The American herbal, or materia medica : wherein the virtues of the mineral, vegetable, and animal productions of North and South America are laid open, so far as they are known ; and their uses in the practice of physic and surgery exhibited ; comprehending an account of a large number of new medical discoveries and improvements, which are compiled from the best authorities ... / by Samuel Stearns.

  • Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809.
Date:
1801
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Credit: The American herbal, or materia medica : wherein the virtues of the mineral, vegetable, and animal productions of North and South America are laid open, so far as they are known ; and their uses in the practice of physic and surgery exhibited ; comprehending an account of a large number of new medical discoveries and improvements, which are compiled from the best authorities ... / by Samuel Stearns. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cafy methods of cure introduced into the prac- tifee ofphyfic, in European KingdomSj Em- pires and States.—That thofe, who learnt to be phyGcians, furgeons, or apothecaries twenty years ago, are in need of further inftruftion, or of being learnt again, if they are not acquaint- ed with the new medical difcoveries and im- provements ; and that thefe things are priryci- pally unknown to the greateft part of our A- merican pra6litioners, and efpecially in coun- try places, for the want of publications. And it may not be improper to obferve that all the medical light and information that can poffiWy be coUeSed, ought to be fpread through all the regions of the medical world, that tho- mind'ofour praftitioners may be illuminated, and their praftice regulated. But, alas ! this great and important duty has been fo much neglefted, that the new medical difcoveries and improvements, have been fufFered to lie ufe- lefs, like a.talent hidina napkin, or buried in the earths If we aik a number of our praQitioners, if they have kenthe late Pharmacopaia Londin-, enfii ? the anfwer is^ no. Have you feen Dr. Lewit's MiUeria Medica^ in quarto ?—No. Have youperufed Dr. CuUen's Nofology .?—• No., Have you read Dr. MotherbyU Medica.l Bit-, tionary ?r-No. Have you feen the LQndon Pranks of PhyJ-* f|?f—No* ■■-■::