The family adviser, or, A plain and modern practice of physic : calculated for the use of private families, and accommodated to the diseases of America / by Henry Wilkins, M.D. ; to which is annexed, Mr. Wesley's Primitive physic, revised.

  • Wilkins, Henry, 1767-1847.
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: The family adviser, or, A plain and modern practice of physic : calculated for the use of private families, and accommodated to the diseases of America / by Henry Wilkins, M.D. ; to which is annexed, Mr. Wesley's Primitive physic, revised. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    PREFACE. TH E fubftance of the following pages is chiefly drawn from thofe excellent authors, Home, Cullen, and McBride; whofe names alone are a fnfficient recommendation. They were executed at the requeft of our friend Mr. Afbury. The work contains a good defcription of each diforder, and its remote caufes, as far as known. The proximate caufe is generally omitted, being unintelligible to thofe who are unacquainted with medicine, of little ufe, and much difputed by phyficians. The cure is as fimple as poffible, fo as not to interfere with ef- ficacy : few medicines being recommended, and xm compounds where they could be omitted. To this is prefixed the management of the patient, about which attendants are ufually more at a lofs than about the medicine. The medicines that are generally uieful are put at the end, numbered and referred to, to pre- vent frequent repetition, but thofe that are not fo general are inferted in the reading. This will be much more agreeable to the reader, than a general reference or a general infertion. A 2 A few