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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dr. I am sorry sir, that I must disappoint you, I must now insist that you will deal the finishing stroke to your late disease, and as it is not very un- palitable, you will I hope obey with alacrity my behest; I order you therefore, to eat some good beefsteak, some chicken or a good piece of turkey now and then, and drink every day a glass of good port or Teneriffe wine. Mr. B. WeH sir, I shall try to be obedient, and as I wish you to be witness of my obedience, I request that you will dine with me to-morrow, and you will see your prescription carefully pre- pared by my wife Eliza ; who will I am sure be very glad of your company. Dr. Your invitation sir, I shall certainly accept of, chiefly as your good lady has no objection to prepare the medicine herself, and I am confident she will prepare my prescription better than many oth- ers, I shall therefore have the honor to wait upon you to-morrow. DIALOGUE X—quinsy. Mr. Jl. I am glad to see you doctor; you know I am fond of hunting. T went yesterday with a friend of mine to Hoboken, and I returned very fatigued, and since this morning, I feel that my throat is very sore ; I cannot swallow without pain, and fear that I have the quinsy in the highest degree, and am very much afraid that this evil may keep me a long time from my business. Dr. Let me examine your throat sir. You need not be afraid that you have the quinsy in the highest degree, nor will it keep you long from your affairs; and even if you had the quinsy in its highest de- gree, this disease can be cured by convenient rem- edies. I know that the Father of this country, our