Domestic Medicine Or The Family Physician Chiefly Calculated To Recommend A Proper Attention To Regimen And Simple Medicines

Author : William Buchan
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260281098
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Buchan's Domestic Medicine, Or the Family Physician written by William Buchan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Buchan's Domestic Medicine, or the Family Physician: Designed to Render the Medical Art More Generally Useful, by Showing People What Is in Their Own Power; Both With Respect to the Prevention and Cure of Diseases; Chiefly Calculated to Recommend a Proper Attention to Regimen, and Simple Medicines The reception, however, which this work has met with from the Pub lic, merits my most grateful acknowledgments. As the best way of ex pressing these, I have endeavoured to render it more generally useful, by enlarging the prophylaxis, or that part which treats of preventing di seases; and by adding many articles which had been entirely omitted in the former impressions It is needless to enumerate these additions; I shall only say, that I hope they will be found real improvements. The observations relative to Nursing and the Management of chil dren, were chiefly suggested by an extensive practice among infants, in a large branch of the Foundling Hospital, where I had an opportunity not only of treating the diseases incident to childhood, but likewise of try ing different plans of nursing, and observing their effects. Whenever I had it in my power to place the children under the care of proper nurses, to instruct these nurses in their duty, and to be satisfied that they performed it, very few of them died; but when, from distance of place, and other unavoidable circumstances, the children were left to the sole care of mercenary nurses, without any person to instruct and superintend them, scarce any of them lived. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.