The medical guide, for the use of families and young practitioners in medicine and surgery : being a complete system of modern domestic medicine, exhibiting a comprehensive view of the latest and most important discoveries in medicine, pharmacy, &c. Fourth edition, considerably enlarged and improved / By Richard Reece, M.D.

  • Reece, Richard, 1775-1831.
Date:
1807
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Credit: The medical guide, for the use of families and young practitioners in medicine and surgery : being a complete system of modern domestic medicine, exhibiting a comprehensive view of the latest and most important discoveries in medicine, pharmacy, &c. Fourth edition, considerably enlarged and improved / By Richard Reece, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ought to be provided. The advantages of such a provi- sion are too numerous to be detailed, and too obvious to be denied. It affords an immediate resource in those sudden attacks of disease, and contingencies of misfortune, in which it is absolutely necessary relief should be speedy to be effectual. In cases of fits, suffocation, poisons, burns, scalds, &c. who will not readily acknowledge the good which it may do, and the evil it may prevent ? It enables the benevolent, at a trifling expense, not only to alleviate the sufferings, but often to save the lives of their fellow-creatures. To a heart glowing with the true spirit of Christian charity what can possibly be more gratifying than to restore the bloom of health to the wan and faded cheek of poverty and disease ? And what is perhaps equally important, it furnishes medicines very su- perior in quality to those generally sold in the country, and on whose purity the greatest reliance may be placed. A variety of plans for the Family Medicine Chest has been recommended by different popular writers. The chest termed the Portable Family Dispensary * * is made by the particular directions of the author, on a construc- tion that the bottles, pots, and drawers are arranged to cor- respond with the numerical references of this work, and in sizes proportioned to the utility and potency of the ar- ticles they are intended to contain, viz. due, nor more honourably conferred, than when it is bestow-ed on those who exert their influence and employ their talents in lessening the sum of human misery ; who sit by the side of affliction, prompting the recovery of health, and mitigating the anguish of disease. * There are five sizes of this chest kept at the Chemical and Medical Hall, in Henrietta-street, Covent-Garden, a description of which, with others, is given in the Appendix.