Hardcover reprint of the original 1841 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Thomson, Samuel. The Thomsonian Materia Medica: Or, Botanic Family Physician: Comprising A Philosophical Theory, The Natural Organization And Assumed Principles Of Animal And Vegetable Life: To Which Are Added The Description Of Plants And Their Various Compounds. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Thomson, Samuel. The Thomsonian Materia Medica: Or, Botanic Family Physician: Comprising A Philosophical Theory, The Natural Organization And Assumed Principles Of Animal And Vegetable Life: To Which Are Added The Description Of Plants And Their Various Compounds, . Albany, Printed By J. Munsell, 1841. Subject: Medicine, Botanic

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Excerpt from The Thomsonian Materia Medica, or Botanic Family Physician: Comprising a Philosophical Theory, the Natural Organization and Assumed Principles of Animal and Vegetable Life The fact is irresistable then, that the dead languages for the practitioner, unexplained to the sick, are unnecessary; and that the honest physician will never use them to de ceive, with regard to the articles of medicine he may be giving to his patient. Would it not be attended with much less trouble for the physician, to induce his patient to take a dose of conium maculatum, or datura stramom'um, than if he should frankly say, I wish to give you a dose of the poinson hemlock, or of the thorn apple, both of which are well known to be potent poisons? It certainly would be. We take many things in ignorance that we would not have taken with full knowledge of their properties. And for the want of correct knowledge in relation to medicine, the sick man is compelled to risk his life many times, where he would not risk a shilling in like chances for loss, in the ordinary transactions of life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.