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.

  • Buchan, William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1803
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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.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    my befl endeavours to make every new edition of this work more worthy of the public favour. It has met with the mod flattering reception in every part of the Britifh empire j and home writers of the firft medical eminence in Europe have enlarged the fphere of its po- pularity, by tranflating it into the languages of their re- IpeCtive countries. 1 feel the full force of fo ftrong an incitement, to redouble my efforts, and, as far as I am able, to make improvement keep pace with the rapid extenfion of fuch liberal patronage. But, while my warmed acknowledgments are due to my generous friends, I mud not omit taking notice of fome obligations I am under to my adverfaries alfo. On my fird attempt to give a familiar form to medical ad- vice, and to explain what every body ought to know, in language which every body could underdand, envy, felfifhnefs, and arrogance took the alarm. All the (lores of malignant invention were exhaufted, to blacken the charadler of the author, to lower the public opinion of his integrity, as well as of his talents, and totally to de- Rroy his pretenfions to honed fame. I thank thofc gentlemen for having taken fo much pains to excite at- tention to my book j and hope they will not think this exprefiion of my gratitude ironical, when I aflure them, that the fale of above a hundred thoufand co, pies of this work has not been lefs promoted by their illiberal abufe, than by the kinded tedimonies of applaufe. There is another defeription of perfons, whom I can- net treat with fo much pleafantry, as they have left no means untried to make tfre credit of my book fub- fervient