A practical treatise on the most common diseases of the south : exhibiting their peculiar nature, and the corresponding adaptation of treatment : to which is added an appendix, containing some miscellaneous matter, also a glossary explaining the meaning of the technicalities, or medical phrases, used in this work / by Thompson McGown.

  • McGown, Thompson.
Date:
1849
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A practical treatise on the most common diseases of the south : exhibiting their peculiar nature, and the corresponding adaptation of treatment : to which is added an appendix, containing some miscellaneous matter, also a glossary explaining the meaning of the technicalities, or medical phrases, used in this work / by Thompson McGown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

    7/448
    PREFACE. Vli which also greatly simplify the subject of medicine, so that an intelligent public may, in a great measure, comprehend it, and perceive its rationality. But as a proper delineation of this subject would require a volume (which I have not had time to prepare), I have omitted it, having endeavored to teach prin- ciples as well as practice in this work; and if it is sufficiently patronized and the author encouraged, he may, in the future, provided opportunity permits, prepare a work on the general principles of medicine, and perhaps, also, a more comprehensive edition of this work. In the following pages, I have endeavored to be guided by the light of truth; and though I may have freely alluded to the errors of some of my profession- al brethren, it is not because I love them less, but that I love truth and humanity more: and, as has been said by some writer, though I should cast mis- siles at the spots on the sun, it is no evidence that I despise the brightness of its disc. Hoping and believing that my professional bre- thren, and the public, may be amply rewarded by carefully consulting this work, it is most respectfully submitted to them. THOMPSON McGOWN, M.D. August, 1849.