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New Medical Work for Family Use,
Preparing for publication, in one vol. 12mo.
THE SICK ROOM;
Or, Inquiries concerning the Domestic Management of Sickness in aid of Medical Treatment. By Dr. A. T. Thompson. With Notes and Additions by an American Physician.
“Such a volume as the present has long been a desideratum in the opinion of every Medical Practitioner whose practice is sufficiently extensive to enable him to observe the almost general ignorance which prevails respecting the Domestic Management of the Sick-Room, and to feel the influence of that ignorance on his treatment of disease. The most judicious plan of medical management may be devised, and the plainest directions for its fulfilment may be delivered to the attendants of the sick-room; but, without more information than is at present possessed by the females of a household, and especially by those whose duty it is to superintend the execution of the orders of the Physician, little benefit can be anticipated to the invalid. The object of this volume is to afford the instruction which is essential under such circumstances, and to render the management of the sick-room as satisfactory, as it is a labour of love, to her who is unhappily doomed to watch over it.”