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Excerpt from Domestic Medicine, or a Valuable Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines: With an Appendix, Containing a New 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 tbe treatment of difeafes, Ibafue been peculiarly attentive to regimen. Tbe generality ofpeople lay goo mucbjirefs upon Medicine, and trujl too little to tbezr own endeavors. It is always in zbe power oftbe patient, or of tbofe about bim, to do as macb iou ards bis re eowery as can be efieéled by the pbyfieian. By not attending to Ibis, ibe defigns ofmedicine are oftenfru/irated; and ibe patient, by pur fuing a wrong plan of regimen, not only defeats ibe Doflor's e'ndeaq) ors, but renders tbem dangerous. I bafve often known patients billed by an error in regimen, wben sley were ufing every proper medicines. It will be faid, tbe pbyfieian always or'ders ibe regzmen wben be ?re/eribes a medicine. I wz'jb it wereja; both for zbe honor of tbe Faeulgy and sbe fafegy of tbeir patients but pby/iczans, as well as oeber people, are too little attentive to tbis matter. 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.