A botanic guide to health and the natural pathology of disease / [Albert Isaiah Coffin].
- Albert Isaiah Coffin
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A botanic guide to health and the natural pathology of disease / [Albert Isaiah Coffin]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![may say the faculty, are indebted for its first introduc- | tion to general use to the great American naturalist, of | the name of Samuel Thomson, whose theory of dis- ease and its cure, under the name of the “ Thomsonian System,” has gained the approving confidence of vast numbers in the United States of America. Lobelia is a biennial herb, or, of two years’ growth : in height it grows from twelve to eighteen inches; it has a | fibrous root, with a very hairy, solitary, erect, and angular stem; it bears a small blue pointed blossom. This plant possesses one property unlike every other, as far as I am acquainted, for the same quantity of the herb produces the same effect, irrespective of its age, or the period of its growth: the young plant powdered -and taken will have the same effect as the leaves at maturity. At present, we, in this country, procure it from the society in America, called Shakers, through the drug- gists of London. I have obtained from America a quantity of the seed and herb, in order that it may be properly introduced to the notice of the public. | | I have used this article for many years, and have given || it with success in almost every form of disease,- from || the tender infant to the aged, when bending under the |; weight of years. I can with confidence pronounce it to be one of the most powerful stimulants ever intro- || duced into the human system. It acts specifically on |] || the liver, stomach, and] ings, including the intestines; || for female complaints it stands without an equal. In |} three cases of labour, which were deemed hopeless, I |} | have admistered this herb with the most signal success ; although the doctors who had previously attended in |} {| all of these cases, had declared that the use of instru- |} || ments was inevitable ; yet, by the aid of lobelia, I was](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29320641_0112.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
