The gentleman's hand-book of homoeopathy : especially for travelers and for domestic practice / by Egbert Guernsey.

  • Guernsey, Egbert, 1823-1903.
Date:
1857
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The gentleman's hand-book of homoeopathy : especially for travelers and for domestic practice / by Egbert Guernsey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    Strong objections have been made against works of Domestic Practice, on the ground that familiar- ity with the symptoms of disease may so work on the imagination as to produce disease, and also from the great danger of laymen attempting to meddle with drugs. The first objection is too puerile to deserve notice, and the second would have more force when ap- plied to a school whose gentlest weapons are lancets and cathartics. Neither objection would have weight in a work of this kind. It is not intended to make every man his own physician; but there are times and places where a physician cannot be obtained, and when immediate aid is necessary. There'are other cases perfectly plain and simple, where an ordinary ca- pacity can apply the remedy with an assurance of success. Designing this work especially for gentlemen, it has been our object to make plain those laws of their being which will enable them to ward off disease, and shunning vice and its fearful conse- quences, harmonize their passions, and make them not alone healthier, but better. Believing much of the disease in the world is the result of improper marriages, we have introduced some important facts upon that subject. We have also directed the attention to different mineral springs, changes