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.

_Tooth ach_, the general causes of, 357. Medical treatment of, _ibid._ When recourse must be had to extraction, 359. Directions for cleaning the teeth, 360.

_Touch_, injuries to which the sense of, is liable, with the remedies applicable to, 465.

_Towns_, great, the air of, destructive to the children of the poor, 30. Children bred in the country ought not to be sent too early into towns, 32. Cleanliness not sufficiently attended to in, 101. Ought to be supplied with plenty of water for washing the streets, 105, _note_. The best means to guard against infection in, 109.

_Trades_, some injurious to health by making artists breathe unwholesome air, 37. 49.

_Transitions_, sudden, from heat to cold, the ill effects of, to the constitution, 131.

_Travellers_, the use of vinegar recommended to, 46. Ought to be very careful not to sleep in damp beds, 128. Fevers why often fatal to, 144.

_Trees_ should not be planted too near to houses, 79.

_Trefoil_ water, a good remedy in the rheumatism, 391,

_Tumours_, proper treatment of, 574.

_Turnbull_, Dr. his method of treating the croup in children, 558, _note_.

_Turner’s cerate_, preparation of, 682.