MEDICAL GUIDE, FOR THE USE OF THE CLERGY, HEADS OF FAMILIES, AND SEMINARIES, AND JUNIOR PRACTITIONERS IN MEDICINE, COMPRISING A COMPLETE Modern Dispensatory, AND A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE DISTINGUISHING SYMPTOMS, CAUSES, PREVENTION, CURE, AND PALLIATION OF THE DISEASES INCIDENT TO THE HUMAN FRAME; WITH THE LATEST DISCOVERIES IN THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS OF THE HEALING ART. BY RICHARD REECE, M.D. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF LONDON; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE SOCIETIES OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE IN PARIS AND VIENNA; AUTHOR OF A TREATISE ON THE MEANS OF REGULATING THE STOMACH AND BOWELS IN THE VARIETIES OF CONSTITUTIONS, HABITS, &c. EDITOR OF THE MONTHLY GAZETTE OF HEALTH, &c. &c. FIFTEENTH EDITION, WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS. The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them. With such doth he heal [men], and taketh away their pains. Ecclus. xxxviii. 4. 7. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1828. ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF DUDLEY, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, &c. &c. &c. MY LORD, THE first impressions of this work were inscribed, by permission, to the late very learned and scientific Dr. Richard Watson, Lord Bishop of Llandaff, to whose recommendation I acknowledge, with pride and gratitude, I am indebted for the high and extensive patronage with which it continues to be honoured. In looking around for a patron to this new and I flatter myself much improved edition of the Medical Guide, I have not been able to discover a character more nearly approximating to that of the late eminent Prelate, as a friend to science, humanity, rational liberty, and the diffusion of useful knowledge, than the EARL OF DUDLEY. With such a conviction on my mind, your Lordship will excuse the liberty I am taking in prefixing your influential name to this |