Encyclopaedia of Domestic Medicine (in 2 Vol. Set)

The treatise presents to reader with a clear and correct description of the nature, symptoms, cause, distinction, and most approved treatment of the diseases to which the human frame is liable. The author tries to lay before his readers a just and clear view of the nature of the different maladies treated of, and the best and most manageable remedies for the relief of pain and irritation, and the cure of disease.

In every case, the Head of Treatment has received the greatest attention, beacuse it is the most important; and under this division the plan or plans of management which are generally applicable to the particular malady treated of, and which are the most certain of success, in themajority of cases, have in general been first laid down, and afterwards almost every other useful remedy has been described separately So that the user will, find a determinate mode of treatment, of general and superior efficacy detailed under each malady for which he may be desirous of prescribing.

Contents

Domestic Materia Medica, containing an Account of the Principal medicines now in use
Collection of Prescriptions
Mineral Waters
Cold and Warm Bathing
Diet
Cookery
Regimen
Blood-letting
Abscess
Ague
Amaurosis
Angina pectoris
Apoplexy
Asthma
Barrenness
Bladder, disease of bleeding from the Nose
Lindness
Bloody Flux
Boils
Brain Fever
Breast-pang
Bright’s Disease
Bronchitis
Bronchocele
Bronze Disease
Burns and Scalds
Calculi
Cancer
Carbuncle
Catalepsy
Cataract
Catarrh
Chicken-pox
Cold in the Head or Chest
Colic
Consumption
Convulsions
Drowning, &c.
Intoxication of Preventing Contagion
Poisons
Dislocations
Fractures
Substances lodged in the Gullet
Management of Children
Dentition or Teething
Corns
Corpulence
Costiveness
Cough
Cramp
Croup
Cuts
Deafness
Derbyshire Neck
Delirium Tremens
Diabetes
Diphtheria
Dropsy
General Dropsy
Dysentery
Dyspepsia
Ear-Ache
Epilepsy
Eruptions on the Skin
Erysipelas
Excoriations
Fainting
Falling fits
Fever
Films on the Eye
Flatulency
Flooding
Gall stones
General Principles
Gout
Gravel and stone
Green sickness
Gum boils
Head, injuries of the Head Ache
Heartburn
Heart, Diseases of the Hiccup, or Hiccough
Hooping cough
Hypochondriasis, or Low Spirits
Hysterics
Incontinence of Urine
Indigestion
Inflammation
Inflammation of the Brain
Insanity
Itch
Jaundice
Leprosy
Liver complaint
Locked Jaw
Low spirits
Lumbago
Madness
Measles
Melancholy
Menstruation
Mortification
Mumps
Nervous disorder in general
Nettle rash
Night Mare
Ophthalmia
Pain in the stomach
Pain in the Nerves
Palpitation
Palsy
Periosteal Disease
Piles
Pleurisy
Polypus
Putrid fever
Quinsy
Rheumatic fever
Rheumatic Gout
Rickets
Ringworm
Rupture
Saint Anthony’s Fire
Saint Vitus’s Dance
Scald Head
Scarlet Fever
Sciatica
Scrophula
Scurvy
Shaking Palsy
Shingles
Small-Pox
Spinal disease
Spitting of Blood
Spleen
Sprains
Strangury
Stitch in the Side
Stricture
Stye
Sun Stroke
Suppression of the Menses
Tenesmus
Tetanus
Thrush
Tic Douloureux
Tooth Ache
Trance
Tumours
Typhous Fever
Ulcers
Uvula
Urinary Irritation
Vomiting
Vomiting of blood
Water-brash, or vomiting of water
Wen
Whites
White-swelling
Whitlow
Worms
Wounds
Yellow fever
Table of Dosesof Medicines
Appendix of Prescriptions on cold water