A course of fifteen lectures on medical botany, denominated Thomson's new theory of medical practice; in which the various theories that have preceded it are reviewed and compared. ... delivered in Cincinnati, Ohio ... / With introductory remarks by the proprietor [Samuel Thomson].

  • Robinson, Samuel
Date:
1830
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Credit: A course of fifteen lectures on medical botany, denominated Thomson's new theory of medical practice; in which the various theories that have preceded it are reviewed and compared. ... delivered in Cincinnati, Ohio ... / With introductory remarks by the proprietor [Samuel Thomson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which, I am persuaded, none ever possessed who. were educated in the schools ; where we are introduced to the fellowship of wisdom by the authority of books and pro- fessors. It is impossible for the most independent mind to perfectly retain its freedom: it will insensibly bow to the opinions of some celebrated or splendid authority. In after life, indeed, and by much experience, some superiour souls are enabled to cast.off the shackles of education; but they are the fewest number of that mighty host, which walk forth from the schools of the world, to propagate the errours of their predecessors. Dr. TuoM- son had nothing of all this to encounter; he was led by the hand of nature ; and without being aware of the fact, he was travelling in the path of the Indian, the German and Celtic doctors; the doctors of antiquity, who with- out complaint or failure, practised on the unnumbered millions, who overturned the empire.of the Romans; and still practise on all the nations of the Gentile world. He is, therefore, now a professor in the most ancient and extensive medical school of the world. A school, not on the decline and about to perish; but one beginning to revive, to put on strength, to extend her conquests, until the learned and the unlearned shal] be gathered under the shadow of her wings, and triumph in the splendour of her acquisitions. And wésee the dawn of this glori- ous era, which shall transform the face of the world. In Edinburgh and London, in France and Italy, in the dark regions of Hindostan, and the empire of the Chinese, we find this new light on the subject of med- ieal science, breaking forth; or rather it is the old light returning to those long forgotten regions of the world. And when nature takes her proper course, only chasten- ed and controulled by science, how great and glorious must be the amount of her operations. In the United States the example of Dr. THomson will stimulate thousands to press forward in the same career, and press to the same object. A train is laid, like the philosophy of Bacon in the mode of argument, and the investigation of truth, that will kindle a blaze which will astonish and amaze the nations of the world. The first rays of science scattered on the earth were ~~ / nelle t=
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