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PREFACE 





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As the practice of medicine, has hitherto beenclotheu with 

 a vocabulary of innumerable technical phrases and unimportam 

 . terms; we deem it necessary lo the heahh, happiness and com- 

 fort of mankind, to lay before tjiem a work; not only divested 

 of all technicalities; hut corjtaining a development of th»- 

 general principles, upon which the praclice of medicine should 

 be conducted . VVit'i these views, connected with a firm be- 

 liefj tiiat this system sliould be luide known to the human 

 family as far as practicable, we sanction and consent, that the 

 careful observer, of the effects of remedies upon the human 

 f>ody \n all diseases, should impart that kaowledtre, drawn 

 Irora experience, observation and reflection, to his°ellow be- 

 ings; who, like himself may be liable to the attack of diseasr, 

 and situated m a remote section of countr;, fai from the aiti 

 ot A physician with whom they could trust their lives. 



The great leading principles of the Healinji Aarf^are few. 

 short and easily understood; and, they are applicable in every 

 disease to wluch die hnraan frame is subject; ahhongb, m 

 some instances, they may not prove equallv successful. A 

 medicine that could lie applied generally, with beneficial el- 

 lecls in all d.soase?; has undoubtedly, long been snur^bt foi ■ 

 and we are confident, from the experience, study, and prac- 

 tice of thirty years, that this yreat and efficacious object h a- 

 comphshed, Uial this general medicine so long sought for is 

 found that It is univerHiilly aj .licable in all cases of disease, 

 and that It may be used *;th perfect safety, auduniyersal suc- 

 cess in the hands of the people. In a matter of m.imzh im- 



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