernicious, _ibid._
Is almost the only cure for glandular obstructions, 83.
Will prevent and remove those disorders that medicine can not cure,
_ibid._
Is the best cure for complaints in the stomach, 84.
How to be taken within doors, when not to be done in the open air,
85.
Active sports better than sedentary amusements, _ibid._
The golf, a better exercise than cricket, _ibid._ _note_.
Exercise should not be extended to fatigue, 86.
Is as necessary for the mind as for the body, 118.
Is often of more efficacy than any medicine whatever, 139.
The best mode of taking it in a consumption, 177.
Is of the greatest importance in a dropsy, 376.
Muscular, for the gout, 385.
Is necessary for the asthmatic, 408.
Is superior to all medicine in nervous disorders, 423.
And in the palsy, 432.
Is proper for pregnant women, unless they are of a very delicate
texture, 533.
Want of, the occasion of rickets in children, 563.
_Extracts_, general rules for making; but are more conveniently
purchased ready made, 673.
_Eyes_, inflammation of, its general causes, 258.
Symptoms, 259.
Medical treatment, 260.
How to be treated when it proceeds from a scrophulous habit, 263.
Advice to those who are subject to this complaint, 264.
Are subject to many diseases which are difficult to cure, 456.
The means by which they are frequently injured, 457.
General means of prevention, _ibid._
The several disorders of, with their medical treatment, 458.
_Eye-waters_, general remarks on, and their principal intentions, 662.
Collyrium of alum, 663.
Vitriolic collyrium, _ibid._
Collyrium of lead, _ibid._
F.
_Fainting fits_, how to cure, 441. 618.
Cautions to persons subject to them, 623.
_Falling sickness._ See _Epilepsy_.
_Fasting_, long, injurious to those who labour hard, 43.
Is hurtful both to old and young, 73.
_Fathers_, culpably inattentive to the management of their children, 5.
Their irregular lives often injure the constitution of their
children, 7.
_Fear_, the influence of, very great, in occasioning and aggravating
diseases, 112.
Its various operations, 113.
_Feet_, injured by wearing tight shoes, 91.
The washing of, an agreeable article of cleanliness, 104.
Wet, the danger of, 127.
Bathing them in warm water, a good remedy in a cold, 279.
And in the hooping-cough, 288.
_Fermentation_, the vapour of liquors in a state of, noxious, 614.
_Fevers_, of a bad kind, often occasioned among labourers by poor
living, 43.
Frequently attack sedentary persons after hard drinking, 52.
Nervous, often the consequence of intense study, 57.
Putrid and malignant, often occasioned by want of cleanliness, 100.
The most general causes of, enumerated, 140.
The distinguishing symptoms of, 141.
The several species of, _ibid._
Is an effort of nature, which ought to be assisted, 142.
How this is to be done, 143.
Cordials and sweetmeats improper in, 144.
Fresh air of great importance in, 145.
The mind of the patient ought not to be alarmed with religious
terrors, _ibid._
Cautions as to bleeding and sweating in, 146.
Longings, the calls of nature, and deserve attention, _ibid._
Cautions to prevent a relapse, 147.
_Fever_, acute continual, who most liable to, 157.
Causes, _ibid._
Symptoms, 158.
Regimen, _ibid._
Medical treatment, 161.
Symptoms favourable and unfavourable, _ibid._
Regimen to be observed during recovery, 162.
_Fever_, bilious, general time of its appearance, 247.
Proper treatment of, according to its symptoms, 248.
_Fever_, intermitting. See _Ague_.
_Fever_, miliary, from what the name derived, and its general
appearances, 205.
Who most liable to it, _ibid._
Causes, _ibid._
Symptoms, 206.
Regimen, 207.
Account of a miliary fever at Strasburg, 208, _note_.
Proper medical treatment, 209.
Cautions for avoiding this disorder, 210.
How to prevent, in child-bed-women, 538.
_Fever_, milk, how occasioned, 537.
How to prevent, 541.
_Fever_, nervous, why more common now than formerly, and who most
liable to it, 188.
Its causes, _ibid._
Symptoms and proper regimen, 189.
Medical treatment, 191.
_Fever_, puerperal, or child-bed, the time of its attack, and symptoms,
538.
Medical treatment of, 539.
Cautions for the prevention of this fever, 541.
_Fever_, putrid, is of a pestilential nature, and who most liable to
it, 195.
Its general causes, _ibid._
Symptoms of, 196.
Other fevers may be converted to this, by improper treatment, 197.
Favourable and unfavourable symptoms of, _ibid._
Regimen, 198.
Medical treatment, 201.
Cautions for the prevention of this disorder, 203.
_Fever_, remitting, derivation of its name, 210.
Its causes and symptoms, 211.
Proper regimen, 212.
Medical treatment, 213.
Cautions for avoiding this fever, _ibid._
_Fever_, scarlet, why so named, and its usual season of attack, 245.
Proper treatment of, 246.
Is sometimes attended with putrid and malignant symptoms, _ibid._
Medicines adapted to this stage of the malady, _ibid._
History of a fever of this kind at Edinburgh, 247, _note_.
_Fever_, secondary, in the small-pox, proper treatment of, 224.
_Flatulencies_ in the stomach, remedies against, 363.
The several causes of, 443.
Medical treatment of, 444.
_Flatulent colic_, its causes, and seat of the disorder, 296.
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.
General intentions of, _ibid._
Anodyne fomentation, 674.
Aromatic fomentation, _ibid._
Common fomentation, _ibid._
Emollient fomentation, _ibid._
Strengthening fomentation, 675.
_Food._ See _Aliment_.
_Forgiveness of injuries_, ought to be practised from a regard to our
own health, 112.
_Fractures._ See _Bones_, broken.
_Frozen limbs_, how to recover, 617.
_Fruit_, unripe, very hurtful to children, 20.
One of the best medicines, both for the prevention and cure of a
dysentery, 348.
_Funerals_, the great number of visitors attending them, dangerous to
their health, 107.
G.
_Galling_, in infants, the cause and cure of, 550.
_Gangrene_, proper treatment of, 574.
_Gardening_, a wholesome amusement for sedentary persons, 52.
_Gargles for the throat_, how to make, 267. 270. 274.
General intentions of, 675.
Method of making the attenuating gargle, _ibid._
Common gargle, _ibid._
Detergent gargle, _ibid._
Emollient gargle, _ibid._
For the mouth of infants in the thrush, 548.
_Garlic ointment_, a North British remedy for the hooping-cough, how to
apply it, 287.
_Generals of armies_, how they ought to consult the health of the men
they command, 44.
_Gilders._ See _Miners_.
_Ginger_, syrup of, how to prepare, 694.
_Girls_, the common mode of education prejudicial to their
constitution, 27.
Means of rectifying it recommended, _ibid._
_Gleet_, how occasioned, and its symptoms, 500.
Method of cure, _ibid._
Regimen, 501.
Obstinate gleets cured by mercurial inunctions, 502.
How to apply bougies, _ibid._
_Glover_, Mr. his course of treatment for the recovery of a hanged man,
628.
_Gonorrhœa_, virulent, the nature of, and its symptoms, 491.
Regimen, 492.
Medical treatment, 493.
Is often cured by astringent injections, _ibid._
Cooling purges always proper in, 494.
Mercury seldom necessary in a gonorrhœa, 496.
How to administer it when needful, 497.
_Goulard_, M. preparation of his celebrated extract of Saturn, 700.
His various applications of it, _ibid._
_Gout_, the general causes of, 55.
How to treat a looseness occasioned by repelling it from the
extremities, 313.
The sources of this disorder, and its symptoms, 380, 381.
Regimen for, 382.
Wool the best external application in, 383.
Why there are so many nostrums for, 384.
Proper medicines after the fit, _ibid._
Proper regimen in the intervals between fits to keep off their
return, 385.
How to remove it from the nobler parts to the extremities, 386.
General cautions to prevent danger by mistaking it for other
disorders, 387.
_Gravel_, how formed in the bladder, 125.
How distinguished from the stone, 324.
Causes and symptoms, _ibid._
Regimen, 325.
Medical treatment, 326.
_Green-sickness_ originates in indolence, 523.
_Grief_, its effects permanent, and often fatal, 116.
Danger of the mind dwelling long upon one subject, especially if of a
disagreeable nature, 117.
The mind requires exercise as well as the body, 118.
Innocent amusements not to be neglected, _ibid._
Is productive of nervous diseases, 421.
_Gripes in infants_, proper treatment of, 549.
_Guaiacum_, gum, a good remedy for the quinsey, 268;
and rheumatism, 390.
_Gullet_, how to remove substances detained in, 603.
Cautions for the use of crotchets with this intention, _ibid._
Other mechanical expedients, 604.
Treatment if the obstruction cannot be removed, 607.
_Gums of children_, applications to, during teething, and how to cut
them, 561.
_Gutta serena_, proper treatment of, 458.
H.
_Hæmoptoe_, spitting of blood. See _Blood_.
_Hæmorrhages._ See _Blood_.
_Harrowgate water_, an excellent medicine for expelling worms, 368.
And for the jaundice, 373.
In the scurvy, 391.
_Head-ach_, the species of, distinguished, 352.
Causes of, 353.
Regimen, 354.
Medical treatment, 355.
_Health of the people in general_, a proper object of attention for the
magistrates, xi.
Ought to be attended to in matrimonial contracts, 8.
Is often laboured for after it is destroyed, 61.
Rules given by Celsus for the preservation of, 134.
_Heart-burn_, the nature of this disorder, with its causes, and
remedies for, 418.
_Heat_, extreme, how to recover persons overcome by, 618.
_Hemlock_, a good remedy in the King’s evil, 402.
Is recommended by Dr. Stork for the cure of cancers, 469.
_Hemp-seed_, a decoction of, good in the jaundice, and how to prepare
it, 373.
_Hiccup_, its causes, and method of treatment, 436.
_Hoffman_, his rules for guarding child-bed women against the miliary
fever, 538.
_Honey_, a wholesome article of food for children, 21.
Is recommended in the stone, 328.
_Hooping-cough._ See _Cough_.
_Hospitals_, the want of fresh air in, more dangerous to the patients
than their disorders, 81.
Cleanliness peculiarly necessary in, 105.
Often spread infection by being situated in the middle of populous
towns, 108.
How they might be rendered proper receptacles for the sick, 110.
Particularly in infectious disorders, 111.
The sick in, ought not to be crowded together, 219, _note_.
_Horse-radish_, the chewing of, will restore sensibility to the organs
of taste when injured, 465.
_Houses_, instead of contrivances to make them close and warm, ought to
be regularly ventilated, 78.
In marshy situations unwholesome, 80.
Ought to be built in a dry situation, 130.
Danger of inhabiting new-built houses before thoroughly dry, _ibid._
Are often rendered damp by unseasonable cleanliness, _ibid._
Are dangerous when kept too close and hot, 133.
_Husbandmen_, the peculiar disorders they are exposed to, from the
vicissitudes of the weather, 40.
_Huxham_, Dr. recommends the study of the dietetic part of medicine,
xiii.
_Hydrocephalus._ See _Dropsy_.
_Hydrophobia_, Dr. Tissot’s method of curing, 484.
_Hydrops pectoris._ See _Dropsy_.
_Hypochondriac affections_, frequently produced by intense study, 58.
Their causes, and who most subject to them, 452.
The general intentions of cure, _ibid._
Regimen, 454.
_Hysterics_, a disorder produced by the habitual use of tea, 66.
General causes of, 447.
Symptoms, 448.
Proper treatment of, _ibid._
Regimen, 449.
Medicines adapted to, 450.
_Hysteric colic_, symptoms and treatment of, 299.
J.
_Jails_, why malignant fevers are often generated in them, 77.
Often spread infection by being situated in the middle of populous
towns, 108.
Ought to be removed, 110.
_Janin_, M. his relation of the recovery of an overlaid infant, 627.
And of a man who had hanged himself, 628.
_Jaundice_, the different stages of its appearance, with the causes of
this disorder, 370, 371.
Symptoms and regimen, 371.
Medical treatment, 372.
_Jesuits Bark._ See _Bark_.
_Jews_, the whole system of their laws tending to promote cleanliness,
103. 107.
_Iliac passion_, a particular kind of inflammation of the intestines,
292.
_Imposthume in the breast_, in consumptions, how to make it break
inwardly, when not to be discharged by other means, 185.
Imposthumes after the small-pox, proper treatment of, 227.
_Incontinency of urine_, distinguished from a diabetes, 322.
Expedient for relief, _ibid._
_Indigestion_, is one consequence of intense study, 56.
General causes, and remedies for, 416.
_Indolence_, its bad effects on the constitution, 82.
Occasions glandular obstructions, 83.
Ill consequences of too much indulgence in bed, 84.
Is the parent of vice, 86.
Is the general cause of most nervous disorders, 455.
_Infancy_, the foundation of a good or bad constitution, generally laid
in this season of life, 1.
_Infants_, nearly one half of those born in Great Britain die under
twelve years of age, 1.
Perish mostly by art, 2.
Ought not
to be suckled by delicate women, 3.
Importance of their being nursed by their mothers, 4.
Often lose their lives, or become deformed, by errors in clothing
them, 9.
How the art of bandaging them became the province of the midwife, 10.
How treated in Africa, 11, _note_.
Philosophical observations on their organical structure, and on the
causes of deformity, _ibid._
Why they so frequently die of convulsions, 12.
Why exposed to fevers, 13.
And colds, 14.
Rules for their dress, _ibid._
Their food, 15.
Reflections on the many evils they are exposed to, 544.
Why their first disorders are in their bowels, _ibid._
How to cleanse their bowels, 545.
The meconium, 546.
Thrush, 547.
Acidities, 548.
Gripes, 549.
Galling and excoriations, 550.
Stoppage of the nose, _ibid._
Vomiting, 551.
Looseness, 552.
Eruptions, 553.
Scabbed heads, 555.
Chilblains, 556.
The croup, 557.
Teething, 559.
Rickets, 562.
Convulsions, 565.
Water in the head, 567.
How to recover infants seemingly dead, 622.
Ought never to sleep in the same bed with their mothers or nurses,
626, _note_.
Case of the recovery of an overlaid infant, 627.
Case of an infant seemingly killed by a strong convulsion fit, and
recovered, 629.
See _Children_.
_Infection_, the danger of, incurred by injudicious or unnecessary
attendance on the sick, 106.
And on funerals, 107.
Is often communicated by clothes, _ibid._
Is frequently imported, 108.
Is spread by hospitals and jails being situated in the middle of
populous towns, _ibid._
How to prevent infection in sick chambers, 109.
Physicians liable to spread infection, _ibid._ _note_.
In what respects the spreading of infection might be checked by the
magistrate, 110.
Bleeding and purging increase the danger of, by debilitating the
body, 204.
Small-pox, 214.
Of the small-pox may be received again, 218, _note_.
_Inflammations_, how the laborious part of mankind expose themselves
to, 42.
Proper treatment of, 574.
_Inflammation_ of the bladder. See _Bladder_.
—— of the brain. See _Brain_.
—— of the eyes. See _Eyes_.
—— of the intestines. See _Intestines_.
—— of the kidneys. See _Kidneys_.
—— of the liver. See _Liver_.
—— of the lungs. See _Peripneumony_.
—— of the stomach. See _Stomach_.
—— of the throat. See _Quinsey_.
—— of the womb. See _Womb_.
_Infusions_, advantages of, over decoctions, 676.
How to obtain rich infusions from weak vegetables, _ibid._
Preparation of the bitter infusion, _ibid._
Infusion of the bark, _ibid._
Infusion of carduus, 677.
Of linseed, _ibid._
Of roses, _ibid._
Of tamarinds, and senna, _ibid._
Spanish infusion, 678.
For the palsy, _ibid._
_Inns_, the great danger of meeting with damp beds in them, 128.
The sheets in, how treated to save washing, 129.
_Inoculation_ of the small-pox, more favourably received here than in
neighbouring countries, 227.
Cannot prove of general utility while kept in the hands of a few,
228.
No mystery in the process, _ibid._
May safely be performed by parents or nurses, 229.
Various methods of doing it, _ibid._
The clergy exhorted to remove the prejudices against the operation,
231.
Arguments cited from Dr. Mackenzie in favour of inoculation, _ibid._
_note_.
Ought to be rendered universal, 233.
Means of extending the practice of, 234.
Two obstacles to the progress of, stated, 235.
Might be performed by clergymen, or by parents themselves, 236.
The proper seasons and age for performing it, 239.
Will often mend the habit of body, _ibid._
Necessary preparation and regimen for, _ibid._
_Insects_, when they creep into the ear, how to force them out, 361.
Poisonous, the bites of, how to be treated, 486.
_Intemperance_, one great cause of the diseases of seamen, 45.
The danger of, argued from the constructions of the human body, 94.
The analogy in the nourishment of plants and animals, _ibid._
Is the abuse of natural passions, _ibid._
In diet, 95.
In liquor and carnal pleasures, _ibid._
The bad consequences of, involve whole families, 96.
Effects of drunkenness on the constitution, _ibid._
Persons who seldom get drunk, may nevertheless injure their
constitutions by drink, 97.
The habit of drinking frequently acquired under misfortunes, 98.
Is peculiarly hurtful to young persons, 99.
Leads to all other vices, _ibid._
_Intermitting fever._ See _Ague_.
_Intestines_, inflammation of, general causes from whence it proceeds,
291.
The symptoms, regimen, and medical treatment, 292.
Cautions to guard against it, 295.
_Intoxication_ produces a fever, 96.
Fatal consequences of a daily repetition of this vice, _ibid._
Persons who seldom get drunk, may nevertheless injure their
constitution by drinking, _ibid._
Getting drunk, a hazardous remedy for a cold, 277.
Often produces fatal effects, 623.
Proper cautions for treating persons in liquor, 624.
The safest drink after a debauch, _ibid._
Remarkable case, 625.
_Johnson_, Dr. extraordinary recovery of an infant seemingly killed by
a strong convulsion fit, related by, 629.
_Issues_, how to make them take the best effect, 430.
_Itch_, the nature and symptoms of this disease described, 403.
Sulphur, the best remedy against, _ibid._
Great danger of the injudicious use of mercurial preparations for,
405.
Cleanliness the best preservative against, 406, _note_.
_Juleps_, the form of, explained, 678.
Preparation of the camphorated julep, _ibid._
Cordial julep, 679.
Expectorating julep, _ibid._
Musk julep, _ibid._
Saline julep, _ibid._
Vomiting julep, _ibid._
K.
_Kermes mineral_, recommended by Dr. Duplanil for the hooping cough,
287, _note_.
_Kidneys_, inflammation of, its general causes, 301.
Its symptoms and proper regimen, 302.
Medical treatment, 305.
Where it proceeds from the stone and gravel, _ibid._
Cautions for those subject to this disorder, _ibid._ See _Gravel_.
_King’s evil._ See _Scrophula_.
L.
_Laborious employments_, the peculiar disorders incident to, 40.
The folly of men emulating each other in trials of strength, 41.
Disadvantages attending their diet, _ibid._
How they expose themselves to inflammations, 42.
Danger of sleeping in the sun, _ibid._
Long fasting hurtful to them, _ibid._
Injuries arising from poor living, 43.
Many of the diseases of labourers, not only occasioned, but
aggravated, by poverty, _ibid._
_Labour_ should not be imposed too early on children, 28.
_Labour_ in child-bed, medical advice for, 534.
Inconveniencies of collecting a number of women at, 535, _note_.
_Laudanum_, its efficacy in fits of an ague, 149, _note_.
How to be administered in a cholera morbus, 311.
In a looseness, 313.
In a diabetes, 321.
When proper for the head-ach, 356.
How to apply, for the tooth-ach, 358.
Will ease pain in the gout, 384.
How to administer for the cramp in the stomach, 438.
Is good for flatulences, 444.
Effects of an over-dose of, 470.
Medical treatment in this case, 476.
_Leading-strings_, injurious to young children, 23.
_Leeches_, may be successfully applied to inflamed testicles, 503,
_note_.
And to disperse buboes, 505, _note_.
Are proper to apply to children where inflammations appear in
teething, 560.
Objections to bleeding with them, 572.
_Lemons._ See _Oranges_.
_Leprosy_, why less frequent in this country now than formerly, 398.
Requires the same treatment as the scurvy, _ibid._
_Lientery_, proper treatment for, 351.
_Life_ may frequently be restored, when the appearances of it are
suspended by sudden casualties, 601. 608. 613. 631.
_Lightning_, persons apparently killed by, might possibly be recovered
by the use of proper means, 631.
_Lime-water_ recommended to prevent gravel in the kidneys from
degenerating to the stone in the bladder, 326.
Is a good remedy for worms, 368.
Happy effects of, in the cure of obstinate ulcers, 585.
_Lind_, Dr. his prescription to abate fits of an ague, 149, _note_.
His directions for the treatment of patients under putrid remitting
fevers, 212, _note_.
_Liniment_ for burns, preparation of, 683.
White liniment, 684.
For the piles, _ibid._
Volatile liniment, _ibid._
_Liquors_, strong, expose children to inflammatory disorders, 19.
Fermented, the qualities of, examined, 68.
The bad consequences of making them too weak, 69.
Why all families ought to prepare their own liquors, _ibid._
Cold, the danger of drinking, when a person is hot, 131.
_Liver_, schirrous, produced by sedentary employments, 56.
_Liver_, inflammation of, its causes and symptoms, 306.
Regimen and medical treatment, 307.
Abscess in, how to be treated, 308.
Cautions in the event of a schirrous being formed, _ibid._
_Lobelia_, an American plant used by the natives in the venereal
disease, 514.
_Lochia_, a suppression of, how to be treated, 537.
_Longings_, in diseases, are the calls of nature, and often point out
what may be of real use, 146.
_Looseness_, habitual, general directions for persons subject to, 122.
Its general causes, 312.
A periodical looseness ought never to be stopped, 313.
Medical treatment of, according to its various causes, _ibid._
Means of checking it when necessary, 314.
In children, proper treatment of, 552.
_Love_, why perhaps the strongest of all the passions, 119.
Is not rapid in its progress, and may therefore be guarded against at
its commencement, _ibid._
To pretend to it for amusement, cruelty to the object, _ibid._
Children often real martyrs between inclination and duty, 120,
_note_.
_Lues_, confirmed, symptoms of, 510.
Mercury the only certain remedy known in Europe for this disease,
511.
Saline preparations of mercury more efficacious than the ointment,
512.
How to administer corrosive sublimate, _ibid._
American method of curing this disease, 513.
_Lungs_, injured by artists working in bending postures, 50.
Studious persons liable to consumptions of, 56.
_Luxury_, highly injurious to the organs of taste and smell, 463.
M.
_Mackenzie_, Dr. his arguments in favour of inoculating in the
small-pox, 231, _note_.
_Mad dog._ See _Dog_.
_Magnesia alba_, a remedy for the heart-burn, 419.
Is the best medicine in all cases of acidity, 549.
_Magnets_, artificial, their reputed virtue in the tooth-ach, 359.
_Malt_ liquors, hurtful in the asthma, 407.
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.
Cause and symptoms, _ibid._
Proper regimen and medicine, 242, 243.
Inoculation of, might prove very salutary, 245, _note_.
_Mechanics_ ought to employ their leisure hours in gardening, 54.
_Meconium_, the best mode of expelling it, 16. 546.
_Medicine_, the origin of the art of, xii.
The operation of, doubtful at best, xiv.
Is made a mystery of, by its professors, xxi.
The study of, neglected by gentlemen, xxii.
This ignorance lays men open to pretenders, xxiii.
Ought to be generally understood, xxiv.
A diffusion of the knowledge of, would destroy quackery, xxvii.
Objections to the cultivation of medical knowledge answered, xxviii.
The theory of, can never supply the want of experience and
observation, 135.
_Medicines_ have more virtue attributed to them than they deserve, 138.
Ought not to be administered by the ignorant, nor without caution,
140.
Want of perseverance in the use of, one reason why chronic diseases
are so seldom cured, 392.
Many retained, which owe their reputation to credulity, 649.
Are multiplied and compounded in proportion to ignorance of the
causes and nature of diseases, _ibid._
Disadvantages of compounded medicines, _ibid._
Are often adulterated for the sake of colour, _ibid._
The relative proportions of doses of, for different ages, 652.
A list of such medical preparations as ought to be kept for private
practice, 654.
_Melancholy_, religious, its effects, 120.
Leads to suicide, _ibid._
Defined, with its causes, 426.
Symptoms and regimen, 426, 427.
Medicinal treatment, 428.
_Menstrual_ discharge in women, the commencement and decline of, the
most critical periods of their lives, 522.
Confinement injurious to growing young women, 523;
and tight lacing for a fine shape, 524.
Symptoms of the first appearance of this discharge, 525.
Objects of attention in regimen at this time, _ibid._
Ought to be restored whenever unnaturally obstructed, and how, 526.
When an obstruction proceeds from another malady, the first cause is
to be removed, 527.
Treatment under a redundancy of the discharge, 528.
Regimen and medicine proper at the final decline of the menses, 529.
_Mercury_, may be given in desperate cases of an inflammation of the
intestines, 294.
Cautions for administering it, _ibid._ _note_.
Great caution necessary in using mercurial preparations for the itch,
405.
Is seldom necessary in a gonorrhœa, 496.
How to administer it when needful in that disorder, 497.
Solution of mercury, how to make, 498, _note_.
Is the only certain remedy known in Europe for the cure of a
confirmed lues, 511.
Saline preparations of, more efficacious than the mercurial ointment,
_ibid._
How to administer corrosive sublimate in venereal cases, 512.
Necessary cautions in the use of mercury, 515.
Proper seasons for entering on a course of, 516.
Preparations for, _ibid._
Regimen under a course of, 517.
_Mezereon_ root, a powerful assistant in venereal cases, 513.
_Midwifery_, ought not to be allowed to be practiced by any woman not
properly qualified, 534, _note_.
_Midwives_, historical view of the profession, 9.
How they became intrusted with the care of bandaging infants, with
the ill effects of their attempts at dexterity in this office, 10.
Instances of their rashness and officious ignorance, 540, _note_,
544, _note_.
_Miliary_ fever. See _Fever_.
_Military_ exercise recommended for boys to practise, 26.
_Milk_, that of the mother, the most natural food for an infant, 15.
Cows milk, better unboiled than boiled, 18.
Is a good antidote against the scurvy, 66.
Of more value in consumptions than the whole _Materia Medica_, 179.
Its great efficacy in the scurvy, 396.
A milk diet proper both for men and women, in cases of barrenness,
543.
_Milk_ fever. See _Fever_.
_Millipedes_, how to administer for the hooping-cough, 287.
_Mind_, diseases of, to be distinguished from those of the body, 136.
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.
Are of considerable service in weaknesses of the stomach, 417.
Cautions concerning the drinking of, 639–646.
_Mixtures_, general remarks on this form of medicines, 680.
Composition of the astringent mixture, _ibid._
Diuretic mixture, _ibid._
Laxative absorbent mixture, _ibid._
Saline mixture, 681.
Squill mixture, _ibid._
_Molasses_, an intoxicating spirit much used by the common people at
Edinburgh, 91.
_Mothers_, preposterous, when they think it below them to nurse their
own children, 2.
Under what circumstances they may be really unfit to perform this
task, _ibid._
Importance of their suckling their own children, 3, _note_.
Delicate mothers produce unhealthy short-lived children, 7.
Their milk, the best food for children, 15.
Ought to give their children proper exercise, 23;
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.
Is a good remedy in the epilepsy, 435.
And for the hiccup, 437.
Deafness cured by, 462.
_Mustard_, white, a good remedy in the rheumatism, 391.
N.
_Natural_ history, the study of, necessary to the improvement of
agriculture, xx.
_Nervous_ diseases, the most complicated and difficult to cure of all
others, 420.
General causes of, _ibid._
Symptoms of, 421.
Regimen, 422.
Medical treatment, 424.
A cure only to be expected from regimen, 426.
The several symptoms of, though differently named, all modifications
of the same disease, 453.
_Nervous_ colic, its causes and symptoms, 299.
Medical treatment of, 300.
_Nervous_ fever. See _Fever_.
_Night-mare_, its causes and symptoms described, 439.
Proper treatment of, 440.
_Nightshade_, an infusion of, recommended in a cancer, 469.
_Nitre_, purified, its good effects in a quinsey, 268.
Is an efficacious remedy for the dropsy, 378.
Promotes urine and perspiration, 429.
_Nose_, ulcer in, how to cure, 464.
Stoppage of, in children, how to cure, 551.
See _Bleeding at_.
_Nurses_, their superstitious prejudices in bathing of children, 30.
The only certain evidence of a good one, 33.
Their usual faults pointed out, 34.
Administer cordials to remedy their neglect of duty toward children,
35.
Their mistaken treatment of eruptions, _ibid._
And loose stools, _ibid._
Are apt to conceal the disorders of children that arise from their
own negligence, 36.
Ought to be punished for the misfortunes they thus occasion, _ibid._
Sensible, often able to discover diseases sooner than persons bred to
physic, 135.
Are liable to catch the small-pox again from those they nurse in that
disorder, 218, _note_.
_Nursery_ ought to be the largest and best aired room in a house, 31.
O.
_Oil_, an antidote to the injuries arising from working in mines or
metals, 39.
Sallad oil, the best application to the bite of a wasp or bee, 486.
Camphorated, how to prepare, 684.
_Oils_, essential, of vegetables, the proper menstruum for, 694.
_Ointment_ for the itch, 403.
Use of ointments when applied to wounds and sores, 681.
Preparation of yellow basilicum, _ibid._
Emollient ointment, 682.
Eye ointments, _ibid._
Issue ointment, _ibid._
Ointment of lead, 683.
Mercurial ointment, _ibid._
Ointment of sulphur, _ibid._
White ointment, _ibid._
See _Liniment_.
_Ophthalmia._ See _Eye_.
_Opiates_, efficacious in a _cholera morbus_, 311.
In a diabetes, 320.
When proper for the head-ach, 356.
Recommended for the tooth-ach, _ibid._
Are delusive remedies in nervous diseases, 425.
See _Laudanum_.
_Orange_ and lemon-peel, how to candy, 665.
How to preserve orange and lemon-juice in the form of syrup, 694.
_Ormskirk_ medicine for the bite of a mad dog, remarks on, 485, _note_.
_Oxycrate_, the most proper external application in a fracture, 596.
_Oysters_ of great service in consumptions, 182, _note_.
P.
_Painters._ See _Miners_.
_Palsy_, the nature of this disorder explained, with its causes, 430.
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.
Have great influence both in the cause and cure of diseases, 111.
Anger, 112.
Fear, _ibid._
Grief, 116.
Love, 119.
Religious melancholy, 120.
The best method of counteracting the violence of any of the passions,
_ibid._
_Peas_, parched, good in cases of flatulency, 363.
_Peruvian_ bark. See _Bark_.
_Penis_, ulcerated, cured, and partly regenerated, by a careful
attention to cleanliness, 518, _note_.
_Peripneumony_, who most subject to, 171.
Its causes, symptoms, and proper regimen, _ibid._ 172.
_Perspiration_, insensible, the obstruction of, disorders the whole
frame, 126.
The various causes of its being checked, _ibid._
Changes in the atmosphere, _ibid._
Wet clothes, 127.
Wet feet, _ibid._
Night air, 128.
Damp beds, _ibid._
Damp houses, 130.
Sudden transitions from heat to cold, 131.
_Philosophy_, advantages resulting from the study of, xxiii.
_Phrenitis._ See _Brain_.
_Phymosis_ described, and how to treat, 509.
_Physicians_, ill consequences of their inattention to the management
of children, 5.
Are liable to spread infection, 109, _note_.
Their custom of prognosticating the fate of their patients, a bad
practice, 115.
Are seldom called in, until medicine can give no relief, 158.
The faculty oppose every salutary discovery, 328.
_Pickles_, provocatives injurious to the stomach, 67.
_Piles_, bleeding and blind, the distinction between, 334.
Who most subject to the disorder, _ibid._
General causes, _ibid._
Medical treatment of, 335.
Periodical discharges of, ought not to be stopped, 336.
Proper treatment of the blind piles, _ibid._
External ointments of little use, 337.
_Pills_, purging, proper form of, for an inflammation of the
intestines, 294.
The general intention of this class of medicines, 684.
Preparation of the composing pill, 685.
Fœtid pill, _ibid._
Hemlock pill, _ibid._
Mercurial pill, _ibid._
Mercurial sublimate pills, 686.
Plummer’s pill, _ibid._
Purging pill, 687.
Pill for the jaundice, _ibid._
Squill pills, _ibid._
Strengthening pills, 688.
_Pins_ ought never to be used in the dressing of children, 13.
Swallowed, discharged from an ulcer in the side, 603, _note_.
_Plasters_, the general intentions of, and their usual basis, 688.
Preparation of the common plaster, _ibid._
Adhesive plaster, 689.
Anodyne plaster, _ibid._
Blistering plaster, _ibid._
Gum plaster, _ibid._
Mercurial plaster, _ibid._
Stomach plaster, 690.
Warm plaster, _ibid._
Wax plaster, _ibid._
_Pleurisy_, the nature of the disorder explained, with its causes, 163.
Symptoms, 164.
Regimen, _ibid._
Medical treatment, 165.
A decoction of seneka reckoned a specific in, 168.
Bastard pleurisy, 169.
_Plumbers._ See _Miners_.
_Poisons_, the nature and cure of, a general concern, and easily
acquired, 472.
Mineral poisons, 473.
Vegetable poisons, 475.
Bites of poisonous animals, 477.
Bite of a mad dog, 479.
Bite of a viper, 485.
The practice of sucking the poison out of wounds recommended, 486,
_note_.
Poisonous plants ought to be destroyed in the neighbourhood of towns,
487.
Negro remedy to cure the bite of a rattle-snake, 488.
General rules for security against poisons, 489.
_Poor_ living, the dangers of, 43.
_Porters_ subject to disorders of the lungs, 40.
_Postures_, confined, injurious to the health of sedentary artists, 50.
_Poverty_, occasions parents to neglect giving their children proper
exercise, 23.
Destroys parental affection, 24, _note_.
Not only occasions, but aggravates, many of the diseases of
labourers, 43.
The poor great sufferers by the sale of bad provisions, 63.
And by bad air in large cities, 77.
_Poultices_ proper for inflamed wounds, 579.
_Powders_, general instructions for making and administering, 691.
Astringent powder, preparation and doses of, 692.
Powder of bole, _ibid._
Carminative powder, _ibid._
Diuretic powder, 693.
Aromatic purging powder, _ibid._
Saline laxative powder, _ibid._
Steel powder, _ibid._
Sudorific powder, _ibid._
Worm powder, 694.
Purging worm powder, _ibid._
Powder for the tape-worm, _ibid._
_Pox_, small, who most liable to, and at what seasons, 214.
Its causes and symptoms, _ibid._ 215.
Favourable and unfavourable symptoms in, 215, 216.
Regimen, 216.
How the patient ought to be treated during the eruptive fever, 217.
Children in this disorder ought not to lie together in the same bed,
219.
Should be allowed clean linen, _ibid._
Patients under this disorder ought not to appear in public view, 220.
Medical treatment, _ibid._
The secondary fever, 224.
When and how to open the pustules, 225.
Of inoculation, 227.
_Pregnancy_, how to treat vomiting when the effect of, 316.
Rules of conduct for women under the disorders incident to, 530.
Causes and symptoms of abortion, 532.
How to guard against abortion, _ibid._
Treatment in cases of abortion, _ibid._
Childbirth, 533.
_Prescriptions_, medical, patients exposed to danger by their being
written in Latin, xxvi.
_Provisions_, unsound, the sale of, a public injury, 63.
_Puerperal_ fever. See _Fever_.
_Purges_, the frequent taking of them renders the habitual use of them
necessary, 123.
Their efficacy in agues, 150.
Proper form of, for an inflammation of the intestines, 293.
Cooling purges always proper in a gonorrhœa, 494.
Midwives too rash in the giving of purges, 540, _note_.
Form of a gentle purge for infants disordered in the bowels, 545.
For the thrush, 547.
_Pustules_ in the small-pox, favourable and unfavourable appearances
of, 215, 216.
The suppuration of, to be promoted, 221.
When and how to open, 225.
_Putrid_ fever. See _Fever_.
Q.
_Quacks_ put out more eyes than they cure, 456.
_Quackery_, how to destroy, xxv.
_Quakers_, their mode of dressing recommended, 93.
_Quinsey_, a common and dangerous disorder, and to whom most fatal,
264.
Its causes, _ibid._
Symptoms, 265.
Regimen, 266.
Medical applications, 268.
How to promote suppuration, 269.
How to nourish the patient when he cannot swallow, 270.
Advice to persons subject to this disorder, _ibid._
——, malignant, who most subject to, and its causes, 271.
Its symptoms, 272.
Regimen and medical treatment, 273.
R.
_Rattlesnake_, Negro remedy for the cure of its bite, 488.
_Regimen_ ought to co-operate with medicine to accomplish the cure of
diseases, xiii.
Will often cure diseases without medicine, 140.
See _Aliment_.
_Religion_, true, calculated to support the mind under every
affliction, 120.
The instructions in, ought not to dwell too much on gloomy subjects,
121.
_Remitting_ fever. See _Fever_.
_Repletion_, impairs the digestive power, 72.
Diseases occasioned by, 74.
How to treat a looseness produced by, 312.
_Resentment_, the indulgence of, injurious to the constitution, 112.
_Resins_, and essential oils, the proper menstruum for, 695.
_Respiration_, how to restore in a drowned person, 609.
_Rheumatism_ acute and chronic, distinguished, 388.
Causes, _ibid._
Symptoms, 389.
Medical treatment, _ibid._
Cautions to persons subject to this disorder, 390.
_Rickets_, the appearance of, in Britain, dated from the growth of
manufactures and sedentary employments, 23.
The causes of, 562.
Symptoms, 563.
Regimen, and medical treatment, _ibid._
_Rollers_, pernicious tendency of applying them round the bodies of
infants, 12.
_Romans_, ancient, their great attention to the cleanliness of their
towns, 102, _note_.
_Roses_, conserve of, its great virtue against hæmorrhages, 336, 341.
_Rosemary_, the external application of, a popular remedy for the
cramp, 451, _note_.
_Ruptures_, are chiefly incident to children and very old persons, 598.
The causes respectively, _ibid._
Method of treatment, _ibid._
Cutting should be avoided if possible, 599.
Cautions for persons afflicted with a rupture, 600.
Often prove fatal before discovered, _ibid._ _note_.
_Rutherford_, Dr. his preparation for the cure of a dysentery, 347,
_note_.
S.
_Sailors_, their health injured by change of climate, hard weather, and
bad provisions, 45.
Many of their diseases spring from intemperance, _ibid._
Ought to guard against wet clothes, _ibid._
How the ill effects of salt provisions might be corrected, _ibid._
Peruvian bark the best antidote to sailors on a foreign coast, 47.
Cleanliness greatly conducive to their health, 103.
_Sal prunellæ_, its good effects in a quinsey, 268.
_Saline_ draughts, of good use for stopping a vomiting, 318.
Preparation of, for this purpose, _ibid._
Peculiarly good in the puerperal fever, 540.
_Salivation_ not necessary in the cure of the venereal disease, 511.
_Sarsaparilla_, a powerful assistant in venereal cases, 513.
_Scabbed_ head in children, difficult to cure, 555.
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.
Symptoms, and regimen, 399.
Medical treatment, 400.
_Scurvy_, why prevalent among the English, 65.
Where most prevalent, and the two distinctions of, 393.
Causes of, _ibid._
Symptoms and cure, 394.
Instructions to sea-faring men, 395.
Extraordinary effects of milk, 396.
Proper liquors, _ibid._
_Sedentary_ life, includes the greater part of the human species, 47.
Few persons follow agriculture who are capable of other business, 48.
Sedentary and active employments ought to be intermixed, for the sake
of health, _ibid._
Artists suffer from unwholesome air, by being crowded together,
_ibid._
The postures artists are confined to, injurious to health, 49.
Disorders produced by, _ibid._
Cautions offered to the sedentary, 50.
Sedentary amusements improper for sedentary persons, 51.
Hints relating to improper food, 52.
Exercise a surer relief for low spirits than drinking, _ibid._
Gardening a wholesome amusement for the sedentary, _ibid._
Disorders occasioned by intense study, 55.
Dietetical advice to the sedentary, 71.
Sedentary occupations better adapted to women than men, 83, _note_.
_Sea_ water, a good remedy in the King’s evil, 400.
_Senses_, disorders of, 456.
_Seton_, sometimes has extraordinary effects in an inflammation of the
eyes, 262.
Is of service for preventing apoplexies, 413.
The best method of making it, 430.
_Shoes_, tight, the bad consequences resulting from, 91.
The high heels of women’s shoes, 92.
_Sibbins_, a venereal disorder so termed in the west of Scotland, how
to cure, 518, _note_.
_Sick_, the mutual danger incurred by unnecessary visitors to, 106.
Persons in health to be kept at a distance from the sick, 107.
Proper nurses ought to be employed about them, 109.
Instructions for avoiding infection, _ibid._
Physicians too unguarded in their visits to them, _ibid._ _note_.
Tolling of bells for the dead very dangerous to, 114.
Their fears ought not to be alarmed, 116.
_Sight_ injured by studying by candle-light, 57.
_Simples_, a list of those proper to be kept for private practice, 654.
_Sinapisms_, the general intentions of, 660.
Directions for making of, _ibid._
_Sleep_, the due proportion of, not easy to fix, 87.
How to make it refreshing, 88.
Complaints of the want of, chiefly made by the indolent, _ibid._
Heavy suppers cause uneasy nights, _ibid._
Anxiety destructive of sleep, 89.
That in the fore-part of the night most refreshing, _ibid._
Early risers the longest livers, 90, _note_.
_Sleeping_ in the sun, the danger of, 42.
_Small pox._ See _Pox_.
_Smell_, injuries to which the sense of, is liable, with the remedies
applicable to, 463.
_Soap_, Alicant, recommended in the stone, 327.
Soap-lees, how to take, _ibid._
_Solanum._ See _Nightshade_.
_Soldiers_, exposed to many disorders from the hardships they undergo,
44.
Ought to be employed in moderate labour in times of peace, 44,
_note_.
_Spine_, often bent by artists working in unfavourable postures, 50.
_Spirit_, rectified, the direct menstruum for resins and essential oils
of vegetables, 695.
Of wine, camphorated, how to prepare, 699.
Spirit of Mindererus, _ibid._
_Spirits_, lowness of, the general forerunner of a nervous fever, 189.
The proper remedies for, 446.
Cautions to persons under this complaint, 447.
_Spirituous liquors_, when good in the colic, 296.
And for gouty complaints in the stomach, 363.
Should be avoided by all persons afflicted with nervous disorders,
423.
The use of, often fatal, 623.
_Spitting of blood._ See _Blood_.
_Spunge_, may be used to supply the want of agaric as a styptic, 577,
_note_.
Its use in extracting substances stopped in the gullet, 605.
_Sports_, active, far more wholesome than sedentary amusements, 85.
Golf, a better exercise than cricket, _ibid._ _note_.
_Spots_ in the eye, how to treat, 459.
_Squinting_, how to correct the habit of, 459.
_Stays_, a ridiculous and pernicious article of female dress, 14, 91.
The wearing of, tends to produce cancers in the breasts, 467.
_Sternutatories_, preparations of, recommended for restoring lost
smell, 464.
_Sticking-plaster_ is the best application for slight wounds, 578.
_Stomach_, exercise the best cure for disorders of, 84.
Inflammation of, a disorder that calls for speedy assistance, 289.
Its causes, _ibid._
Symptoms, _ibid._
Regimen, 290.
Medical treatment, _ibid._
Pain in, its causes, 362.
Remedies for, 363.
Instructions for persons subject to, 364.
_Stone_, the formation of, in the bladder, explained, 124.
This disorder how distinguished from the gravel, 324.
Causes and symptoms, _ibid._
Regimen, 325.
Medical treatment, 326.
Alicant soap and lime-water, how to take for this disorder, 327.
The uva ursi, a remedy in present request for, 328.
_Stool_, loose, the benefit of, to children, 35.
Proper treatment of, when excessive, 36.
The discharge by, cannot be regular, if the mode of living be
irregular, 121.
One in a day generally sufficient for an adult, 122.
How to produce a regularity of, _ibid._
Frequent recourse to medicines for costiveness, injurious to the
constitution, 123.
_Stork_, Dr. his method of treating cancers, 469.
_Strabismus._ See _Squinting_.
_Strains_, proper method of treating, 597.
The safest external applications, _ibid._ _note_.
_Strangury_, from a blistering plaster, how to guard against, 167.
In the small-pox, how to relieve, 222.
From a venereal cause, described, with its proper treatment, 507.
_Strangulation_, course of treatment for the recovery of persons from,
628.
_Strasburgh_, successful treatment of a miliary fever there, 208,
_note_.
_Strength_, the folly of trials of, from emulation, 40. 44.
_Study_, intense, injurious to health, 54.
The disorders occasioned by, 55.
Character of a mere student, 58.
Hints of advice to studious persons, 59.
Danger of their having recourse to cordials, 60.
Health often neglected while in possession, and laboured for after it
is destroyed, 61.
No person ought to study immediately after a full meal, 62.
Diatetical advice to the studious, 71.
The general effects of, on the constitution, 420.
_Sublimate_, corrosive, how to administer in venereal cases, 512.
_Suffocation_, by the fumes of charcoal, liable to happen in close
chambers, 613.
General causes of suffocation, 626.
Overlaying of infants, 627.
_Sugar_, an improper article in the food of children, 18.
_Sulphur_, a good remedy for expelling worms, 368.
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.
Proper treatment of this disorder, 425. 618.
Cautions to persons subject to them, 622.
_Sydenham_, Dr. his method of treating fevers in children from
teething, 560.
_Symptoms_, diseases better distinguished by, than by the systematical
arrangement of, 135.
The differences of sex, age, and constitution, to be considered, 136.
Diseases of the mind to be distinguished from those of the body, 137.
_Syncope_, proper treatment in, 619.
_Syrups_, the general intention of, 695.
How to make simple syrup, and to modify it for particular purposes,
_ibid._
T.
_Tacitus_, his remark on the degeneracy of the Roman ladies, 4, _note_.
_Tallow-chandlers_, and others working on putrid animal substances,
cautions to, 39.
_Tapping_ for the dropsy, a safe and simple operation, 379.
_Tar_, Barbadoes, its efficacy in the nervous colic, 300.
_Tartar_, soluble, a good remedy for the jaundice, 373.
Cream of, a good remedy in a dropsy, 378.
And rheumatism, 390.
_Taste_, how to restore the sense of, when injured, 465.
_Taylors_, are exposed to injuries from breathing confined air, 49.
Are subject to consumptions, _ibid._ _note_.
Often lose the use of their legs, 50.
Hints of instruction offered to them in regard to their health, 51.
_Tea_, the customary use of, injurious to female constitutions, 7.
Destroys their digestive powers, and produces hysterics, 66.
The bad qualities of, principally owing to imprudence in the use of
it, _ibid._
Green, chewing of, a remedy for the heart-burn, 419.
Has a powerful effect upon the nerves, 431, _note_.
Is bad for persons troubled with flatulences, 445.
_Teething_, the disorders attending, 559.
Regimen, and medical treatment in, 560.
Applications to the gums, and how to cut them, 561.
_Temperance_, the parent of health, 94.
_Testicles_, swelled, the cause of, 503.
Regimen and medicine in, _ibid._
Treatment under a cancerous or scrophulous habit, 504.
_Thirst_, how it may be quenched when a person is hot, without danger,
132.
_Thought_, intense, destructive of health, 54.
_Thrush_ in infants, the disorder and its causes described, 547.
Medical treatment of, _ibid._
_Tinctures and elixirs_, the proper medicines to exhibit in the form
of, 696.
Preparations of the aromatic tincture, _ibid._
Compound tincture of the bark, _ibid._
Volatile fœtid tincture, _ibid._
Volatile tincture of gum guaiacum, 697.
Tincture of black hellebore, _ibid._
Astringent tincture, _ibid._
Tincture of myrrh and aloes, _ibid._
Tincture of opium, or liquid laudanum, _ibid._
Tincture of hiera picra, 698.
Compound tincture of senna, _ibid._
Tincture of Spanish flies, _ibid._
Tincture of the balsam of Tolu, _ibid._
Tincture of rhubarb, 699.
_Tissot_, Dr. character of his _Avis au Peuple_, xiv.
His medical course for the cure of the hydrophobia, 484.
His directions for gathering, preparing, and applying agaric of the
oak as a styptic, 577, _note_.
Instances from, of the recovery of drowned persons, 611.
_Tobacco_, a clyster of a decoction of, useful to excite a vomit, 606.
A clyster of the fumes of, will stimulate the intestines, and produce
a stool, 300. 610.
_Toes_, the free motion of, destroyed by wearing tight shoes, 92.