The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families, and seminaries, and junior practitioners in medicine. Comprising a complete modern dispensatory, and a practical treatise on the distinguishing symptoms, causes, prevention, cure, and palliation of the diseases incident to the human frame, with the latest discoveries in the different departments of the healing art / by Richard Reece.

  • Reece, Richard, 1775-1831.
Date:
1833
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Credit: The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families, and seminaries, and junior practitioners in medicine. Comprising a complete modern dispensatory, and a practical treatise on the distinguishing symptoms, causes, prevention, cure, and palliation of the diseases incident to the human frame, with the latest discoveries in the different departments of the healing art / by Richard Reece. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    malady; and when the former takes place in a: part of vital importance in the animal economy, it often becomes more formidable than the primary disease, and in proportion as it advances, the latter decreases. In affections of the lungs, it frequently happens that the stomach, which was. primarily disordered, becomes healthy, and properly performs its office, when that of the lungs is advanced ‘to an’ incurable stage. ‘The sympathetic affection, as a celebrated physiologist ob- serves, instead of being an assistant, frequently sets up for itself, and if the practitioner continue to direct his remedies to the primary affection, he will accelerate the fatal termination of it. From inattention to the temperament, habits, and age of a patient, and to the stage of the malady, many valuable remedies have fallen into disuse, and many which have proved bene- ficial in an advanced stage of a malady have been pre- scribed, to the great injury of the patient, in the first stage. In cases of local diseases I have pointed out the ne- cessity of attending to the general health, particularly to the stomach, intestines, and the nervous and san- guiferous systems, so as to destroy or subdue the sympathetic connection it may have formed with the stomach, or any other part of the body, in order to ensure the success of topical applications; and I may here observe, that unless the malady be rendered com- pletely local, or its sympathetic connections entirely destroyed, the most judicious local management or treat- ment will prove unavailing ; and, again, in the treatment of the diseases for which there are specific remedies, I have pointed out the necessity of preparing the system by placing the stomach and intestines.in a:proper state for their exhibition. ‘The effects of those remedies are, no doubt, frequently counteracted by a disordered stomach, intestines, or nervous system, It was my intention to have introduced into the second part of this edition of the Medical Guide, the substance of my work on the means of regulating the stomach and bowels in various temperaments and conditions of