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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    cafe; whilft after every facrifice, ^is profeffional, chaia^fcer is liable, beyond that of every other profelTional man^ to the mirreprefentations of thoie, to whom the inability of comprehending the propriety or impropriety of the meafures adopted, is a fufficient warrant for the mofl cruel and fcandaious imputations of ignorance or ncg- lecl. Nor is this allj recolledl with how] little confideration for bis comfort, is the time, as well as the labour, of a village apothecary trifled with. Have you to ' confult your lawyer, or to employ any other man almoft in the village, you will require his attendance, at that time v/hich may befl fuit his convenience i but fhould a trifling rafli on the fKin, which h^s hardly* excited your attention for a v/eek or two, at iaO: induce you to call for the attendance of your apothecary, the application will generally ^be deferred to the clofe of the day: nor will the roughell and moft tempeftuous weather excufe his attendance, which will, in. general, be thought necellary to be .infilled on dire my ^ B 2 tQ