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On a plan entirely new: with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and administering them, to cure disease
Author : S. Thomson
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 1835
Category : History
ISBN : 587359516X
On a plan entirely new: with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and administering them, to cure disease
Author : Elisha Smith
Publisher :
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 1830
Category : Medicine, Botanic
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Author : Victoria Johnson
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 1631494201
Finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction A New York Times Editors' Choice Selection The untold story of Hamilton’s—and Burr’s—personal physician, whose dream to build America’s first botanical garden inspired the young Republic. On a clear morning in July 1804, Alexander Hamilton stepped onto a boat at the edge of the Hudson River. He was bound for a New Jersey dueling ground to settle his bitter dispute with Aaron Burr. Hamilton took just two men with him: his “second” for the duel, and Dr. David Hosack. As historian Victoria Johnson reveals in her groundbreaking biography, Hosack was one of the few points the duelists did agree on. Summoned that morning because of his role as the beloved Hamilton family doctor, he was also a close friend of Burr. A brilliant surgeon and a world-class botanist, Hosack—who until now has been lost in the fog of history—was a pioneering thinker who shaped a young nation. Born in New York City, he was educated in Europe and returned to America inspired by his newfound knowledge. He assembled a plant collection so spectacular and diverse that it amazes botanists today, conducted some of the first pharmaceutical research in the United States, and introduced new surgeries to America. His tireless work championing public health and science earned him national fame and praise from the likes of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander von Humboldt, and the Marquis de Lafayette. One goal drove Hosack above all others: to build the Republic’s first botanical garden. Despite innumerable obstacles and near-constant resistance, Hosack triumphed when, by 1810, his Elgin Botanic Garden at last crowned twenty acres of Manhattan farmland. “Where others saw real estate and power, Hosack saw the landscape as a pharmacopoeia able to bring medicine into the modern age” (Eric W. Sanderson, author of Mannahatta). Today what remains of America’s first botanical garden lies in the heart of midtown, buried beneath Rockefeller Center. Whether collecting specimens along the banks of the Hudson River, lecturing before a class of rapt medical students, or breaking the fever of a young Philip Hamilton, David Hosack was an American visionary who has been too long forgotten. Alongside other towering figures of the post-Revolutionary generation, he took the reins of a nation. In unearthing the dramatic story of his life, Johnson offers a lush depiction of the man who gave a new voice to the powers and perils of nature.
Author : J. E. Carter
Publisher :
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 38,90 MB
Release : 1837
Category : Dispensatories
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Author : John S. Haller
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,89 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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 1769-1843 Thomson
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781018853826
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Author : Mervyn G. Hardinge
Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780828015578
Author : Wooster Beach
Publisher :
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 27,71 MB
Release : 1846
Category : Medicine, Popular
ISBN :
Author : Wooster Beach
Publisher :
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 1851
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Wooster Beach
Publisher :
Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Herbs
ISBN :