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Excerpt from Domestic Medicine, or a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines: With an Appendix, Containing a Dispensatory for the Use of Private Practitioners, to Which Are Added, Observations on the Diet of the Common People, Recommending a Method of Living Less Expensive, and More Conducive to Health, Than the Present In the treatment of difeafes, I have been peen. Liarly' attentive to regimen. The generality of people lay too much firefs upon Medicine, and truli too little to their own endeavours. It is al ways in the power of the patient, or of thofe about him, to do as much towards his recovery as can be effected by the phyfician. By not attending to this, the defigns of medicine are often frufirated; and the patient, by purfuing a wrong plan of regi men, not only defeats the Doctor's endeavours, but renders them dangerous. I have often known patients killed by an error in regimen, when they were nhug very proper medicines. It will be faid, the phyfician always orders the regimen when he prefcribes a me dicine. I wilh it were fo, both for the honour of the Faculty and the fafety of their patients; but phyfi cians, as well as other people, are too little attentive to this matter. Though many reckon it doubtful whether phylic is more beneficial or_hurtful to mankind, yet all allow the necefiity and importance of a pro per regimen in difeafes. Indeed the very appc tites of the lick prote its propriety. No man in his fenfes e1 er imagined that aperfon in a fever, for example, could eat, drink, or conduct himfelf in the fame manner as one in perfect health. This part of medicine, therefore, is evidently founded in Nature, and 13 every way confident with reafon and common fenfe. Had men been more atten tive to it, and lefs folicitous in hunting after fecret remedies, Medicine had never become an object of ridicule. 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.