The Family Physician And Guide To Health

Author : John King
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266594260
Total Pages : 1154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (942 download)

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Download or read book The American Family Physician, Or Domestic Guide to Health written by John King and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Family Physician, or Domestic Guide to Health: For the Use of Physicians, Families, Plantations, Ships, Travelers, Etc The ravages of disease are often so rapid that the only hope of life lies in immediate treatment. Thus, a child is attacked with croup, a disease easily removed, if properly treated when the first symptoms are visible. What is to be done? A messenger is dispatched for the physician; he is some miles away, the night is dark and dreary, perhaps cold and stormy, the road long, muddy, or broken. What is the result? Long ere he shall have had time to obey the summons, the silver cord is loosed, the golden bowl and the pitcher at the fountain are broken, the work of death is accomplished, and the medical man arrives only in time to witness the distress of the broken hearted father, the agony of the weeping and childless mother. Alas their fondest hopes are blasted, their darling loved one is gone forever, and they, alone, are left to mourn in affliction. Upon witnessing a scene like this, every heart anxiously and tremblingly inquires, Must this be so? Is there, then, no remedy? Yes, fond parent, sympa thizing friend, there Is A remedy. All that is required is to obtain a knowledge of this disease, by which you will be enabled to use those safe and salutary means, which will aid the natural efforts of the system in throwing off this most distressing and truly alarming malady. Croup, however, is not the only disease which demands prompt attention and treatment. A loved father, husband, or son may be suddenly stricken with apoplexy - poison may have been carelessly or intentionally swallowed - an artery may have been severed - a pro fuse bleeding may occur from the lungs - a child or parent may be in danger of death by sufl'ocation, from food or other substance getting into the air-tubes and actually choking it. What must be done? Where is succor to be obtained? For if we wait until the physician arrives from his distant residence, death will have claimed his victim; and how many hundreds of similar instances are constantly taking place, in which even a slight hint, obtained by the perusal of a few printed lines, would be the means of saving many valuable lives. Hence, the pressing importance of a good and reliable work, in which is contained proper and correct information on these various cases, given in language adapted to the understanding of all who read it, so that any person may at once avail himself of the means to cure disease and save life in all those instances where these become necessary. 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.