Produced by Bryan Ness, Enrico Segre and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Advice to the people _ADVICE_ __to the__ _PEOPLE_ in __General__, __with__ Regard to their __Health__: But more particularly calculated for those, who, by their Distance from regular Physicians, or other very experienced Practitioners, are the most unlikely to be seasonably provided with the best Advice and Assistance, in acute Diseases, or upon any sudden inward or outward Accident. _WITH_ A Table of the most cheap, yet effectual Remedies, and the plainest Directions for preparing them readily. Translated from the _French_ Edition of Dr. __Tissot's__ _Avis au Peuple_, &c. Printed at _Lyons_; with all his own Notes; a few of his medical Editor's at _Lyons_; and several occasional Notes, adapted to this _English_ Translation, By J. _Kirkpatrick_, M. D. _In the Multitude of the People is the Honour of a King; and for the Want of People cometh the Destruction of the Prince._ Proverbs xiv, 28. ----------------------------------------------------------------- __LONDON:__ Printed for T. _Becket_ and P. A. _De Hondt_, at _Tully's_ Head, near _Surry-Street_, in the _Strand_. M DCC LXV. _the Translator's_ PREFACE. Though the great Utility of those medical Directions, with which the following Treatise is thoroughly replenished, will be sufficiently evident to every plain and sensible Peruser of it; and the extraordinary Reception of it on the Continent is recited in the very worthy Author's Preface; yet something, it should seem, may be pertinently added, with Regard to this Translation of it, by a Person who has been strictly attentive to the Original: a Work, whose Purpose was truly necessary and benevolent; as the Execution of it, altogether, is very happily accomplished.