Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. To which are added, observations on the diet of the common people; recommending a method of living less expensive, and more conducive to health, than the present / by William Buchan.

  • Buchan William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1800
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Credit: Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. To which are added, observations on the diet of the common people; recommending a method of living less expensive, and more conducive to health, than the present / by William Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ADVERTISEMENT HE Author, having been in conftant prac- tice fince the firfl appearance of this Book, has taken occafion in the later Editions through which it has palTed, to improve many articles which were inferted with lefs accuracy in the more early impreffions. To the preceding Edition was added a Chapter on the Diet of the Com- mon People, recommending a method of living lefs expenfive, and more conducive to health, than the prefent. Several other improvements have been alfo made in the form of notes to illuftrate the text, or put people on their guard in dangerous fituations, and prevent fatal mif- takes in the praftice of medicine, which, it is to be regretted, are but too common. Although the Domestic Medicine was never intended to fuperfede the ufe of a phyfi- cian, but to fupply his place in fituations where medical alTilfance could not eafily be obtained; the Author is forry to obferve, that thejealoufies and fears of fome of the Faculty have prompted them to treat the Work in a manner very un- a 3 becoming