The new 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, memoirs of the life of Dr. Buchan : and important extracts from other works, particularly his Advice to mothers, ... / by William Buchan.

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1813
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Credit: The new 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, memoirs of the life of Dr. Buchan : and important extracts from other works, particularly his Advice to mothers, ... / by William Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ V OF tHK / GENERAL CAUSES OF DISEASES. CHAP. I. OF CHILDREN. THE better to trace diseases from their original causes-, we shall take a view of the common treat- tnent of mankind in the state of infancy. In this pe- riod of our lives, the foundations of a good or bad constitution are generally laid: it is therefore of impor- tance, that parents be well acquainted with the vari- ous causes which may injure the health of their off- spring. It appears from the annual registers of the dead, that almost one half of the children born in Great Britain die under twelve years of age. To many, indeed, this may appear a natural evil; but, on due examination, it will be found to be one of our own creating. Were the death of infants a natural evil, other animals would be as liable to die young as roan; but this we find is by no means the case. It may seem strange that man, notwithstanding his superior reason, should fall so short of other animals in the management of his young: but our surprise will soon cease, it we consider that brutes, guided by instinct, never err in this respect; while man, trusting solely to art, is seldom right. Were a catalogue of those infant? B