Domestic medicine : a treatise on the practice of medicine, adapted to the reformed system, comprising a materia medica / by J. Kost.

  • Kost, J., 1819-1904.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Domestic medicine : a treatise on the practice of medicine, adapted to the reformed system, comprising a materia medica / by J. Kost. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. In preparing the following volume, the author had in view more especially the benefit of the people, and hence it appeared necessary to crowd in more subjects, and consequently to treat each more briefly, than would be desirable if the work were designed exclusively for the profession. The part on Practice contains a larger list of diseases than is generally found in works of the kind; it has, therefore, been a constant object to avoid unnecessary details and useless comments, to make space for the more important matters, as the symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, and special treatment of diseases. The sub- jects of fever and inflammation, as well as cholera, have been treated of at greater length than others, as the for- mer are more important, and the latter more interesting at the present time while the disease is so prevalent. The plan of treatment is always elementary and thor- ough. When convenience could be consulted with safety this was considered desirable, but where danger might be involved the treatment is most prompt and thorough. The Materia Medica is very judiciously arranged. All the articles are classified according to their Thera- peutic properties and value. The virtues of each plant may be known at once by the class it occupies, and its comparative value, in most cases, by its position in point of priority. The active principles of plants are generally pointed out and the method of preparation briefly noticed