The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected in fifty-eight years of practice, or, An account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Designed for the use of all private families ... / [Thomas Dover].

  • Thomas Dover
Date:
1742
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Credit: The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected in fifty-eight years of practice, or, An account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Designed for the use of all private families ... / [Thomas Dover]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This, 1 apprehend, proceeds from the Affinity and Refemblance there is between different Difeafes ; which, though often at¬ tended with the fame Symptoms, yet pro¬ ceed from different Caufes, and confequently require various Methods of Cure: For which Reafon the Phyfician fhould be very cauti¬ ous in preferring, till he has fully examined the Symptoms of the Difeafe, compared them with the feveral Anfwers of the Patient, and till he has juft Reafons to think he under- ftands the Nature of the Diftemper. Complicated Cafes are moft difficult; neither is it poffible to determine any Thing of them before they happen, by reafon of their various Degrees, and uncertain Combi¬ nations., , 1 n thefe Cafes, fo very hard to be adjuf- ted, it may be pardonable for a Phyfician to err a little ; but in fimpie Difeafes, the Mis¬ take admits of no Excufe. To go no farther than a Dropfy.-I have attended fome Perfons in this Diftem¬ per, where it has taken very deep Root.-- Their Legs, Thighs, and Bodies have been blown up like Bladders ; yet fome of thefe Perfons have been blooded four or five Times m
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