A monthly journal of popular medicine; explaining the nature, causes and prevention of diseases, the immediate management of accidents, and the means of preserving health. / Conducted by Charles Thomas Haden, surgeon to the Chelsea and Brompton Dispensary, &c. Vol. I[-II].

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[1821-1822]
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Credit: A monthly journal of popular medicine; explaining the nature, causes and prevention of diseases, the immediate management of accidents, and the means of preserving health. / Conducted by Charles Thomas Haden, surgeon to the Chelsea and Brompton Dispensary, &c. Vol. I[-II]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / fessional brethren, think, that many of the books on popular medicine have done much harm. For what can he more absurd than to suppose, that an indifferent person can be taught, by vain descriptions in a book, what the best talents in¬ cessantly exerted during a long life, aye, and after being matured by the most liberal educa¬ tion, have failed to perform. The best physician is indeed but an ignorant man, if compared with one, if there could be such a one, to whom the multifarious forms of disease are really familiar: and therefore whilst no such man as the latter does, or can exist, and whilst we deplore that the labours and experience of ages have left us only as insufficiently informed on medical subjects, as we are, we can at once perceive, that it is in vain for the public to expect that they will ever dive deep enough into the mysteries of practice, to distinguish the numberless varieties of disease from one another and treat them successfully. But though this is impossible, and therefore though the plan on which popular books on medicine have been generally written is an im¬ proper one, yet there is much respecting me¬ dicine, which unprofessional persons do know, and much more that they ought to know. For, though they cannot know and cure diseases as well educated medical men can do, they can easily l»e taught how to ward them off, and pre¬ vent their formation. The forms of disease arc 9