Advice to the physician, the surgeon, and the apothecary, and to their patients : after the manner of Dean Swift : with notes practical and illustrative, founded on long observation that may be beneficial to them all, and favorable to health and long life / by a physician.

Date:
1821
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Credit: Advice to the physician, the surgeon, and the apothecary, and to their patients : after the manner of Dean Swift : with notes practical and illustrative, founded on long observation that may be beneficial to them all, and favorable to health and long life / by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    case a complex one, renders a long at- tendance necessary; and sentence of cine and not the best inode of cure, is too often the prime object ; and instances are not '^vanting, wliere diseases have resisted all at- tempts to remove them, on account of the largeness as well as the number of the doses prescribed. W e will instance, mercury (the rage for prescribing which on all occasions is now so great). Sometimes those very patients who have suflered in this way, have, at a future period, been nevertheless cured by the very same medicine; but by a dose one twentieth part of w hat was given in the first in- stance. J'he reason is obvious; the quanti- ty first prescribed repeatedly sickened the sto- mach, deranged and debilitated the system, and rendered it unfit to receive and expe- rience the desired beneficial effect. The spe- cific remedy has consequently been of neces- sity laid aside ; and the patient, in this man- ner, has missed his cure, lost his remedy, and has been abandoned to his fate.