Dialogues between patients and the physician on the several principal diseases in this country : with the physician's advice, including a collection of over two hundred domestic remedies : a work useful to families / by J.F. Daniel Lobstein.

  • Lobstein, J. F. Daniel (Johann Friedrich Daniel), 1777-1840.
Date:
1839
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    which is directly treated by bleeding and mercury ; nor can it be denied that such treatment is very flourishing in this country although we have but too many examples in seeing our fellow citizens fall by it; how many families have been deprived of their amiable children, how many husbands have seen their lovely partners sink into the grave, and how many wifes become wid- ows all on account of this nonsensical treatment. I will here give a small example of this fury for bleeding. I am at pres- ent the physician of a very handsome and respectable married lady of this City, who asked me one day, How many times doc- tor, do you think I have been bled in the course of several tri- fling indispositions] I answered, Perhaps twenty-times. She replied, No sir, fifty-two times ! ! ! Is not this extravagant 1 I now ask, should not simple and convenient remedies be pre- ferred to such treatment ? It would be flattering to me if I could contribute to the pre- servation of public health by publishing the present work, and I am confident my fellow-citizens will soon convince themselves of the usefulness of that, which I make public in these sheets. My intention was not to publish a practical work on all dis- eases, (although I shall do so if Providence spare my life,) but only on some of the principal ones in this country ; and I think therefore it will be a useful work for all families, chiefly as it is accompanied by simple, safe and convenient remedies. I have also included a collection of over two hundred domestic remedies, which will certainly be very agreeable to many of my readers. I thought that publishing this work in the form of dialogues would be more interesting than a cold common-place narrative of diseases, and I have therefore done so. But before I commence my dialogues, I think it may be inter- esting to my readers to know the opinion on the state of medi- cine of the late distinguished Thomas Jefferson, President of the United-States. As my readers may not be acquainted with it, and as I hope it will be read by many with pleasure, I will introduce it; we all know he was possessed of an extraordinary mind, and that he was fully competent to judge correctly on this subject. The