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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Great Medical Discovery |
| Reference | 104668.D |
| Library | The Library Company of Philadelphia |
| Date | 1877 |
| Author | Thompson, William Dr. |
| Place of Creation | Boston, Massachusetts |
| Document Type | Printed Book |
| Theme(s) | Health and Hygiene |
| Keywords | disease, cure, medicine, bile, pharmacology, fever, asthma, burns, indigestion, catarrh, inflammation, cough, cold, piles, headache |
| Parts of the Body | digestive organs, head, lungs |
| Additional Information | In this unblushing effort at self-promotion, the author, a clairvoyant diagnostician and purveyor of medicines, provides an entertaining account of medical hucksterism during an itinerant practice that took him through the New England states as far as Minnesota. Thompson claims to be able to "reveal disease at the sight of the patient", and how to know immediately "all of their symptoms and every bad feeling as well as the cause of their sickness". (p.14) Thompson's therapeutic system consists of vegetable based medicines of his own manufacture that keep the biliary duct open. |
| Note | Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia’s catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan. |
| Copyright | The Library Company of Philadelphia |