Excerpt from Smith's Family Physician: Comprising the Nature, Causes, Symptoms and Treatment of Diseases; With Instructions for Nursing the Sick; List of Poisons: Animal, Vegetable and Mineral; With Symptoms of Poisoning, and the Best Remedies and Treatment; Copious Tables of Prescriptions<br><br>In compiling this work, I have drawn upon all the best author ities, adding thereto my own experience. I have endeavoured to clothe everything, as far as possible, in plain language. The various prescriptions given are those that have stood the test of experience but I need scarcely remind my readers that the efficacy of medicines depends a great deal on their quality and purity.<br><br>A copious index will be attached to the work, and a sufficient glossary of scientific terms, with explanations of their meaning.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.