A medical handbook : comprehending such information on medical and sanitary subjects as is desirable in educated persons, with hints to clergymen and visitors of the poor / by Frederick William Headland.

  • Headland, Frederick William
Date:
1861
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Credit: A medical handbook : comprehending such information on medical and sanitary subjects as is desirable in educated persons, with hints to clergymen and visitors of the poor / by Frederick William Headland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I that science of disease and remedies, which is consi- dered rightly to be the especial province of the medical man. I have put together, in as plain and simple language as possible, the result of our know- ledge of this subject, in an Index of Diseases, and an Index of Remedies, both arranged alphabetically. Some may consider presumptuous, and almost dangerous, this attempt to admit the outside world within the portal even of the temple of medical mysteries. I dissent altogether from their view of the matter. Not only may it be urged that the knowledge which cannot be communicated is hardly worth preserving, and that secrecy and reti- cence on such important topics may serve the cause of quackery, but not that of true science; it may further be maintained that the physician or surgeon has a direct interest in the amount of correct in- formation possessed by his patient and those around the sick man. The more they know about the state of the case, and the remedies that experience has shown to be beneficial in similar attacks, the more intelligent the co-operation which they will be able to render to the medical man, the less their surprise at the issue, or their proneiiess to ideal terrors.