A course of fifteen lectures on medical botany, denominated Thomson's new theory of medical practice : in which the various theories that have preceded it are reviewed and compared : delivered in Cincinnati, Ohio / by Samuel Robinson ; with introductory remarks by the proprietor.

  • Robinson, Samuel.
Date:
1834
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Credit: A course of fifteen lectures on medical botany, denominated Thomson's new theory of medical practice : in which the various theories that have preceded it are reviewed and compared : delivered in Cincinnati, Ohio / by Samuel Robinson ; with introductory remarks by the proprietor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Such is the nature of man, under the strong power of sense and sympathy ; influenced by all the elements around him, and the energies of thought within him ; wearing out his mortal covering ; sapping the founda- tions of his house of clay ; while the passions pour a con- tinual storm upon the wheels of life. Thus circumstan- ced, and impelled forward by the combined action of so many agents, to that bourne from whence no traveller returns, it is not astonishing if man, although the soul is so much superior to the body, should bestow upon the care of the latter, the principal portion of his labours and his life. Medicine is therefore a study, not only of curious in- quiry, but of deep interest, to families and individuals, who, after all that has been done by its professors, ought, in fact, to be their own physicians. And this great de- sideratum Dr. Thomson professes to aid and establish, by his own discoveries. To promote health of body and tranquility of mind, the sages of antiquity laboured with the most severe and incessant toil. They studied the constitution of man, that they might find out the seat of his maladies, and the sources of his misery. To assuage the sorrows of the heart, and lift the load of melancholy from the desponding mind ; to restore to the wounded spirit its elasticity and vigour ; they exhaust- ed all the powers of reason, and all the arguments and arts of their divine philosophy. Sometimes they suc- ceeded, but they often failed. It was from a deep sense of the inadequacy of their feeble powers to eradicate the disorders of the mind, that led them to look for divine succour, to that benevolent Being, who sits upon the cir- cle of the heavens, and showers his mercies down upon the world. And this aid was not implored in vain. The day arrived. The veil of superstition was rent in frag- ments. The apostle, from the hill of Mars, led them to the knowledge of tbuir unknown God. He conduoted them to the infinite sources of wisdom and consolation, in Him in whom there is fulness of joy, and at whose right hand are pleasures for ever more.