The family physician, or Poor man's friend, and married lady's companion : containing a great variety of valuable medical recipes, designed to assist heads of families, travellers and sea-faring people, in curing diseases ; with concise directions for the preparation, and use of a numerous collection of vegetables made use of ; and directions for preparing and administering them to cure diseases ; together with many of the most approved from the shop of the apothecary ; all in plain English / by A. Weyer.

Weyer, A. (Anthony), 1784-1845

Date:: 1831

Credit: The family physician, or Poor man's friend, and married lady's companion : containing a great variety of valuable medical recipes, designed to assist heads of families, travellers and sea-faring people, in curing diseases ; with concise directions for the preparation, and use of a numerous collection of vegetables made use of ; and directions for preparing and administering them to cure diseases ; together with many of the most approved from the shop of the apothecary ; all in plain English / by A. Weyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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swer every purpose of medicine, in common hands* and they should always be preferred when and where they can be obtained. Where the common names are not certainly known, recourse should be had to a botanist, who, of all people in the world, is the most ready to communicate. It is easy to forsee who would scout the idea, that a work of this kind, in plain English, could be use- ful. Indeed, the supercilious mouthings of little, men dubbed Doctors, only because they can try tricks and talk hocus pocus. was anticipated. Have not the pains and sickness incident to our nature, travelled in company with our mother tongue, down the generations of our fathers even to us? Can any one, in his sober senses, suppose for a moment,that the language of a nation is not a mirror of troubles? If our vernacular tongue is rilled with signs of suffering, and types of disease; it is rich in the Dames of remedies; and that man is a heathen who would hide them under an affectation of for- eign gibberish. Let it not be supposed that it is here meant to lower the physician in the estimation of the people, or to deprecate learning; far otherwise: it is in- tended to enable the peeple to appreciate their physician acccording to his true worth, and to look at the sun of science through a better medium than smoked glass. Neither the arts nor the learned professions should be denied the aid of tecnicology; yet the ar- tist and the professor, should remember that the English language is sufficient for all the common purposes of intercourse; and that the man of learn- ing, who cannot communicate with the world, in the world's vernacular tongye, has no claim on the public: he may indeed be a very industrious man in the closet, but a very useless one in society — The perfection of art is to do without apparatus; and here the great man and the useful man meet, on common, well known ground; and here true

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