Domestic medicine; or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : With an appendix containing a dispensatory. For the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan.
- William Buchan
- Date:
- 1805
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Domestic medicine; or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines : With an appendix containing a dispensatory. For the use of private practitioners / by William Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ xUl ] PREFACE. WFIEN I fir ft fignified my intention of publifliing the following fheets, I was told by my friends it would draw on me the refentment of the whole Faculty. As I never could entertain fuch an unfavourable idea, I was refolved to make the experiment, which indeed came out pretty much as might have been expeded. Many, whofe learning and liberality of fentiments do honour to medicine, received the book in a manner which at oncefirewed their indulgence, and the falfityof the opinion that every Phyfician wijloes to co7iceal his art; while the more felfilh and narrow-minded, generally the moft numerous in every profeflion, have not failed to perfecute both the book and its author. The reception, however, which this Work has met with from the Public, merits my moft grateful acknow- ledgments. As the beft way of exprefting thefe, I have endeavoured to render it more generally ufeful, by en- larging the prophylaxis^ or that part which treats of preventing difeafes; and by adding many articles which had been entirely omitted in the former impref- fions. It is needlefs to enumerate thefe additions; I fhall only fay, that I hope they will be found real im- provements. The obfervations relative to Nurfing and the Ma- nagement of Children were chiefly fuggefted by an ex- tenfive pradlice among infants, in a large branch of the Foundling Hofpital, where I had an opportunity not only of treating the difeafes incident to childhood, but likewifeof trying different plans of nurfing, and obferv- ing their effedts. Whenever I had it in my power to place the children under the care of proper nurfes, to inftrudl thefe nurfes in their duty, and to be fatisfied that they performed it, very few of them died ; but when, from diftance of place, and other unavoidable circum- ftances,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22033191_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
