Dr. Buchans Domestic medicine; or a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines. To which is added, characteristic symptoms of diseases, from the nosology of the late celebrated Dr. Cullen of Edinburgh. With an appendix, containing a list of medicines usually employed, and the doses for all ages.

  • Buchan William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1812
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Credit: Dr. Buchans Domestic medicine; or a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, by regimen and simple medicines. To which is added, characteristic symptoms of diseases, from the nosology of the late celebrated Dr. Cullen of Edinburgh. With an appendix, containing a list of medicines usually employed, and the doses for all ages. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    INTRODUCTION. The improvements in Medicine, (ince the revival of learning, have by no means kept pace with thofe of the other arts. The reafon is obvious. Medicine has been ftudied by few, except thofe who intended to live by it as a trade. Such, either from a miftaken zeal for the honour of Medicine, or to raife their own importance, have endeavoured to difguife and conceal the art. Medi- cal authors have generally written In a foreign language ; and thofe who we^e unequal to this tafk, have even valu- ed theml'elve^ upon couching, at leaf!, their prefcriptions, in terms and characters unintelligible to the reft of man- kind. The contentions of theclergy, which happened foonafter the reftoration of learning, engaged the attention of man- kind, and paved the way for that freedom of thought and enquiry, which has fince prevailed in moft parts of Europe with regard to religious matters. Every man took a fide in thofe bloody difputes ; and every gentleman, that he might diftinguiE himfelf on one fide or other, was in- ftru(fted in Divinity. This taught people to think and reafon for themfelves in matters of religion, and at laft totally deftroyed that complete and abfolute dominion which the clergy had obtained over the minds of men. The ftudy of Law has likewife, in moft civilized na- tions, been juftly deemed a neceffary part of the education of a gentleman. Every gentleman ought certainly to know at leaf! the laws of his own country : and, if he were alfo acquainted with thofe of others, it might be more than barely an ornament to him. The different branches of Philofophy have alfo of late been very univerlally ftudied by all who pretended to a li- beral education. The advantages of this are manifeft. It frees the mind from prejudice and fuperftition ; fits it for