Thomsonian Manual
1836; Gale Group; Linguagem: English
Autores
Moses Pike, Harriet N. Plummer, Henry B. Brewster, Tristram Coffin, David Rodgers, Nathan Huse, J. W. C. Pike, Mary A. Young, S. Thomson, Joseph D. Ripley,
ResumoFrontmatter: Thomsonian Manual. Essay: Cohesion of Metals, A Story of the Plague, This Will Certify, That My Wife Was Last Winter Afflicted with a Severe Cough, Attended with Loss of Appetite and Strength, Quackery, An Extraordinary Departure from the General Laws of Nature Was Lately Discovered at the Hull Infirmary, in the Case of a Boy Aged Fifteen Years, Who Was Received There in a State of Disease, "The Soul in a Diseased Body Is like a Martyr in His Dungeon; It May Retain Its Value, but It Has Lost Its Usefulness", This Is to Certify, That I Was Attacked with the Rheumatism about Six Months since in the Small of My Back, The Food of Man, To Our Patrons, Mortality, The Black Damp, The Manual, Body, Dr. S. Thomson—Dear Sir: Permit Me, through the Medium of Your Manual, to Make Public a Few Cases That Have Been Cured by Me; Not Because Such Cases Are of Rare Occurrence with the Regular and Thorough-Going Thomsonians, Who Use Medicines Prepared by You, Instead of Using in Desperate Cases Their Own Preparations, Which Are of Little or No Value When Life Is at Stake, Gross Carlessness, Excitement at Brooklyn, The Negro Steaks [A Chapter from the Diary of a N. Y. Physician], Seventeen Cases of Cholera at Charleston, S. C., on the 3d of September,—15 Were Blacks, Extract of a Letter, Dated La Fayette, Ala., August 12th, 1836, Palm Oil, Multiple Essay Items, Dear Sir.—I Understand You Are about Publishing a Few Certificates from Persons Who Have Been Cured at Your Infirmary, A Case of Strangulated Hernia Treated According to the Botanic Principles, The Eyes, Buy the Book, Cholera, This May Certify, That for Several Years I Have Been Very Much out of Health, Dr. Dow.—Sir: I See You Have Published a Few Certificates of People Whom You Have Raised from Death's Door, Dr. Dow.—I Take Much Pleasure in Sending to You, by the Way of My Brother-In-Law, the Following, as a Sort of Certificate, Certificates from Patients, My Dear Sir.—I Seat Myself to Express in Writing, What I Feel in My Heart, on Learning That a Beloved Sister Who Has Been Considered as past Recovery for a Long Time, Has, by Your Treatment and Kind Attention, so Far Recovered (after Several Years' Sickness) as Now to Be Able to Do More and Hope for More than She Has Done for Years, Human Life Estimated by Pulsation, A Young Lady at Centreville, Michigan, Lately Fell a Victim to Lobelia, &c., Administered by a Quack Doctor. Letter to the editor: Out of Business, Prolapsus Uteri, &c., Mr. Editor: Finding That You Are Frequently Interrogated Respecting the Treatment of Various Affections Incident to the Human System, and Seeing That Those Interrogatories Frequently Require an Answer through the Medium of the Recorder, and Observing Also That You Frequently Have Not the Leisure to Devote as Much Attention to the Reply as the Importance of the Subject Requires, [1] I Have Deemed It Expedient, Should You Not Think It an Intrusion, to Answer More in Detail a Query Which I Find in the Last Recorder, from One of Your Correspondents.
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