Gunn's domestic medicine, or, Poor man's friend in the hours of affliction, pain and sickness : this book points out, in plain language, free from doctors' terms, the diseases of men, women, and children, and the latest and most approved means used in their cure, and is intended expressly for the benefit of families : it also contains descriptions of the medicinal roots and herbs of the United States and how they are to be used in the cure of diseases : arranged on a new and simple plan, by whch the practice of medicine is reduced to principles of common sense . Fig. 3. Fig. DISEASES OF CH
Gunn's domestic medicine, or, Poor man's friend in the hours of affliction, pain and sickness : this book points out, in plain language, free from doctors' terms, the diseases of men, women, and children, and the latest and most approved means used in their cure, and is intended expressly for the benefit of families : it also contains descriptions of the medicinal roots and herbs of the United States and how they are to be used in the cure of diseases : arranged on a new and simple plan, by whch the practice of medicine is reduced to principles of common sense . Fig. 3. Fig. DISEASES OF CHILDREN. Surely there can be nothing more painful and dis-tressing to a mind of sensibility, than to be compelledto witness, in very many cases without being able torelieve, the various and often fatal diseases to whichinfants are liable. That most of them are of a morbidlyirritative character, is probably well known to everyphysician who has attended to their symptoms; butwhat it is that particularly excites this diseased irrita-bility in the intestinal canal, it would probably be dif-ficult for even the most learned and skilful of theprofession to determine. Tiie foolish and dangerous custom of giving infantsmedicine the moment they are born, in order to keepthem quiet, is a practice which ought always to be dis-countenanced, as laying the foundations of many disor-ders, sometimes destroying life itself, or entailing onthe constitution maladies which last for life. Variousmedicines are given to infants, for very foolish andfrivolous reasons, which had better be let alon
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