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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    nourishment and heat from thai sourer; as the whole room is 1 by the tiro which is consumed in The greater the quanti ' d m ll!(> ,':'' place, the ■ i ater tfre I l in the room. So in the body; the more food, well digested, the more heat and support through the whole man. Bj constantly receiving food into tl e stona ich, which is sometimes not suh ible for the host nouris imach il,.so that the food is no.t well digested. This< the body to loseitsheat—then the appetiteifails; - ache and the man is sick in every part of the whole frame. This situation of the body shows the need of medicine, and the kind nei ich is such as will clear the stomach an I b and restore the digestive powers. When this is done, the food will raise the heat again, and nourish the whole man. AJltheart re- quired to do this is, to know what medicine will do it, and how to administer it, as a person knows how to clear a stove and the pipe when clogged with soot, that the fire tnvy burn free, and the whole room he warmed as before. Tl ' ifter being clewer! of whatever clogs it, will consume doul id, and the food will afford docile the nourishment and heat, that it did before. W know that our lifedepends on food, and thestomacb. being in a si uation to receive and digest it. When the stem ich and bowels are clogged, all needed is, the most suitable medicine to remove the obstruction in the system. All dise se is c used by clogging thesysfem;and all disease is remoyed by the digestive s,so that food may keep upthat heat oh which lifedepends. I I) ve found by experience that the learned doctors are wrong in considering fever a disease or enemy; the fever is a friend, and cold theenemy. This T found by their practice in my family until they had five times given them over to die. Exercis; own judgment, [ followed after them, and relieved my family time. After findinga gSherd principle respecting fevers, and reducing that to practice, I found it sure in all disease, where there was any nature left to build on, and in three years practice 1 never lost one patient. I attended on dl the fevers peculiar to our country, and always used it as a friend, and that returned the gratitude to the patient. I soon ive this information to the people, and convinc- ed many tfi ' they might as certainly relieve themselves of their disease, e to diem to be able to reli' and families, would he but small; and the medicine they may procure and prepare themselves.