Front matter
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Domestic Medicine: OR, A TREATISE ON THE PREVENTION AND CURE OF DISEASES BY REGIMEN AND SIMPLE MEDICINES. WITH An APPENDIX, containing a DISPENSATORY for the Use of Private Practitioners.
By WILLIAM BUCHAN, M. D.
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
THE TWELFTH EDITION.
LONDON:
Printed for A. Strahan; T. Cadell in the Strand; and J. Balfour, and W. Creech, at Edinburgh.
M DCC XCI.
Omnes homines artem medicam nôsse oportet.——Sapientiæ cognitionem medicinæ sororem ac contubernalem esse puto.
Hippocrates.
Primoque medendi scientia, sapientiæ pars habebatur.——Rationalem quidem puto medicinam esse debere.
Celsus.
Quemadmodum sanitas omnium rerum pretium excedit, omnisque felicitas fundamentum est, ita scientia vitæ ac sanitatis tuendæ omnium nobilissima, omnibusque hominibus commendatissima esse debet.
Hoffman.
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