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Excerpt from The Family Physician and Guide to Health: A System of Domestic Medicine; Including a Treatise on Midwifery and the Diseases Peculiar to Women I have no apology to offer. I have done the very best I could in preparing the matter for this work. I have diligently consulted the ablest, latest and best authori ties in medical literature, coming from both Europe and America, and have tried hard to present the accepted facts of the history, symptoms and treatment of diseases in plain, simple and common-place language, so that every school boy or girl of intelligence can understand and comprehend them. I have given the' symptoms plainly and laid down the treatment, not only on general principles, but specially, stating exactly what to give, how much of it to give at a time, and how often to giveit. By this means I have placed a great amount of valuable information within easy reach of the common people information, too, upon which may depend their health, happiness or lives, or that of those dependent upon them. I neither deprecate nor invite criticism, believing that the critic has neither a very wide nor profitable field for his fault-finding skill. If my unpresuming book finds favor with the intelligent public, I will be content to let critics fume and fret, and enemies sneer and curl the lip with the scorn they try to feel. A few physicians, from selfish motives, may try to discourage the masses from patronizing the work, but I flatter myself that it will receive the hearty approval of a large majority of those who have kept themselves posted in the standard medical literature of the day. The intelligent physician wants an intelligent and well-informed patient: with such an one his labor is easy and pleasant. It is only those who do not know quite as much as they really should who try to keep the common people in ignorance in regard to the symptoms and treatment of disease. They fear the light of knowledge; they know in it their own feeble light would shine but idimly. 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.
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.