The people's doctors
Subtitle: Samuel Thomson and the American botanical movement, 1790-1860
By: John S. Haller, Jr
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
Subjects: Thomson, Samuel, -- 1769-1843; Physicians -- United States -- Biography; Medicine, Botanic -- United States; Alternative medicine -- United States
Genres: Biography
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index