Title: The people's doctors : Samuel Thomson and the American botanical movement, 1790-1860 /
Authors: Haller, John S., 1940-
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Thomson, Samuel.; Thomson, Samuel,; Thomson, Samuel,; Complementary Therapies; History, 19th Century; Ethnobotany history; Eclecticism, Historical; Physicians; Medicine, Botanic United States.; Physicians United States Biography; Alternative medicine United States; United States Biography.; Physicians Biography.; Phytotherapy history; Phytotherapy history Biography.; United States; Ohio; United States Biography.
Abstract: "Samuel Thomson, born in New Hampshire in 1769 to an illiterate farming family, had no formal education, but he learned the elements of botanical medicine from a "root doctor," whom he met in his youth." "The People's Doctors covers seventy years, from 1790, when Thomson began his practice on his own family, until 1860, when much of Thomson's medical domain had been captured by the more liberal Eclectics. Eighteen halftones illustrate this volume."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: American hippocrates -- The business of medicine -- Old Sammy's agents -- Botanico Curtis -- The market place and the law -- Botanic conventions, 1832-1837 -- Schism -- Progeny -- Botanic literary tradition -- With friends like these -- Reassessment -- Appendices: A. Samuel Thomson's patent for fever medicine -- B. Thomson's materia medica -- C. Constitution for the Thomsonian Friendly Botanic Society -- D. Test resolution -- E. Thomsonian license for general practice -- F. Constitution of the United States Thomsonian Society -- G. Constitution of the Independent Thomsonian Botanic Society of the United States -- H. United States botanic medical journals, 1822-1860 -- I. 1852 platform of principles -- J. Principles of physio-medicalism.