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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
The Thomsonian Recorder
Author: The Thomsonian Recorder; Or, Impartial Advocate of Botanic Medicine, and the Principles which Govern the Thomsonian Practice
Author: Thomas HerseyPublisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
The People's Doctors
Author: John S. HallerPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809323395
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Samuel Thomson, born in New Hampshire in 1769 to an illiterate farming family, had no formal education, but he learned the elements of botanical medicine from a "root doctor," who he met in his youth. Thomson sought to release patients from the harsh bleeding or purging regimens of regular physicians by offering inexpensive and gentle medicines from their own fields and gardens. He melded his followers into a militant corps of dedicated believers, using them to successfully lobby state legislatures to pass medical acts favorable to their cause. John S. Haller Jr. points out that Thomson began his studies by ministering to his own family. He started his professional career as an itinerant healer traveling a circuit among the small towns and villages of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. Eventually, he transformed his medical practice into a successful business enterprise with agents selling several hundred thousand rights or franchises to his system. His popular New Guide to Health (1822) went through thirteen editions, including one in German, and countless thousands were reprinted without permission. Told here for the first time, Haller's history of Thomsonism recounts the division within this American medical sect in the last century. While many Thomsonians displayed a powerful, vested interest in anti-intellectualism, a growing number found respectability through the establishment of medical colleges and a certified profession of botanical doctors. The People's Doctors covers seventy years, from 1790, when Thomson began his practice on his own family, until 1860, when much of Thomson's medical domain had been captured by the more liberal Eclectics. Eighteen halftones illustrate this volume.
Devoted to the Dissemination and Support of the Thomsonian System of Medical Practice
Author: Southern Botanic JournalPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Kindly Medicine
Author: John S. Haller (Jr.)Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873385770
Category : History of Medicine, 19th Cent
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
A history of this high-brow school of medicine, Physio-Medicalism. They promoted the belief that the body has a vital force that can be used to heal and substituted botanical medicines for allopathy's mineral drugs. The author traces their establishment and their descent into obscurity.
Bulletin of the Lloyd Library of Botany, Pharmacy and Materia Medica
Author: Lloyd Library and MuseumPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Bulletin of the Lloyd Library of Botany, Pharmacy and Materia Medica
Author: Bulletin
Author: Lloyd Library and MuseumPublisher:
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Category : Botany, Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Bulletin of the Lloyd Library and Museum of Botany, Pharmacy and Materia Medica
Author: Lloyd Library and MuseumPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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