Thomson, Samuel

Scot, Michael. The texts of Michael Scot s Ars Alchemie by S.H. Thomson. Osiris 5 (1938) 523-559. Translated by Samuel Harrison Thomson. 

Paracelsus. Paracelsus his archidoxes comprised in ten books [thence identical to 1663 edition] Faithfully and plainly Englished, and published by J. H. Oxon. London Printed for W.S. and are to be sold by Samuel Thomson at the Bishops Head in Pauls Churchyard, 1661. v.p. 

The remarks of Rafinesque, then Professor of Medical Botany in the University of Transylvania, are interesting in view of the "orthodox" attitude towards remedies of the herbalists "I am enabled to introduce, for the first time, this beautiful genus into our materia medica all the species are equally remedial. They have long been known to the Indians, who called them moccasin flower, and were used by the empyrics of New England, particularly Samuel Thomson. Their properties, however, have been tested and confirmed by Dr. Hales, of Troy Dr. Tully, of Albany, etc. 

These groups have been subjected to extensive analysis. See Martin Kaufman, Homeopathy in America The Rise and Fall of a Medical Heresy (Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971) John S. Haller Jr., Medical Protestants The Eclectics in America, 1825-1939 (Carbondale Southern Illinois University, 1994) Haller, Kindly Medicine Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836-1911 (Kent, OH Kent State University Press, 1997) Haller, The People s Doctors Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement, 1790-1860 (Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press, 2000) and Alex Berman and Michael A. Flannery, America s Botanico-Medical Movements VoxPopuli (Binghamton, NY Pharmaceutical Products Press, 2001), pp. 17-31. 

Samuel Thomson praised the use of L. inflata and L. syphilitica for an array of diseases, including rabies, measles, and smallpox, and even for removing pimples and warts. He Usts other herbs to be used with lobelia, such as capsicum, ginger, bayberry, and sage, as well as goldenseal and comfrey, and peach tree bark and myyrh. Peppermint and spearmint may be added, and catnip too. 

One controversial death sometimes cited as being a result of lobelia toxicity is that of Ezra Lovett, who allegedly died by lobelia poisoning at the hands of Samuel Thomson in Massachusetts in 1 7. The death was the basis... 

D. Cortizo-Lacalle, C. T. Howells, S. Gambino, F. Vilela, Z. Vobecka, N. J. Findlay, A. R. Inigo, S. A. J. Thomson, P. J. Skabara, I. D. W. Samuel, BODIPY-Based Conjugated Polymers for Broadband Light Sensing and Harvesting Applications. /. Mater. Chem. 2012,22,14119. 

Tennyson Jonathan 139 Teukolsky Saul A. 214,309 Thom Rene 575, 862 Thomas Llewell3m Hilleth 568, 602 Thomson George 13 Thomson Joseph John 6,8 Tildesley Dominic J. 322 Timmerman Peter 856 Tomonaga Shinichiro 3,14, 93 Tonomura AMra 3 Topley Bryan 764 Torrey Hemy C. 617, 658 Trickey Samuel B. 612 Tripet Brian 749 Truhlar Donald G. 765, 792 Turing Alan Mathison 878,879... 

A Treatise on the Materia Medica, 2 vols. 4, Edinburgh, 1789 J. Thomson, 1859, i, 141, 611 ii, 523-64 it was tr. into French, German (by Samuel Hahnemann) and Italian. Cullen s works were collected and published, 2 vols., Edinburgh, 1827. 

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