Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1837-06-08
by REQUEST.
From tie Ihonisonian Recorder.

. Fr IN the reports Of those engaged ~ the
practice and my own ca eAperence and obscrvu-
ions, have arrived ut the conclusion that the
phomsoniun Syatem of Medical Practice IS
competent to the saving of forty nine hft!eths
of those who labor under The influence OF dis.
ease. | have attended between sixty and
seventy patients since | returned from the
Medical School and Infrmary Of DR.. A. Cur
It's, in Columbus, Ohio, say IN two months,
and have lost but one, and that child labor
inr undcr the influence of that form OF dis
ease called Group, and in the last stage OF the
disease beture saw it. 1t had been SICK
several days. Though it is said by the ene-
,n,es Of the practice that get no bad cases;
of this the reader may Judge. In the bounds
Of my practice there are many who have Dr.
Tho,nsun's Family Rights. In the most OF
those families ! get no cases but what Is
thought desperate. They manage all simple
cases themselves, and in those families that
are unacq,laintcd with the practice, | get no
case as long as they think they can possibly
live without. A man with half an eye can
see that a Botanic Physician is sure to get
the most desperate cases, if he gets any; such
as DR.. Good describes; when speaking OF the
tendency ofmcrcury, in its multitarious forms,
he says, ''its tendency IS to produce extreme
debility. with stiff incurvated limbs, total loss
of teeth and appetite, till death, IN few
years, with friendly stroke, puts period to
iEeir suferngs."
Death is stopped in his mad career, and the
mercury expelled from the system by steam
and lobela, and the poor prisoners srtters
ure broken and the captive is set at liberty,
by those men called by mercury dealers,
"sleam quacks and pepper grinders" 1t Is
the business of rhomsonians to expel morbl-
tic matter or poisonous substances from their
patients, to cquuize the circulation, tone up
the debi,ated organs, and give them timely
warning to avoid the following list ofposons.
/. Corrosive or escharotic OsOns, as mer-
curlal preparations, as corrosive sUbllmatc,
red oxy de of mercury, turbeth mineral or vel.
low subsulphate oi mercury, pernltrate OF
mercury, mercuriul ointment.
9. Arsenal preparations, such as white
oxide "f arsenic, and its combination with the
bases called arseniates, arsenic acid and the
arseniates, yellow and red sulphuret OF arse
nc, black oxide Of arse mic or fly powder.
3. Antimonial preparations, such as tartar
emetic, or turtrate of antiinony, oxide Of anti
mony, kcrmes mineral, murlute ot antimony,
and uDtiinonial wine.
. Il Cupreous preparations, such as verdi
grls, aScetate Oh copper, the Supieous o"i
phate, nitrate and nuriate, ammonia copper
oxide Of copper, and cupreous wines or vine
gars.
, 5. Murintc Of TIN, oxide and snlphate o
zinc, nitrate of silver, muriate Of gold, pearl
. white or the oxide of bisnuth, and the sub
, nitrate Of this metal.
u g. Concentrated acids. as sui phuric. nitric
phosphorc, muriatic, hydriodic acid; glas
and anirnu, powder, cant hardes or Span's
flies; preparations Of lead, such as the ace
tate, carbonate, wines sweetened with lea
water, impre gnated with its oxide, the gases
chlorine, muratic acid, sulphurous acid, nitro
gen gas, nitro-inuriatic vapours; digltalis @
foxgove, Opium and its various preparations
, nitre, henbane, hemlocG, nightshade, &c:
=. Five afflicted persons to whom J was cal
) led, either became alarmed, dissatisfied Q
a impatient in my absence, and called IN mn
/ eral practitioners. Three have already falle
I victims to death, and the other two arc sti
: sick. waiting with inpatience to- get we
n fashionabiy on the change Of the season.
/, The enemies of the Thonlsonians make man
= and vile vfforts to stop the progress of ihl
e plain, common sense practice, al healing tn
II diseased; but many "f their statements re
d bouI and fall upon the IN and corrodc thei
! minds asbad as their preparations of ,nercur
@ do many Of their patients poor b,dies.
d A. BIGGS.
a Jusius Lakes, Hndimann County, Ttm. !
hi September l5 1896. :,