Part 72

Of a Diarrhoea, or Looseness ---- 332

Chap. XXIV.

Of a Dysentery, or Bloody-Flux ---- 335 The Symptoms of the Disease ---- 336 The Remedies against it ---- 338 Of the beneficial Use of ripe Fruits ---- 341 Of the Danger of taking a great Number of popular Remedies in it ---- 345

Chap. XXV.

Of the Itch ---- 347

Chap. XXVI.

Directions peculiar to the Sex ---- 352 Of the monthly Customs ---- 353 Of Gravidation, or going with Child ---- 365 Of Labours or Deliveries, ---- 367 Of their Consequences ---- 371 Of a Cancer ---- 373

Chap. XXVII.

Directions with Regard to Children ---- 375 Of the first Cause of their Disorders, the Meconium ---- 377 --the second, the souring of their Milk ---- 379 --the Danger of giving them Oil ---- ib. --Disorders from their Want of Perspiration, the Means of keeping it up, and of washing them in cold Water ---- 381 & 382 --the third Cause, the cutting of their Teeth ---- 386 --the fourth Cause, Worms ---- 387 Of Convulsions ---- 391 Methods necessary to make them strong and hardy, with general Directions about them ---- 396 & seq.

Chap. XXVIII.

Of Assistances for drowned Persons ---- 403

Chap. XXIX.

Of Substances stopt between the Mouth and the Stomach ---- 411

Chap. XXX.

Of Disorders requiring the Assistance of a Surgeon ---- 435 Of Burns ---- 436 Of Wounds ---- 437 Of Bruises, and of Falls ---- 444 Of Ulcers ---- 454 Of frozen Limbs, or Joints ---- 458 Of Chilblains ---- 462 Of Ruptures ---- 474 Of Phlegmons, or Boils ---- 480 Of Fellons, or Whitlows ---- 481 Of Thorns, Splinters, &c. in the Skin or Flesh ---- 486 Of Warts ---- 488 Of Corns ---- 490

Chap. XXXI.

Of some Cases which require immediate Assistance ---- 491 Of Swoonings, from Excess of Blood ---- 492 Of Swoonings, from great Weakness ---- 494 Of Swoonings, occasioned by a Load on the Stomach ---- 497 Of Swoonings, resulting from Disorders of the Nerves 500 Of Swoonings, occasioned by the Passions ---- 504 Of the Swoonings, which occur in Diseases ---- 506 Of Haemorrhages, or Fluxes of Blood ---- 508 Of Convulsion Fits ---- 512 Of suffocating, or strangling Fits ---- 514 Of the violent Effects of great Fear ---- 516 Of Accidents produced by the Vapours of Charcoal, and of Wine ---- 519 Of Poisons ---- 526 Of acute and violent Pains ---- 529

Chap. XXXII.

Of giving Remedies by Way of Precaution ---- 531 Of Bleeding ---- 532 Of Purges ---- 540 Remedies to be used after excessive Purging ---- 544 Reflections on some other Remedies ---- 546, &c.

Chap. XXXIII.

Of Quacks, Mountebanks, and Conjurers ---- 551

Chap. XXXIV.

Questions necessary to be answered by any Person, who goes to consult a Physician ---- 579 The Table of Remedies ---- 584

Transcription note

Old and variant spellings, like surprising / surprizing, Buttermilk / Butter-milk, Blood-vessels / Blood-Vessels, Faltranc / Faltrank, wholesome / wholsome, fetid / foetid, public / publick, Physic / Physick, etc. have been preserved in the present transcription.

In some cases of doubt, the present edition has been compared with scans of the 1766 edition printed by Donaldson, which differs slightly in setting, for instance having all names not capitalized, and corrects many typographic mistakes.

Corrections listed in the Errata at the end of the book have been carried into this transcription (excepting those which are not relevant for the transcription, like those in running titles).

Typographic errors, occurring at the following pages and lines in the original, have been corrected (negative numbers indicate lines from the bottom of the page):