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 the 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.

  • Thomson, Samuel, 1769-1843.
Date:
1832
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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 the 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * the place where my persecution began. In five years, lost five thousand dollars, besides all the persecu- tion, trouble, loss of. health, and reproach which has been i in connexion with the losses. : It has been acknowledged, even by those who are unfriendly to me and my practice, that my medicine may be good in some particular cases, but not in all. But this is anerror. For there are but two great principles in the constitution of things, whether ap- plied tothe mind or body; the principle of life and the principle of death. That which contains the principle of life, can never be tortured into an ad- ministration of death. | If, then, a medicine is good in any case, itis because it is agreeable to nature, or this principle of life the very opposite of disease. If it is agreeable in one case, it must be absolutely so in all. By the active operation of nature, the whole animal economy is carried on: and the father of the healing art, Hippocrates, tells us, what is an obvious. ‘¥uth, that Nature is Heat. The principle is the same in all, differing only. in degree. When disease invades the. frame, it resists in proportion to its force, till ov erpowered, into submission, and when extinguished, death follow gpd it ceases to ope- rate. alike.i inall. If then, heat is life, and its ex- tinction death, a diminution of this vital flame in ev- ery instance, constitutes*disease, and is an approxi- mation to death. Ailthen, that medicine can do in the expulsion of f disorder, i is to kindle up the decay- ing spark, and restore its energy tillit glows in al! its wonted vigor. If a direct administration can be made to produce thiseffect, (and it can) it is evident- ly immaterial whats the name, or color of the dis- ‘ease, whether bilious, yellow, scarlet or spotted; whether it is simple or complicated, or whether na- ture hasone enemy or more. Names are arbitrary