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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    of the altar, the mercy seat, the cherubim, the booh of the law, arid the congregation of the Lord, until the son of God himself, sprinkled with his own blood, the rocks of Calvary ; the blood was a standing emblem of the price of the soul, and that price was life, the life given for its salvation. Man, by rebellion, had forfeited his life ; life was given for hie ransom ; this life was in the blood; and hence, the high and hallowed designa- tions, The blood of atonement; The blood of Jesus Christ, his son, cleanseth from all sin ! The blood of sprinkling, which speaketh better things than the blood of Abel! The inference is now indubitable, that the animal life being in the blood, the resistance to disease and death will be in the blood. The fever, therefore, which is a battle in the blood to resist and repel the enemy, should be aided by every principle of reason, and argument and humanity. If it be debility, remove (l)\e debility ; if it be morbid excitement, remove the morbid excitement; if it be obstruction from cold, remove the obstruction. The fever, which is the effect of all these, or the effort of the vital actions to subdue all these, amounts to the same thing, when we examine the principles. Let the cause be removed, and the effect will cease. The house, at midnight, reposes in perfect peace. The robbers enter; in an instant all is turmoil and dis- traction ; the clashing of swords, and guns, and pistols, and screams, and groans, intermingled. This is an effect produced in the quiet mansion by the robbers entering the house ; it is also an effort, and a violent effort, of the inhabitants, to expel the intruders. Now, what would be thought of the wisdom of a passer-by, on hearing all this hubbub, who should enter the house, and, utterly , regardless of the robbers, would employ all his efforts to I arrest the master's arm, and still the cries of his wife I and children ? He certainly would be regarded as in- I sane; and his aid, although he did not intend it, was in help of the robbers, and against the family ! The case is clear, the fever begins in the blood ; the d vital principle is there ; it rouses the blood vessels to ex-