The planter's guide, and family book of medicine : for the instruction and use of planters, families, country people, and all others who may be out of the reach of physicians, or unable to employ them / [by] J. Hume Simons, with particular directions respecting Asiatic cholera, by a Charleston physician.

Author/creator Simons, J. Hume
Format Book
Publication InfoCharleston, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [2010], 1849.
Description210 pages ; 19 cm
Subjects

Contents Antispasmodics -- Antiseptics -- Anthelmintics -- Atringents -- Anodynes -- Aperients -- Cathartics, or Purges -- Diaphoretics -- Diluents -- Demulcents -- Diuretics -- Emetics -- Emmenagogues -- Expectorants -- Narcotics -- Refrigerants -- Stimulants, or Cordials -- Tonics -- Directions for making plasters, blisters, poultices, ointments, etc. -- Gargles -- Pills and powders -- Bilious remitting, or Country Fever -- Intermitting Fever, or fever and ague -- Yellow Fever -- Typhus Fever -- Scarlet Fever -- Simple Inflammatory Fever -- Common Continued Fever -- Quinsy -- Mumps -- Croup -- Measles -- Smallpox -- Varioloid, or Modified Small-Pox -- Inflammation of the Brain, or Phrensy -- Acute Dropsy in the Brain -- Acute Inflammation of the Stomach -- Chronic Inflammation of the Stomach -- Acute Inflammation of the Bowels -- Dysentery -- Acute Inflammation of the Liver -- Acute Inflammation of the Spleen -- Acute Inflammation of the Abdomen -- Chronic Inflammation of the Peritoneum -- Inflammation of the Kidneys -- Inflammation of the Bladder -- Inflammation of the Womb -- Pleurisy -- Inflammation of the Lungs, or Peripneumony -- Bilious Pleurisy -- Acute Bronchitis -- Inflammation of the Larynx -- Pericarditis (inflammation of the bag surrounding the heart) -- Acute Rheumatism -- Inflammation of the Eyes from cold -- Puking blood -- Bleeding from the womb -- Phlegmasia Dolens -- Apoplexy -- Convulsions, or Fits in infants -- Fits from teething -- Convulsions of pregnant women (and during and after childbirth) -- Tetanus, or Spasms -- Asthma -- Stoppage of the monthly courses -- Painful and difficult courses -- The Whites -- Chlorosis, or Green Sickness -- Jaundice -- Flatulent or Wind Colic -- Bilious Colic -- Painter's Colic -- Cholera-Morbus -- Slipping of one gut into another, or Iliac Passion -- Costiveness -- Hemorrhoids, or Piles -- Diarrhea -- Indigestion, or Dyspepsia -- Hooping Cough (whooping cough) -- Worms - Ascarides -- Tape-worm -- Dropsy, or Anasarca -- Dropsy in the Chest -- Dropsy in the Belly, or Ascites -- Diabetes, or Excessive Flow of Urine -- Insipid Diabetes -- Gravel and stone in the bladder -- Suppression of urine from inflammation, or Paralysis of the kidneys, or some mechanical stoppage, as Calculi -- Retention or stoppage of the urine in the bladder -- Strangury, or Difficulty and pain in making water -- Inability to retain the urine -- Gonorrhea, or Clap (also called The Running) -- Venereal Disease and venereal ulcers -- Syphilis, or Genuine Pox -- The Chancre -- Buboes -- Midwifery -- Surgery -- Epidemic Cholera -- Directions for raising negroes.
Abstract A reference book by a Charleston physician describing symptoms for cholera, measles, and smallpox, and other health disorders, and also including instructions for the medical care of slaves
General noteReprint of 1849 ed. (Allen, McCarter, & Co., Columbia).
Action note Laupus Consider for retention; because it has early American recipes History Collections, mmn.
ISBN9781570039300 (sc)
ISBN1570039305 (sc)

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