Thomsonian medical instructor : containing practical information relating to the Thomsonian medicines, plants, barks, and roots, in general use, directions for administering a Thomsonian emetic and vapour bath, observations on preparing food for the sick, dietetic habits.

Date:
1855
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Credit: Thomsonian medical instructor : containing practical information relating to the Thomsonian medicines, plants, barks, and roots, in general use, directions for administering a Thomsonian emetic and vapour bath, observations on preparing food for the sick, dietetic habits. 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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    PREFACE. The object for presenting this work to the public, is to furnish in a condensed form some important practical medical information, that may serve to assist in relieving suffering, and to aid the inquiring mind in obtaining a knowledge of the nature arid effects of such simple, safe remedies, as will, with the exercise of their reason, observation, and judgment, enable them to know when they need medicine, and what kind they require, just as well as when they require food, drink, exercise, or repose. The great necessity for every one being the pro- tector and guardian of their own health, is not only reasonable, but also very evident, from the fact that the medical profession have failed to establish any reliable medical principles that has proved the path- way to Health, else their success had been their bul- wark, and we should not now see them divided into sects and parties, distracted with conflicting theories, and quarrelling about opinions—each claiming supe- riority for themselves; neither would we see such great numbers pass from the vigor of youth and prime