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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from pain and sickness, than to a cook in »• od to sat- isfy hunger and nourisliing the body. There is one general cause ofhungi r, and i ,■'■ one general cause < One can be s tisfied, and (lie o'her removed, by *>n infinite vauoty of nr ich . ad pted to tl ; medicine, .!, and restore di- '. nli. e (r form the rl ble. And acute dh . m v be relieved thereby, in ; -four or fo most. REMARKS ON FEVERS. Much has been stid ufd written upon fevers, l>v the profes<- e i ii '.I < ' edicine, with ut thro* ing th( ble l;■■iii on the ■ illy benefitting xv. nkind. 'I hey have been bundantiy fruitful in mvi id with gn cur cy di fercn sympto ns; but they ippea quite b rre i as to the knowl- To the first, but little im- ce,conipai h< d; the latter is Efhesi impor f people. Acci '.c writings of I lysicians, there are a • I • s dangerous.— in with ■ definition of the Name. What is undoubted h a disturbed oper tion of it. But is n the' hum , mqre thati one kind of heat? Yes, ■ ■ s tl ra ly p| is the pleu- retic lie '. the slow ; . the liectic I or ci Id heat, the typhus or ignor; • ! many o I sometime s, i« ►4ell,) one poor pttient : or the whole of ; dies at 1 st tor w nl < ;' I ! Hippocrates, the acknowledged rather of pli] mtinUuned that natura is heat; nd lie is se? Surely it is not. What is com- monly < 'tied fever, is ihe effect, and not the cause of d : > throw off' dise se. Tl,. cild ■ arises in consequence of that obstruction, to throw it off. This is universally Re- . ill cease. No person ever yet died'

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