The Family Physician And Domestic Practice Of Medicine

Author : Alfred M. Folger
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396052798
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book The Family Physician written by Alfred M. Folger and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Family Physician: Being a Domestic Medical Work, Written in Plain Style, and Divided Into Four Parts In writing the present Volume, I have. Endeavored to be as plain and as explicit as possible. Iam opposed to too much prolixity in any medical work intended for the use of private individuals; consequently, I have been as brief as the nature of the case would admit. All technicalities have been carefully avoided, making the work perfectly plain to an ordinary scholar. Such diseases as require the immediate attendance of the Physician, I have not treated upon', further than to point out the symptoms, fearing that persons may delay calling in a Physician until it be too late. Like all writers on the practice of medicine, I have only been able to lay down general plans of treatment; but, I assure the reader, with that candor which I hope will ever characterize my life, that general or undeviating plans will not always answer the purpose intended. The disease Should be treated agreeably to the symptoms manifested, and should the complaint vary from its ordinary course, the treatment should vary also. I know there are Physicians in our County, of age and experience, who contend for an universal course of treatment, to be pursued in all patients laboring under the same disease; but I care not for the opin ions of any Physician, however aged he may be, when the)r are' so destitute of reason. Men often grow gray in igno rance and folly, and the Physician should be judged by his success in practice, and not by his age. I hope, however. 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.