The universal dispensatory : containing companions to the tropical, the continental, the family, the country clergyman's, the traveller's, and the military, or officer's dispensaries, or medical chests : detailing the properties, doses, and best methods of exhibiting the contents of each chest, in different climates and countries / by Reece and Co.
- Reece and Co.
- Date:
- 1814
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The universal dispensatory : containing companions to the tropical, the continental, the family, the country clergyman's, the traveller's, and the military, or officer's dispensaries, or medical chests : detailing the properties, doses, and best methods of exhibiting the contents of each chest, in different climates and countries / by Reece and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![L It ] FA3IILY DISPENSARY. Tins chest is furnished with such medicines, which, from their great ntilitj, one person at least in every village ought to Ijc provided. The advantages of such a provision are too numerous to be detailed, and too obvious to be denied. It affords an immediate resource in those sudden attacks of disease, and contingencies of misfortune, in which it is absolutely necessary relief should be speedy to be effectual. In cases of fits, suffocation, poisons, burns, scalds, tStC. every medical man must acknowledge the good it may do, and the evil it may prevent. Charity thus bestowed, in alleviating the sickness of the indigent individual, is of all others the most useful and commendable. What satisfaction can, indeed, be equal to mitigating the sufferings and still more, in often being able to save the lives of our fellow creatures? To a heart glowing with the true spirit of Christian charity, can any thing possibly be so grati^ing as to restore the bloom of health to the wan and faded cheek of poverty and disease ? A point of no less importance is, that the Family Me- dicine Chest is supplied with drugs very superior in quality to those generally sold in the country, and on the purity of which the greatest reliance may be placed. Besides, a family possessing a collection of such medi- cines as they are in the habit of using, from a respectable source, are not exposed to those serious mistakes which so frequently happen in the country, through the ignorance or carelessness of young men employed in druggists’ and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22346314_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
