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:: 1829

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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$cummin and anise, bnl in the km of the origin of a malady, and its antidote, lies the weightier matters of this set* ence. This knowledge makes the genuine phj'sici ith* out if, is r> , v. It Ins been a gener 1 opinion, that extensive study and great erudition ire necessary to form ilie eminent physician. Bui all this may be as Paul saith, but s< » called. A man may have a scientific knowledge ■ ! the human frame—he i, know the names in every language of.every medicine, mine and i , as well as ( < y .1 -■ »\ • ml vei !.e a miserable physician. But there have been . it this to bonsl of, from (he earliest ages off the world, who have arisen, blest with J.he sublimer powers of genius. i ..asitwere, with one look pierced ere lion,and with one comprehensive view, gi ed the whole circle oXscience: and left ie rningitself, toiling after them in vain. A man never caff be great without inti left, Hn'd he never can more than fill the measure of his ( apacity. There is a power beyond the reach o''art, and there are gifts that study and learning can never rival. The practice oftheregul ir physicians, that is, those who a diploma, at the prescntlimo, is not lo use those me ins which wo:!! ; e most likely to cure disease; but to try experiments upon who] they ii.ivc red ::i beoks^ ftfrti to nee hrrw hjucL a ; \- ii; ,r. can her without prod-icii: :i-'th. After p this plan during 1 heir lives, they know jest about as much as (Ley did when they be>r::i to practice, of what is really useful to mankind. If a patient dies undejr trtefr feads, why, it is the will of Cod, and they are sure to get exjj; vaganlly paid for their trouble,: nd nothing more is 9 '' ut if one out of hundreds of my p tientsdie, and where the doctors have given them over as incurable, they al once cry out, that it is quackev—that I gave them poison, &c. far the purpose of run- ning me and rny edown, and topreventits I I by the people. The fact is well Known to thous nds who have used my medicine, an:i to which they are ready to attest, that it is perfectly harmless; and I defy the faculty to produce one in- stance wherein it has had any had effects. It is true, th 1 she study ofanatomy, or structure of the hu- marrbody, and of the whole animal economy, is and useful; nor is there any objection t<. Mns, however minute and critical, if it is not to the neglect of first great principles, and the , matters of knowledge. But it is no more neces- to mankind at large, to qualify them to administer relief$

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