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Excerpt from The Gentleman's Medical Vade-Mecum and Travelling Companion: Containing a Concise Statement of the Most Known and Certain Causes, Symptoms and Modes of Curing Every Disorder to Which He Is Liable, With Directions for His Conduct in Case of Accidents on the Road or at Sea, in Plain English
Professional pride, in all ages, has delight ed in Shrouding the divine art of healing dis eases, under a complicated and barbarous jar gon of words, which, from being always un intelligible to the community at large, (and sometimes so to itself, ) serves the double purpose of preventing all but the initiated from endeavouring to penetrate its mysteries, and of exciting that respect it delights in ex acting. Common sense has long since stripped the physician of his Wig, black suit, gold headed cane, and that still more ridiculous ap pendage, the sword, while it has permitted the art he professes, to remain encumbered with trappings equally as useless. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
