Description1834 Illustration from Thomsonian Botanic Watchman.jpg
English: On the left an M.D. and Fellow of the Royal Society bludgeons a patient,
who is being bled and is mired in the slough of disease, with a club labeled
"calomel" (mercury chloride). On his jacket are the labels: "dieting", "regulate
system," "depletion," "lancet," and "nitre." In the center, a man wearing the
labels: "reason," "philosophy," and "common sense." And on the right, a man
wearing the labels: "Thomson's system," "food," "steam," "lobelia," and
"capsicum" leads a patient up the steps of common sense.
Date
Source
The Thomsonian Botanic Watchman, vol. 1, no. 1, p 8
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A cartoon depicting Thomsonianism as a saving grace from contemporary medical practices.