The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families, and practitioners in medicine and surgery / [Richard Reece].

  • Reece, Richard, 1775-1831
Date:
1828
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Credit: The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families, and practitioners in medicine and surgery / [Richard Reece]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    publication; a circumstance which I notice with gratitude and pride. My principal intention being to enable the cha- ritable and humane to administer comfort and relief to the objects which poverty and disease recom- mend to their compassion, I beg to state, that it will at all times afford me great pleasure to give any . further information or explanation in my power to assist them in the discharge of that ‘* work of labour and love” which is one of the most delightful and important duties of Curistianiry. The poor are my best patients, frequently observed that good and able physician, Boerhaave, because Gop is their paymaster. For the purpose of promoting the object of this work, I instituted nearly twelve years since a monthly publi- cation under the title of the Gazette of Health, or Medi- cal dietetic anti-empirical and general philosophical Journal, at the low price of one shilling. ‘This work, a number of which is published on the first of every month, contains all the new discoveries made in different parts of the known world in either of the departments of medicine that are likely in any respect to prove bene- ficial to the public. The composition of advertised remedies or nostrums is given, and the dishonest prac- tice of regular and irregular quacks, and other pre- tenders, fully exposed. ‘The substance of all new works on medicine, diet, and domestic economy is also given, so as to enable the reader to form an opinion of their merits. This periodical work has ex- perienced a most extensive circulation, and is at this time supported by the most eminent physicians and chemists in Europe and America. The back numbers have been several times reprinted for new subscribers. The object of the Editors of the Monthly Gazette of Health being to give the earliest intelligence of any new discovery that is likely to prove beneficial to the public, either in preventing or curing disease, or in promoting domestic comfort or economy, the Pro- prietors are not desirous to derive any profit from the back numbers. New subscribers may, therefore, a