The modern practice of physic : exhibiting the character, causes, symptoms, prognostics, morbid appearances, and improved method of treating the diseases of all climates / by Robert Thomas.

  • Thomas, Robert, 1753-1835.
Date:
1822
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    PREFACE. VIJ longer standing in the Profession. In cases of emer- gency, it may likewise serve as a guide to other persons, who on any sudden or violent attack of illness, either in their own families, or those of the neighbouring poor, might find it necessary to administer some appropriate remedy in the interval of their obtaining professional assistance. It is my intention, however, to submit to the public towards the termination of the present year another work on Domestic Medicine, wholly divested of all pro- fessional terms; and chiefly intended for the use of fami- lies, managers of plantations, and factories in our colo- nies abroad, and masters of ships not having any medical Practitioner on board, which I trust will prove of as high utility to those for whom it is designed, as the present work has done to those engaged in the practice of medicine. Besides giving the treatment of the diseases incidental in both cold and warm climates to men, women, and children, it will point out the steps to be adopted for preventing the further extension of such as are of a con- tagious nature, as also the means for preserving health, and prolonging human life. I think it necessary to state, that the doses advised in the various prescriptions of the present work are in- tended for adults, except where particularly specified for infants or children; and that, in general, women require a smaller quantity of medicine to produce a desired effect than men, and those of a sanguine tem- perament, less than those of the melancholic. In regu- lating the doses, due consideration ought therefore to be paid to the sex, temperament, habit, idiosyncrasy, and disease of the patient, as no correct general rule can be laid down. It would be ungenerous in me not to express my warmest acknowledgments to Dr. Hosack of New-York, for his exertions to extend the usefulness of the Modern Practice of Physic, not only by recommending it to his pupils as professor of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine in the University of that state; but by the many valuable observations in the appendix which he hap added to the different editions, six in number inclu-