Author: John SkeltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The Epitome of the Botanic Practice of Medicine, Or, Book of Health for the Million
Author: John SkeltonThe Epitome of the Botanic Practice of Medicine
Author: John SkeltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Complementary Therapies
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The People's Doctors
Author: John S. HallerPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809323395
Category : Alternative medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Samuel Thomson, born in New Hampshire in 1769 to an illiterate farming family, had no formal education, but he learned the elements of botanical medicine from a "root doctor," who he met in his youth. Thomson sought to release patients from the harsh bleeding or purging regimens of regular physicians by offering inexpensive and gentle medicines from their own fields and gardens. He melded his followers into a militant corps of dedicated believers, using them to successfully lobby state legislatures to pass medical acts favorable to their cause. John S. Haller Jr. points out that Thomson began his studies by ministering to his own family. He started his professional career as an itinerant healer traveling a circuit among the small towns and villages of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. Eventually, he transformed his medical practice into a successful business enterprise with agents selling several hundred thousand rights or franchises to his system. His popular New Guide to Health (1822) went through thirteen editions, including one in German, and countless thousands were reprinted without permission. Told here for the first time, Haller's history of Thomsonism recounts the division within this American medical sect in the last century. While many Thomsonians displayed a powerful, vested interest in anti-intellectualism, a growing number found respectability through the establishment of medical colleges and a certified profession of botanical doctors. The People's Doctors covers seventy years, from 1790, when Thomson began his practice on his own family, until 1860, when much of Thomson's medical domain had been captured by the more liberal Eclectics. Eighteen halftones illustrate this volume.
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1728
Book Description
Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1736
Book Description
New Guide to Health, Or, Botanic Family Physician
Author: Samuel ThomsonPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781294727002
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ New Guide To Health, Or, Botanic Family Physician: Containing A Complete System Of Practice On A Plan Entirely New: With A Description Of The Vegetables Made Use Of, And Directions For Preparing And Administering Them To Cure Disease: To Which Is Prefixed A Narrative Of The Life And Medical ... 3 Samuel Thomson Printed for the author [by] J. Howe, 1832 Medicine, Botanic
Reasoner Journal of Freethought and Positive Philosophy
Author: The Improved American Family Physician, Or Sick Man's Guide to Health
Author: L. Meeker DayPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484449427
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Excerpt from The Improved American Family Physician, or Sick Man's Guide to Health: Containing a Complete Theory of the Botanic Practice of Medicine, on the Thomsonian and Hygeian System, With Alterations and Improvements It may be alleged, said Dr. Buchan, that laying medicine more open to mankind would lessen their faith in it. This indeed would be the case with regard to some, but it would have a quite contrary effect upon others. I know many people who have the utmost dread and horror of every thing prescribed by a physician, who will, nevertheless, very readily take a medicine which they know, and whose quali ties they are in some measure acquainted with. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
Secular World and Social Economist
Author: George Jacob HolyoakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Secularism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"The History of the Fleet Street House": 20 p. at the end of v. 18.
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description