Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan.

  • Buchan William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1794
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Credit: Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    •» Part i. OF THE GENERAL CAUSES OF DISEASES. CHAP. I. OF CHILDREN. * T HE better to trace difeafes from their orHina! cauies, we fball take a view of the common treatment of mankind in the ftate of infancy Ir this period of our lives, the foundations of a* a0oc or bad confhtution are generally laid > it is therefore or importance, that parents be well acquainted with the various caufes which may injure the health of their offspring. It appears from the annual regifters of the dead, that almoft one half of the children born in Great ihitain die under twelve years of age. To many, indeed, this may appear a natural evil; but, on due examination, it will be found to be one of our own creating. Were the death of infants a natural evil other animals would be as liable to die young as man tut this we find is by no means the cafe. It may feem ftrange that man, notwithftanding his Riper,or reafon, fhould fall fo far ihort of other animals in the management of his young • But our guided6 hWv,U i°Z C£afC> if « r LXuZ man Utr,^- i’ neTer err in this lerPea i while man trailing folely to art, is feldom right. Were catalogue of thofe infants who periih annually by B '