Practical treatise on diseases peculiar to women and girls : to which is added an eclectic system of midwifery : also, the treatment of the diseases of children and the remedies used in the cure of diseases, particularly adapted to the use of heads of families & midwives / by Buel Eastman.

  • Eastman, Buell.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Practical treatise on diseases peculiar to women and girls : to which is added an eclectic system of midwifery : also, the treatment of the diseases of children and the remedies used in the cure of diseases, particularly adapted to the use of heads of families & midwives / by Buel Eastman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Jheir medical prescriptions 1 This species of delusion is more conspicuous with respect to physic, than to any other affair of common life, both because the nature of diseases, the art of curing them, and the knowledge of the science, are more obscure and least understood. I wish then, to enlighten your minds on the science of med- icine, and guard you against the frauds and deceptions of the day. Why should we remain ignorant of ourselves, while w& push our researches into the structure and modes of action of that which surrounds us? Do we expect to pass a life without pain and sickness, and be exempt from the laws of mortality? By no means! Each individual has to suffer his own pain; and each should know how to relieve it! We are exposed to many diseases and calami- ties in the country, where medical service cannot be ob- tained ; where our own lives and the lives of our friends hang upon our own medical knowledge ; where no relief can be obtained only through our own hands ! I do not expect you to become physicians ; this is not the work of a moment. But I wish to collect, and arrange in one mass, all the facts and experience of ages on the subject of which I have written—not to be read once and thrown aside as a novel, but to be frequently consulted as a directory or manual. Knowledge, particularly medical, is of vital importance to all; that which has so long been in the hands of the few, is now considered worthy of the whole. Nothing is more useful and necessary than that which will enable us to preserve and maintain our health,—mitigate and cure disease—prolong life, and save from an untime- ly grave. Each affiiccted son and daughter of Adam ought to have some acquaintance with the medical science. It is a noble and elevated science, a great and useful art! It is the source of many blessings to man. It is full of intellectual greatness, and of liberal bearing. It has its thousands yet unborn to redeem from disease and deaths though it has its rocks and its whirlpools. The object, then, of the present work will not be to make a new sys- tem, but collect from all other systems, that which will be useful in a practical point of view—to place in your own