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 the preparing and administering them to cure disease. To which is added a description of several cases of disease attended by the author, with the mode of treatment and cure.

  • Thomson, Samuel, 1769-1843.
Date:
1832
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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 the preparing and administering them to cure disease. To which is added a description of several cases of disease attended by the author, with the mode of treatment and cure. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a NEW GUIDE TO HEALTH, li life, as it is manifest in the present case. There to the, vitals, except thr ough that channel or stem — which had supported the growth of the child to that. from the vine or tree by the stem. If the vine cut off, or pulled up, the fruit will wither and die. Now what wasthe cause of the death of this child? er had been discharged three days. A the child had been starving, the | sa ne as the fruit ing artificial heat, through the pl placenta and umbili- cal cord, ‘by putting the former on the embers, and conveying the heat to the body of the child, through ‘the medium of the latter, it gave the child one more meal, which roused it into action, and which Was to last till the next means nature has provided _ an be obtained. Before the child is born, it is sup- ported by this stem from the mother internally; af- ter birth, from the breast of the mother externally. This’ food supports the child, till he can eat more And so goon with all the rest, Your house be fill?d w ith children bless’d, ie: 3 4 ' CASE OF A FALSE concretion, About two years ago, ‘I was called on by one of my agents, at Eastport, Me. who appeared to be much alarmed, and requested me to go with him to Visit a woman. ‘with whom hehad.b ore iitiehi, and could give her no relief. She had flowed so much that she lay fainted away, more than half the time, and then, the rest part of the time she was puking. I asked him if she —* a preguant ec He ye