A cheap, sure, and ready guide to health, or, A cure for a disease call'd the doctor : instructing, how to prevent being cheated and destroyed by the exactions and unmerciful usage of ignorant and oppressive physicians and apothecaries : and to prepare at home the proper medicines for usual distempers : with the prices, to save ninteen shillings in twenty, and expend little more tha a penny a dose : likewise a new account of the connection of distempers, a key to al physic, and to know any disease / set forth by the benefaction of a very worthy private gentleman, to contain more than any book of the kink, at the lowest rate, as necessary for all families, and all persons.

Date:
1742
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A cheap, sure, and ready guide to health, or, A cure for a disease call'd the doctor : instructing, how to prevent being cheated and destroyed by the exactions and unmerciful usage of ignorant and oppressive physicians and apothecaries : and to prepare at home the proper medicines for usual distempers : with the prices, to save ninteen shillings in twenty, and expend little more tha a penny a dose : likewise a new account of the connection of distempers, a key to al physic, and to know any disease / set forth by the benefaction of a very worthy private gentleman, to contain more than any book of the kink, at the lowest rate, as necessary for all families, and all persons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    To the Ingenious and Virtuous Donor. SIR, IT is by your kind Encouragement and Support that this little Piece, which is partly an Abridgment of what was thought mo ft valuable ma longer Work, and partly Origi¬ nal appears in the World: Abflradhs of this Kind in all Arts and Sciences are commonly more ferviceable than bulky and prolix Volumes, in Regard to the Capacities, Convcniencies, and Purfes of the Readers: In which Refpefl long Treaties, like tong Bills and P refer ipt ions in Pftyfic, are calculated more for Pride and Avarice, than Health. To be in an eminent Degree, juft, ufeful, benevolent and generous, which are ihining Parts of your Charadler, without the lead Adulation, conftitute the Man of Senfe and Merit, the Gentleman, the Englijh man, and the ChrifHan $ make him the molt perfect and happy in himfelf, and the Friend, the Or” nament, and delight of his Species : The Chrifiian Legijlator, who came ro reftore and exalt right Reafon and moral Virtue, and in that Light only is the Bijhop of Souls, (making other Bijhops and Priejis a Contrafte called Anti-Chrifl) went about doing good, healing Difeafes $ fympathihng with our Infirmi¬ ties, and bearing our SickneiTes and Sins, as, in the Jewifh Phra- ie, they * were Pumihments of Sins, and he, a good and an honefi Phyfictan, a Saviour from them : But he did not demand Tail Fees, nor drive a Chariot over Heaps of Siain : He was a Dif penfer, not of Death but Life: His Cures were fpeedy, true, and eaiy, therefore laid to be from God and Miracles, though there is not a W'ord in Scripture that flndly means a Miracle $ by what appears, his vifible Suhhftence was the Pradlice of Phy he, Healing is tranflared Salvation in the Ath, and had we his phyfical Recipes, we fhould no more want Phyficians, than we really do Par forts, being pohfefled of his religious Recipes: In fhort, he made Charity in general, and this Exercife of it, in particular, his Law and Pradhce ; the Word, Souls, in the Gofpel[aid to be his, (for he wrote none, and thofe we have are — — gmeans ufually the laves or tPerfons of Men. Luxury, Covetoufnefs, and Ambition, made Phyfic an Art, which, according to its very Word, was Nature: Hence a Shil¬ ling is given for the Worth of halt a Farthing, and a Phyhcian lately had five Guineas for preferring a Quart of Sack Whey : Vv harever be a Patient’s Difeafe, his Pocket is furely in a Con- gumption5 in the Civil Law, Medicaments are called Poifons, Vefiena : And Diftempers, in Sr. Luke, (who was a Phyhcian, one being tufficient to make all the other Difciples Mlartyrs,) are call'd Devils : This relation of Poifons without to Devils within conges oir Pnefis to be, as their Anceftors werc,Phy- ficians