A Course of Fifteen Lectures, on Medical Botany
Author : Samuel Robinson
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 24,27 MB
Release : 1829
Category : Materia medica, Vegetable
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Author : Samuel Robinson
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 24,27 MB
Release : 1829
Category : Materia medica, Vegetable
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Author : Samuel Robinson
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Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 1829
Category : Materia medica, Vegetable
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Author : John S. Haller
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 18,13 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Alternative medicine
ISBN : 9780809323395
Samuel Thomson, born in New Hampshire in 1769 to an illiterate farming family, had no formal education, but he learned the elements of botanical medicine from a "root doctor," who he met in his youth. Thomson sought to release patients from the harsh bleeding or purging regimens of regular physicians by offering inexpensive and gentle medicines from their own fields and gardens. He melded his followers into a militant corps of dedicated believers, using them to successfully lobby state legislatures to pass medical acts favorable to their cause. John S. Haller Jr. points out that Thomson began his studies by ministering to his own family. He started his professional career as an itinerant healer traveling a circuit among the small towns and villages of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. Eventually, he transformed his medical practice into a successful business enterprise with agents selling several hundred thousand rights or franchises to his system. His popular New Guide to Health (1822) went through thirteen editions, including one in German, and countless thousands were reprinted without permission. Told here for the first time, Haller's history of Thomsonism recounts the division within this American medical sect in the last century. While many Thomsonians displayed a powerful, vested interest in anti-intellectualism, a growing number found respectability through the establishment of medical colleges and a certified profession of botanical doctors. The People's Doctors covers seventy years, from 1790, when Thomson began his practice on his own family, until 1860, when much of Thomson's medical domain had been captured by the more liberal Eclectics. Eighteen halftones illustrate this volume.
Author : Samuel Robinson
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Page : 199 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 1832
Category : Electronic books
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Author : Graeme Tobyn
Publisher : Singing Dragon
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 34,91 MB
Release : 2016-02-21
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0857012592
The Western Herbal Tradition is a comprehensive exploration of 27 plants that are central to the herbalist's repertoire. This fully illustrated colour guide offers analysis of these herbs through the examination of historical texts and discussion of current applications and research. Your practice of phythotherapy will be transformed as the herbal knowledge from these sources is illuminated and assessed. Each chapter offers clear information on identification, uses and recipes, as well as recommendations on safety, prescribing, dosage and full academic references. The Western Herbal Tradition reveals a deep understanding of the true essence of what each plant can offer, as well as a fascinating insight into the unique history of contemporary herbal practice. This book is a valuable resource for everyone interested in herbal medicine and its history.
Author : John S. Haller (Jr.)
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 17,75 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History of Medicine, 19th Cent
ISBN : 9780873385770
A history of this high-brow school of medicine, Physio-Medicalism. They promoted the belief that the body has a vital force that can be used to heal and substituted botanical medicines for allopathy's mineral drugs. The author traces their establishment and their descent into obscurity.
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Page : 956 pages
File Size : 18,29 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Incunabula
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Author : Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
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Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 38,47 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Incunabula
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Author : Samuel Robinson (M.D.)
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Page : 206 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 1832
Category : Medicine, Botanic
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Author : Samuel Thomson
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Page : 264 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 1849
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