THE. CONSTITUTION, Rules and Regulations To be adopted and practiced by the Members of the; FRIENDLY BOTANIC SOCIETY In Newhampshire and Massachusetts. TOGETHER WITH THE PREPARATION QF MEDICINE AND SYSTEM OP PRACTICE Under the nature and op«ration of the four Elements^ , BY SAMUEL THOMSON. doveh : Printed for the Society^. 1815. tZj&WlZ*. K^S I W NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE Bethesda, Maryland THIS agreement made this in the year ot our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve, between Samuel Thomson, of Portsmouth, in' the county of Rockingham, and state of Newhampshire, Botanist, on the one part, and the undersigned subscribers of the several towns set against their names in the county and state aforesaid, and in the county of York, and state of Massachusetts, on the other part! witnesseth.— The said Samuel Thomson onfhis part agrees to give to the said undersigned subscribers all the information in his the said Thomson's power, relative to obtaining, preparing, and using all such herbs, roots, and barks, and every other medicine that he the said Thomson has heretofore found, or may hereafter find Useful or necessary to remedy any disease incident to the clim- ate in which the said subscribers or either of them, do or may live. And the undersigned subscribers each one for himself on his part agrees, in consideration of the above information, to pay the said Samuei Thomson the sum of dollars, as soon as he the said Thomson, shad give them the above named infor- mation, and the undersigned each one fqr himself further agrees with the said Thomson, that they will not give or cause t« be given or revealed any part of the above information to any per- son except to a subscriber of this agreement, under the penalty ot forfeiting his word and honor. The Society shall consist of fifty original members. • And it is further agreed between the said parties, that the sum of dollars (or more as may be agreed on) which shall be paid by each additional member, shall go the one half to the use and benefit of the said Society, and the other half to the use and benefit of Samuel Thomson and hisiieiis loiever , RULES & REGULATIONS TO BE ADOPTED AND PRACTISED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE FRIENDLY BOTANIC SOCIETY. v. I. No one of the members shall reveal or cause to tye reveal* t(i, under the penalty of forfeiting his word and honor, any part of tne information given by Samuel Thomson to the Society, relative to obtaining, preparing, and using all such herbs, roots, and barks, and every other kind of medicine that he the said Thomson has heretofore found, or may hereafter find necessary to remedy any disease incident to the climate in which the So- ciety may reside. II. If any one of the Society is known to be guilty of reveal- ing or causing to be revealed any part of the information above ™»nnr»n*H. he shall be expelled from the Society, and sJiall not C 4 T be considered worthy of being a member, and as having forfeit- ed his word and honor. III. One suitable member shall be appointed by the Society to f.ct as agent and clerk for the Society. And it shall be the duty of the agent to procore, prepare, and always keep a suffic- ient quantity of medicine for the use and benefit of the Society, which shall be provided at' the expence of the Society. IV No member shall at any time deal out, sell, or give any medicine to any person that is not a member of the Society, un- less administered by himself, under the penalty of the above named forfeiture. V. No person or persons shall be admitted to be a member of the Society, without the approbation thereof. VI. There shall be a committee chosen by the Society to as- sist the Agent, and to conduct the business of agency in his ab- sence, or confinement by sickness, or any other way. And it shall be the duty of the committee to assist the agent in piepur- ing medicine, and in all necessary business relative to the good order and advantage of the Society. VII. No one of the faculty of physicians, or studying under their direction shall be admitted as a member of this Society, unless first examined by the committee, and judged to be con- fidential. And shall be bound under the solemnity of an oath administered by a justice of the peace, and recorded by the same, and shall agree and conform to the rules and regulations of the society, and pay the sum of five hundred dollais. Then he shall be, entitled to the privilege} and become a full member of the Society. V1I1. Prices of Practice.—The members of the Friendly Botanic Society, after repeated trials for a number years in the medicinal vegetivesof our own country, having satisfactorily ex- perienced in Dr. Thomson's six numbers prepared therefrom, a safe, speedy, and efficacious remedy for every disease inci- dent thereto, that admits of a cure, cannot but highly recom- mend them to the Public at large. A catholicon, or universal medicine has long been-sought af- ter by the faculty, but in vain ; in these numbers they feel war- ranted in asserting, it is amply contained. All that the best, medicine can do, is to aid Nature in her ef- forts to throw off disease. The skill of the physician then lies in the administration of those medicines, that co-operate with her, and give additional force to her exertions. For she always acts as honestly as she can, and is never to be resisted. But what is Nature ? The great Hippocrates1 maintains that Nature is heat ; that active principle which gives life and animation to all the other elements that form our composition, And this medicine is admirably calculated -to kindle *and nourish this flame, and to assist it in aii its operauoiis L 3 J * It l»as many advantages over apothecarv's drugs, which serve but to prolong disease, and often injure i separably the health. It is perfectly agreeable to the constitution, more speedy in af- fording relief, and of course lc-s expensive. And for the information and satisfaction of the public, it is thought proper to introduce the following regulations on the pri- ces of practice in future to be adopted. In case of acute disease, as cholic, pleurisy, or dysentery, where the patient is relieved on the first visit, the pi ice shall not exceed five dollars ; and in all acute fevers, where any member has the first care, and the patient attends to his directions, it I* shall not exceed ten dollars exclusive of tiavel. But after a long train of depletive remedies have been em- ployed, as bleeding, mercury, opium, &c. since double the med- icine and attention will be required, the price will be propor- tionably enhanced. , Any member of the Society shall have a right to attend upon* one out of the Society through a fij of sickness, but not a second .tune, if he is able fepi'n the san>e and refuses. But this condi- tion shall not restrict the poor from assistance. Any person on making application to join the Society, and sh;»u be denied membership, shall not inconsequence be debar- red the benefits of the medicine if administered by a member When a member of the Society shall attend upon orte not be- longing thereto, and the ->atient shai! send for a physician, to %eep in favor with him ■■ it shall appear, and thus injure the credit of the meaicme, he shall pay the same sum as if attend- ed through his sickness, and ..■•> member shall again administer to him, under the forfeiture of ter. dollars, which shall jro to the benefit of the Society. ° Dr. S. Tb$mfons System of Practice. My system of practice is founded upon these few, simple, and I think just principles. ' 1st. That the constitution of all mankind are essentially alike, and differ only in the different temper of the same mate'- nals of which they are composed. The mateiials of which all men are formed, may be resolved into the four elements. Earth and water constitute the solids of the body, which is made -ctave by air and fire. And this last element in a peculiar manner, gives life and motion to the rest : And when entirely overpow- ered from whatever cause by the other elements, death ensues. 2d. That the construction and organization of the human frame, is in all men essentially the same. They have similar solids and fluids, viz. bones, cartilages, tendons, nerves, muscles, veins, arteries, flesh, blood, and other juices, body, and parts, or C 6 ] •• 3d. That all are sustained in a manner as similar as their for. - matien, Horn the earth, the common mother ot us ail. Of the ele.uents man is made, and by the same elements he is sup- ported. 4th. That a state of perfect health arises from a due balance or temperature of these elements. But wfien it is by any nuans destroyed, the body is more or ;ess disordered. And when this is the case, there b always an actual diminution or absence of the element file or heat, and inproportion to this diminution or absence, the body is affectW' with its opposite, cold. The former may be denominated nature it-elf, the best physician of the bod), the latter its enemy ; the first is the health and life of the body, the last jts disease and death. 5th. That all disorders however various the symptoms, and different toe names by''which they are called, arise directly from obstructed perspiiation The many evils derived from hence, must be obvious, when it is considered, that the dis- charge from the body theieby, is greater than by all the other evacuations combined. Obstructed perspiration may be. pro- duced from a great variety of causes. From anxiety, and sor- row of mind, from sevete study, from any sudden emotion, sat anger or j ty ; from intemperance, as drunkenness, gaittony, or from too lit le sustenance ; from any kind of irregularity, n<>m inaction, or too severe labor ; from too much sleep, or too lime \ from sudden changes of habit, or in the atmosphere ; from bad o>. , or unwholsome diet; from wounds, bruises, burns, or chills ; and from any injury, whether external or internal. In u word, from whatever diminishes the active energy of heat or nature. Now as all men have similar constitutions, being formed of the same materials differently tempered. As their construction and organisation essentially agree ; As they are ail sustained from the same elements which form their composition ; As a jus; balance or temperature of these elements produces a state of health, and the reverse destroys it; As all diseases tuke their immediate rise from insensible perspiration in a greater or less degree obstructed ; As this is an effect universally produced, froo i whatever injurious to the system, may be the distant and original cause ; It is evident, that those medicines which are must agreeable to«nature, and efficacious in removing obstruc- tions, and the evils thereby produced, and.restoring the perfect equilibrium, uctivity, and energy of the system, must be the best, and universally applicable. I know of scarce cent as powerful. It is warming, opening, searching, j.t.n- t!rating, purifying, quickening and quieting. A'l these quali-. V. 4 t > 3 ties it absolutely possesses, and is suited to the disorder of th« human frame, whatever may be the name given it. No. 1 is to be used as in the Seaman's Directions. It will cleanse the st£§ach, overpower the cold, and promote a free perspiration < No. 2 Is to be used to raise the inward heat, and maintain the fountain above the stream. No. 3 Is designed to scour the stomach of canker, and pro- mote more freely perspiration ; and in case of fever, when the heat is increased to such a degree inwardly as to overpower the cold, the external heat will return inwardly, and the cold will pervade the whole surface of the body as the heat had done be- fore ; and this is called the turn of the fever. Bnt if No. 1 should sicken arid not puke, there may be two causes for it ; viz. the coldness and acidity ol the stomach ; for which you may apply No. 2 more freely, to overpower the former, and pearl ash dissolved in water as strong as can be taken, will be proper for the latter. But if this fails of the desired effect, and the medicine does not operate sufficiently nor ease the pain, as in the case of a choiic, put the patient into a sweat by steaming over a pan or bason of hot water, with a hat stone in it, about a fifth part immersed in the water, which should be occasionally wet with vinegar. Let the patient set or stand over this steam, covered with a blanket to shield him from the air, as long as he can conveniently bear ; this will more thoroughly open the pores, extract the cold from the body, and set the medicine into* operation, which will be likely to afford immediate relief. No. 4 (A common preparation of bitters} is to be used three or four times in a day at discretion. It will correct the bile and quicken the appetite. No. 5—Peachroeat Cordial, Is to be used in cases of weak- ness, for the purpose of strengthening the stomach, and restor- ing the digestive powers. No. 6—The Rheumatic Drops—To be used in all cases of pain, as well external as internal, and for any outward injury*. How to prepare Medicine. The Fmetic is No I, and must be gathered when the are about half turned, a little yellow, and the a little turned, then the is ripe. Gather the and spread it on a blanket in the sun ; when dry, pound or grind it fine, and sift it through a fine sieve, and the likewise ; the finer it is made, the better. The mode of using it, you will find in th« Seaman's Directions. No. 2, Is ^Peppermint, ■Pennyroyal, or a/ry warm ar- ticle to assist in raising the inward heat. L 8 1 No. 3 Is of which take two parts, and of the root one part, to which may be added pople bark, choco late root, Sumac bark, leaves or berries, and Moose wood bark. leaves may be used as a substitute. No. 4—The bitters for correcting the bile, and assisting di- gestion, is the and these will answer alone— but the bark of the Cypress root is very good. If you wish for hot bitters, add Cayenne, or Pennyroyal. No. 5—The best.Syrup for promoting digestion after a dys- entery, or after relieving of any disorder is the following ; take 1 oz. or their value of stones, ground fine ; half an oz. Gum made fine, which put into a bottle, and with a strong tea made of Black Birch ba;-k, or with hot water fill the bottle two thirds full, and add 2 ozs. loaf .sugar, and half a pint of Brandy. Take half a glass at a time, three or four times in a day. Add Cayenne discretionary. No. 6—Rheumatic Drofis. Take 1 gallon high wines ; I lb. Gum and put it into a stone jug, and boil it in a ket- tle of hot water, for half an hour, when settled, pour it off in bottles, and add Cayenne as occasion may require. The rest verbal. For a Cough. Take or • made fine, four teaspoontuls, one of No. 1, one of No. 2, one of Babary, one of Umbil, and one of bitter root, with sugar equal to the whole composition, moistened to the thickness of molasses with the Rheumatic Drops. Take half a teaspoonful at going to bed, keep warm, and continue taking it till relief is obtained, partic- ularly at going to bed. Where the cough has been of long standing, it will be be best while taking this prescription, to go through a general course of the medicine, and repeat it if the patient relapses. Counter /'won—Take of and bush and . and Bitter Root, of each equal parts, and half a part of powdered fine, and well compounded together. Take about a pinch in a large table spoonful of hot water sweetened, two or three times a tlay, and continue it till relief is obtained. Hysterick Powder.—Take .and of each equal parts, powdered fine. Take for a dose, half a teaspoonliil of the mixture in two great spoonfuls of hot water. Cancer Plaster.—Take the heads of and fill aljrass kettle, and boil them an hour. Then take them out, and fill the kettle again with fresh ones, in the same liquor. After suffic- ient boiling, strain it off, and press the heads ; then simmer it over a slow fire to the consistency of tar, when it will be fit for application. To be used for the lips, Cancers, or any deadly sore. Volatile Salts.—.Take Sal crude, 1 oz. 2 ozs. pound each by itself fine, mix them well together, and bottle fa for use. I 9 1 Salve.—Take I lb. wax 1 lb. Salt ' 1 1-2 lb. Turpentine, and Fur Balsam, 1 part each, which melt and sim- mt'i' together ; -then strain off into a bason fit for use. Strengthening Platter.—Take a 5 pail kettle full of and leaves bruised and boiled well ; then pour it off, press or squeeze the leaves, and boil it down until half as thick as molasses, then add 2 J Rosin, and l£ Turpentine, which sim- mer well together, until the water is evaporated, then pour it oft* into water, and work it like wax, when it will be fit for use. .Verve Ointment.—'Take the bark of the root of I two parts ; of Wormwood and Camomile each equal, one part; which put into horse or porpoise oil, or any kind of soft oil, and simmer the same together for twelve hours, then strain it off, and add 2 ozs. Spirits Turpentine, to each lb. of ointment. To be used in case of a bruise, sprain, callice, swelling, or for corns. For a Burn or Scald.—Make a strong tea of the or Coffee, pound a cracker fine, or take slippery elm pulverized} and make poultice of the same, and apply it to the part, renew- ing it every 24 hours, washing it with soap suds at each renew- al and wetting it in the interim with the rasberry till it dischar- ges. Then apply salve till a cure is effected. When the scald is over the whole or greatest part of the body, take a cotton cloth of several thicknesses, wet with the decoction, and apply it to the body, thoroughly welting it with the same, as often as it becomes dry. For afresh wound, cuty or bruise.—Wash immediately in cold water and bind up with the same ; keep a hot stone at the feet, and take medicine to raise a gentle perspiration. After cleansing the wound, and laying the infkmation, apply a poul- tice or salve. Mode of treatment infudden and deadly attacks•, As the Spotted Fever, Fits, and Drowned Persons. Incases of this kind, the heat and activity of the patient is so greatly diminished, that the common administration will not an- swer the purpose. For the determining power of the medicine to the surface of the body, is so small, through the loss of inter- nal heat to give it operation, that all its effect is resisted and counterbalanced by the pressure of the external air. To coun- teract this pressure, it will be necessary by the aid of a good fire to keep the patient's chamber about as warm as summer heat, and more fully to rarify and lighten the air, and aid the ef- ficacy of the medicine, to make a free use of the steam bath, shielding the patient with a blanket, and at the same time ad- ministering as occasion requires, No. I, and 2. This course should be attentively and unremittingly pursued and repeated; till the disorder is removed. B [ io 3 ON FEVERS IN GENERAL. A great deal has been written on the subject of fevers by tne learned doctors of medicine, but without; throwing much light on the subject, or benefitting mankind. They appear to be abundantly fruitful in finding out names for diseases, and with great care and nicety distinguish their different symptoms, but are as altogether barren in the knowledge of their origin and r-jmedy. To the first, but little importance, comparatively, can be attached, to the latter highest. Names are arbitrary things, and the mere knowledge of a name, is nothing but the cumming ana annis, but in the knowledge of the origin of a malady, and its antidote, lies the weightier matters of this science. This- knowledge make-: the genuine physician, and all without it, is mere quackery. Agreeably to the writings of the faculty, there are a great va- riety of fevers, some more, and some less dangerous. But to begin with u definition of the name.. What is fever ? Heat, un- doubtedly, though a disturbed operation of it. But is there in the' human frame, but one kind of heat ? Yes, says the physi- cian, laughable as it may seem, there is the pleuretic heat, the bnious heat*the slow nervous heat, the putrid heat, the hectic heat, the yellow heat, the spotted or cold heat, and an infinity of other heats, and sometimes, calamitous to tell, one, poor patient has the whole or most of these heats in one, but dies without, or want of heat after all. Is fever or heat then, a disease ? Hip- pocrates (the father of medicine) maintains, that Nature is lieat. And is he not correct ? Is nature then, a disease ? How prepos- terous ! Fever is the effect, and not the cause of disease ; it is the struggle of Nature to throw off the offending malady. It arises from obstru - ion, and obstruction from cold. This is uni- versally the case. Remove then the cause, and the effect will cease. No person ever yet died of fever, for as a dissolution ap- proaches, the patient grows cold, till in death, the last spark of heat is extinguished. This the faculty cannot contiovert. And if they cannot, they must confess, that their whole train of de- pletive remedies—bleeding, blistering, physicing, starving, with all their refrigerative;-, their opium, mercury, arsenic, &c. are so many dead.iy engines combining with the disease against the constitution and life of the patient. If cold, which is the com- mon received opinion, and a true -ne, is the. cause of fever, to repeated.y bleed the patient, -and administer mercury, opium, nine, and other refrigerants to restore him, is as though one should, to make up a good fire, throw half of it out of doors, and to kindle up the residue, heap on water, snow, and ice ! ! ! - Now, as it is a fact, that cannot be controverted, that fever takes it rise from one great cause or origin ; it follows conse- quently, that one method of cure, wili ans.vcr in all cases. And the great principle is to assist nature. In the commencement. I ii 3 -of a lever, by direct and proper application, it is easily and quickly removed, and the patient is about again immediately. Twenty four or forty eight hours to the extent, and often less, is sufficient for this purpose. But where the patient is left unas- sisted to struggle with the disease, until his strength is exhaust- ed, and more especially where the most unnatural and injurious administrations are made, if a recovery is possible, it must of ne- cessity take a much longer time. These declarations are true, and have been proved, and will be again, to the satisfaction ot evei^ unprejudiced mind, at the hazard of any forfeiture the fac- ulty may challenge. But says the intelligent Dr. Hcrvey, " By what unaccounta- ble perversity in our frame does it appear, thai we set ourselves so much against any thing that is new ? Can any behold without scorn, such drones of Physicians, that after the space of so ma- ny hundred years experience and practice of their predecessors not one single medicine has been detected, that has the least force directly to prevent, to opposer resist and expel a continu- ed fever ? Should any by a more sedulous observation, pretend to make the least step towards the discovery of such remedies, their hatred and envy would swell against him, as a legion of devils against virtue ; the whole society would dart their mal- ice at him, and torture him with all the calumnies imaginable ; without sticking at any thing that should destroy him root and branch ; For he who professes a reformer of the art of Physic, must resolve to run the hazard of the martyrdom of his reputation, life, and estate." A genuine receipt for the ChoUc. WHEN a patient is taken &ick of the choiic and relief is ap- plied for by the Health Restoring Physician, let a portion of physic be given, and if the stomach is weak, and puke it up, . then let it be repeated, and continued for two or three days -*- And if she till continue to puke it up, to hide the ignorance of the quack under the cloak and powdered head of a doctor, boldly declare the woman is burst, and if she denies it, answer, " who knows best, you or the doctor ?" Insist upon i.f and order ac- cordingly some women to search her, and if a kernel can be found in the groin, then to support your former asseveration, swear it to be a burst. * Then throw by all medicine, make a pledge of linen cloth, about the bigness and thickness of your hand, wet in cold water, which apply to the kernel, repeating it every five minutes by the watch, being careful to renew the wa- ter to every pledge, lest it should be too warm ; and if it can be obtained, snow or ice would be far better. At the same time don't fail to give the woman as much cold water as you can per- suade here to take ; in the mean while, afford her no support, Qspecialiy any thing warm. Use clysters freely, made strong 12 ] of tobacco »nd salt, and if she pukes them up [whiih demon- strates that the passage is frcej swear that the burst stops all passage downward. Let this mode of treatment be strictly at- tended to for nine days, and every time you take off the pledge, pinch the abdomen, and try to croud the kernel into her body ; and when you have pinched'and pressed it so that the blood set- tles and the part turns purple, and becomes much swelled, then you must state there is danger of a mortification. Let no other physician visit the patient, lest your ignorance be exposed, and a cure performed. Lastly, call m two other quacks as ignorant as yourself ; secrete yourselves from the family, call in three or four old women, who will not expose you ; assume a face of brass, and the heart of a savage, so that the shrieks of the suffer- ing patient shall make no impression upon your feelings ! Then bind the victim, take your instruments of torture, cut open the body from the short ribs-to the groin, and find no----burst !.! ! But to deceive the women present, you may skin off the kernel from the groin, and shew them that this pretended gut had no passage through it, and had grown fast to the hip. The whole process continue for about .an hour and a half, till with coldness and loss of blood, the butchered victim gasps and dies 1 Those who wish to be more minutely acquainted with this matter, can make application to Mr. Jonas Keyes of Portsmouth, who can vouch for the truth of all that has been said of the vir- tues and efficacy of this receipt. Notice to the Public. HEARING a favorable and well authenticated account of Mr. Samuel Thomson, as Physician, and of the highly advanta- geous discoveries he had made in the medicinal roots, plants, and herbs of our own country, and of the new mode of practice, orig- inating with himself, safe so the constitution, and both speedy and efficacious in the cure of common diseases, and extraordi- nary in those of a long standing, and of a difficult and complicat- ed nature—We the undersigned, for our own conviction and con- firmation, gave the doctor an invitation to visit these part*, and to practice among us; and engaged to pay him a satisfactory compensation for the valuable information he might communi- cate upon this interesting subject. He accepted the invitation, and has been with us at different periods, and spent at each a considerable time. His practice has been general and highly approved. A society has been formed of about fifty members, which is increasing ; to which his attention has been more par- ticularly directed ; and to which he has given the most ample satisfaction. A particular description of the several difficult complaints, and diseases, his skill and medicine have remedied, we are not disposed to magnify, nor is at this time expedient to give,; but the extraordinary cases, which are not a few, will :_ 13 j shortly be collected, and laid before the public. The cases, anu facts speak iur themselves. And we ourselves, have been wit- nesses in several aiarming cases, of the superiority of his skill, and of the powerful, and immediate efficacy of his medicine. In the rheumatism, ague, fevers, dropsy, and cholic ; and in exter- nal i' juries, as wounds, bruises, burns, frozen members of the body, &c. his cur%fchave been remarkable, and induced us to give a most decided'preference to his medicine, theory and mode of practice ; and have fully corroborated the testimony of our friends. As it is strikingly obvious to us, that the medicinal vegetives of our own country must be more congenial to the constitution of its inhabitants, and better suited to the diseases incident to our climate, than imported drugs ; we sincerely wish for the invaluable bles.Ling and benefit to the great community at large ; that Dr. Thomson's highly laudable endeavors, may be attend- ed with the most satisfactory success, and the knowledge of his medicines with their virtues and uses, be universally dissemi- nated, and his mode of practice as widely adopted. JOHN BURG IN, ") SAMUEL TUTTLE. J» Committee of the Society. JERY BURGIN. j Eastport, April 28, 1812. Methodpurfued by the Faculty towards a patient in o fever. Here is a man taken with a fever, the doctor comes and says you have a fever, and it must run nine days. He then proceeds to his common mode of practice by bleeding, puking, and phys- icing till his strength is greatly reduced. After this is done, the man is twice as sick as he was before. Then he attends him every day or twice a day with opium and nitre to kill the last re- mains of heat, to stupify the last part of sensation ; and when he gets him very low, then he visits him three times a day; and the sicker he makes him, the oftener he visits him. Only one dollar a visit if he finds his own medicine, and thus follows him till the nine days are up ; then if nature is sufficient to over- power the medicine and disorder, the man will seem a little bet- ter, if not, he will remain growing worse, especially if he contin- ue taking the medicine, till it terminate in what they call anoth- et fever's setting in, such as a putrid fever. If the tongue grows black after this, if the nerves become convulsed attended with spasms, then the putrid nervous fever has taken hold ; this com- monly ends the strife ; otherwise, the patient being in a linger- ing condition, the disorder unremoved, he is braced up wilh the bark, his nature submitting to his situation, he seems half way between living and dying, neither sick nor well, fit for himself nor any body else. Then the chief reply when asked how he [ 1* j does, is—I don't feel well, that fever broke my nature all to pie- ces, it left me very low, and I tear in a decline. -Viler having lingered in this way a year or two, and applied to all the doctors he can hear of far and near, and gotten himself as near dead as possible and be about, then he becomes a fit subject for Doctor Thomson ; then application is made to him, and the patient is urged on his care ; then he has to produce^flevolution in the body, to throw off the deadly stupifying medicine that has been administered, with all its ill effects ; and bring him buck to the same situation he was in when he had the fever, and remove the cause which should have been done at that time, and restore the system to its usual natural motion and vigour. If ibis three- fold object is accomplished, to destroy the reputation of Thom- son's medicine and practice, the report is immediately spiead abroad that the patient was almost restored under the regu.ar order of physiciaas before he applied to him. Otherwise, il the case was desperate and incurable, the reply is, that Ttiomson has killed him. Thus has his character and reputation been abused and scandalized, to keep the utility of his medicine and practice from the use and benefit of mankind, nor will the cure of fifty persons scarcely regain the credit back. Thus has he suffered persecution since he has been in these parts. When the Dr. had practised two years in Portsmouth, the public reproach against him was, that he had killed six patients. It is allowed that six died under his care, although four of them were given over by other physicians, and the other two were past the operation of the medicine ; this was the situation of the patients that he was said to have killed. One thing I shall no- tice. In the two years, the bills of mortality rendered an ac- count of 196*dealhs in the town ; and there were six practising doctors, of which it was allowed he had as much practice as any of them. How many was the proportion for each one to kill.' Divide 196 by 6 and it will give the proportion of 32 to each, and 4 to kill between them. By this you will find that Thom- son has not killed his proportion by 27. Who killed those 27 over their proportion ? Killed, did I say ! no, nothing about killed, saving six ; the rest died according to, law, or the Lord saw fit to take them away by his own pleasure. Who would not blush at such open partiality, and ingratitude as this ! I shall not proceed any further upon the subject, but leave it for serious consideration. A FRIEND TO HUMANITY. Another Cafe. Here is Mr. John * Helpless, this morning taken very sick, and sends for Dr. Thomson, who immediately comes. D. Good morning Mr. Helpless. P. Good morning doctor, 1 hope you [ 15 J have come to help me up. D. Yes, out of pity and a deed of charily I shall give you my best endeavors. P. Do you think you can help me ? D. O yes, undoubtedly I can help you.— P. How long first ? D. 1 think in about fifteen days, if you live till that time. P. Do doctor be on your practice as soon as you, can, for I want r^^£ D. Yes I will, but I must in the first place reduce yoflAw as possible, in order to your more spee- dy recovery, so R^TOecds him, and administers a dose or two of calomel and jalap, orders him water gruel,and returns to make his charge. Thus he continues his visits three times a day for fifteen rtays, by which time, the patient having a fine constitution, overcomes and throws off in a great measure the pernicious medicine as well as disorder' So on the fifteenth day, he salutes him with a good morning Mr. Helpless, I am glad to see you so far recovered ; what time did you get about ? A9 soon as you told me I should. D. Well, I have helped you then, ac- conding to the time I set. P. Yes doctor, you have done well, you have saved my life, and I am under the gieatest obligation to you besides paying you. What is your bill ? D. Here it is. May 14, 1809. John Helpless, to Samuel Thomson, Dr. To visiting you in your eickness 15 days S timqs a day at I doll, per visit - D. 45,00 P. I thank you doctor, for your constant, kind, and unremit- ting attention. I never paid a more reasonable bill, with higher satisfaction. But I would ask, had not this patient have better paid this money, and been immediately relieved ? Undoubtedly he had. But strange as it may seem, he would have complained, and found great fault to have been perfectly restored in 24 hours, and paid only five dollars. Seaman s Directions For using Dr. Thomson's vegetable medicine in acute disor- ders in foreign parts. TH* Emetic No. I's design'd, a gen'ral medicine for mankind Of ev'ry Country, clime, or place, wide as the circle of our race j In ev'ry case, and state, and stage, whatever malady may rage ; For male, and female, young and old, nor can its value half be told. To use this med'eine do not cease, till you are help'd of your disease ; For NATURE'S FRIEND this sure will be, when you are taken sick at sea. Let number TWO be used bold, to clear the stomach of the cold ; Next steep the coffee number THREE, and keep as warm as you can be. A hot stone at the feet now keep, as well as inward warmth repeat, The fountain 'bove the stream keep clear, and perspiration will appear. When sweat enough as you suppose, in spirit wa3h and ohange your clothes, Again to bed both clean and white, and sleep with comfort all the night, Should^the disorder reinforce, then follow up the former course, The second time I think will do, the third to fail I seldom knew. ■5 / f is ) r\ Now tajjg^jpur bitters by the way, two three or four times in aday, Your appetite if it be good, you may eat any kind of food. Physic I would by no means cliuse, M have you first or hist to use, For if^fou take it much in course, it will disorder reinforce. * oMfe$hould be much bruis'd, where bleeding frequently is \^A. A lively swea^upon^thtitday, will start the blood abetter way. If any oHfeshould be much bruis'd, where bleeding frequently is usty .veaJ|u .Let names of all Reorders be, like to the limbsfl^^tn^-i tree ; Work on the root, and that subdue, Then all tlfl^l^ will bow* to you. So as the body is the tree, the limbs are cholic, pleurisy, Worms and gravel, gout and stone, relieve the fountain and they're gone. My system's founded on this truth, Man's Air, and Water, Fire and Earth, And death is cold, and life is heat, these temper'd well, your health's complete. An examination of Man As foimel from the four elements, and Uie cause why life is not prolonged to age, seer or denomin* ion. ATTEND my friends and lend an ear, it is of consequence to hear How th' elements compose man's breath and heat and cold are life and death. I shall at first my reason give, why sects or ages cannot live, The fire that did uphold the life, is quench'd by water in the strife. Soon as the heat or fire is lost, the active part that rules the whole, You find the line of life is crost, tha water has the full Control. From th' extract of elements we rose, which earth and water doth compose, Tlic fire must 'bove the water sway, if not we turn a^ain to clay. Disorders take their rise from hence, the water has preeminence, Then keep the fire to bear the sway, and make the water waste away. And when the water gains the days or cold upon the heat doth play, Then cold .and heat do hold their strife, the battle is for death or life. And if the!beat shall gain the day, then life and health shall bear the sway. Cut if the cold" the victory gain, then death and silence hold their reign. Au addrefsto slanderers, and people of ingratitude. I UNDERSTAND some in this plate, that are in human form, So Judas like, a deep disgrace, better they'd ne'er been born. They are like Java's deadly tree, whose stand'rous pois'aous breath, A nuisance' to society, a pestilential death. .'ThereY some, oh shame, who have confest, when finding they must die, No other means to gain relief, to Thomson they'd apply. Seiv'd from the grasp of sudden death, they would his cure deny, With their last scandalizing breath, attest it was a lie. Can noble souls of real worth, their value so despise, To pay respect to worthless shapes, who own their words are lies. When crafts in danger, priests can swear, oaths seem likechaff or smoke, Lives length in people they declare, to give a deadly stroke. Vou may find$neas bad as this, with A. M. to his name, Who to kill right, and help craft spite, now is expos'd to shame. People of such ingratitude, who wilful crimes commit, . l7»e devil is useless, so is hell, if the they don't find that pit. \