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.

  • Thomson, Samuel, 1769-1843.
Date:
1829
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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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    TO Till] PUBLIC. he preparing the following work for the press has been.H uf much difficulty and labor; for 1o comprise in a shorl compass, and lo convey a correct understanding of the subject, rr »m such ;i m ss of materials as 1 have been enabled lo col- (ci by thirty years practice, is a business of no small magni- tude. The plan that has been adopted I thought the best to i correct knowledge of my system of practice; and am crmfid nl th t the cTetoftri] d directions are sufficiently ex- plained to be understood by all those who take an interest i;» this impnrfnnl BiibJ££JL Much rmnvft might have been written; but the in in object h: s been to confine it to the practice, and nothing more ^ •' ted of the fneory, than what was necessary to i ! a genet I knowledge of the system. If any errors should be '! d, it is hoped thai they will be viewed with can- do ; for in first publishing a work, such things are to be ex- pected; hul much care has been taken thai there ihould bono error wluc would cause any mistake in the practice, or prepar- ing the medicine. Many persons are practising by iny system, who arc in the habit of pretending that they {jave made great improvements, and in some instances it is well known that poisonous drugs have been made use of under the nunc of my medicine, which has counteracted its operation, md thereb) tenrJfed to destroy the confidence of the public in my system of practice; this hrs never been authorized by me. The public are therefore cau tioni such conduct, and all those who are well dispose d towards my sys em, are desired to lend their i id in exposing all such dishonest practices, in order that justice may be dene.— Those who possess this work,may, by examining it, be able to ■ improper deviations therefrom; and they are assured 1