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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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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    relieves them from their sickness by the most simple and safe means, without any pretensions to infallibility or skill, more than what nature and experience has taught -him, or the one who, instead of curing the disease, in- creases it by administering poisonous medicines, which only tend to prolong the distress of the patient, till either the strength of his natural constitution, or death relieves him? I was called upon to attend a man by the name of Fairbanks, who lived in Walpole; he was taken with bleeding at the lungs. I found him in a very bad con- dition; the family judged that he had lost nearly six quarts of blood in twenty-four hours. He was in despair and had taken leave of his family, as they considered there was no hope of his living. The doctor was with him when I first entered the -house; but he fled at my approach. Both his legs were corded by the doctor, and the first thing I did was to strip off the cords from his legs; and then gave medicine to get as great an internal heat as I possibly could produce; got him to sweat pro- fusely; then gave him medicine to clear the canker; and in four days he was so well as to be able to go out and attend to his business. Sometime in October, 1805, i attended a Mrs. Good- ell, of Walpole; she had been confined and had taken cold. The most noted doctors in the town had attended her through what they called a fever, and she was then pronounced by them to be in a decline. After three months practice upon her, they had got her into so des- perate a situation, that they gave her over, and said that her case was so putrid and ulcerated that it was utterly incurable. She had in addition to the rest of her diffi- culties, a cancer on her back. In this desperate situa- tion, it was thought by her friends that she was a proper subject for me to undertake with. I, with a great deal of reluctance, undertook with her at her earnest solicita- tion and that of her husband; but met with much greater success than I expected. In four weeks she was able to be about the house and do some work. In the same year, I was sent for to attend a woman who had been in a dropsical way for a number of years. The disease had of late gained with rapid