The villager's friend and physician. Or, A familiar address on the preservation of health, and the removal of disease on its first appearance; 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:
1804
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The villager's friend and physician. Or, A familiar address on the preservation of health, and the removal of disease on its first appearance; 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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    THE VILLAGER’s FRIEND AND PHYSICIAN. MY FRIENDS, Tue husbandman, when his tasks are performed, may suffer from weariness of the body; but his employment has no tendency to disturb his mind. It is not so with the medical man, with however much ability and conscientiousness he may exe- cute the duties of his profession. Aware that the lives of his fellow-creatures depend on the judg- ment he may form, and on the measures he may adopt, his mind is constantly harassed with anxi- ously attending to the event of some distressfully interesting case; whilst, after every sacrifice, his character is liable, beyond that of ‘every other professional man, to the misrepresentations of those, to whom the inability of comprehending the propriety, or impropriety, of the measures adopted, is a sufficient wartant for the most cruel _