A brief narrative and life of the author : comprising his views of medicine and the theory of diseases : showing what is man, and how he may retain his health : perfectly renouncing the old theory that heat or fever, pain, ache, and swelling, is a disease, but maintaining the position that it is no more or less than the effect of a difficulty / Cyrus Thomson.

  • Thomson, Cyrus, 1797-
Date:
1860
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Credit: A brief narrative and life of the author : comprising his views of medicine and the theory of diseases : showing what is man, and how he may retain his health : perfectly renouncing the old theory that heat or fever, pain, ache, and swelling, is a disease, but maintaining the position that it is no more or less than the effect of a difficulty / Cyrus Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are older and more wise, yet at the time they occurred they appeared large and very important to my childish fancy, and I will therefore insert some of them for the entertainment of the Little Folks. Of a family of eight children, I had two sisters and one brother older than myself, and three brothers and one sister younger ; so I was the fourth child and second son. The first impression made upon my mind, of which I have any recollection, was that of learning to talk. I was early taught not to use any bad language. My mother learned me this, and she would often tell me that swearing was very naughty and wicked; and that to say God was a great sin, and the worst word that could be spoken. I recollect when I was very young, as my sisters older attended meeting, they wished to take me with them. The meeting was held at the house of my maternal Grandfather. So one Sunday morning, mother dressed me up in my clean suit, and I went with my sisters a distance of three miles on foot to meeting. It was very warm weather, and as I was quite fleshy, and so young, I got very tired, and soon after we got there I fell asleep and slept till they were ready to go home. So I was not much interested in my visit at this time.