Address in refutation of the Thomsonian system of medical practice : delivered in the lecture room of the Chester Co. Cabinet of Natural Science, West Chester, Pa., on December 31, 1836 / by Sumner Stebbins.

  • Stebbins, Sumner.
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1837
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Credit: Address in refutation of the Thomsonian system of medical practice : delivered in the lecture room of the Chester Co. Cabinet of Natural Science, West Chester, Pa., on December 31, 1836 / by Sumner Stebbins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    go nut. After much experience, and trying within my know1- edge to gain this important point, I fixed upon the medicine which I have called No. 2, (Cayenne pepper.) in my patent.t >r that purpose, and after ttsin/r it. for many years, I om perfectly convinced that it is the best thin? that can be made use of tu hold the heat in the stomach until the system can be cleared of .■tioiis, bo as to produce a natural digestion of the food, which will nourish the body, establish perspiration and restore the health of the patient. I found it to be perfectly safe in all esses, and never knew any bad effects from .administering it.— My next r^1'1- object was to net something that would ciear tho ;\ which are more or less effected by it. in nil of disease to which tho human family are subject; Can- ker and put refaction are caused by cold, or want of heat, for ;;y part of the body is so affected by cold as to over- power the natural heat, putrefaction comment if not checked by medicine, or the natural constitution is enough to overcoat;' its progress, it will communicate to tho blood, when death will end the contest between heat; end cold, by nee latter. I have made use cf n u;anv .v ::;•■- , ■•-. preparatio terry root bark, v A Lilly l k ol Hemlock,) is the best tor! ■ hat ha Ige; tho' many otl s tnsy with good effect,.all of which It :t in my general direction i d to convey to ray readers in a brief manner a correct/ m which I for i ice, I shall nor: ■ fount of the '■ met th^t came under my care, a it :, that I have had to encounter in maintain- lill this tit tall.my enemies. My general plan of ; eases has been to cleanse tl giving ;-.,. ] at as I cool . try made use of el illy in fevers, aft I d in all >u have what Thomson cal eral princ I formed my ■ , and all in his own word.;. rfe we might pause to admire its simplicity, whatever we may think of its correctness or profundity. N could be more plain and vaiuraL There is none mystery oj science, about it ; nothing bf the quixotism of anatomy and physiology ; no taint of metaphysical and.