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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    they wili be defpifed. But this is not the fault of Medicine. It propoles no rules that I know, but fuch as are perfedly confident with the true enjoy- ment of liff, and every way conducive to the real happinefs of mankind. We are forry indeed to obferve, that Medicine has hitherto hardly been confidered as a popular fcience, but as a branch of knowledge folely confined to a particular fet of men, while all the reft have been taught, not only to negleft, but even to dread and -dcfpife it; It will, however, appear, upon a more flridl examination, that no fcience better deferves their attention, or is more capable of being rendered generally ufcful. People are told, that if rhey dip t^e leaft into medical knowledge, it will render them fanciful, and make them believe they have got every difeafe of which they read. This, I am fatisfied, will feldom be the cafe with fenfible people; and, fuppofe it were, they muft foon be undeceived. A fhort time will (hew them their error, and a little more reading will infallibly corred it. A fingle inftance will fhew the abfurdity of this notion. A fenfible lady, rather ■than read a medical performance, which would in- ftrud her in the management of her children, muft leave them entirely to the care and condu6l of the moft ignorant, credulous, and fuperftitious part of the human fptcies. Indeed, no part of Medicine is of more general importance than that which relates to the nurfing and management of children. Yet few parents pay a proper attention to it. 1 hey leave the fole care of their tender offspring, at the very time when care 9 and i J