Gardner's household medicine and sick-room guide : a description of the means of preserving health and the treatment of diseases, injuries, and emergencies.

  • Gardner, John, 1804-1880
Date:
1898
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Gardner's household medicine and sick-room guide : a description of the means of preserving health and the treatment of diseases, injuries, and emergencies. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    likely to be wanted in the nursery, in a large household, or by shooting expeditions. The reader will doubtless note many omissions in the follow- ing pages, some of which are intentional. The treatment of tumours has been omitted for definite reasons. It is always of importance that the nature of a tumour should be recognised as early as possible, and this can only be done by a skilled observer. There are very few varieties which can be cured by either internal or external remedies, and valuable time may be irrevocably lost in attempting to deal with them with house- hold applications. Some diseases, such as lock-jaw and hydro- phobia, as it occurs in man, are not described, owing to the vain apprehensions which might be aroused, and the impos- sibility of recommending any form of treatment likely to prove beneficial. W. H. C. S.