Domestic medicine: or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, : by regimen and simple medicines: with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. / By William Buchan, M.D.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1807
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Domestic medicine: or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases, : by regimen and simple medicines: with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. / By William Buchan, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO / SIR JOSEPH BANKS, BART. PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY. SIR, The Domestic Medicine having been honoured, on its first appearance, with the patronage of your learned and worthy Predeces- sor, the late Silt John Pringle, I beg leave, in a more improved state, to Dedicate it to You, as a small, but sincere testimony of that venera- tion and esteem, with which I have long beheld the Man who, born to ease and affluence, Aac/ re- solution to encounter the dangers of unknown seas and distant climes, m pursuit of useful science ; and ztdiose constant object has been to render that science subservient to the happiness and ci- vilization of Society. X have the honour to be, with great respect, SIR, Your most obedient Servant, London, Nov. 10.1 783. W. BUCHAN.