Съдържание:
  • pt. 1: Domestic medicine in the eighteenth century
  • Ch. 1. Much that may be called domestic: every man his own doctor
  • Ch. 2. The sources: from the pens of eighteenth-century folk
  • Ch. 3. The distempers: disease in the eighteenth century
  • pt. 2: The remedies
  • Ch. 4. General therapies
  • Ch. 5. Patent medicines and famous nostrums
  • Ch. 6. Acute diseases
  • Ch. 7. Chronic internal complaints
  • Ch. 8. Common external complaints
  • Ch. 9. Disorders of the senses
  • Ch. 10. Poisoning
  • Ch. 11. Women's disorders.
  • Ch. 12. Nervous diseases
  • Ch. 13. Surgery
  • Ch. 14. Sympathetic medicine: signs, charms, incantations, and spells
  • pt. 3: A domestic materia medica
  • Introduction
  • Key to sources
  • Simples and medicinal preparations fit for home practice
  • Appendixes: A. Weights and measures
  • B. Classes of medicinal preparations
  • C. The southern frontier and the eighteenth century
  • D.A blaze of medical knowledge: The eighteenth century
  • E. The professional practitioner: physician, surgeon, preacher, or quack.