Research Catalog

Title

Can onions cure ear-ache? : medical advice from 1769 / William Buchan ; edited by Melanie King ; foreword by Robert Winston.

Author

Buchan, William, 1729-1805

Publication

Oxford : Bodleian Library, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

King, Melanie

Description

xvii, 190 p. : ill.; 20 cm.

Subject

• History of Medicine
• Materia Medica > history
• Medicine > Early works to 1800
• Physicians > history
• Reference Books, Medical
• Therapeutics > history

Genre/Form

Early works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: Diseases, treatments, remedies & advice -- Abscesses -- Anger -- Asthma -- Bite of mad dog -- Bite of the viper -- Bite of rattlesnake -- Bleeding -- Blindness -- blind (employment of) -- Bread (home cooking) -- Breastfeeding -- Breastfeeding (milk-fever) -- Broken bones -- Broken bones (amputation) -- Broken bones (ribs) -- Bruises -- Burns -- Cancer (breast) -- Cataracts -- Caution of cold (warm) bathing -- Chilblains -- Child-birth -- Child-birth (fear of) -- Child-birth (haemorrhage) -- Child-rearing -- Children (clothing) -- Children (employment of) -- Children (environmental restrictions) -- Children (teething) -- Choking -- Clothing -- Clothing (shoes) -- Clothing (belts, buckles and garters) -- Common cold -- Consumption -- Cooked food -- Costiveness -- Coughs -- Chin-cough or hooping cough -- Cramp (in the leg) -- ^
• Note continued: Nosebleed -- Opium (overdose) -- Parents -- Perspiration -- Phrentitis, or inflammation of the brain -- Piles (hæmorrhoids) -- Pregnancy -- Pregnancy (dangers of) -- Pregnancy (termination) -- Purges -- Religious melancholy -- Rheumatism -- Rickets -- Ruptures -- Ruptures, naval -- sedentary -- senses -- senses (smell) -- senses (taste) -- senses (touch) -- Short-sightedness & long-sightedness -- Sprains & strains -- Stools -- studious -- Swelled testicle -- Swoonings -- Tea (drinking) -- Thirst (quenching of) -- Tooth-ach -- Venereal disease -- Vomiting -- Wet clothes -- Wet feet -- Wet-nurse -- Worms -- Wounds.

ISBN

• 9781851243822 (hbk.)
• 1851243828 (hbk.)

OCLC

795857603

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library