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Arbuthnot, Dr. his advice in the inflaramatiou of the lungs, 95. His

advice fbr persons troubled with costiveness, 262.Arsenic, the effects of no the stomach, 300. Medical treatment when

the symptoms appear, 300.Arts. See Manufactures.Ascites. See Dropsy.Asses' milk, why it seldom does any good, 99. Instructions fbr taking

it, 9.9. Artificial how prepared, 458.Asthma, the different kinds of this disorder distinguished, with its causes,

256. Symptoms, 256. Regimen, 257. Medical treatment, 257.

Remedies proper in the moist asthma, 258. See Asthma also 423,

430, 435, 439.Atmosphere. See Air.

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Ball's purging vermifuge powder, preparation of, 232.

Balsams, how to prepare. Anodyne balsam, 443. Locatelli's balsam,443. Vulnerary balsam, 443.

Bark, Peruvian, the best antidote for sailors against disorders on a foreigncoast, 26. How to be administered in the ague, 84. A decoction orinfusion of, may be taken by those who cannot swallow it in substance,85. How it may be rendered more palatable, 86. May be administeredby clyster, 86. Cold water the best menstruum for extracting the vir-tues of this drug, 102. How to be administered in the putrid fever,116; and in the erysipelas, 165. In an inflammation of the eyes, 169Its efficacy in a malignant quinsy, 171. In the hooping cough, 186.A good medicine in vomiting, when it proceeds from weakness of thestomach, 204. Its efficacy in a diabetes, and how to take it, 206. Isgood against the piles, 214 ; and worms, 229. Its use dangerous forpreventing a fit of the gout, 241. A good remedy in the king's evil,253; and in the fluor albus, 340. Externally to children in agues420. See Cinchona.

Barley water, how made, 91, 417.

Barrenness in women, the general cause of, 340.

Barrough, Dr. his method of curing the falling sickness, 274. He re-commended the use of antimonial w ine one hundred and fifty yearsbefore the late learned Dr. Huxham, 275.

Bath waters, good in the gout, 241.

Bath, cold, the good effects of on children, 17. Recommended to thestudious, 34. Is peculiarly excellent for strengthening the nervoussystem, 285. Therefore should never be omitted in gleets, 316. Isgood for rickety children, 353. Cautions concerning the improperuse of, in adults, 394.

Bath, warm, of great service in an inflammation of the stomach, 188.

Bathing, a religious duty under the Judaic and Mahometan laws, 56.Warm, the various benefits derived from, 395.

Bear's foot, recommended as a powerful remedy against worms, 232,418.

Beds, instead of being made up again as soon as persons rise from them,ought to be turned down and exposed to the air, 43. Bad effects oftoo great indulgence in bed, 43. Damp, the danger of, 71- Soft, areinjurious to the kidneys, 205.