1779 Domestic Poor Medicine Smallpox Cures Scottish Buchan Homeopathy Surgery



William Buchan was a Scottish physician known for his medical treatise Domestic Medicine, a book which described and provided medical treatments and preventions for peasants. This book was one of the most popular medical texts in Europe in the 18th- and 19th-centuries. The popularity of this book was attributed to the fact that it was the first medical book designed for the poor. To this point, medical books were designed for teaching or not thorough enough to provide help. This book offers cures and preventative techniques for smallpox, importance of bloodletting, recommendations on hygiene, and, more controversial, that immorality directly caused poor health and illness!



According to Heirs of Hippocrates,

“Buchan gives simple and easily followed advice in this book and deals at considerable length with various matters that may affect the health, such as diet, ventilation, sleep, cleanliness, and infection. The greater part of the treatise is taken up with a description of the causes, management, and treatment of diseases, such as fevers, pneumonia, smallpox, whooping cough, and colic. His remarks are of lasting value and give valuable insight into the relationship between social conditions and disease in the 18th-century.”



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BUCHAN, William



Domestic medicine or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a Dispensatory for the Use of Private Practitioners



London: printed for W. Strahan; T. Cadell, 1779.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

xxxii, 756, [12]

References: HoH 625; Cushing B 826; Wellcome II, 261; ESTC T117611

Language: English

Binding: Leather; secure

Size: ~8.25in X 5.25in (21cm x 13.5cm)



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