Our Family Doctor is a medical primer dating to the late 19th
century, designed for use in the home - it is reprinted here for
its historical value. Since this short book dates to the 1880s, the
medical procedures and treatments described are starkly different
from the modern day. The remedies for various serious ailments such
as pneumonia, diphtheria and smallpox have long been superseded by
improvements in medical science. As such, the value of this book is
its demonstration of historic medicine - a time when the use of
substances such as Sulphur, flax seeds, quinine and morphine to
alleviate symptoms of life-threatening diseases was normal.
Originally, this book was attached to a medicine case which
households could buy and keep in case of a sudden outbreak of
illness. At the time, although such medicines were implied as a
substitute for a doctor, the author is clear that if a disease
progresses further that an actual physician must be summoned to the
house to administer treatment.
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