The medical companion : treating, according to the most successful practice, I. The diseases common to warm climates and on ship board. II. Common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. III. The complaints peculiar to women and children. With a dispensatory and glossary. To which are added, a brief anatomy of the human body; an essay on hygeine [sic] or the art of preserving health and prolonging life; an American materia medica, instructing country gentlemen in the very important knowledge of the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants; also, a concise and impartial history of the capture of Washington, and the diseases which sprung from that most deplorable disaster.

  • Ewell, James, 1773-1832.
Date:
1816
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Credit: The medical companion : treating, according to the most successful practice, I. The diseases common to warm climates and on ship board. II. Common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. III. The complaints peculiar to women and children. With a dispensatory and glossary. To which are added, a brief anatomy of the human body; an essay on hygeine [sic] or the art of preserving health and prolonging life; an American materia medica, instructing country gentlemen in the very important knowledge of the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants; also, a concise and impartial history of the capture of Washington, and the diseases which sprung from that most deplorable disaster. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    medical plants of our extensive country whereby we may remedy those painful maladies which assail the human frame ? Half the attention and the time which is devoted to the minor politics arising out of our party dissentions, assisted by very little of that overboiling zeal that is given to the acquisition of property, and the (i gain of pelf, would, if appropriated to medical studies, enable any person of tolerable capacity to practice with safety and advantage in those cases of simple disease, which are most incident to our climate, and to determine be- tween the arrant Quack and the modest, well-educa- ted, and judicious physician. Assuredly, some care might be profitably directed to medicine. Why will not the intelligent citizens who are scattered throughout the country, dedicate a part of their liberal leisure'' to it? Of all the sciences it is the most inviting, and that which opens the largest treasures to its cultivators. No one can lend his mind to it with- out receiving usurious interest. Medicine is the di- gest of human knowledge. It is the great reservoir in- to which every stream of science pours its tribute, which in return spreads its fertilizing water over every field that brings forth its ripe and abundant harvest. The want of a popular medical education, we have remarked, promotes the success of Empirics. To what else can the amazing increase of these creatines be as- cribed. Would they dare to quit the shades of their native insignificance, tf they thought they were to encoun- ter the blaze of criticism, or to be inspected and scruti- nized by the torch of truth? No: the terrors of such a process,'were it practised, would exterminate the race or leave to them only a beggarly account of empty boxes. . We repeat it, that Empirics are nurtured and sustain- ed exclusively by the prejudices of mankind in their fa- vour, arising from their inability to judge rightly of their merits! For can it lie presumed that any one, who is at all acquainted with the subject, would repose the -tightest confidence in the nostrums of the most stupid, :i]iirvate, dishonest, and vagrant of society, who are