The medical pocket-book : containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body, including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues and doses of medicinal compositions and simples : extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order.

  • Elliot, John, Sir, 1736-1786.
Date:
1791
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Credit: The medical pocket-book : containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body, including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues and doses of medicinal compositions and simples : extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    PREFACE. The advantages of a publication of this kind to the practitioner in medicine, are too obvious to need enumeration ; I fhall, there- fore, only premife a few neceffary obferva- tions relative to the work itfelf. I. The dofes of medicines, &c. are fet down as for adults; and therefore the pre- fcriber will eafily vary them for other ages. For example, children of two years old may, in general, take about a third part of the dofes for adults, or a little more ; and fo in proportion for other ages, the conJHtiithn being alfo confidered. II. Where it could conveniently be done, I hav'e mentioned the intervals at which the medicines are to be repeated : but thefe may be varied at the prefcriber’s difcretion. For brevity’s fake I have, in many places, ufed the word frequenter; by which I would have it underftood, that every three, four, fix, eight.