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 / by William Buchan, M.D. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1786
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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 / by William Buchan, M.D. fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edingburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    The Author has indeed to regret, that the limits of one volume preclude many intereft- ing obfervations, and likewife deprive him of th,e pleafure of inferting a number of very ufeful remarks made by his learned and in- genious friend Dodtor Duplanil, of Paris, who has d9ne iiim the honour of publifhing an elegant tranflation of this Work, in five vo- lumes , odavo, accompanied with an excellent commentary. The improvements of the later editions are chiefly inferted in,the form of notes. Thefe are intended either to illuftrate the text, or to put people on their guard in dangerous fituations, and prevent fatal miftakes in the practice of medicine, which, it is to be re- gretted, are but too comm9n in this me- tropolis. Some attention has likewife been paid-to the language. Where that was either inac- curate, or obfcure, as far as was pradicable, it has been correded. Indeed, the Author has all along endeavoured to obferve fuch fnnpii- city and perfpicuity in his ftyle, as might enable