Author: John SkeltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Complementary Therapies
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Epitome of the Botanic Practice of Medicine
Author: John SkeltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Complementary Therapies
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Epitome of the Botanic Practice of Medicine, Or, Book of Health for the Million
Author: John SkeltonA Treatise on the Botanic Theory and Practice of Medicine
Author: Alfred N. WorthyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Materia medica, Vegetable
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Routledge Library Editions: Science and Technology in the Nineteenth Century
Author: VariousPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429668341
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 3958
Book Description
This set of 10 volumes, originally published between 1900 and 1994, amalgamates a wide breadth of research on Science and Technology in the Nineteenth Century, including studies on notable figures such as Gregor Johann Mendel, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Sir Humphry Davy. This collection of books from some of the leading scholars in the field provides a comprehensive overview of the subject how it has evolved over time, and will be of particular interest to students of history and the sciences.
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.
Green Pharmacy
Author: Barbara GriggsPublisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN: 9780892817276
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
An eloquent and engaging account of the use of herbal medicine from prehistoric times to the present. Newly revised to include the latest developments in the field of herbal medicine, this classic bestseller presents a fascinating account of the ideas that have shaped the course of medicine and pharmacology in the Western world.
A Concise Exposition of the Absurdity of the Old-school System of Practice in Medicine
Author: Bryant MortonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
Standard Guide to Non-poisonous Herbal Medicine
Author: William Henry WebbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Materia medica, Vegetable
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Bartram's Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine
Author: Thomas BartramPublisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1472111117
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Containing over 900 entries of general disease conditions and corresponding herbal treatments, this book covers: therapeutic action, 550 monographs of medicinal plants, and the properties of herbs and preparations such as inctures, liquid extracts, poultices and essential oils.
Kindly Medicine
Author: John S. Haller (Jr.)Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873385770
Category : History of Medicine, 19th Cent
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A history of this high-brow school of medicine, Physio-Medicalism. They promoted the belief that the body has a vital force that can be used to heal and substituted botanical medicines for allopathy's mineral drugs. The author traces their establishment and their descent into obscurity.