A course of fifteen lectures on medical botany, denominated Thomson's new 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.

  • Robinson, Samuel.
Date:
1830
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Credit: A course of fifteen lectures on medical botany, denominated Thomson's new 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    when he appeared in his most awful and terrific forms. Athens was rescued from the plague by the skill of a single man! It was in the commencement of the second year of the Peloponesian war, that the plague broke out in Athens; and never before had this dreadful scourge of the human race, ravaged so many coun- tries and climes. Rising on the burning brow of Africa, through Ethiopia, Egypt, Lybia, and Persia, Syria, and Cyprus, and Lemnos, together with many other places of Asia and isles of the ^Egean sea, it held its dreadful and desolating course. The na- tions stood appalled in its presence, and thousands perished by its breath! A merchant vessel landing in the Piraeus, brought the disease to Athens; and this fell destroyer raged with a fury before unknown, over that celebrated city, Minerva. Its fearful and rapid progress seemed to bid defiance to all mortal skill. From the first attack of the disease, the pow- ers of the mind seemed blotted out, while the body acquired new and additional strength ; as if the enemy, on purpose had augmented the power to suf- fer. The torment was terrible. The sick were seized with despair, and the sound confounded with madness. All the laws of equity and social order were trampled down. Scenes of riot and confusion and reckless tumult, surrounded the march of death! The diseased were first smitten in the head ; from this the malady passed down through the whole body, leaving in one shapeless, ruined mass, that noble form divine. But the sufferer seldom wait- ed for this terrible catastrophe ; but, in the begin- ning, in the fury of distraction, plunged into wells, rivers, and the sea, to quench the consuming fire that devoured within them ! It was in this awful crisis of her ruin, that one man, one single man, skilled in the use of those di- vine remedies, which the God of Nature has lodg-