A COURSE OF FIFTEEN LECTURES, ON MEDICAL BOTANY, DENOMINATED THOMSON'S THEORY OF MEDICAL PRACTICE; IN WHICH THE VARIOUS THEORIES THAT HAVE PRECEDED IT ARE REVIEWED AND COMPARED. DELIVERED IN CINCINNATI, OHIO. BY SAMUEL ROBINSON. WITH INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BY THE PROPRIETOR.
Columbus: Printed for the Proprietor, 1830 [1831?]. 162pp. Bound in original quarter leather with paper covered boards [well worn], hinges starting. Scattered foxing, lightly age toned. Old ownership inscription on front pastedown, "A. Sims His Book." A few instances of contemporary marginalia. Good+.
The first edition issued from Columbus in 1829. The title page carries an 1830 imprint, but Samuel Thomson's letter To the Public at page [5] is dated January 1831; and an advertisement at page [6] is dated March 21,1831. Thomson's prefatory letter assures that, if his system is "carried into effect, nine tenths of the sickness, and consequent wo and misery which now distorts and distracts the human species, would be banished from among us." Robinson was an enthusiastic advocate of Thomson's botanic system of medicine.
AI 3337 [6]. Morgan 2071. Cordasco 30-0765. Item #25182
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