Minor ailments : their medical and surgical treatment / by a medical practitioner.

Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Minor ailments : their medical and surgical treatment / by a medical practitioner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. This book finds its raison d'etre in the prevalent and one may fairly say, growing custom of regarding the pharmacist as a convenient and reliable adviser in those passing and less serious ailments which do not call for skilled medical advice. Far from wishing to encourage unjustifiable trespass u23onthe proper domain of the quali- fied physician, the opportunity has been taken repeatedly to point out the limits beyond which the chemist should not go. At the same time, it is not always easy to draw a hard- and-fast line, determining what may be included in a volume dealing with Minor Ailments, and what must be regarded as outside its scope. For this reason a few monographs appear, the purpose of which is less to en- courage the semi-professional reader to prescribe for the affections described, than for the sake of completeness, or to enable him to intelligently supplement or explain the medical attendant's instructions when asked to do so, as is by no means infrequently the case, by a customer pur- chasing medicines or appliances for the sick-room. In every case the information given has been based upon the labours and experience of the best known and latest authorities on the subject treated ; and although the practical aims of the volume have never been lost sight of, no hesitation has been felt in introducing here and there