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SAMUEL DICKSON, M.D.

FORMERLY A MEDICAL OFFICER ON THE BRITISH STAFF.

CONTAINING ALSO,

AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

BY

WILLIAM TURNER, M.D.,

EX-HEALTH COMMISSIONER FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK, FELLOW
OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL-ECLECTIC COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA, ETC.

THIRTEENTH EDITION.

NEW YORK:

LONG & BROTHERS, 41 (LATE 46) ANN STREET.
1850.

CHICVOO TIBBYBIEZ

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“Look at these two men about to be buried-they were brothers, and had the same disease-but they treated themselves differently. One had a blind confidence in his doctor-the other left himself entirely to nature;-both, nevertheless, are, as you see, on their way to their long home-the first because he took all the physic ordered him-the second because he would take none at all." "How very embarrassing!" said Leandro. What, in such a case, Friend Asmodeous, would you advise a poor patient to do?" "Ah! I wish I could tell you that," replied the Cripple; "I know plenty of good remedies, but it would puzzle us both to find a good doctor!"-Le Sage's Diable Boiteux.

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It is related of the heroic and patriotic Mary Wortley Montague, who introduced into England a great medical improvement for her day-the SMALL-POX INOCULATION-Such was the malice of its enemies, that, though supported, in addition to the prestige of aristocratic rank, by a Princess of the Blood, she all but sunk under the difficulties of her undertaking. How far, under our simpler institutions, the liberality manifested by you, whose chief distinction consists in your faithful and exemplary discharge of the duties appertaining to the endearing relations of daughter, wife and mother, in permitting me to dedicate to you this edition of a work subversive of the entire fabric of "established medicine," may neutralize the savage rancour of persecution, I am unable to predict. If, however, it shall be the means of attracting the attention of the women of our country filling the delightful domestic offices to which I have adverted, to a system calculated to enable them, under judicious advice, to disarm, in innumerable instances, pain of its intensity, disease of its severity, and to put the King of Terrors himself at bay, they will agree with me, that your sagacity, courage, and patriotism are worthy of a nation's gratitude..

I have the honor to be, Madam,

With profound respect,

Your obliged and obedient servant,
WM. TURNER.

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