Medical cautions, chiefly for the consideration of invalids : containing essays on Fashionable diseases, The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, An enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, On quacks, quack medicines, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged / published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath by James Makittrick Adair.

  • Adair, James Makittrick, 1728-1802.
Date:
1787
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Credit: Medical cautions, chiefly for the consideration of invalids : containing essays on Fashionable diseases, The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms, An enquiry into the use of medicine during a course of mineral waters, On quacks, quack medicines, and lady doctors. And an essay on regimen, very much enlarged / published for the benefit of the General Hospital at Bath by James Makittrick Adair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAP. VI. Therapeutic Cautions. General Maxims for the Adminijiration of Me- dicines according to—Age—Sex—Tempera- tnent—Nature of the Difeafe—a certain Or- der of adminijiering Remedies—Rules for Choice of particular Remedies—Danger of Novelty in Practice—Rules forDofes—'Times of Adminijiration—correfpondent Regimen. PROP. VI. In forming indications of CURE ON RATIONAL THERAPEUTIC PRIN- CIPLES, A VARIETY OF CIRCUMSTANCES OUGHT TO BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERA- TION; OTHERWISE WE MAY NOT ONLY BE DISAPPOINTED IN OUR EXPECTATIONS OF SUCCESS, BUT THE PATIENT MAY B£ IRREPARABLY INJURED. IShall here fubjoin a few cautions which may be of ufe. I. Age. We ought to be very fparing in the ufe of medicines to infants and children, and thofe ought to be of the mildeft kind; becaufe