A treatise on bowel complaints : intended for the use of physicians, families, parents, masters of vessels, &c. in the United States / by John G. Vought, physician and citizen of Rochester, Monroe County, N. Y.

  • Vought, John G. (John Graff), 1791-1832.
Date:
1823
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Credit: A treatise on bowel complaints : intended for the use of physicians, families, parents, masters of vessels, &c. in the United States / by John G. Vought, physician and citizen of Rochester, Monroe County, N. Y. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE MEDICAL SUBSCRIBERS TO THIS WORK, THE *#i\, LOWING PAGES ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. Think not, gentlemen, that I anticipate your gen eral approbation of the principal matter and com- position of this work, as I am convinced of my inabil- ity to do justice to, and intend not to claim merit for an undertaking of this kind. The medical encourage- ment that I have already met with, has far exceeded my most distant expectations. Surely it cannot be supposed that motives of interest were in view by my senior subscribers, Drs. Hosack, Mitchill, and others of the same stamp, who enjoy superior natural medi- cal talents, and who have had every opportunity of cultivating those talents, by a long and extensive prac- tice, after a scientific and collegiate education ; who have also been long engaged in extensive reading,and in the investigation of every discovery and improve- ment in the science of medicine, that would prove an advantage to mankind, and who are designed, by na- ture herself, to shine as bright stars in the firmament of their profession. They will not expect to receive anv new ideas, or any useful matter, from the obser- vations of a youth of my age, planted, as I am, in the obscure wilderness of Rochester, where, ten years ago, scarce a cultivated acre of ground could be found with-- in some miles ; which is distant at present from any city, in the United States, more than two hundred miles, and which is remote, also, from scientific insti- tutions. I can, therefore, only attribute their inclina-