The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families, and practitioners in medicine and surgery / [Richard Reece].

  • Richard Reece
Date:
1811
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Credit: The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families, and practitioners in medicine and surgery / [Richard Reece]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE IN a profession so destitute of real science as that of medicine, it is to be expected that jealousy and illiberality will prevail. Hence it is common for medical men to speak in terms of contempt of works of domestic medicine, To every person, health is the mast valua- ble possession; it is therefore fit that all should be acquainted with the best known methods of pre- serving and restoring it. , Of those who condemn domestic medicine, and decry all attempts to inform the mass of mankind on the nature and treatment of diseases, surely the public has an undoubted right to enquire to what degree of perfection the healing art is brought, and why the practice of medicine should be confined to a privileged Class? That such is. the deplorable deficiency of science in medicine, that there does not exist a fundamental principle on which Physicians have a general agreement; no medical man can deny. Even in diseases of common occurrence, it very rarely happens, that two medical men accord in their opinions either of the causes, the nature, or the mode of treatment of the malady! How com- mon is it for Physicians in the same disease to re- commend. plans of treatment diametrically opposite | to each other! If such diversity of opinions exists among medical men, surely, it ill becomes them to oppose domestic medicine. | Some degree of disease has pervaded all communities, agd it is therefore natural for all to wish to be acquainted with the
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