The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families, and seminaries, and junior practitioners in medicine. Comprising a complete modern dispensatory, and a practical treatise on the distinguishing symptoms, causes, prevention, cure, and palliation of the diseases incident to the human frame, with the latest discoveries in the different departments of the healing art / by Richard Reece.

  • Richard Reece
Date:
1833
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Credit: The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families, and seminaries, and junior practitioners in medicine. Comprising a complete modern dispensatory, and a practical treatise on the distinguishing symptoms, causes, prevention, cure, and palliation of the diseases incident to the human frame, with the latest discoveries in the different departments of the healing art / by Richard Reece. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ,to my superiors at His Imperial Majesty’s Emibaasy in London, I think that at s season when that dreadful, and hitherto -irremediable malady, “‘ hydrephebia,” is most prevalent, it isa duty to make public its supposed remedy; such being : have written the origina] account in a manner to be generally er ee cr + a : cai dy wee ‘Sei mn perusing the document the remedy would mot appear, _@ priors, te a medical eye, a powerful antidote ; but opinions ‘are nothing in presence of facts, and these facts, I am in- ‘formed, are briefly the fellowing:—- | A schoolmaster, named Lilie, residing on that boun- dary of Hungary towards Turkey where the military colenies are lecated, having the established repuiation of possessing a cure for bydrophobia, the Minister of War, to whose department the government ef this territory belongs, _inatitated aninquiry. Two hydrophebic patients were placed under tke care ef the military medical officers until they , despaired of them ; they were then intrusted to the care of | the schoolmaster, and were cured, aie bu ete od , © A liberal gratification being given to this person, he is to | receive adequate rewards if, after two years’ exereise of his remedy under medical surveillance, his discovery is proved to” be ef sterling value. , +E A The root of which M. Lalie has recognized tho efficacy is | the geatiana cruciata. It is an abundant natural product. _
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