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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    the powder would set the tow on fire; and the tow would set the punk on fire ; and in this way wc kin- dled our fires when I was a boy. We could not start a fire in less than half an hour. On one occasion I was kindling the fire, and I was very sure the gun was not loaded. I thought I knew it was not. There was a little girl there who seemed intent on standing before it, but I told her she must go on the other side if she wanted to see the fire fly, for it might make a terrible noise. I snapped it, and it was loaded with peas to shoot squirrels. It blowed a hole through the plastering as large as my hand. If I had not known how to use a gun, and had been as careless as some I have seen, I should surely have killed the child. On one occa- sion the flint got poor, and I had become so used to it that I could kill game by touching it with a coal of fire. Once my sister touched it off and I killed a hawk; afterwards my brother touched it off and I shot a crane. I had one brother who never ought to have any- thing to do with either gun or powder. I once knew him, after I had filled my powder-horn, to attend a little squirrel hunt, get up in the morning to make a fire, and as there was but little fire, he took it and put it down to the coal and let the powder run