Modern domestic medicine : a popular treatise, describing the symptoms, causes, distinction, and correct treatment of the diseases incident to the human frame, embracing the modern improvements in medicine, to which are added, a domestic materia medica, a copious collection of approved prescriptions, &c. &c, The whole intended as a comprehensive medical guide for the use of clergymen, heads of families, emigrants etc. / by Thomas J. Graham.

  • Graham, Thomas John, 1795?-1876.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Modern domestic medicine : a popular treatise, describing the symptoms, causes, distinction, and correct treatment of the diseases incident to the human frame, embracing the modern improvements in medicine, to which are added, a domestic materia medica, a copious collection of approved prescriptions, &c. &c, The whole intended as a comprehensive medical guide for the use of clergymen, heads of families, emigrants etc. / by Thomas J. Graham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Tse of the most efb' PREFACE. ♦ My object in the composition of the following Treatise has i been to present the unprofessional reader with a clear and correct description of the nature, symptoms, causes, distinction, and most approved treatment of the diseases to which the human frame is liable; knowing that such a work is in constant requisition by clergymen in their endeavours to help their poor o parishioners; and also by the heads of families in the absence of their medical friend; and that to travellers, emigrants, and persons proceeding to a foreign climate, it must prove of fre-1 quent, and sometimes of signal, service. The chief design of the writer of a work of this description should he, I conceive, to lay before his readers a just and clear view of the nature of the different maladies treated of, and the best and most manageable remedies for the relief of pain and irritation, and the cure of disease; and these are the objects which I have constantly kept nr view throughout the volume, and to the accomplishment of which every consideration of minor im- portance has been sacrificed. In every instance, the Head of Treatment has received the greatest attention, because it is the most important; and under this division the plan or plans of management which are generally applicable to the particular «u malady treated of, and which are the most certain of success, in the majority of cases, have in general been first laid down, and afterwards almost every other useful remedy has been described separately. So that the reader will, I hope, find- a determinate mode of treatment, of general and superior efficacy, I o