The homoeopathist, or, Domestic physician / by C. Hering.

  • Hering, Constantine, 1800-1880.
Date:
1835-38
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Credit: The homoeopathist, or, Domestic physician / by C. Hering. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Chymistry and Botany as for a man ignorant of Navi- gation and seamanship to carry a vessel in safety to any given port; such knowledge is absolutely requisite and any one practising medicine without it is a blun- derer and a quack: — at once ignorant of the structure of the human frame and of the nature and properties of the various substances used to mitigate or remove the numberless ills which flesh is heir to . The pro- fession of a Physician is a valuable one to the commu- nity and although Ave differ with the Old School as to the modus operandi yet we most heartily abhor all ignorant pretenders; — and in giving this Domestic Physician to the public, we are not influenced by a desire to injure the profession, but merely to introduce a more judicious and rational system of Domestic Prac- tice and to put the community on their guard against the evils of the Old System of Physic as at present practised. METHOD OF USE. The following directions for using this book must be accurately observed. In most cases nothing more is necessary than to examine the Table of Contents and the remedy to be administered will be readily found. The work is divided into two parts; the first treats of the Causes of Diseases and the remedies applica- ble:— the second of Diseases most common: therefore when the cause of sickness is obvious or