Treatise on midwifery and the diseases of women and children with remedies / by A. I. Coffin.
- Coffin, A. I., (Albert Isaiah), approximately 1790-1866.
- Date:
- 1878
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Treatise on midwifery and the diseases of women and children with remedies / by A. I. Coffin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![To Dr. Coffin.—Dear Sir,—I think it my duty to inforin you and the public of the benefits I have derived from following out your gystem of Medical Botany. I attended your lectures, and purchased your invaluable Guide to Health'''' and Ti'eadso on Michoifery,^^ I studied them very carefully, and found much information in them. In a short time after this, we had our little family of three children attacked with scarlet fever. We used the remedies presoi-ibed in the Guide to Health,^' and they soon recovered. Many of my neighbours' children were troubled with the same complaint, and several died from the effects of it. One of them asked me what means I had used to cure my children. I told her. She asked me if I would administer the same remedies to her child, Avho was given up as incurable by one of the faculty. (She had also lost two previously under the same medical man). I thought it was my duty to accede to her request. I administered the same medicines I administered to my own children, and, on the day after she had first taken them, she w'as nearly w^ell. When the doctor saw the child he was astonished to see such a change, and said she would get better. He was right, inasmuch as she was soon quite well. Having succeeded so Avell in curing my children, and being pregnant, I thought of trying to get through my confinement without the aid of the doctor. I asked my mother what she thought of this. She said she thought that, with the assist- ance of Dr. Coftin'.s 7Vt'(?//.-t' on .]fidiri/c>y'' although she was not experienced in these matters,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21298336_0242.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
