A course of fifteen lectures, on medical botany : denominated Thomson's theory of medical practice; in which the various theories that have preceded it, are reviewed and compared; delivered in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- Robinson, Samuel
- Date:
- 1829
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A course of fifteen lectures, on medical botany : denominated Thomson's theory of medical practice; in which the various theories that have preceded it, are reviewed and compared; delivered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![me so precious, I would have given the universe, had I pos- sessed it, and would have considered it but as dust in the balance. JNo doubt others feel as I do. And if the period shall arrive, when the heart strings shall no more be torn, and lacerated, who would not exult in the joyful anticipa- tions of that coming day? And this dream of a universal medicine, which has pervaded the nations of the Earth, since the days of Isis and Osiris, is not ail a dream—-for the days shall come, saith the Lord, when there shall he nothing to hurt, or annoy, in my holy mountain. No pain to hurt, nor sickness to annoy. But whether diseases shall be banished from the globe, in that glorious period of the Millenium; or the grand catliolicon be discovered, to remove them, the data do not determine. But this we know, the earth shall have health and peace) and Dr. Rush's hope will he fulfilled, even be- yond the limits of his most sanguine expectations; for the child shall die an hundred years old. It is the purpose of this course of lectures, to lay before the people, a succinct account of Thomson's System of Me- dicine, that they may jud;:e from the mode and the results of this new practice, of its fair and honest claims to the public cor.tider.ee and admiralion. There is no design to <nld over errors, nor to mislead the minds of the unwary. We shall submit it, simply, in its own merits, to the grand crite- rion of all new discoveiies—the understanding and reason of man. 'W-hatever is true and valuable, ]< t it be retained • bat if there be any thing false or pernicious, let it be given to the winds; or discarded to that oblivion, where all have perished that could not brook the light! And in thus submitting thr. New Guide to Health? to the public serutinv of their fellow citizens, the friends and fol- lowers of Dr. Thomson, have pursued the path marked out to rtiero by na v of the greatest men of adiquitv; who often turned aside from the forms and dogmas of the schools,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21150746_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
