Domestic medicine; or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines ; With an appendix containing a dispensatory. For the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1774
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Domestic medicine; or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines ; With an appendix containing a dispensatory. For the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the poor againft the influence of theie prejudices, and to infbil into their minds fome juft ideas of the im¬ portance of proper food, freftt air, cleanlinefs, and other pieces of regimen neceifary in difeaies, would be a work of great merit, and productive of many happy confequences. A proper regimen, in moft difeafes, is at leaft equal to medicine, and in many of them it is greatly fuperior. To aSTift the well-meant endeavours ef the hu^ ^mane and benevolent in relieving diftrefs; to eradi¬ cate dangerous and hurtful prejudices; to guard.the ignorant and credulous againft the frauds and impo- fitions of quacks and impoftors; and to Show men what is in their own power, both with regard to the prevention and cure of difeafes, are certainly objects worthy of the phyfician’s attention. Thefe were the leading views in compofmg and publishing the fol¬ lowing Sheets. They were fuggefted by an attention to the conducft of mankind, with regard to Medicine, in the courfe of a pretty long pra&ice in different parts of this ifland, during which the Author has often had occafion to wiSh that his patients, or thofe about them, had been poffeSTed of fome fuch plain directory for regulating their condufb How far he has fuccceded in his endeavours to. fupply this defi¬ ciency, muft be left for others to determine; but if they be found to contribute, in any mealure, to¬ wards alleviating the calamities of mankind, he will think his labour very well beftov/ed. CON-