A compendium of medical science, or, Fifty years' experience in the art of healing : being a plain and practical treatise on the prevention and cure of disease : designed to enlighten the popular mind in the true elementary principles of medicine, and protect the reading public from the mischiefs of quackery / by Samuel K. Jennings.

  • Jennings, Samuel K. (Samuel Kennedy), 1771-1854.
Date:
1847
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Credit: A compendium of medical science, or, Fifty years' experience in the art of healing : being a plain and practical treatise on the prevention and cure of disease : designed to enlighten the popular mind in the true elementary principles of medicine, and protect the reading public from the mischiefs of quackery / by Samuel K. Jennings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    DEDICATION. Authors ask permission, or assume the liberty, to dedicate their publications to illustrious patrons, with the hope of de- riving additional personal dignity, or of procuring for their works a greater number of readers. We frankly acknowledge the influence of both these emulations; and in the spirit of becoming courtesy, dedicate the Compend of Medical Sci- ence to the Intelligent, the Humane, and the Benevolent, of all classes, in our vast community. To the Intelligent first, because they will perceive the in- tention of the writer is, to introduce his readers to such an acquaintance with medical science, as will enable accurate observers, and close thinkers, to a very useful extent, to be- come, what great physicians, great statesmen, great jurists, great agriculturalists, or great merchants, always were, and must continue to be, self-taught. They will perceive, that our work is intended to show to all candid readers, that the art of healing is not necessarily beclouded with inexplicable mystery. That the medical phi- losopher is not the enemy of his fellow citizens; nor the in- telligent practicer of his profession, a curse to the human fam- lly- If therefore, we shall succeed in attracting the attention of a goodly number of readers of this highly respectable class, our emulation to gain worthy personal distinction, will be fully gratified. Our dedication is made in like manner to the Humane. It must have been a source of grief to all who feel a becom-