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A DICTIONARY 



DOMESTIC "MEDICINE 



AND 



HOUSEHOLD SURGERY 



BY 



SPENCER THOMSON, M. D. EDIN., F. R. C. S. 



WITH ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS 



From the Author's Prefatory Address. 



WITHOUT entering upon that difficult ground which correct professional 

 knowledge, and educated judgment, can alone permit to be safely trodden, 

 there is a wide and extensive field for exertion, and for usefulness, open to 

 the unprofessional, in the kindly offices of a true Domestic Medicine; the 

 timely help and solace of a simple Household Surgery, or better still, in the 

 watchful care, more generally known as " Sanitary Precaution," which tends 

 rather to preserve health than to cure disease, "the touch of a gentle hand' 1 

 will not be less gentle, because guided by knowledge, nor will the safe domes- 

 tic remedies be less anxiously or carefully administered. Life may be saved, 

 suffering may always be alleviated. Even to the resident in the midst of 

 civilization, the ** knowledge is power" to do good; to the settler and the 

 emigrant, it is invaluable. 



I know well what is said by a few, about injuring the medical profession, 

 by making the public their own doctors. Nothing will be so likely to make 

 " long cases " as for the public to attempt any such folly ; but people of 

 moderate means who, as far as medical attendance is concerned, are worse 

 off than the pauper will not call in and fee their medical adviser for every 

 slight matter, and in the absence of a little knowledge will have recourse to 

 the prescribing druggist, or to the patent quackery which flourishes upon 

 ignorance, and upon the mystery with which some would invest their calling. 

 And not patent quackery alone, but professional quackery also, is less likely to 

 find footing under the roof of the intelligent man, who, to common sense and 

 judgment, adds a little knowledge of the whys and wherefores of the treat- 

 ment of himself and family. Against that knowledge which might aid a 

 sufferer from accident, or in the emergency of sudden illness, no humane 

 man could offer or receive an objection. 



NOTICES OP THE PRESS: 



The London Journal of Medicine says, "The best and safest book on 

 Domestic Medicine and Household Surgery which has yet appeared." 



The Dublin Journal of Medical Science says, "Dr. Thomson has fully suc- 

 ceeded in conveying to the public a vast amount of useful professional know- 

 ledge." 



The Christian Witness says, "The best production of the kind we possess." 



The Medical Times and Gazette says, "The amount of useful knowledge 

 conveyed in this work is surprising." 



CHARLES GRIFFIN & COMPANY, LONDON. 



