Author: Samuel Robinson
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Category : Materia medica, Vegetable
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Author: Samuel Robinson
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 199

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Author: Samuel Robinson
Publisher:
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Category : Materia medica, Vegetable
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Tbd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780371493434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: Samuel Robinson
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: John S. Haller
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809323395
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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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
Publisher:
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Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Graeme Tobyn
Publisher: Singing Dragon
ISBN: 0857012592
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Presenting a valuable new angle for your phytotherapy practice, this book traces the uses of 27 vital plants through 2000 years of history. From Dioscorides and Trotula to the great Renaissance folios and up to present day, this book demonstrates how traditional usage can be transmuted into your current practice.

Author: John S. Haller (Jr.)
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873385770
Category : History of Medicine, 19th Cent
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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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: Samuel Nicholson Rhoads
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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