Observations on the efficacy of the white mustard seed, in affections of the liver, internal organs, and nervous system; and on the general management of health and life / [Charles Turner Cooke].

  • Charles Turner Cooke
Date:
1826
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Credit: Observations on the efficacy of the white mustard seed, in affections of the liver, internal organs, and nervous system; and on the general management of health and life / [Charles Turner Cooke]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Every individual, who has had the misfortune to ex¬ change a state of health for disorder, or disease, will be able to appreciate the utility of an attempt to preserve, as well as to recover it. And as I am not aware that any public professional sanction has yet been given to the pre¬ ventive and remedial uses of the medicine to which it is my object to do justice in this its two-fold character, I confi¬ dently trust that I shall hereby render some service to the community at large, but more particularly to my fellow- townsmen, and to the occasional residents in this luxurious and Health-seeking place. That a candid examination of the principles, and a judicious adoption of the practice here inculcated, would tend greatly to the mitigation of human sufferings and to the preservation of Health and Life, I repeat it, is my firm belief—nay, how can I doubt the ex¬ cellence of either, when to the one I owe most of the satis¬ faction with which I have exercised not only my Medical but my Surgical functions—and to the other, not the resto¬ ration merely, but the first possession of comfortable health. Having said thus much, I ought not to conceal from, and I do not disdain to avow to, the occasional, what will at once be apparent to the professional reader, that the general principle upon which my recommendations are founded— yet more, that almost the very language in which it is ad¬ vocated, is just that, which is so accurately set forth, and made use of, in a more detailed work on a similar subject— a work which does equal honour to the head, and to the heart, of its author—I mean a Treatise on Derangements \
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