A Guide to Health, Being an Exposition of the Principles of the Thomsonian System of Practice, and Their Mode of Application in the Cure of Every Form of Disease (Classic Reprint)

The rapid sale of more than five thousand copies, and the constant and increasing demand, from every quarter, for a still further extension of it, has induced the proprietor to issue the fourth edition. He cannot but be grateful to a discriminating community for the liberal patronage thus already bestowed. And at the same time, he cherishes the hope and belief that he is deserving, in some measure, of this consideration, in that he is delivering the world from the use of the dangerous and deadly drugs to which the diseased have so long and so vainly resorted, and directing them to milder and far more effectual measures for the recovery and preservation of health. No pains have been spared to render this book what its title indicates, AG uide to Health. A careful attention to its principles and directions will enable almost any family to combat successfully all the ordinary forms of disease, without being poisoned by the fearful remedies of the druggist, or plagued by the bills of those who prescribe or administer them. It would be easy to add a long array of valuable names, as recommendations to this treatise. But such a course (common and laudable as it is) the proprietor deems unnecessary. If it were not a recommendation in itself, surely the rapid sale of so many thousand copies, and the constant demand from every direction for more, would argue a blindness on the part of the public, into which no one believes it has yet fallen. It is therefore trusted, as heretofore, on its own merits in the confident belief that it deserves all the consideration it has yet received, and with the expectation that it will continue to receive that patronage which it has already earned for itself. THE PROPRIETOR. MILFOBD, N. H., May, 1848. Entered according to A ct of Congress, in the year 1845, By BENJAMIN COLBY, In the Clerk s Office of the District Court of New Hampshire
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