The physician's vademecum, or, A manual of the principles and practice of physic : containing the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of diseases; accompanied by a select collection of formulae, with a table of the doses of all medicines now in use / by Robert Hooper.

  • Hooper, Robert, 1773-1835.
Date:
1833
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Credit: The physician's vademecum, or, A manual of the principles and practice of physic : containing the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of diseases; accompanied by a select collection of formulae, with a table of the doses of all medicines now in use / by Robert Hooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following concise account of the several diseases that faU under the province of the Physician was committed to the press, witli the hope of its proving useful to students, and those practitioners in medicine who, from their professional occupations, or other circumstances, may not have it in their power to consult the more voluminous works that have con- tributed so much to the improvement of medicine. The very extensive sale of the work, and its having been - translated into most of the continental languages, induce the Author to believe that his labours have been generally approved. It has been his object to compress, within a smaller com- pass than has hitherto been done, consistently with utility, every thing which more especially deserves attention with a view to the treatment of diseases. In pursuing this design, he has discarded all theory, and retained only those leading facts \^ath which it is absolutely necessaiy for a practitioner to be acquainted when he approaches the bedside of his patient. Under distinct heads are arranged, 1.. The characteristic symptoms by which diseases are known. 2. The causes from which they most frequently have their origin. 3. The circumstances that more especially point out the difference between diseases which resemble one another. 4. The signs which influence the judgment in forming a prognosis of their event. 5. That mode of treatment, which, in the present im- proved state of medicine, is deemed most appropriate, and which experience has sanctioned. The select collection of Formula;, Glossary of Terms *, and the Table showing the Doses of all valuable medicines he employed, will, the Author trusts, combine to render the volume more extensively useful. Saville-roio, August, 1823. * The Glossary of Terms has been omitted in this edition, and its place supplied by a Table of the Names and Doses of all Remedies in the British and foreign PharmacopceiiB. Ed.