The medical pocket-book : containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body. Including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues and doses of medicinal compositions and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order / by John Elliot, M.D.

  • Elliot, John, 1747-1787.
Date:
1791
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Credit: The medical pocket-book : containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body. Including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues and doses of medicinal compositions and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order / by John Elliot, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. THE advantages of a publication of this kind to the practitioner in medicine, are ('tis prefumed) too obvious to need enumeration ; I mail, therefore, only premife a few neceflary obfervations relative to the work itfelf. I. The dofes of medicines, &c. are* /et down as for adults -, and therefore, the prefciiber will eafily vary them for other ages. For example, children of two years old may, in general, take about a third part of thedcfes for adults,or a little more; and fo in proportion for other ages, the ccnfiitutkn being alio confidered. II. Where it could conveniently be done;.. I have mentioned the intervals at which the medicines aie to be. repeated : but thefe may be va:ied at the prefciiber^ uifcreticn, Fvi brevity's fake I have in