INTRODUCTION. Page 9 Of Schirrhus, Cancer, and ulceration of the womb. P. III SEC efcent. or bearing down of the womb. p. 127 f Abortion, Barrenness, and the Remedies moft effectual in preventing thofe Maladies; with Rules and Cautions for the Conduct and Regimen of Women during the feveral periods of pregnancy; alfo Remarks on the power of the mother's imagination on the child in the Of the Hæmorrhoides or Piles; obftruction, or Difeafes of the fkin and Glands; or cancerous fwellings of the face, neck, or breafts. p. 346 Influence of the Paffions on the Body and Mind; and effect of climates, or fudden changes of P. S. The Reader is requested to correct fuch typogra [9] To examine and reject such customs and vulgar errors as tend to prejudice the understanding and injure health; to point out the dangerous abuse of powerful medicines; and afford women a competent idea of their own diforders, as well as the moft gentle and effectual methods of treating them, is the intention of the following Medical Inftructions: From thence they will be inabled to distinguish, whether such complaints may fafely be trufted to Regimen and Simple Medicines, or whether they are dangerous in their tendency, and therefore require more immediate advice and affistance. It would, indeed, be unneceffary that women should attend to phyfic in a methodical and fcientific manner; the idea of every woman being her own physician, on all occafions, is ludicrous in terms, and would be no lefs fo in its application. A few years ago, I published my PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on Acute Diseases, foon after tranflated into the French and German languages: The approbation with which they were publicly received was fuch as might have done honor to a work of fuperior merit, and I confefs gave rife to the following MEDICAL INSTRUCTIONS, a fifth Edition of which I now have the pleafure to lay before the Public, towards the prevention and cure of fuch Chronic Dif cafes, as obfervation and repeated Experience have fuggefted to me from time to time, being the laft I intend to publish. This volume, although fecond in publication, may notwithstanding be moreproperly considered the first as here placed, both respecting the nature of the subiect. and order in |