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. To which is now first added the following new treatises: sea-bathing, etc / By J. Baker.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805
Date:
1809
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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. To which is now first added the following new treatises: sea-bathing, etc / By J. Baker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Mien healthy or valetudinary, iifefiil in life, or the pcfls of fociety. Bii'’ th j mother is not the only pcrlon concerned in the inanageiiiext <.>f children. The father has an equal intereft in their welfare, and ought to aflifi; in every thing that refpedfs either the improvement of the body or mind. It is pity that the men fliould be fo inattentive to this matter. Their negligence is one reafem why females kn -w lb little of it. Women will ever be defirous to ex- cel in inch accompliHiments as recommenci them to the otlicr lex. But men generally keep at fuch a dillance from even the fmalleft acquaintance with the affairs of tlie iHirfery, that many would reckon it an affront, were they luppofed to know any thing of them. Not fo, how. ever, with the kennel or the ftabies; a gentleman of the firft rank is not aOiamed to give diredions concerning the management of his dogs or horfes, yet would blufh were he furprifed in performing the fame officefor that being who derived its exiftence from bimfdf, who is the heir of his fortunes,and thc^-future hopes ofhis country Nor have phyficians themfdves been fufricientiy at- tentive to the management of children ; this has been generally confidered as the foie province of old women V. hile men of the firll charaaer in piiylic haverefufed to viht infants even when hck. Such coiidua in the facul- ty has not only caiildl this branch of medicine to be ne glccted, but has alio encouraged the other fex to alTume an ablolute title to preferibe for children in the moR dangcrous difeafes. The confequcnce is, tliat a pJivlician js feldom called till the good women haveexhaufted all their Ikill ; when his atteqdance can only lerve to di. andappeafh the clifconlolate parents: urfes fliould do all in iheir power to prevent dif- eafes ; but when a child is taken ill, fome perfon of vill ought immediately to be confulted. The difeafes .bngcrous is ^ VVere phyficrans'more attentive to the difeafet Jiifams, they woiJd not only be better qualified to treat