Our family physician : a thoroughly reliable guide to the detection and treatment of all diseases that can be either checked in their career or treated entirely by an intelligent person, without the aid of a physician; especially such as require prompt and energetic measures, and those peculiar to this country. Embracing the allopathic, homeopathic, hydropathic, eclectic and herbal modes of treatment. Also giving full and explicit directions for nursing the sick, preparation of food for the sick, etc. / by H. R. Stout.

  • Stout, H. R. (Henry Rice), 1843-
Date:
1885
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Credit: Our family physician : a thoroughly reliable guide to the detection and treatment of all diseases that can be either checked in their career or treated entirely by an intelligent person, without the aid of a physician; especially such as require prompt and energetic measures, and those peculiar to this country. Embracing the allopathic, homeopathic, hydropathic, eclectic and herbal modes of treatment. Also giving full and explicit directions for nursing the sick, preparation of food for the sick, etc. / by H. R. Stout. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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    diseases afiecting different parts of the body, as well as diseases of a general character. Each disease is fully described, giving in de- tail the symptoms and causes, followed by the general treatment, and the treatments of the different schools of medicine. Section II., Diseases of Women. Under this head are included menstruation, with the disordera frequently accompanying it; pregnancy, and the treatment of the diseases incident to it ; labor or confinement, and its management. Section III., Diseases of Infants. In this section will be found many valuable hints, with regard to nursing, the diet of infants, and the general management of them ; also the diseases peculiar to this period of life. Section IV., Miscellaneous Diseases. Under this head will be found the diseases not included in Sec- tion I. ; also the means employed to resuscitate persons apparently dead, from any cause. This section also includes the management of the sick room, with valuable recipes for preparing food for sick- ness and convalescence. The Hydropathic treatment is also given, with full directions for the use of water as a remedy. Under the head of Pharmacy, is given the preparation of some of the medicines recommended in the book. Section V., Surgery. In this section will be found the latest improvements for the treatment of surgical diseases, which can be applied by any intel- ligent person ; also Poisons and their antidotes, and a Glossary of medical terms. In the Table of Symptoms, are given the prominent symj)- toms of the principal diseases, thus condensing within a few pages the matter of the whole book ; this table will be found very valu- able for ready reference, when a person feels unwell but can not tell exactly what is the matter. That the work may go forth and be a benefit to mankind, thus compensating for the labor bestowed upon it, is the sincere wish of The Authob.