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 prefixed, A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of the author / by Samuel Thomson.

  • Thomson, Samuel, 1769-1843.
Date:
1825
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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 prefixed, A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of the author / by Samuel Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    progress it will communicate to the blood, when death will end the contest between heat and cold, by decid- ing in favour of the latter. I have made use of a great many articles, which are useful in removing canker; hut my preparation called No. 8, is the best for that purpose, that has come to my knowledge ; though ma- ny other things may be made use of to good effect, all of whfch I shall give particular description ©f in my general directions hereafler. Having endeavoured to convey to my renders in a brief manner a correct idea of the general princi- ples upon which I formed my system of practice, I shall now give some account of the success 1 met with in the various cases that came under my care, and the difficulties and opposition that I hove had to en- counter in maintaining it till this time, against all my ememies. My general plen of treatment has been in all cases of disease, to cleanse the stomach by giving No. 1, and produce as great an internal heat as 1 could, by giving No. 2, and when necessary made use of steaming, in which 1 have always fouud great benefit, especially in fevers; after this, I gave No. 5, to clear off the can- ker; and in all cases where the patient had not previ- ously become so far reduced as to have nothing t© build upon, I have been successful in restoring them to health. I found that fever was a distuibed state of the heat, or more properly, that it was caused by the efforts which nature makes to throw off disease, and therefore ought to be aided in its cause, and treated as a friend ; and not as an enemy, as is the practice of the physicians. In all cases of disease 1 have found that there is more or less fever, according to the stateof the system; but that all fevers proceed from the same cause, differing only in the symptoms ; and may be managed and brought to a crisis with much less trouble than is generally considered practicable, by increasing the internal heat, till the cold is driven out, which is the cause of it. Thus keeping the fountain above tfce stream, and every thing will take its natural course. During the year 1805, a very alarming disease pre- vailed in Alsted and Walpole, which was considered the