Symptomatology / by John Berkenhout, M.D.

  • Berkenhout, John, 1730?-1791.
Date:
1784
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Credit: Symptomatology / by John Berkenhout, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    better for the people to depend for the reftoration of health on their own fagacity, and the advice of old wo- men, than fubjecl themfelves to be poifoned by an ignorant Phyfician, Apothecary, Quack, or Retailer of Noftrums. I do not deny that many lives might be faved by the fkilful admini- ftration of proper medicines; but a thoufand indifputable facts convince me, that the prefent eftablifhed prac- tice of Phyfic in England is infinitely deftru&ive of the lives of his Majefty's fubjects. I prefer the practice of old women, becaufe they do not fport with edged tools : being unacquaint- ed with the powerful articles of the Materia Medka, their prefcriptions arc