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 / by Samuel Robinson ; with introductory remarks by the proprietor.

  • 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 / by Samuel Robinson ; with introductory remarks by the proprietor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hesitate or linger in the pursuits of humanity, those bright examples would spur us on to industry and exertion. For a long period after the days of Hippocrates, no eminent piiysician of Greece, at least none of known date, was found worthy to bear the torch of that distinguished mind into the temple of Hygeia. The pursuits of the healing art might languish, but did not slumber. We have sufficient testimony on the historic page, to medical studies in the East, in Egypt, and in Greece, through the long period that elapsed between Hippocrates and Galen. In Greece, the votive tablets suspended in the temple of the gods, displayed to the eyes of the student of medicine, the disease, its history, and the nature of its cure. In India, the sick were laid in beds by the way side, that every passenger might be consulted on the means of their recovery. These cures were also registered on the pillars and monuments of Eastern magnificence, for the benefit of thre public. If any discovered a poison, he was oblig-ed to con- ceal it, till he had also found out its antidote, and then they were published together. This was a part of the code of wise maxims, which still distinguish the primitive regions of the human race. In Egypt, medical science progressed according to the pre- scribed forms, until Nectanebus, the last of the race of Misraim, was expelled his throne and kingdom, by Ochus, the tyrant of Persia, a few years before Alexander conquered the East. Erasistratus was celebrated for his skill and wisdom in the mode of cure; his medicines were mild and simple, administered with judgment and success. He was opposed to mixed and complicated medicines. Heraphilus, the anatomist, held a distinguished rank amongst the physicians of Greece. He was so much devoted to the discovery of specifics, that