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Excerpt from The Home Physician: Written Especially for the Use of Families, Using the Divided Medicines
Preparing a work for domestic practice is a difficult task, and it is often very troublesome to the author to arrange and sim plify diseases so that the reader may easily understand them. In the practice of medicine a great many terms are used, which seem only to mystify the reader who is unacquainted with medical terms; and this has always been the great trouble with domestic works; but in this work the object has been to make every disease and its symptoms as plain and brief as pos sible. Every disease has its symptoms and Special treatment, although some diseases have their peculiarities, as in pneumo nia. Two patients suffering with this disease may have the same general symptoms, but at the same time each may have its distinctive features.
The general symptoms indicate the disease, and therefore can not mislead the reader. The general symptoms and their peculiarities are noticed in this work, and may sometimes change the treatment; in such cases the treatment will be given.
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