The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundredand Fifty Thousand
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundredand Fifty Thousand
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Kind of boring,
I was looking for something that might provide medical treatment from the “common” perspective of folks back then. I wanted to know how common and maybe not so common ailments were managed years ago and if they may have value today. You understand that medicine today likes to shroud cure in mystique and money when the cure may be so common and simple.
This book doesn’t do this. It’s just the mystique and politics.
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|Fun-Frightening look at how far medical science has come,
This is a trip down modern medicine’s memory lane. It’s fascinating how much has been learned since 1875 when this book was originally published. For while this book shows a fairly accurate basic grasp of human anatomy and physiology, the amazing leaps in understanding how the body functions at the cellular level are breathtaking.
It’s astounding to read concepts such as “human temperaments” and how they “harmoniously blend” or not, and how they “result in barrenness…or…offspring imbecility.” Or that “excessive intellectual activity often produces weak state of the system and the person thus affected becomes languid, spiritless, and an easy prey to disease….waste of the brain substance and blood.” Or that a mother’s “milk is sometimes poisoned by a fit of ill-temper, and the infant made sick and occasionally thrown into convulsions.” Surprising, then, that the human race survived at all!
It’s the “treatments” for disease, though, that make this book scary. Examples include treating burns with carbolic acid, glycerin, linseed oil and slippery-elm; or throwing cold water on the face and chest to revive a drowning victim.Of course, some of the ‘treatments’ will be familiar to herbal medicine fans.
About the last third of the book is a series of testimonials and ads for preparations and services of the author’s company, The World Dispensary. Guess he had to cover the cost of publication somehow!
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