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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    on to the fire. It took fire and bio wed the horn all to pieces—knocked him over, and blistered his hand, wrist and arm to his elbow. Again; when I was about twelve years of age, I was set to waiting on patients, and preparing medicine when it was needed, and the knowledge then acquired I carefully treasured up in my memory, and it has proved of great advantage to me in my practice. I could see the operation of the medicine on the sick, and the effects it produced, which gave me the most implicit confidence in its utility. We were all learned to eat when hungry, drink when thirsty, add clothing when cold, and take med- icine when sick. When we were thoroughly learned this, there, was no more mystery connected with one than the other. I have always prescribed for myself ever since I was twelve years old, and have never failed yet; and, if rightly taught, no more skill or license is necessary to know how to use medicine, than for the cook to know how to prepare our food, or the tailor to fit our clothes. While young, we all had the contagious diseases of the country, such as measles, whooping cough, canker rash, &c, and our parents attended us, and we got along well. They would bathe the surface with spir-