The valetudinarians Bath guide; or, the means of obtaining long life and health ... / [Philip Thicknesse].

  • Philip Thicknesse
Date:
1780
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Credit: The valetudinarians Bath guide; or, the means of obtaining long life and health ... / [Philip Thicknesse]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ce) proper medicines prepared by ignorant apprentices, or menial fervants of Apothecaries. The Apo:hecary has nothing todo with people in health, and if his fick patients become werfe and worfe, nobody wonders at it, but conclude, that what perhaps may be caufed by poifon, or improper druggs, is the effe€t of the en- creafing diforder, and when the patient is dead no- thing more is faid or thought of. but that, poor man, he died of an inflamation in his bowels: lethargic: or much more might, to put the patient and the Apothe- cary upon their guard, ina matter where the life of one, and the bread and character of the other, are fo deeply concerned. | Chap. III. 2 OCB YS AG. nA Non: Puysic, fays Rouffeau, is a fafhion and it ought to be fo, it is the amufement of idle people, who not know- ing what to do with their time, beftow it upon their pre-- fervation, The Dietetic is the moft ufeful branch of medicine, a branch which is no lefsa fcience, than a virtue, temperance and exercife, are the beft Phyfi- cians of man; labour gives him appetite. temperance prevents his abufing it. The greateft excellence of a Phyfician isto know, when he fhould do nothing, and to have virtue enough to fay fo. Twenty yearsago, I called in Dr. Nicholls toa near and dear friend, whofe fudden diforder alarmed me exceedingly. The honeft Doctor would neither write, nor take a fee, and the only thing he would give, was repofe and reft to my friend. I grew exceedingly diffatisfied, and called in, _vinced, and fo is the patient (for he is ftill living; that
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