The modern practice of physic : exhibiting the character, causes, symptoms, prognostics, morbid appearances, and improved method of treating the diseases of all climates / by Robert Thomas.

  • Robert Thomas
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1825
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    Mil PREFACE. rally admitted by them to be the best work on Domestic Medicine yet submitted to popular readers. I think it necessary to state, that the doses advised in the various prescriptions in the present work are in- tended for adults, except where particularly specified for infants or children; and that, in general, women require a smaller quantity of medicine to produce a desired effect than men, and those of a sanguine temperament, less than those of the melancholic. In regulating the doses, due consideration ought therefore to be paid to the sex, temperament, habit, idiosyncrasy, and disease of the patient, as no correct general rule can be laid down. It would be ungrateful in me not to express my warm- est acknowledgments to Dr. Hosack of New-York, for his exertions to extend the usefulness of the Modern Practice of Physic, not only by recommending it to his pupils as professor of the Theory and Practice of Phy- sic and Clinical Medicine in the University of that State; but by the many valuable observations in the appendix which he has added to the different editions, seven in number, that have been published under his sanction, and which have rendered the work more complete, and better adapted to the climate and constitution of the inhabitants of the different States of North America. It is incumbent on me to return my best thanks to Dr. Goven,late of the Lunatic Asylum of Charenton in France, for the honour done me by his translation of this work into the French language, the knowledge of which I obtained through the medium of Letters from theContinent during a Tour through France in 1318, published in the Gen- tleman's Magazine for July 1820. ROBERT THOMAS Salisbury, January ]2, 1825.