New guide to health; or, botanic family physician. Containing a complete system of practice, on 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 prefixed a narrative of the life and medical discoveries of the author / [by himself].

  • Thomson, Samuel, 1769-1843.
Date:
1835
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: New guide to health; or, botanic family physician. Containing a complete system of practice, on 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 prefixed a narrative of the life and medical discoveries of the author / [by himself]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have taken that course, in fulfilling my duty in this life, which the God of nature hath pointed out for me. In doing this, I shall endeavor to give a plain and simple narrative of facts as they took place, and relate only those particulars of my life, with such of the cases that have come under my care, as will best convey to the reader, the most correct information of my system of practice in curing disease. I was born February 9, 1769, in the town of Alstead, county of Cheshire, and State of New Hampshire. My father, John Thomson, was born in Northbridge, county of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts; he was twenty-five years old when I was born. My mother’s name was Hannah Cobb; she was born in Medway, Mass., and was four years older than my father. I had one sister older than myself, and three brothers and one sister younger, who are all living except my second brother, who died in his fourteenth year. My oldest ‘sister mairied Samuel Hills, and lives in Surry, New Hampshire, and my two brothers live in Jericho, Ver- mont. My youngest sister married Waters Mather, and lives in the State of Ohio. __ That country was a wilderness when I was born; my father had began there about a year before, at which time there was no house within three miles one way, and about one the other; there were no roads, and they had to go by marked trees. The snow was very deep when they moved there, and my mother had to travel over a mile on snow shoes through the woods to get to their habitation. My parents were poor, having nothing to begin the world with; but had to depend upon their labor for support. My father had bought a piece of wild land on credit, and had to pay for it by his labor in what he could make off the land, which caused us great hard- ships and deprivations for a long time. | As soon as I began to form any correct ideas of things, my mind was much irritated by the impressions made on it by my parents, who, no doubt with very good inten- tions, filled my young head with all kinds of hob-goblin 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 © ~