The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach.

  • Leach, Harry.
Date:
1874
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    23/128 (page 3)
    portant that this fact should be widely known, and so, acting thereupon, let the reader remember and apply the following rules :— (1) Follow out strictly all the recommendations enjoined in this book. (2) Do not take with you or use any medicines other than those inserted in the official scale. (3) When in doubt as to the nature of a disease, wait and watch. Struggle hard and actively to prevent disease; but, when you are called upon to cure, adopt the directions given here, meagre as they may appear, and believe (as you may most assuredly do) that your own humble efforts to restore health and pro- long life will receive safe and splendid backing from the wonderful hand of Nature. 3 2