The mariner's medical guide : comprising various diseases, with their general symptoms and most appropriate treatment, clearly and plainly stated, suitable to any capacity; also, the different causes and preventives of each depending upon change of climate : to which is added, a compendious plan of a medicine chest, stating the necessary quantities of each ingredient, proportioned to the number of people in a vessel, the whole designed for the use of seamen, or pesons unable to procure medical aid / by C.F. Vandeburgh.

  • Vandeburgh, C. F.
Date:
1819
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Credit: The mariner's medical guide : comprising various diseases, with their general symptoms and most appropriate treatment, clearly and plainly stated, suitable to any capacity; also, the different causes and preventives of each depending upon change of climate : to which is added, a compendious plan of a medicine chest, stating the necessary quantities of each ingredient, proportioned to the number of people in a vessel, the whole designed for the use of seamen, or pesons unable to procure medical aid / by C.F. Vandeburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    Jull doses may be given ; but if bo2/Sy from four- teen to eighteenf one fourth to be taken oft^—for instance, instead of four grains, or four drams, three only must be given ; if about the age of ten or twelvey half the quantity for a dose prescribed. In case of females being on board, one fourth must be taken off, as directed from the age Jour- teen to eighteen. There is one rule which applies to all these di- rections—that the quantity prescribed according to age, must in each case be regulated by the habit of body, and reduced a little if the patient is 'weaMy. Let it be also remembered, that the directions do not apply to external applications of any kind. It is a very common error, for persons to double and treble the quantity of medicine prescribed, from the absurb notion of recovering rapidly; for in- stance, taking two or three pills when one is directed, by which means, bad consequences are often pro- duced.