The medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic : designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations / by Thomas Dancer, M.D.

  • Dancer, Thomas.
Date:
1809
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Credit: The medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic : designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations / by Thomas Dancer, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ADVERTISEMENT to the SECOND EDITION. ««a£aetai THE numerous testimonies borne to the usefulness of this ■work, and the universal acceptance it has met with, notwith- standing many blemishes and delects, make any apology foe •offering io the public a new and improved edition unnecessary. The chief objection ma<1e to the former edition, viz, the bad paper and type, is, in the present one, -completely obviated; many alterations and additions are besides made; scarcely any thing new or important in medicine (particularly in the prac- tical part), being entirely overlooked, if not fully detailed.— The author therefore hopes, that this edition will not only be better approved, on account of its more elegant dress, but es- pecially on account oi the great quantity of additional and in- teresting matter it contains, rendering it still further subservi- ent to its original uses. One object of this work is to prevent people from resorting to quack medicines, to which, in country situations, they are fre- quently compelled, from the difficulty of obtaining advice, and from not knowing how to employ safer arid more efficient re- medies. The danger of administering empirical nostrums, and