A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson : containing an account of his system of practice, and the manner of curing disease with vegetable medicine, upon a plan entirely new / written by himself.

  • Thomson, Samuel, 1769-1843.
Date:
1835
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Credit: A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson : containing an account of his system of practice, and the manner of curing disease with vegetable medicine, upon a plan entirely new / written by himself. 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 pay for it by his labor, in what he could make off of the land, which caused us great hardship and deprivation for a long- time. As soon as I began to form any correct idea of things, my mind was much irritated by the im- pressions made on it by my parents, who, no doubt With very good intentions, tilled my young head with all kinds of hop-goblins and witch stories, which made a very deep impression on my mind, and which were not entirely eradicated for many years. I mention this as a caution to parents, not to tell their children any thing but the truth ; for young children naturally believe whatever their parents tell them ; and when they frighten them with such stories, for the purpose of making them behave well, it will most generally have a very bad effect; for when they arrive at years of discretion, and find that all those stories are falsehoods, they will naturally form very unfavorable opinions of their parents, whose duty it is to set them better examples. My father and mother were of the Baptist per- suasion, and were very strict in their religious du- ties. They attended meeting every Sabbath, and my father prayed night and morning in the family. One day they went to meeting, and left me and my syster at home alone, and told us if we were wicked they should send the bear or the knocker to carry us off. While they were absent, I was at play, when we heard a hard knocking on the out- side of the house, which frightened us very much, and when they came home I told them what had happened; but instead of letting us know what it was, they observed it was the knocker they had told us of, and that or the bear would always come if we were wicked and did not mind and do as they told us. It was several years after that