Poughkeepsie Thomsonian
1844; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
Autores
Thomas Roby, W. H. Farner, A. J. Wakefield, Geo. Pease, A. Curtis,
ResumoFrontmatter: Poughkeepsie Thomsonian, The Thomsonian, Published the First and Fifteenth of Each Month, at One Dollar a Year, New-York Thomsonian Medicine Store, 119½ Bowery. Essay: The Man Who Wants the Bayonet and the Law to Enforce His Opinions, Admits from Bygone Conclusions, That His Arguments Are Not in Themselves Sufficient to Enforce Conviction, Reports of Cases, by Dr. Lyman, Editor of the 'Thom. Messenger', It Is Said of the Hydropathic Patients under the Care of the Celebrated Preissnitz at Graffenburg, That They Are so Grateful for the Relief from the Burdensome Feeling of Sickness and Languor, Which Is the Salutary Effect of the Cold Water System, and of the Continuous Perspirations Which Throw off the Impurities of the Body, That Instead of the Usual Salutation, 'How Do You Do?', Exercise Necessary to Digestion, We Notice in the Papers an Amusing Account of the Humbuggery Practiced by a Dr. Kelley of New-York City, Who Somewhat Periodically Goes from Place to Place about the Country, Delivering Lectures and Administering 'Advice Gratis, ' Which It Is Said He Does up so Slick as to Make a Good Speculation by Nostrum Vending, till the People Begin to 'Smell a Rat', Vapor Bathing, Extract from T. Spencer's Letter, Singular Sickness, Extract of a Letter from Dr. Pease, Dated Valatie, N. Y., Aug. 21st, Striped Alder, Removal, Names of Fevers, Friend Lapham,—I Send You the Names of Two New Subscribers, with the Money for the Same, Together with the Dollar for My Own, Freeman Abel Recommends Salt Petre to the Public for Preserving Butter, The Following Is an Extract from the American Phrenological Journal, (Edited by O. S. Fowler,) on 'Phrenology and Physiology Applied to Education and Self-Improvement', Rum-Sellers Complain Bitterly of the Persecution They Receive at the Hands of the Temperance Community, A Dialogue, If Vapor Bathing Exposes to Cold, Most Surely the Turks and Russians Are Most Unwise, Mr. Taber, near the Mills in Belvidere, Has Had Sent to Him the Skin of a Sea-Horse (Hippopotamus,) Which He Has Stuffed and Intends to Exhibit, Poughkeepsie Thomsonian "The 'Poughkeepsie Thomsonian' Is out Again. [Its 7th Vol. Commenced the 15th June.]It Has Always Been …, Cash Received for Seventh Volume, No. 6, Multiple Essay Items, Effects of Potash: State of the Mind in the Hour of Death, A New Telescopic Comic Was Discovered at Paris on the 7th July, by Victor Mauvais, Science and Quackery, Important Galvanic Experiment, The State and Habits of the Body, Gluttony, like the Shock of the Torpedo, Has a Most Benumbing Effect upon the Finer Feelings of Our Nature, and Also Beclouds the Intellect to a Decree Little Realized by the Perpetrators of This Almost Universal Crime, It Is Well Known to the Good People of the United States That "Uncle Sam, " That Rich Old Gentleman, the Father of Twenty-Six Buxom Daughters, Has Always Compelled His Too-Obedient Children to Pay Exorbitant Postage on Their Letters, It Is Surprising How Bold and Reckless Our 'Regular Scientific' Friends Are in Their Statements Respecting the Medical Properties of Certain Vegetables. Poem, verse: Pastoral Elegy. Backmatter: United States Thomsonian and Botanic Depot, S. P. Heermance, Printer, Portraits, Poughkeepsie Thomsonian Infirmary, New England Thomsonian Depot, A Rare Chance.—A Botanic Physician Wanted.
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