New guide to health, or Botanic family physician : containing a complete system of practice, upon 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 added a description of several cases of disease attended by the author, with the mode of treatment and cure / by Samuel Thomson.

  • Samuel Thomson
Date:
1835
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Credit: New guide to health, or Botanic family physician : containing a complete system of practice, upon 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 added a description of several cases of disease attended by the author, with the mode of treatment and cure / by Samuel Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    education were very small; but possessing a na- tural gift for examining the things of Nature, my mind was left entirely free to follow that inclina- tion, by inquiring after the meaning of the great variety of objects around me. Possessing a body like other men, I was led to inquire into the nature of the component parts of which man is made. I found him composed of the four elements—Earth, Water, Air and Fire. The earth and water I found were the solids; the air and fire the fluids. The two first I found to be component parts; the two last kept him in mo- tion. Heat, I found was life; and cold, death.— Each one who examines into it, will find that all constitutions are alike. I shall now describe the fuel which continues the firn or life of man. This is contained in two things—food and medicine; which are in harmony with each other; often growing in the same field, to be used by the same people. People who are capable of raising their food, and preparing the same, may as easily learn to collect and prepare all their medicines, and ad- minister the same when it is needed. Our life depends on heat; food is the fuel that kindles and continues that heat. The digestive powers being correct, causes the food to consume; this conti- nues the warmth of the body, by continually sup- porting the fire. The stomach is the deposit from which the whole body is supported. The heat is maintained in the stomach by consuming the food; and all the body and limbs receive their proportion of nourish- ment and heat from that source; as the whole room is warmed by the fuel which is consumed in the fire place. The greater the quantity of wood consumed in the fire place, the geater the heat in the room. So in the body; the more food well
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