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. To which is now first added the following new treatises: sea-bathing, etc / By J. Baker.

  • William Buchan
Date:
1809
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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. To which is now first added the following new treatises: sea-bathing, etc / By J. Baker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    them properly wlien Tick, but likcwife to give ufefal ilire£tions for their management wlic-n well. The dif- eales of children are by no means lb difficult to be underflood as many imagine. It is true, children can- not tell their complaints; but the caufes of them may be pretty certainly ciifcovcred by obferving the fyrnp- toms, and putting proper qucllions to the nurfes. Bt!- f;des, the dlfeafes of infants being lefs complicated, are eafier cured than tbofe of adults*. It is really aftonifhing, that fo little attention fhould j in general be paid to the prefervation of infants. What i labour and expence are tlaily beftovved to prop an old | tottering carcaie for a few years, while thoufands of i thofe who might be ufcfui in life, perifh without being I regarded! Mankind are too apt to v-aiue things ac- | cording to their prefent, not their future, uiefulnefs. | Though this is of all otliers the moil erroneous method j of eftiraation ; yet upon no other principle is it poffible | to account for the general indifterence with relpedl to | the death of infants. Of Difeafed Parents, . . u One great fource of the difeafes of children is, the j ijNHEALTHiNESS OF PARENTS. It Would bc as rcafon- j able to expedt a rich crop from a b.u ren foil, as that j Rrong and healthy children fliould be born of parents j whofe conftitutions have been worn out with intern- S perance or difeafe. Am ingenious writer^ obferves, that on the confli- , tution of mothers depends originally that of their olf- fpring. No one who believes this, will be furprifed, on a view of the female world, to find difeafes and ^ The common opinion, that the diseases of infants are hard to discover and difficult to cure, has deterred many physicians from ^ paying that attention to them which they deserve, I can, however, - from experience declare, that this opinion is without foundation : and that the diseases of infants are neither so difficult to discover, nor so- il] to cure, as those of adults. *i::