The Practice Of Medicine Made Plain PDF Download

Excerpt from The Medical Adviser: A Full and Plain Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Medicine, Especially Adapted to Family Use The fact is, that the profession has been sadly lacking in its duties to itself, and to the people, in this respect. No adequate efforts have ever been made for furnishing the masses with a pure and correct medical literature, and of course the people receive their medical ideas principally from quack advertisements, almanacs, and puffs of Charla tans, whose trade it is to decry and caricature the regular profession. Even the very best writers of family medical books have not thought it worth while to reason with the people, or teach them the why and the wherefore of their prescriptions; taking it for granted, I suppose, that the peo ple would not comprehend the science of diseased action. But I am very confident that this is a mistake, and that if the truth is presented in a plain and clear style, it will be attractive, and will be studied, and understood suffi ciently at least to enable the reader to perceive the distinc tion between science and pretence. But I do not enter tain the idea that this or any other work will ever'make the people their own physicians, so as to supersede the services of the men who make medicine the business of their lives. Nothing short of entire devotedness to the subject can qualify a man for the important business of taking charge of the lives of his fellows; and unceasing attention to the subject is essential for keeping posted as to the progress of the science. And the varying types of disease. 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.