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.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1774
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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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    good •, and that their practice, which is generally the refult of good fenfe and observation, aflifted by a little medical reading, is frequently more rational than that of the ignorant retainer to phyfic, who, while he is dofing his patient with medicine, according to the rules of art, often negleds other things of far greater importance. Many things are necelTary for the Tick befides medicine. Nor is the perfon who takes care to pro cure thofe for them, of lefs importance than a phyft- cian. The poor oftener perifh in difeafes for want of proper nurling than of medicine. They are fre¬ quently in want of even the neceffaries of life, and Hill more fo of what is proper for a lick-bed : no one can imagine, who has not been a witnefs of thefe fituations, how much good a well-difpofed perfon may do, by only taking care to have fuch wants fupplied. There certainly cannot be a more neceft fary, a more noble, or a more godlike adion, than ' to adminifter to the wants of our fellow-creatures in diftrefs. While virtue or religion are known among mankind, this condud will be approved; and while Heaven is juft, it rauft be rewarded ! Persons who do not chufe to adminifter medicine to the fick, may neverthelefs dired their regimen. An eminent medical author has faid. That by diet alone all the intentions of Medicine may be anfwered. No doubt a great many of them may * but there are other things, befides diet, which ought by no means to be negleded. Many hurtful and deftrudive pre¬ judices, with regard to the treatment of the lick, ftill prevail among the people, which perions of bet¬ ter fenfe and learning alone can eradicate. To guard ; oood the