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.