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
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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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![had corrupted the practice of all physicians, from Hippo* crates to Stahl. This is a sweeping sentence, pronounced upon the anima medico^ by the good doctor of Edinburgh. And his own Nosology has received one more severe and .decisive from the pen of Rush. Sic transit gloria mundi! is forced upon us, as we pass along this boisterous stream of conflicting pathology. And where, alas,shall we find rest! on what rock shall our feet settle! where shall the lovely, fleeting form of happiness be found! Some of the latter philosophers of Greece, har- dened and confounded by the disputes of the schools, took refuge in a universal scepticism. But let us not, my friends, despair amidst the glooms of the thickening tempest. The day will dawn and brighten, the storm shall pass away, and the bright sun of healing splendor, shine upon the world. From the simple solids, in their state of rigidity or laxity, as a doctrine accounting for health or disease, by Dr. Boer- haave, Dr. Ci'llen passes off to the solidum vivum; and expresses his confidence, that he had seized on a clue of in- vestigation, in laying hold of the motions and moving powers of the animal economy, more certain to detect the causes and phenomena of disease, than ever had been before dis- covered; for, although Hoffman had dipt into this funda- mental spring of the science, he had also polluted it with his mixture of the humoral pathology. The value of Dr. Cullen's researches, we will soon per- ceive, in the investigations of Brown; and Dr. Thomson himself, was never more puzzled and confounded when he had to contend alone with the whole faculty,than Dr. Brown appears to have been, in throwing off the entanglements of Cullen's system. He studied under Cullen; he lived in his family; and he lectured on his system. But 1 shall give the history of his scientific progress, in his own words. The author, says Brown in the preface to his works,— the author of this work has spent more than twenty years in [5*]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21150746_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
