New guide to health, or, Botanic family physician : containing a complete system of practice, on 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:
1835
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: New guide to health, or, Botanic family physician : containing a complete system of practice, on 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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    ADVERTISEMENT. TO THE PUBLIC. The preparing the following work for the press, has been a task of much difficulty and labor, for to com- prise in a short compass, and to convey a correct under- standing of the subject, from such a mass of materials as I have been enabled to collect, by thirty years prac- tice, is a business of no small magnitude. The plan that has been adopted I thought the best to give a cor- rect knowledge of my system of practice; and am con- fident that the descriptions and directions are sufficiently explained to be understood by all those who take an interest in this important subject. Much more might have been written; but the main object has been to confine it to the practice, and nothing more is stated of the theory than what was necessary to give a general knowledge of the system. If any errors should be dis- covered, it is hoped that they will be viewed with can- dor; for in first publishing a work, such things are to be expected; but much care has been taken that there should be no error, which would cause any mistake in the prac- tice, or preparing the medicine.