The family adviser : greatly enlarged and amended ; to which is prefixed The philosophy of disease, with tables, for the use of students of medicine ; or of gentlemen who wish to become acquainted with the fundamental principles of medicine / by Henry Wilkins.

  • Wilkins, Henry, 1767-1847.
Date:
1833
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    the vigour of the American constitution, its climate, and its open and free manner of life, have given a very considerable cast to many diseases varying from the best European description. He, there- fore, considers it necessary to adapt the book to its country, and to its day; for medicine is con- stantly on the advance. He flatters himself, that, if any candid, intelligent physician will take the pains to read this book in its present state, he will not hesitate to say, the author has not only attended to those things but has also given to the world some new ideas and a few remedies, not before advanced, that are worthy of notice. There is in this edition a considerable number of impor- tant diseases added to the book, besides many directions for accidental and surgical cases, and several chapters on other points relative to medi- cine, with a pretty large apothecarium. The chapter on typhus, which has substituted the chap- ter on nervous and putrid fevers, though novel, has been taken from the bed-side; and that not from one, but many patients: That fever (the typhus mitior) being endemic to the spot where he now resides. The constant increase of intel- ligence throughout the union has induced him to give a few pages as a general theory at the beginning of the book, which are of a philoso- phical cast; and although this liberty and a gene- ral enlargement will swell the volume; yet, the old book and its simples, much corrected, are still within the lids of the new book. If, there- fore, such corrections and additions are worth the increase in price, there will be nothing to com- plain of. The author has to acknowledge many facilities received from the writings of Dr. Robt. Thomas, with Dr. Hossack's appendix; Dr. Gregory, with