Volume 1

The family physician: being a collection of useful family remedies / [Hugh Smith].

  • Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789
Date:
[between 1770 and 1779]
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Credit: The family physician: being a collection of useful family remedies / [Hugh Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to the meaneft capacity, perfpicuity being always preferable to elegance in this kind of writing, the patient may, by applying what is neceflary in time, prevent thofe ills that follow from negled:, which good nurfing and a few innocent things might at firfi: remove. Thofe who have a knowledge in phyfic, and do not fland in need of my afliftance, will, in the chefts, find many ufeful medicines to be kept at hand j and may extend their .practice, by giving me a catalogue of fuch others as they would chufe to have added. Ladies and gentlemen, who refide in the country, will hereby be enabled to aflift their poor neighbours; which many of them, I doubt not, would take a pleafure in doing, did they but know what to apply. With each cheft of medicines may be had a box of fcales and weights; each weight marked diftindtly, that any perfon may at once adjufl: the proper quantity for a dofe. As many perfons may chufe to keep by them what is proper for their own particular complaints, whom it may not fuit to have the box complete, I think it neceflary to mention, that any of the medicines here recommended may be bad feparately, or as many of them as agreeable, packed up in lefler boxes for the conveniency of carriage. For the fatisfa&ion of the public, in order that they may depend upon the medicines, I think it neceflary to mention that fuch compofitions as are not made under my immediate infpedlion are prepared at Apothecaries-HalL WEIGHTSufed in PRESCRIPTION. » A pound An ounce A dram A fcruple Sixteen ounces in meafure arc equal to one pint. Troy, containing Twelve ounces. Eight drams. Three fcruples. Twenty grains*. The