Domestic medicine and surgery : with a glossary of the terms used therein / by J.H. Walsh.

  • John Henry Walsh
Date:
1875
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Credit: Domestic medicine and surgery : with a glossary of the terms used therein / by J.H. Walsh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PEEFACE. The old and hackneyed proverb—that “ every one is either a fool or a physician after the age of forty”-is so generaUy appUcable in the present day (especiaUy if by the word “physician” is to be understood a “ dabbler in physio”), that no apology is necessary for the present attempt to make such dabblers as effloient as possible. Anything is better than the combination of folly and physic, which is too often present with those who fancy themselves competent to treat disease in all its varieties, either aUopathically, or nomoeo- pathlcally, or hydropathically, or by any other system which happens to be in vogue. These, if farther enlightened, would, like most experienced practi- loners of the heaUng art, perhaps become diffident of their powers, and, instead o rushing m,” would “fear to tread” the difficult paths of medicine and surgery. ^ It 13 not, therefore, with a view of increasing the number of those who administer physio to themselves or their friends that this book is written but rather in the hope that, if the practice is adopted by them, advantage may be taken of the information contained in it, which is offered in such a form that they may avail themselves of it with some hope of success, and without any ^eat risk of doing mischief. But in addition to this class of individuals, there em^rr? emigrate to lands where professed physicians and surgeons are rarely to he met tlir Charge to the best of their ability. i-uurge Fj these two numerous classes, then, the present Manual of Domestic L .hl , “ “ “™“” »• “'“W «. o »• lM«elbl.. on u,. ,™„. 0flhelndrx“riybrrr’'n ^'ithtnemd . y eferred to when any individual case is to be examined.