Acknowledgements
Foreword by Robert Winston
Introduction
Diseases, treatments, remedies & advice
Abscesses, Anger, Asthma, Bite of mad dog, Bite of the viper, Bite of rattlesnake, Bleeding, Blindness, The 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), Damp beds, Death (accidental), Death (convulsion fits), Diabetes, Diarrhea, Dislocation of neck, Drowned persons, Ear-ach, Ear (deafness), Ear (curing dumbness), Exercise, Exercise (as punishment), Exercise (for girls), Eyes, Eyes (blood-shot), Eyes (inflammation), Eye (spots and specks), Eyes (squinting), Eyes (watery or weeping), Fathers, Fear, Fever (remitting), Flatulence or wind, Gangrene, Gelatinous broth (as medicine for dysentery), Gonorrhea, Grief, Head-ach, Hiccups, Houses (damp), Houses (too hot), Hypochrondia, Hysteria, Incontinence, Indolence (in women), Inoculation, Intemperance, Itching, Jaundice, Liquors (benefits of drinking strong), Liquors (home preparation), Love, Lying a-bed too long, Marriage, Measles, Melancholy, Menstrual discharge, Mercury, Mothers, Nervous diseases, Night air, Night-mares, Nosebleed, Opium (overdose), Parents, Perspiration, Phrentitis, or inflammation of the brain, Piles (hemorrhoids), Pregnancy, Pregnancy (dangers of), Pregnancy (termination), Purges, Religious melancholy, Rheumatism, Rickets, Ruptures, Ruptures, naval, The sendentary, The senses, The senses (smell), The senses (taste), The senses (touch), Short-sightedness & long-sightedness, Sprains & strains, Stools, The studious, Swelled testicle, Swoonings, Tea (drinking), Thirst (quenching of), Tooth-ach, Venereal disease, Vomiting, Wet clothes, Wet feet, Wet-nurse, Worms, Wounds
Glossary of medicines, treatments, symptoms & diseases
A list of simples, & of such medicinal preparations, as ought to be kept in readiness
Notes & References
Index