Full Title: "THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE ON THOMSONIAN PRINCIPLES, Adapted As Well to the Use of Families As to That of the Practitioner. Containing Propositions Illustrative of the Philosophy of Thomsonism. A Brief History of the Symptoms, Peculiarities, and General Course of Disease in its different forms and Varieties; With Practical Directions for Administering a Thomsonia Course of Medicine, Including Various Methods of Administering Vapour Baths and Emetics and A Materia Medica Adapted for the Work." pp. xv, 514 (1)[Ad for Aaron Comfort's Thomsonian Medicine Store. Damp stained. Foxed. Worn contemporary full leather binding. Early manuscript ownership of Dr. Jonathan H. Dorsey ( (Mill Creek Furnace, Huntingdon, PA). "In the early-19th century, thousands of Americans in the trans-Appalachian west turned away from harsh conventional treatments, especially bleeding and purging, and embraced milder, less debilitating therapeutic regimens. Samuel Thomson, a leading spokesman of this movement, said he learned botanic medicine from a female herbalist who cured his wife after a regular doctor had failed. In particular, Thomson believed that cold brought on illness and therefore restoring the body's natural heat offered the quickest remedy. This he accomplished with steam baths, cayenne pepper, and puking by means of Lobelia, a native American emetic." First Edition. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! MED 11 Language: eng.

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THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE ON THOMSONIAN PRINCIPLES, Adapted As Well to the Use of Families As to That of the Practitioner. Containing Propositions Illustrative of the Philosophy of Thomsonism. A Brief History of the Symptoms, Peculiarities, and General Cou

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(Coates, Printer for) A. Comfort, Philadelphia: 1843.

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1843

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1st Edition.

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Ron Lieberman has been an antiquarian bookseller, rare book appraiser, and library consultant for over FIFTY FOUR years. He is a former member of the Board of Governors of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (A.B.A.A.), and past Chairman of the A.B.A.A. Security Committee; former A.B.A.A. liaison with the American Library Association, and its Rare Book and Manuscript Section & Security Committee; and the Past President of the Middle Atlantic Chapter, A.B.A.A. For several years, he was the Chair of the committee that managed the New York Antiquarian Book Fair. He was one of the founding editors of the journal 'College and Undergraduate Libraries' and was a frequent contributor. APPRAISAL SPECIALISTS Appraisals for Estate, Insurance, and other purposes is a prime specialty. Also, as one of the organizers of the World Library Fund, Mr. Lieberman provides professional analyses of library collections, and helps plan library development and preservation programs for public and private institutions in the United States and abroad.

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