Excerpt from A Family Medical Companion: A New Medical Work, Devoted to the Symptoms and Remedies of One Hundred and Fifty Diseases, Embracing Diseases of Women and ChildrenIn preparing and offering this book to the public, the American author has been indifferent to every other consideration, except that of being useful to his friends, young students of medicine, families, and the world.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.