Every patient his own doctor ... Containing ... receipts ... Among these are that ... new discovery, by which the scurvy ... is cured: and for the successful practice of which Captain Cook received the premium medal from the Royal Society ... Also the methods used by the Humane Society for the recovery of persons apparently drowned / [Lewis Robinson].

  • Robinson, Lewis, M.D
Date:
[1778]
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Credit: Every patient his own doctor ... Containing ... receipts ... Among these are that ... new discovery, by which the scurvy ... is cured: and for the successful practice of which Captain Cook received the premium medal from the Royal Society ... Also the methods used by the Humane Society for the recovery of persons apparently drowned / [Lewis Robinson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ Hi ] PREFACE S Health is the nobleft blefling of ■*- -*• this life, the method of pro- • . '• v ‘7. curing it fhould be our principal en¬ quiry. While poffeffed of it, we feldom pay a proper attention to its importance; when loft, we become fenfible of its value, but are frequently carelefs con¬ cerning its recovery. The reafons are plain; while we have it we trifle with it till it flies us; when fled, we trifle with our misfortune, becaufe we fuppofe the recovery to be either impoflible or im¬ probable;. For