The practice of medicine on Thomsonian principles : adapted as well to the use of families as to that of the practitioner : containing a biographical sketch of Dr. Thomson ... with practical directions for administering the Thomsonian medicines ... and a materia medica, adapted to the work / by J.W. Comfort.

Comfort, J. W. (John W.)

Date:: 1867

Credit: The practice of medicine on Thomsonian principles : adapted as well to the use of families as to that of the practitioner : containing a biographical sketch of Dr. Thomson ... with practical directions for administering the Thomsonian medicines ... and a materia medica, adapted to the work / by J.W. Comfort. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University.

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EOBERT A. HANCE'S (late comfort's) fHOMSONIAN MEDICINE STORE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, No. 729 MARKET STREET PHILADELPHIA. An extensive supply of the medicine recommended in the following pages, a general assortment'of Shaker Herbs, and articles connected with* the Botanic Drug business, also a supply of Thomsonian and Botanic Books constantly on hand and for sale. The following Preparations are neatly put up and accompanied with the necessary directions for use :— Composition Powder. Spiced Bitters. Ladies' Spiced Bitters. No. 4 Bitters. No. 3 Powder. Conserve of Hollyhock. Anti-acid Powders. Injection Powders. Nerve Powder. Compound Lobelia Pills. Anti Dyspeptic Pills. No. 3, or Anti Canker Pills. Tooth Powder. Headache Snuff. Toothache Drops. Healing Salve. Strengthening Plaster. Stimulating Liniment. Tetter Ointment. Meadow Fern Ointment. Nerve Ointment. Adhesive Plaster. Cure-all Salve. '{ Hair Tonic. I Third Preparation of Lobelia. I Prepared Lobelia Emetic. ( Tincture of Lobelia. i Comp. Valerian Carminative. i No. (i, or Rheumatic Drops. S No. 5 Syrup. ] Cholera Mixture. I Cough Syrup. ' Croup Syrup. Worm Syrup. Butternut Syrup. . Wine Bitters. NOTICE. It cannot but be evident to every one that medicine, to have its proper effect, must be genuine, pure, and uninjured by age or exposure. As well may we expect good results from the use of unwholesome articles of food as from spoiled articles of medicine. Hence it is all important that those who would be benefited by the use of Thomsonian Medicines should look well to their qualities. These remarks are deemed necessary, as large quantities of Thomso- nian Medicine, particularly Composition Powder, Capsicum, Bayberry, and No. 6, are manufactured by Druggists and others, and being com- posed of bad materials, are unfit for use as medicine. Persons not particularly interested in advancing the prosperity of the Thomsonian Practice, take advantage of opportunities for working off cheap and damaged articles in the way of Thomsonian compounds, when the fraud is not easily detected except by good judges. In this way essential injury is done the Thomsonian System, and the benefit tha< would be received from the use of good medicine is not realized. N. B. Medicine should be kept from the air, and in a dry place

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