The dogmaticus, or, Family physician : ... together with directions for preserving health, and an explanation table. For the use of families and practitioners.

  • Smith, Joseph, practical physician.
Date:
1829 [©1828]
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Credit: The dogmaticus, or, Family physician : ... together with directions for preserving health, and an explanation table. For the use of families and practitioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    every one should have the means of health in their own po.- session, they have explained the medicines made use of, and of what they are composed, how they are prepared, the quanti- ty to be given at a dose, and when to apply them. &x. But the most of them are rery lengthy, and require a considerable time, in order to get a right understanding of them; therefore, those books cannot be so useful to families in general, as to meet the wishes of the authors. But, in order to remove that great dim culty, I have taken the subject into serious consideration, and after having had a long and successful practice as a physician; I feel it my indispensable duty, and highest privilege, to com- municate to the reader a system of practice, in which f have been so abundantly successful ; and which is so highly recom- mended by men of science and respectability. Although I am indebted to others, for some part of what t Hi- treatise contains, yet, the principal part is from my own expe- rience, and successful practice for several years. Its natural advantages arise from its being short and comprehensive. While in the enjoyment of health, the reader may think a work of this description is of but little importance ; but let him be confined to the bed of sickness, and he will esteem it as one of the greatest treasures of the kind, that ever had a place in hie family desk. The plan of the work is arranged in the following manner After giving a brief anatomical description of the human body, the symptoms and cure of diseases, the medicinal plants, their qualities, and the recipes, the work is divided into three ser thus, and forty-six classes ; As follow SECTIOxN I. Containing the symptoms and cure of disease?, divided into eleven Classes ; thus : Crass 1. Bilious diseases. Cass 3. Cbronick diseases.