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:
1794
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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 / by William Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r [ xxxiii ] AT ANY who perufe the Domestic Medicine ^ have expreffed a wHh that the catalogue of medicines contained in that book ihould be more extenfive, and likewife that the dofe of each article fhould be afcertained, as they are often at a lofs to know how to adminifter even thofe medicines, the names of which they meet with in almoft every medical author. To obviate this objedtion, and furnifh a greater fcope to thofe who may wilh to employ more articles than are contained in the Difpenfatory annexed to the above work, the fol- lowing Lift of Simples and Compounds, taken from the moft improved Difpenfatories, is now inferted. To prevent miftakes, the Englifh name of every medicine is not only ufed, but the different articles are arranged according to the order of the Englifh alphabet, and the fmalleft and largeft dofe placed oppofite to each article. The dofes indeed refer to adults, but may be adapted to different ages by attending to the rules laid down in the Introduc- tion to the Appendix, page 653. Short cautions are occafionally inferted under fuch articles as re- quire to be ufed with care. Though a greater variety of medicines is con- tained in this than in any former edition of the Domeftic Medicine, yet the Author would advife thofe who perufe it, as far as poffible, to adhere to fimplicity in pradice. Difeafes are not cured by the multiplicity of medicines, but by their proper application. A few fimples, judiciously admini- llered, and accompanied with a proper regimen, will do more good, than a farrago of medicines employed at random* A LIST