A guide to health, or, Advice to both sexes, in nervous and consumptive complaints : with an essay on the scurvy, leprosy, and scrofula, also on a certain disease, seminal weakness, and a destructive habit of a private nature : to which is added, an address to parents, tutors, and guardians of youth, with observations on the use and abuse of cold bathing / by S. Solomon, M.D.

  • Solomon, Samuel, -approximately 1818
Date:
[1803?]
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Credit: A guide to health, or, Advice to both sexes, in nervous and consumptive complaints : with an essay on the scurvy, leprosy, and scrofula, also on a certain disease, seminal weakness, and a destructive habit of a private nature : to which is added, an address to parents, tutors, and guardians of youth, with observations on the use and abuse of cold bathing / by S. Solomon, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    PRACTICE. I cannot think that it is in my power to pay thofe friends who have honoured me with their confidence and partiality, too great a'compliment: my heart is penetrated with gratitude, and I hope the exultation is noways culpable that fprings from the reflection, that none have reafon to repent of the confidence repofed in me. {' That the knowledge of medicine is only to be obtained by much perfeverance, is not to be denied; aor is it to be denied, that in this age, the gates of knowledge are open to all men, or that thofe who fhall majl Jeduloujly apply them- felves will acquire the largcft ftere. Happy it is for this country, that every science is open to .•very one who fhall ehoofe to explore it : and thrice happy are its people, that the study of i-hysic is not rejlrained to thofe alone, who have paffed through various ceremonies ;'* for to their freedom of reftraint may we, perhaps, impute the unrivalledJk'dl of that celebrated divine,-]- who has reflored the mojl amiable of'men% from a malady the mod affecting in the catalogue of human in- firmities. I) * The Author has however the advantage, if any advantage is to be chimed, i.e. that of lia\ing regularly graduated. + Dr. Willis. % HuMajafly. II Hypochondriac, or mental atfiuiou.