Important Medical Improvements FOR THE CONTEMPLATION OF THE FACULTY. THE USE OF FAMILIES, AND THE UNIVERSAL BENEFIT OF MANKIND. Just Published, IN FOUR HANDSOME VOLUMES OCTAVO, Price One Pound Eleven Shillings & Sixpence, THE RATIONAL AND IMPROVED PRACTICE, OF PHYSIC, BY WILLIAM ROWLEY, M.D. MEMBER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS IN LONDON, AND PHYSICIAN TO THE ST. MARY-LE-BONE INFIRMARY, &C. &C. INTERSPERSED WITH NUMEROUS PRESCRIPTIONS, &C. VOL. I. Contains Treaties on Female, Nervous,Hyserical, Hypochon- oriscal, and Cancerous Diseases. Letters on Medical Vanity, and the Abuse of Hemlock, &c. V O L. II. On Convulsions and Spasms, Le- thargy, Apoplexy, and Palsy; the different Species of Gout, and new Methods of Treatment, on the Bites of what have been called mad Dogs, &c. Vol. III. On One Hundred and Eighteen Diseases of the Eyes, with Copper- Plates, explaining the Organ of Vi- sion,with all the Surgical Ope- rations and Remedies for remov- ing Blindness, &c. &c. The His- tory and Use of Electricity in va- rious Diseases, with the Course of the Nerves, explaining the Parts to be electrified, &c. VOL. IV. On the Cure of Old Ulcerated Legs without rest, &c. On the Putrid Malignant Sore Throat, with a certain Cure. The Causes of Deaths amongst Children in the Scarlet and Putrid Fevers, &c. Medical Advice to the Army and Navy, containing the Diseases of Soldiers, Seamen, &c. with Eng- lish Prescriptions, on Gun Shot Wounds, &c. On Diet, and on all the Food: used in the World. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY E. NEWBERY, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD; J. HAND LITTLE NEWPORT-STREET, LEICESTER-SQUARE;AND TO BE HAD AT no. II, SAVILLE-RQW 1794. THE publishers of Dr. ROWLEY’s WORKS, E. New- bery, the corner of Ludgate-street, and J. Hand, Little Newport-street, Leicester-square, most espectfully inform the Nobility, Gentry, Faculty, and others, that they have printed and published a new edition, in four handsome volumes, of that Physican’s Rational and Improved Theory and Practice of Physic, with several new productions and Improvements that have never before appeared, with some hundreds of prescriptions, &c. There have been numerous and continual applications for Dr. Rowley’s Treatises, on Female, Nervous, Bilious, Hypo- chcndriac, Convulsive, Spasmodic, Lethargic, Apoplectic, and Paralytic Diseases, Madness, and Suicide, &c. &c. since those, and other works of the Doctor, have been out of print. It has been determined by the present publishers to make those Medical Improvements as universally beneficial as possible; but they have been obliged, by various delays, to postpone the public introduc- tion of this complete edition to the present moment. As it is impossible to know the noble personages, faculty, gentry, and others, who have made repeated applications for Dr. Rowley’s Works, and who have been, from time to time, dis- appointed; they could not conceive a more eligible plan than the present for making known this publication, which they presume will not only be found to be well worthy of the study and perusal of the faculty, who are unacquainted with Dr. Rowley’s Important Physical and Surgical Discoveries and various Im- provements, but likewise it will be a valuable acquisition to every nobleman’s and gentleman’s library, as the works are acknow- ledged to contain many curious and philosophical enquiries, investigations, and useful demonstrations, hitherto unknown in the medical profession, and may, therefore, become an useful medical instrudor for every contemplative and philosophic mind ; and the Treatises on Female and Hysteric Diseases, are particularly recommended to the Ladies, as giving the most im- portant instruction for preventing and curing their complaints. In order to give a concise, though inadequate idea of the nature and extent of the Rational and Improved Practice of Physic, the publishers have printed the General Preface to the whole works, and an abridged Conspectus, which may be had gratis by applying as above. The principal objects in these Volumes are: I. To abolish all narrow systems in the practice of Medicine, and to introduce methods of healing diseases according to the various constitu- tions observable in nature: as the Florid, the Pallid, the Robust, the Debilitated, the Corpulent, and Thin, the very Nervous and Irritable, and the less Irritable, the delicate and valetudinarians, &c. II. Most of the propositions for such practices have been drawn from the appearances of human bodies after death, and by inductive reasoning, the causes of disease in life, and how they should be more rationally treated, are pointed out, on many new and demonstrative principles. III. To save the lives of mankind by preventive methods, when Putrid Infectious Diseases, as the Ulcerated Sore Throat, Scarlet Fever, Yellow Fever, &c. reigns in families, cities, towns, &c. It is proved that in all the Hospitals in Europe, 70 die in 100 of putrid diseases; but by Dr. Rowley’s new mode of treatment not above 6 in 100, as have been flown at the St. Mary-le-bone Infirmary. How the horrid accidents from the bite of dogs supposed to be mad,may be certainly cured, &c.