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_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.