Medicine chest directory, and family catalogue of drugs, chemicals, and medicinal compounds : with the properties and doses of such as are more generally used in domestic medicine : to which is appended a concise description of diseases : with directions for the treatment of such as are unattended with serious consequences : showing also, the best imediate measures to be adopted in those disorders and accidents which are destructive to life, etc., etc.

  • Butler, Charles, 1750-1832.
Date:
1837
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Credit: Medicine chest directory, and family catalogue of drugs, chemicals, and medicinal compounds : with the properties and doses of such as are more generally used in domestic medicine : to which is appended a concise description of diseases : with directions for the treatment of such as are unattended with serious consequences : showing also, the best imediate measures to be adopted in those disorders and accidents which are destructive to life, etc., etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    to the present edition of the work, which it is hoped will fully answer the purposes required. It is, however, strenuously recommended not to rely too much on books of directions in such cases as are likely to be of a serious nature, but to have recourse to medical advice as soon as possible; for, although a little experience in the use of remedies may enable unprofessional persons and the heads of families to overcome indispositions of a minor character, it re- quires the experience, and nice discrimination, of those who have made it their study, to decide upon the proper treatment for the numerous, complicated, and formidable diseases, to which (from the vast difference of constitution and habit) the human frame is liable.