Advice to the physician, the surgeon, and the apothecary, and to their patients : after the manner of Dean Swift : with notes practical and illustrative, founded on long observation that may be beneficial to them all, and favorable to health and long life / by a physician.

Date:
1821
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Advice to the physician, the surgeon, and the apothecary, and to their patients : after the manner of Dean Swift : with notes practical and illustrative, founded on long observation that may be beneficial to them all, and favorable to health and long life / by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    PREFACE. The Profession of Medicine, is said to be the art of preserving health, pro- longing life, and curing diseases; nor can there be a more interesting, useful and pleasing occupation when consci- entiously and faithfully pursued. But, as all human institutions have a natural tendency to degenerate, so has this; it having, in some hands, become a traffic of a very doubtful description, and pro- ductive of much imposition on the pub- lic; and to guard against these, it has, consequently, been the subject of va- rious Acts of Parliament. As an affair of legislation, however, it will allways be extremely difficult; and it is a question whether it would not have been better for mankind in general if the Materia Medical had