Volume 1

A treatise on the plague and pestilential fevers : with some useful hints, for the better preservation and cure. Together with some observations, on the pestilential fever now raging among the horned cattle.

Date:
1751
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the plague and pestilential fevers : with some useful hints, for the better preservation and cure. Together with some observations, on the pestilential fever now raging among the horned cattle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [.74] cines may prove^. in the Hands of the Jkilfiil and ignorant Pretender it being an ejlablijhed and moft certain Truths that, with-^ * out the perfeB Knowledge of adminifiring M?- ' dicines in the moji proper Dofe^ and at the mojl PROPER Pimes oj the Difeafe^ thofe Me¬ dicines cannot but prove oi vtxy uncertain Good^ if they do not produce much Injury at lead, the more eficacious the Medicine, the greater will be, the Hazard. 'Tis the judgment therefore of the learned Phyfician, that niuft direB and determine in this Point, to the Benefit of the Patient : And to this great Truth, I flatter myfelf, every prudent, confidering Perfon, will readily agree. And indeed, the PraBice of PhyfiCy in the Hands oijudicious and learned Phyficians^ is by no means fo precarious and doubtjul^ as the un-^ thinking fort of People are apt to imagine. By what we have advanced in this Trea- tife, it appears, That the great Biijinefs of the Phyfician^ is, perfedly to know the D/- fianper he is about to cure^ and the Force and Efficacy of the Medicines he intends to adminifter refpedively ; and if he already knows, or can difcover by Reafon and Prac-* tice^ the particular Ways in which the Me- .dicines he makes ufe of will aB-y he will thereby be inftruded, when one Methody or any one Medicine is moikproperly adminiftred; and why it miifl; be continued or laid^afide : Which is the Sum and Subfiance of Pbyfic. But