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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    PREFACE. — ^^HEN I firft fignified my intention of publifhing the following fheets, ] was told by my friends it would draw on me the relentrnent of the whole faculty. As I never could entertain fuch an unfavourable idea, I was refolved to make the experiment, which indeed came cut pretty much as might have'been expeded. Many, whofe learning and liberality of fentiment do honour to me- dicine, received the book in a manner whic.h at once fliew- ed their indulgence, and the falfiry of the opinion that every “ phyfician wifhes to conceal his art while the more felfilh and narrow minded, generally the moll numerous in every profelTion, have not failed to pei fecute the book and its author.’** The reception, however, which this work has met with from the public, merits my mod grateful acknowledgments As the heft way of exprefling thefe, I have endeavoured to render it more generally ufeful, by enlarging the Prophy- laxis, or that part which treats of preventing difeafes ; and by adomg many articles which had been entirely omitted in the tormer imprelHons. It is needlefs to enumerate thefe a itions , I fliall only fay that I hope they will be found real improvements. The obfervations relating to Nurfing and the Manage- ment of Children, were chiedy fuggefted by an extenfive praetice among infants, in a large branch of the Foundling ^ an opportunity not only of treating the d.fcafes incident to childhood, but likewife of trying dif- erent plans of nurfing, and obferving their effcas. When- ever 1 had it in my power to place the children under the