The family magazine. In two parts. Part I. Containing useful directions on all the branches of house-keeping ... Part II. Containing a compendious body of physick.

Date:
1747
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Credit: The family magazine. In two parts. Part I. Containing useful directions on all the branches of house-keeping ... Part II. Containing a compendious body of physick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fore Ifubftituted what fallows'] and other Obfervations of the like Nature; which fhew, th^t he made it the Directory of his Practice, in moil of the Cafes he was concerned in: And indeed, the firft Leaf, by way of Title to it, was written upon, — Phyfick, &c. Common- ■placed, for a Help to my Memory and Practice. Thefe Papers, on his much-lamented Death, fell into my Hands, as his Executrix: And a good Lady, whofe Life is one continued Series of Charity to the Poor and Sickly, infilled, that they might be printed for the Good of the Publick *, and I had too many Obligations to her Ladyfhip to deny her Requefl. Accordingly 1 confulted a Friend who was a good Judge of Books and Mankind, upon it, who reprefented, that there were many Book of Phyfick, and that fince I refufed to affix my Brother* Name to it for Family Reafons, and as it feem’d fo well fitted for the Generality of People, and to be written in fo plain and intelligible a manner, he was of Opinion, that it would be of more general Ufe, and in more Requefl, if the Subjedls relating to Family Matters (which he complimented me with being a Miftrefs in) were prefixed to it *, as many fuch Books, he faid, com¬ piled of very flight and fuperficial Materials, had been well received by the Publick, although they had given only general Recipes perhaps, and thofe chofen at ran¬ dom, for a Difeafe, that had many Stages and Changes, and in which a Prefcription that might be good in one St age, might be very hurtful in another and where nei¬ ther Bleeding, Purging, nor Vomitings which were often of abfolute Neceffity to be begun with, were ever fuitably directed. By which general Treatment and Neglects, many Lives, no doubt, had been cafl away. Whereas, as he obferved, my Brother’s Papers treating the Sub¬ ject according to Art, and with regard to its progrejfive Steps, would be of infinite Ufe to the Publick, if it could be brought into a portable Compafs, and fold at an eafy Rate. And this he inflanced in the Articles of Fevers > Small-pox, Colds> Confumptions, Dropfiesy See. that > A 4 had