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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Thomsonian Practice of Medicine |
| Reference | 68103.O |
| Library | The Library Company of Philadelphia |
| Date | 1842 |
| Author | Chambers, Reuben |
| Place of Creation | Bethania, Pennsylvania |
| Description | Many of Thomson's agents became competitors offering books. This book was sold for $2, with a request that the subscriber not lend it. |
| Document Type | Printed Book |
| Theme(s) | Botanic Medicine; Children's Health |
| Keywords | cure, medicine, disease, symptoms, fever, air, colic, abscess, asthma, laxative, nerves, blood, pain, food, water, bloodletting, burns, deformities, beauty, baths, cough, cancer, plaster, cleansing, catarrh, chapped skin, cholera, cold, tuberculosis, chickenpox, deafness, diabetes, dislocation, dandruff, dysentery, headache, faintness, indigestion, hysteria, infection, inflammation, children, depression, midwife, marriage, smallpox, scarlet fever, sore throat, worms |
| Parts of the Body | breasts, lungs, digestive organs, skin |
| Additional Information | The 'Note to Subscribers' (unnumbered verso of p.449) is dated "Fourth month, 1843". Having purchased a 'right' to Thompson's system, Chambers justifies the publication of an additional and seemingly extra-legal text on the botanic practice in his preface. |
| 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 |