The People's Doctors Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement, 1790-1860
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Southern Illinois Univ Pr
- Publish date: 01/01/2001
John S. Haller Jr. points out that Thomson began his studies by ministering to his own family. He started his professional career as an itinerant healer traveling a circuit among the small towns and villages of Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. Eventually, he transformed his medical practice into a successful business enterprise with agents selling several hundred thousand rights or franchises to his system. His popula: New Guide to Health (1822) went through thirteen editions, including one in German, and countless thousands were reprinted without permission.
Told here for the first time, Haller's history of Thomsonism 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.
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