This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ...system, consist in the simplicity of his practice and the safe and certain operation of his remedy. And, although THoMson seems to have been utterly unconscious of the hazar-is' and difliculties of the established practice--yet, when these were brought to light, they served to_confirm him in the value" and universality of his discoveries; because, if all the wisdom of the schools, and genius, and ingenuity, of practitioners, had been bathed and confounded, through the lapse of four thousand years, it was evident that the discovery of a universal remedy for fever, must be found in another department than that of the established science! And in that department THomsoN rose to eminence, and received "his degree fiam the hand of nature." In that great labaratory of medical science, where nature makes our foodand fashions our medicines, THOMsoN spent thirty years of his life. A quack is one, who, in unblushing ignorance, palms his detestable and deadly nostrums upon the public, of which he knows nothing!.THomsoN laid before the public, without a shadow of concealment, remedies, the healing virtue of which he had tested by a practice of thirty years; and with invariable and indisputable success; a success, which, had I not seen, Y should have deemed impossible. i But some of the most learned of the faculty, who have attended to the effects of this new practice, have given their decided testimony to its power and its eflicacy, Prejudices rank and strong, as might have been expected, have prevented the popularity of a "safi: and simple mvlirod of cure," which bids fair, were it universally introduced, to banish diseases and untimely death from the nations of the world; to jntroduce the dawn of that redeeming...