The villager's friend & physician, or, A familiar address on the preservation of health, and the removal of disease ... supposed to be delivered by a village apothecary : with cursory observations on the treatment of children, on sobriety, industry, &c / [James Parkinson].

  • Parkinson, James, 1755-1824.
Date:
1800
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Credit: The villager's friend & physician, or, A familiar address on the preservation of health, and the removal of disease ... supposed to be delivered by a village apothecary : with cursory observations on the treatment of children, on sobriety, industry, &c / [James Parkinson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ffie whole of their lil^. By reading they will have their minds ftored with precepts, inftrudive of the prefervation ^ both of .their health and morals; they will become better members of fociety, be more confirm.ed in their duty to you, and be furnifbed with an inexhauftible fource of amufement and reflection for every vacant hour . fo that the tedioufnefs of ieifure fhall not drive tliem to the ale-houfe for amufement. In their youth it will afford them amufement and inHruc- tiofi, and in age, comfort. Nor do I go out of my way when 1 recom- mend reading to you ; for I recommend it as a medicine, which, by it's efteds on the mind, will fecure you from the attacks of (ome difeafts whicl> reallv oriojiiate from the mind not bcino- fufficiently exercifcd; and ajfo, as a remedy jwhich will better enable you to beguile away the dreary hours of confinement, from almoU-, any kind of malady. Nor is this remedy an expenfive e, fince there is one volume, the cheapeft in ,the kingdom, which v^hether you feek to be in- 'tereiled by the plain facts of liifrory, by the mo{k pathe-*