The Early Botanical Medical Movement as a Reflection of Life, Liberty, and Literacy in Jacksonian America
secondary literature · 2002
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Peer-reviewed medical-history journal article by Michael A. Flannery. Identifiers confirmed directly on PubMed (PMID 12398251) and the PMC full-text page (PMCID PMC128961): J Med Libr Assoc, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 442-454, 2002. Used in this case as the source for: Thomson testing his system on yellow-fever victims in Boston and New York City as early as 1806, the period his regimens were first given the name 'Thomsonian'; the numbered six-remedy system with lobelia (Indian tobacco) as remedy No. 1; the sale of family rights for $20 and the organization of purchasers into Friendly Botanic Societies; the 1813 patent obtained from the U.S. Patent Office (a 'Fever Medicine' per Dr. William Thornton); the 1822 New Guide to Health, or Botanic Family Physician (at least 21 editions from 14 publishers by 1851); and adherent counts (1.5 million claimed by 1834; contemporary estimates of 4-6 million by the 1840s).
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Michael A. Flannery’s peer-reviewed history of the early American botanical medical movement (Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2002; PMID 12398251), confirmed directly on PubMed and PMC. It supplies this case’s dating of Thomson’s practice to 1806 (when he treated yellow-fever patients in Boston and New York and his regimens first acquired the “Thomsonian” name), the mechanics of the numbered remedy system and family-rights sales, and adherent counts through the 1840s.