M.

_Miliary Eruption._ Eruption of small pustules resembling the seeds of millet.

_Morbific._ Causing disease, or diseased.

_Mucus._ The matter discharged from the nose, lungs, &c.

_Mysentery._ A double membrane which connects the intestines to the back bone.

N.

_Nervous._ Irritable.

_Nausea._ An inclination to vomit.

_Nodes._ Enlargements of the bones produced by the venereal disease.

P.

_Pectoral._ Medicines adapted to cure diseases of the breast.

_Pelvis._ The bones situated at the lower part of the trunk; thus named from their resembling in some measure a bason.

_Peritonæum._ A membrane lining the cavity of the belly and covering the intestines.

_Pericardium._ Membrane containing the heart.

_Perspiration._ The matter discharged from the pores of the skin in form of vapour or sweat.

_Phlogiston._ Is here used to signify somewhat rendering the air unfit for the purposes of respiration.

_Phlegmatic._ Watery, relaxed.

_Plethoric._ Replete with blood.

_Polypus._ A diseased excrescence, or a substance formed of coagulable lymph, frequently found in the large blood vessels.

_Pus._ Matter contained in a boil.

R.

_Regimen._ Regulation of diet.

_Rectum._ The straight gut, in which the fœces are contained.

_Respiration._ The act of breathing.

S.

_Saliva._ The fluid secreted by the glands of the mouth.

_Sanies._ A thin bad matter, discharged from an ill conditioned sore.

_Scirrhous._ A state of diseased hardness.

_Slough._ A part separated and thrown off by suppuration.

_Spasm._ A diseased contraction.

_Spine._ The back bone.

_Styptic._ A medicine for stopping the discharge of blood.

_Syncope._ A fainting fit attended with a complete abolition of sensation and thought.

T.

_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. In putrid fevers, 199. Not suitable to the measles, 242.

_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 that die of themselves, unfit for food, 63. Overdriven cattle rendered unwholesome, 64. The artifices of butchers exposed, 65. Too great a quantity of, generates the scurvy, _ibid._

_Animals_ and plants, the analogy in the nourishment of, stated, 94.

_Anthony’s_ Fire, St. See _Erysipelas_.

_Aphthæ._ See _Thrush_.

_Apoplexy_, who most liable to this disorder, 410. Causes, _ibid._ Symptoms and method of cure, 411. Cautions to persons of an apoplectic make, 413.

_Apothecaries_ weights, a table of, 653.

_Apparel_, See _Clothing_.

_Appetite_, want of, causes and remedies for, 417.

_Arbuthnot_, Dr. his advice in the inflammation of the lungs, 172. His advice for persons troubled with costiveness, 415, _note_.

_Arsenic_, the effects of, on the stomach, 474. Medical treatment when the symptoms appear, _ibid._

_Arts._ See _Manufactures_.

_Ascites._ See _Dropsy_.

_Asses_ milk, why it seldom does any good, 179. Instructions for taking it, _ibid._

_Asthma_, the different kinds of this disorder distinguished, with its causes, 406. Symptoms, 407. Regimen, _ibid._ Medical treatment, 408. Remedies proper in the moist asthma, 409.

_Atmosphere._ See _Air_.

B.

_Ball’s_ purging vermifuge powder, preparation of, 369.

_Balsams_, how to prepare. Anodyne balsam, 657. Locatelli’s balsam, _ibid._ Vulnerary balsam, _ibid._

_Bandages_, tight, produce most of the bad consequences attending fractured bones, 595.

_Bark_, Peruvian, the best antidote for sailors against disorders on a foreign coast, 47. How to be administered in the ague, 151. Distinction between the red bark and quill bark, _ibid._ _note_. A decoction or infusion of, may be taken by those who cannot swallow it in substance, 153. Is often adulterated, _ibid._ _note_. Is the only medicine to be depended on in agues, 155. How it may be rendered more palatable, _ibid._ May be administered by clyster, 156. Cold water the best menstruum for extracting the virtues of this drug, 185. How to be administered in the putrid fever, 202; and in the erysipelas, 252. In an inflammation of the eyes, 263. Its efficacy in a malignant quinsey, 274. In the hooping-cough, 288. A good medicine in vomiting, when it proceeds from weakness of the stomach, 317. Its efficacy in a diabetes, and how to take it, 321. Is good against the piles, 336; and worms, 368. Its use dangerous for preventing a fit of the gout, 385. A good remedy in the King’s evil, 401; and in the _fluor albus_, 529.

_Barley_ water, how made, 165.

_Barrenness_ in women, the general causes of, 542. Course of relief, 543. Dr. Cheyne’s observations on, _ibid. note_.

_Bath_ waters, good in the gout, 386.

_Bath_, cold, the good effects of, on children, 29. Recommended to the studious, 62. Is peculiarly excellent for strengthening the nervous system, 425. Therefore should never be omitted in gleets, 501. Is good for rickety children, 564. Cautions concerning the improper use of, in adults, 633–639.

_Bath_, warm, of great service in an inflammation of the stomach, 291.

_Bathing_, a religious duty under the Judaic and Mahometan laws, 103. Is conducive to health, 104.

_Bears_ foot, recommended as a powerful remedy against worms, 369.

_Beds_, instead of being made up again as soon as persons rise from them, ought to be turned down and exposed to the air, 77. Bad effects of too great indulgence in bed, 84. Damp, the danger of, 128. Soft, are injurious to the kidneys, 320. 324.

_Beer_, the ill consequences of making it too weak, 69. Pernicious artifices of the dealers in, _ibid._

_Bells_, parish, the tolling them for the dead, a dangerous custom, 114.

_Biles_, 575.

_Bilious_ colic, symptoms and treatment of, 298.

_Bilious_ fever. See _Fever_.

_Bite_ of a mad dog. See _Dog_.

_Bitters_, warm and astringent, antidotes to agues, 151. Are serviceable in vomiting when it proceeds from weakness in the stomach, 317.

_Bladder_, inflammation of, its general causes, 305. Medical treatment of, _ibid._

_Bladder_, stone in. See _Stone_.

_Blast._ See _Erysipelas_.

_Bleeding_, cautions for the operation of, in fevers, 146. In the ague, 150. Its importance in the acute continual fever, 161. In the pleurisy, 166. When necessary in an inflammation of the lungs, 173. Caution against, in a nervous fever, 192. In the putrid fever, 201. In the miliary fever, 209. When necessary in the small-pox, 221. When useful in the measles, 243. When necessary in the bilious fever, 247. Under what circumstances proper in the erysipelas, 251. Mode of, proper in an inflammation of the brain, 257. Is always necessary in an inflammation of the eyes, 261. When proper, and improper, in a cough, 280. When proper in the hooping-cough, 285. Is almost the only thing to be depended on in an inflammation of the stomach, 290. And in an inflammation of the intestines, 292. Is necessary in an inflammation of the kidneys, 303. Its use in a suppression of urine, 323. Is proper in an asthma, 409. Is dangerous in fainting fits, without due caution, 442. Cautions proper in the puerperal fever, 539. Is an operation generally performed by persons who do not understand when it is proper, 570. In what case it ought to be had recourse to, _ibid._ The quantity taken away, how to be regulated, 571. General rules for the operation, _ibid._ Objections to bleeding by leeches, 572. Prevailing prejudices relating to bleeding, _ibid._ The arm the most commodious part to take blood from, 573.

_Bleeding_ at the nose, spontaneous, is of more service, where bleeding is necessary, than the operation with the lancet, 321. Ought not to be stopped without due consideration, _ibid._ How to stop it when necessary, 332. Cautions to prevent frequent returns of, 334.

_Blind_ persons, when born so, might be educated to employments suited to their capacity, 456, _note_.

_Blisters_, peculiarly advantageous in the nervous fever, 192. When only to be applied in the putrid fever, 201. When proper in the miliary fever, 209. Seldom fail to remove the most obstinate inflammation of the eyes, 262. A good remedy in the quinsey, 269. Proper for a violent hooping-cough, 288. Is one of the best remedies for an inflammation of the stomach, 291. Are efficacious in the tooth-ach, 359.

_Blood_, involuntary discharges of, often salutary, and ought not to be rashly stopped, 329. The several kinds of these discharges, with their usual causes, _ibid._ Methods of cure, 330.

_Blood_, spitting of, who most subject to, and at what seasons, 337. Its causes, _ibid._ Symptoms, 339. Proper regimen in, _ibid._ Medical treatment, 340. Cautions for persons subject to it, 341.

_Blood_, vomiting of, its causes and symptoms, 341. 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.