The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1840-02-01

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UNITED STATES INFlRMARY,
Corner of 9th and streets, adjoining the Methodist Pro
testan Church, (Rrp Mr.. Hebsers,) opposite the Rev.
b. Broacns residence about eghiyyards from The near
General Post Office, Washington CITY.
nR. BENJAMIN THOMSON. the Founder Of the
IL Thomsoniaa Botanic iafrmaries in Boston, Massa-
chusets and Concord, N H., and recently from the
State of Virginia. having org had desire to establish an
Ing me pupIIc MAT ne grained that desire, and has
fitted up style unprecedented in this city Cor perhaps
any other except his lnfrmary at Concord, ~ H., which
has been pronounced the most perfect one in the world
fire above desirable house. the plan with his In.
demaries in the East and South where his patients can
de pend such treatment their lnfrmes may demand
10 nv friends and the friends OF the system, need
but say that am here They have, doubt, seen my
propecses and my practice spoken Of IN all the Thorn
sonan periodicals in the United States and my unprece-
dened in the places where have heretofore
tised The system is still progressing with rapid strides,
and producing plete revolution inthe medical world
For the benefit Of the public, Dr. T. gives the ol-
lowing extracts, relative to his practice IN the places
where he has established infrnaries:
BosToN.- Eriract from advertisement -" Since April,
1892 up to May 1884, he has administered upwards OF
two thousand of Medicine to more than htteen
hundred patients visiting from SIX RODS 70 SIX hundred
miles distant in almost every stage Of disease the greater
mart Of whom have been cured Patients given over to
die at the New York. Philadelphia, Massachusetts, New
Brunswick and Insane hospitals have been cured at my
lnil nares ONE, and only death, has occurred at
my lirmary, since its establishment; and $1,000 is here
offered to any individual who will prove to the contrary;
also $1,000 TO any individual who will prove as great an
amount of business 10 have been accomplished during the
same time at any hospital in Europe or America, with
the of less number of deaths and cures
CONCORD Ertract from a Letter to United States
SenaLor dated January L. 1885 SO DEAR SIR There
appears to be considerable excitement here at pre-
sent, = = new era seems to have com.
menced in medical science. Dr. Thompson has indeed
done wonders in the healing art. He has performed
" no al,c IF al
regular physicians. Of the many cases he has had, .
few have to my knowledge which justice compes
Inc to mention.
GA young gentleman who had been out of health FOL
several years and who understand was at the lnirma
ny the time you was and in consequence OF YOU
advice took course OF medicine, declared as am
informed that he received more reliefn 10 minutes, un
der the operation of the Botanic Medicines than he had
before for four years. when under the charge of the most
eminent physicians Of the State few days after ne
took another and was cured A gentleman by the
name of Marden from Chichester, who had been aiic
ed with dyspepsia and all its attendant train of evils fol
several years to the lnrnary with the intention
of remaining week, and was, agreeably to his owr
declaration cured in days. and enabled to return
to his family the tfird day after he left them we'll man
This case understand. has caused considerable excite
ment in Chichester ard the neg hborng towns. yonne
ady-a deporabe Of mental derangement-cured in
one fortnight. lady from Loudon who, at the age Of
seven years. suffered severely from paraytic shock
after which she affected with fits and falling sickness
for IS ears and attended, without any benefit by II
regular physicians to the Inrmary, took courses
of medicine, and enabled to make hearty meal o.
animal food of which she had not been able even TO taste
for ten years. remains WE'LL and able 10 laDo: at the pre-
sent time.
great He has taken patients from almost all the regular
,hysicans here, and restored them to health IN few
hours although some of them were thought 10 be DANCE
rously sick by their friends and medical attendants and
no prospect Of recovering under six or eight weeks, il
they did at ALL"
PETERspuRG, vA-Ertract from Cerifcae.-"We, the
undersigned do hereby certify with much pleasure that
we have visited the Thomsonan Infmary, recently es-
tabshed in Petersburg, on the ihomsonlan Plan, and
believe that no is better calculated to do it justice,
and to help the afflicted, than Dr. Thomson. We have
taken his medicines, and have seen repeatedly gwen
with manifest advantage, in number OF cases where the
patients were quite i'll. His peculiar manner OF mixing
them goes 10 make them agreeable and paatabe and his
seeming skill in timing and proportoning the doses 10
the are and strength Of the patient and disease, met our
warmest admiration His varor and medcated oats are
truly luxurious and given in the most delicate and
agreeable way and pcrec y understood by the female
attendants under the direction Of Mrs Arson and Doctor
Thomson The whole process, from what we have seen
and experienced may be undergone by the most umId
lady or delicate child without the least apprehension OF
danger ia any point Of view on the contrary with much
advantage when it is needed. We would recommend
all the afflicted the Thomsonians and to the Petersburg
cure Of all durable diseases
SALLY G. sruRpIvANT, MARTHA L'LLEy,
ELIZABETH NIBLETT MARTHA p. CLARK,
Petersburg, Sept a. 1897 ANN MILLS.
Petersburg, September IS, ls37.-Dear Sir Health
is the greatest pora blessing bestowed upon man. and
is essential to his comfort and happiness verify believe
That the system of medicine invented by Samuel Thorn
son, the safest and most ecacious means, rightly I'M
derstood and properly carried out curative system,
adopted We bound to exercise that reason
which given TO us for goven nent and direction to
pursue truth, and hold to it, and to give up any
known plain matter Of fact for conjecture saw several
oil your patients, heard of several cases. and witnessed
several; saw your and attention to the afflicted
under yonr immediate charge, and this had great effect
upon me; but the OF my dying boy has cast the
scales from my eyes, satisfied my Judgment and confirm
ed it. His was a most serious hopeless had
given him to die his jaws became fastened; lie was
Seemingly dead to all sensibty; his pulse, which be
fore had not aba'cd for sixty hours, nearly gone
he was fast approaching the embrace Of death. To my
treat establishment. you, 10 short time, relieved and
restored him to health This and number of other cures
have convinced and satisfied that it is the best and
most sale practice have ever seen carried out.
INV boy was FIRST taken with chill, succeeded by
severe fever aud he completely out Of his head for
three DAYS before you him He was in spasns aud
insensb.e when sent to your lnrmary The practice,
according TO the regular mode exhausted but the eff
6cacv of your medicine, and the vapor bath had so sal
tary an effect that he was truly and astoishlhgy, and
IN me and all family, also TO the aston