The family physician, or Poor man's friend, and married lady's companion : containing a great variety of valuable medical recipes, designed to assist heads of families, travellers and sea-faring people, in curing diseases ; with concise directions for the preparation, and use of a numerous collection of vegetables made use of ; and directions for preparing and administering them to cure diseases ; together with many of the most approved from the shop of the apothecary ; all in plain English / by A. Weyer.

Weyer, A. (Anthony), 1784-1845

Date:: 1831

Credit: The family physician, or Poor man's friend, and married lady's companion : containing a great variety of valuable medical recipes, designed to assist heads of families, travellers and sea-faring people, in curing diseases ; with concise directions for the preparation, and use of a numerous collection of vegetables made use of ; and directions for preparing and administering them to cure diseases ; together with many of the most approved from the shop of the apothecary ; all in plain English / by A. Weyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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NOTE. Indigent Sick—Having in the course of my trav- els, so often witnessed the most grevious suffrrings of the sick, for want of suitable nourishment, and this occurring, too, not unfrequently in respectable families, who have been reduced in circumstances. ] feel it my duty, since it is not foreign to the sub- ject, to call the attention of those in affluence throughout our numerous cities, and extensive country, to extend the arm of charity to the indi- gent sick,in their respective neighborhoods. While feasting in their own houses, let them listen to the voice of humanity, and not forget the house of mourning,'1 where the lone widow and her orphans pine in sick and starving solitude. It is not easy to estimate the good which may b-; done to suffering humanity by beneficent acts of this kind. I have always thought it a greater happiness to discover a certain method of curing, even the slightest disease, than to accumulate the largest for- tune; and whoever compasses the former, I csteeiB not otilv happier, but wiser and betl Sydenham*

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