Observations on the abuse of medicine / by Thomas Withers.

  • Withers, Thomas, 1750-1809
Date:
1775
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Credit: Observations on the abuse of medicine / by Thomas Withers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at the life only of a remedy, hoping that the negleCl or imprudent appli- cation of it will eafily be afcertained by the reader. In feleCting the parti- cular inftances of the abufe of medi¬ cine, he has endeavored to fix upon thofe that are general and important* He has alfo taken notice of the abufe of certain remedies in feveral difeafes, in which the practice is either contradictory or obicure. But though the reader may find fome examples of the abufe of medi¬ cine here enumerated, he will, with very little reflection and medical knowledge, be able to perceive that a multitude of abufes yet remains unnoticed, all of which are ferious in themfelves, but could not have been included in this eflfay without having fwelled it to a fize far greater than was originally intended. The author has been cautious to make ufe of the molt eafy and familiar language in every part of this treatife, where the knowledge of what it contains might prove