The generous physician, or medicine made easy: containing plain and exact descriptions of the causes, symptoms, and methods proper for cure of several distempers incident to the human body. With the best receipts in English, and directions ... adapted to ordinary capacities. Written ... for the benefit of those whose narrow circumstances don't enable them to pay the exorbitant fees of a physician / [Sir John Colbatch].

  • Colbatch, John, Sir, 1670-1729
Date:
[1733]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The generous physician, or medicine made easy: containing plain and exact descriptions of the causes, symptoms, and methods proper for cure of several distempers incident to the human body. With the best receipts in English, and directions ... adapted to ordinary capacities. Written ... for the benefit of those whose narrow circumstances don't enable them to pay the exorbitant fees of a physician / [Sir John Colbatch]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HE S cience oi Phyfic is not fo great a My fiery (though induftrioufly clouded by fome of the Sons of Art) but any one may with a little Pains and Attention fall in with the moil proper Method to pre- ferve Health, or reftore it in a Cafe of Sicknefs. A right Diilribution of the circulating Blood and Juices is the Caufe of Health and a vi¬ gorous Conftitution ; aad hence the Solids of' the Body are kept up without Walk, fullering no Diminution in their Bulk and Firmnefs: On the contrary, when any Portion of Matter en¬ ters into their Composition that is too grofs to make its Way thorough the Conveyances, and confequently raifes a Lodgement upon this or that Fart which the fluid Current cannot remove, thence is laid the Foundation of Dif- eafes, and a Variety anfwering to the Nature of th e Stoppage or its Situation. The full, viz. Health, is eaiily maintain’d by Exercife and