Discussions between several members of the regular medical faculty, and the Thomsonian botanic physicians : on the comparative merits of their respective systems / edited and published by Dr. A. Curtis ; teacher of botanico-medical science.

Date:
1836
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Credit: Discussions between several members of the regular medical faculty, and the Thomsonian botanic physicians : on the comparative merits of their respective systems / edited and published by Dr. A. Curtis ; teacher of botanico-medical science. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be placed in the hands of the public. Surely these gentlemen will aid us with all their might. A Southern Correspondent of the Boston Medi- cal and Surgical Journal, says, (vol. xi. pa. 21ft,) Let scientific Physicians discountenance this (Thomsonian) quackery through the medium of Journals &c, and the editor of that paper says, (vol. xii. pa. 308,) We perfectly agree in senti- ment with the talented author of the review [Dr. Deloney's, of our lectures, page —.] We expect that the Journal will earnestly recommend to phy- sicians to scatter our book all over the United States. Those gentlemen will here see that Drs. Wil- liams, Medicus and Deloney have put a strong hand to this work, and of course we shall depend on them for the gratuitous distribution of many hun- dreds of copies. Dr. Miller of the Baltimore Alms- house too, will doubtless use his powerful influ- ence, to aid us in our benevolent exertions to ex- pose this destructive Thomsonaigia to the en- lightened circle in which he moves. With the exception of the two Baltimore Lec- tures, which contain something like a connected, fair and full view of the two Medical Systems, their comparative merits, and the conduct of their advocates, the Botanic writers contented them- selves with keeping, pretty generally, in the path marked out by their regular opponents, satisfied rather to take them in the snares of their own setting, than to dig new pits for their capture. EDITOR.