New guide to health, or, Botanic family physician : containing a complete system of practice, upon a plan entirely new : with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and administering them to cure disease : to which is prefixed, A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of the author / by Samuel Thomson.

  • Thomson, Samuel, 1769-1843.
Date:
1825
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Credit: New guide to health, or, Botanic family physician : containing a complete system of practice, upon a plan entirely new : with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and administering them to cure disease : to which is prefixed, A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of the author / by Samuel Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    got along very well, and both enjoyed good health un- til our first child was born, which was on the 4th day of July following. My wife was taken ill on Saturday, and sent f«T help; she lingered along till Sunday night, when she became very had; her situation was dange- rous, and she was in hand constantly the whole night, until sunrise the next morning, when she was deliver- ed: but her senses were gone. During'the whole night it was one continued struggle of forcing m.ture, which produced so great an injury to the nervous sys- tem, as to cause strong convulsion fits in about an hour after her delivery. The witnessing of this horrid scene of human butchery, was one great cause of my paying attention to midwifery, and my practice has since been very successful in it. Her fits continued and grew worse; there were six doctors attended her that day, and a seventh was sent for; but she grew worse under their care; tor one would give her medicine, and another said that he did wrong—another would bleed her, and the other Would say he had done wrong, and so on through the whole. i heard one of them say that his experience in this case was worth fifty doll rs. 1 found that they -were trying their practice by experiments ; and was so dis- satisfied with their conduct, that at night 1 told them what I thought; and that I had heard them accusing each other of doing wrong; but I was con\inced that they had all told the truth, for they had all done wrong. They all gave her over to die, and I dismiss- ed them, having seen enough of their conduct to cen- vince me that they were doing more hurt than good. After they were gone, I sent for Dr. Watts and Dr. Fuller, who were called root doctors. They attend.d her through the night and in the morning about the same hour that they began, the lit* lef h ? S'>e had in the whole eighteen, of the most shocking convulsion fits that had been ever seen by any one present. The spasms were so violent that it jarred the whole house. After the fits had left Lor, she was entirely senseless, and was raving distracted for three days; and then be- came perfectly stupid, and lay in that situation for.fhree days; she then laughed three days, and then cried iluee C