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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 added a description of several cases of disease attended by the author, with the mode of treatment and cure : to which is annexed, A narrative of the life, &c. of the author / by Samuel Thomson.
- Thomson, Samuel, 1769-1843.
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- 1834
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Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified] : Printed for the use of one of the agents, 1834.
Physical description
330 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm
Notes
Samuel Thomson was an American herbalist and naturopathic physician. As the founder of the "Thomsonian System" of medicine, Thompson discovered or popularized many Western herbs that are still popular today such as cayenne pepper or capsicum, lobelia, bayberry root bark, or myrrh gum
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Electronic reproduction. Atlanta, Ga.: Emory University Digital Library Publications Program, 2013. Emory Digital Library
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Languages
- English
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This material has been provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University.