The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families, and practitioners in medicine and surgery / [Richard Reece].

  • Reece, Richard, 1775-1831
Date:
1817
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Credit: The medical guide, for the use of the clergy, heads of families, and practitioners in medicine and surgery / [Richard Reece]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    man of merit from the impostor or pretender, to endea- vour to be in advance with it in practical and funda-. mental knowledge ; and laying aside all sordid and un- worthy motives, to unite in a generous and public- spirited manner to establish the profession upon a respectable and rational foundation, so as to draw a clear line of demarcation between properly educated physicians and ignorant pretenders, and thereby place themselves on a level with the members of other learn- ed professions, for common sense, common honesty, and common humanity, they must be aware are at vari- ance with the present condition of medicine. In the preface of his Medical Dictionary, the author has-given a candid and full exposé of the present state of Medicine in this country, as practised by Physicians, Surgeons, and Apothecaries; and if he has expressed his indigna- tion too warmly, he begs. the Members will attribute it to his zeal and firmness to rescue the profession from the obloquy and stigma which have been attached to it by the venal practices of those partially educated Phy- Sicians, who court popularity by pretending extra- ordinary depth in anatomy, chemistry, or the dead languages!! “ Men, who,” as a late writer ob- serves, “ have basely sacrificed the health and lives of their fellow-creatures, at the shrine of avarice and ain.” | | : ) The Medical Guide is the result of twenty-five years’ close study, aided by an extensive private and hospital practice. The very favourable reception it has met with from an enlightened public, demands the Author’s most grateful acknowledgment. Within the space of ten years, it has gone through eleven heavy editions ;. it has obtained the sanction of the medical men of this country, and of the Continent, esteemed for skill and li- berality ; and at this time is in greater demand than any other Medical Work. It has been translated into several languages on the Continent, and reprinted in America : circumstances’ which’ have encouraged the Author to pay great attention to the present Hdition.