Antique MEDICAL Book 1800s Quackery Remedies Engraved Anatomy Illustrations

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Antique MEDICAL Book 1800s Quackery Remedies Engraved Anatomy Illustrations:
$33.00

An antiquemedical book - scarce edition with 12 anatomy illustrations, this is:COMPLETE DOMESTIC MEDICINE; ORA Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases, By Regimen and Simple Medicineby William Buchan, M.D. of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
Containing Treatises on those Diseases omitted by the Author, and on the New Discoveries in Medicine and Surgery;Also, Dr. Cullen\'s Characteristic Symptoms of Diseases.To Which is Added The Compendium of Anatomy With Twelve Illustrations
Printed at Otley by William Walker and Sons. No date, most likely early to mid 1800s.
4\" by 6 1/4\" hardcover (brown cloth, gilt designs & lettering on spine). 620 pages.
William Buchan (1729–1805) was a Scottish physician who practiced in Edinburgh from 1766 to 1778 and then relocated his practice to London. His \"Domestic Medicine\" was first issued in 1769. The work became very popular, showing up in Philadelphia by 1800 and in varying editions through the first part of the 19th century.This edition includes an appendix with recipes for a wide variety of concoctions and remedies - among the ingredients are hemlock, mercury, opium, turpentine, etc.Significant portions of this would certainly be classified as quackery today. As an example, consider the following Epilepsy treatment:\"Electuary for the Epilepsy - Take of Peruvian bark, in powder, an ounce; of powdered tin, and wild valerian-root, each half an ounce; simple syrup, enough to make an electuary .... I have added the powdered tin, because the epilepsy often proceeds from worms\"
This edition also contains 12 anatomical illustrations, each plate printed on one side of page only. Each with numbers and letters and accompanying text to identify various parts of the body and skeleton.
CONTENTS:PART I. Of the general causes of Diseases.Introduction - Of Children - Of Diseased Parents - Of the Clothing of Children - Of the Food of Children - Of the Exercise of Children - Of the Bad Effects of Unwholesome Air upon Children - Of Nurses - Of the Laborious - Of the Sedentary - Of the Studious - Of Aliment - Of Air - Of Exercise - Of Sleep - Of Clothing - Of Intemperance - Of Cleanliness - Of Infection - Of the Passions - Of Anger - Of Fear - Of Grief - Of Love - Of Religious Melancholy - Of the Common Evacuations - Of Stool - Of Urine - Of Perspiration - Of being affected by Changes in the Atmosphere - Of Wet Clothes - Of Wet Feet - Of Night Air - Of Damp Beds - Of Damp Houses - Of Sudden Transitions from Heat to Cold
PART II. Of Diseases.Of the Knowledge and Cure of Diseases - Fevers in general - Of Intermitting Fevers or Agues - Of an acute continual Fever - Of the Pleurisy - Of the Bastard Pleurisy - Of the Paraphrenias - Inflammation of the Lungs - Of Consumptions - Of Hectic Fever - Of the Slow, or Nervous Fever - Of the Putrid, or Spotted Fever - Of the Simple Continued Fever - Miliary Fever - Remitting FeverThe Small-Pox - The Cow-Pox - The Chicken-Pox - Of the Measles - The Scarlet Fever - The Bilious Fever - The Yellow Fever - Erysipelas, or St. Anthony\'s Fire - The Phrenitis, or Inflammation of the Brain - Of the Opthalmia, or Inflammation of the Eyes - Of the Quinsey, or Inflammation of the Throat - The Malignant Quinsey, or Ulcerous Sore ThroatOf the Catarrh and Influenza - Coughs and Colds - A Common Cough - Of the Hooping-Cough, or Chin-Cough - Inflammation of the Stomach - Inflammation of the Intestines - Of the Colic - Inflammation of the Kidneys - Inflammation of the Bladder - Inflammation of the Liver - The Cholera Morbus, and other excessive Discharges from the Stomach and BowelsOf a Diarrhoea, or Looseness - Of Vomiting - Of the Diabetes, and other Disorders of the Kidneysand Bladder - The Suppression of Urine - The Gravel and Stone - Involuntary Discharges of blood - Bleeding at the Nose - Bleeding and Blind Piles - Spitting of blood - Vomiting of blood - bloody Urine - The Dysentery, or bloody FluxThe Head-Ache - The Tooth-Ache - The Ear-Ache - Pain of the Stomach - Of Pyrosis, or the Water-Brash - Worms - The Jaundice - Of the Dropsy - The Gout - The Rheumatism - Scurvy -The Scrofula, or King\'s Evil - The Itch - The Nettle-Hash - Herpes, or Shingles - Of the Asthma - Apoplexy - Costiveness - Want of Appetite - The HeartburnNervous Diseases - Melancholy - Mania, or Madness - The Palsy - Tetanus, or the Locked Jaw - The Epilepsy, or Falling Sickness - Of the Dance of St. Vitus, or Chorea Santi Viti - Of the Hiccup - Cramp of the Stomach - Of the Night-Mare - Of Swoonings - Of Flatulencies, or Wind - Hysterics - Hypochondriac Affections - Of Poisons - Mineral Poisons - Vegetable Poisons -The Bites of Poisonous Animals - The Mad Dog - The Viper - Disorders of the Senses - Of the Eye - Of the Ear - Of the Touch - Of the Taste and Smell -. A Schirrous and Cancer - Of the Venereal Disease - Virulent Gonorrhoea - Gleets - Swelled Testicle - Buboes - Chancres - A Confirmed Lues, or PoxDiseases of Women -The Menstrual Discharge - Pregnancy - Child Birth - Barrenness - Diseases of Children - The Meconium - The Apthae, or Thrush - Acidities - Galling and Excoriation - Stoppage of the Nose -Eruptions - The Croup - Teething - The Rickets - Convulsions - Water in the Head - Of Surgery - Bleeding - Inflammations and Abscesses - Wounds - Burns - Bruises - UlcersDislocations - Dislocation of the Jaw - of the Neck - of the Ribs - of the Shoulder - of the Elbow - of the Thigh - Of Broken Bones - Strains - Ruptures - Of Casualties - Substances stopped between the Mouth and Stomach - Drowned Persons - Noxious Vapours - Intoxication - Effects of Cold - Other cases which require Immediate AssistanceSUPPLEMENT.Observations on the Diet of the Common People - Essay on Nursing - Bathing - Longevity - Ruptures - Observations on Sea-SicknessCONTENTS OF THE APPENDIX.IntroductionMedical Preparations:Bolusses - Cataplasms and Sinapisms - Clysters - Collyria, or Eye-Waters - Confections - Conserves and Preserves - Decoctions - Draughts - Electuaries - Emulsions - Extracts - Fomentations - Gargles - Infusions - Julaps - Mixtures - Ointments, Liniments, and Cerate - Pills - Plasters - Powders - Syrups - Tinctures, Elixirs, &c - Vinegars - Waters by Infusion, &c - Simple Distilled Waters - Spirituous Distilled Waters - Wheys - WinesAlphabetical List of the Medicines commonly employed in Practice, with their DosesPreparation of Lichen IslandicusBites and StingsTo Cure DeafnessTable of Doses for different AgesExplanation of Weights and MeasuresGlossary
CONDITION: Cloth rubbed and worn with small piece torn away at bottom of spine. Splitting along front edge of spine and rear board dangling by small piece of cloth. Rear endpaper and final page of index still attached to rear board. Binding loose at front hinge crack and at point where illustrated plates are attached near the rear but still intact. Some very light foxing and age-toning but interior pages overall still quite good.SHIPPING: U.S. media rate s&h $3.50, includes tracking. Priority with insurance $5.05. International as shown. Shipping discount for multiple wins.More books in our other sales including rare, antiquarian, history, genealogy, Civil War, directories and more.