A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson : containing an account of his system of practice, and the manner of curing disease with vegetable medicine, upon a plan entirely new / written by himself.

  • Thomson, Samuel, 1769-1843.
Date:
1835
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Credit: A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson : containing an account of his system of practice, and the manner of curing disease with vegetable medicine, upon a plan entirely new / written by himself. 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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    learned, because he had been to college, than to do justice to me; so they gave the case against me, and I had to pay the cost. After this, I re- fused to attend those people who assisted in in- juring me, and gave them up to their fashionable doctor. A curse seemed to follow them, and his practice; for the spotted fever prevailed in this place soon after, and the doctor took charge of those who had sided with him against me, and, if he had been a butcher and used the knife, there would not have been more destruction among them. Two men who swore falsely in his favor, and by whose means he got his cause, were among his first vic- tims; and, of the whole that he attended, about nine-tenths died. He lost upwards of fifty patients in the town of Alstead, in a short time. I attended the funeral of a young man, one of his patients, who was sick but twenty-four hours, and but twelve under the operation of his medi- cine. He was as black as a blackberry, and swell- ed so as to be difficult to screw down the lid of the coffin. When I went into the room where the corpse was, the doctor followed me and gave di- rections to have the coffin secured so as to pre- vent the corpse being seen; and then began to in- sult me, to attract the attention of the people, lie said to me, I understand, sir, that you have a patent to cure such disorders as that (pointing to the corpse.) I said no, and, at the same time, inti- mated what I thought of him. He put on an air of great importance, and said to me, What can you know of medicine? you have no learning, you can- not parse one sentence in grammar. I told him I never knew that grammar was made use of as me- dicine; but, if a portion of grammar is so much like the operation of ratsbane, as appears on this corpse, I should never wish to know the use of it,