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THE

PRINCIPLES

OF THE

CHRONO-THERMAL SYSTEM OF MEDICINE,

WITH THE

FALLACIES OF THE FACULTY.

IN A SERIES OF LECTURES.

BY

SAMUEL DICKSON, M.D.,

FORMERLY A MEDICAL OFFICER ON THE STAFF.

CONTAINING ALSO

AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES,

BY

WILLIAM TURNER, M.D.,

HEALTH COMMISSIONER FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK.

Fourth Edition, Stereotyped.

LONDON:

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., 5, STATIONERS' COURT; AND JOHN OLLIVIER,
59, PALL-MALL OLIVER AND BOYD, EDINBURGH:

ANDREW MILLIKEN, DUBLIN.

MDCCCXLV.

"Look at these two men just about to be buried-they were brothers and had the same disease-but they treated themselves differently. One had a blind confidence in his doctor-the other left himself entirely to nature;-both, nevertheless, are, as you see, on the way to their long home-the first because he took all the physic ordered him-the second because he would take none at all." "How very embarrassing!" said Leandro. "What in such a case, Friend Asmodeus, would you advise a poor patient to do?" "Ah! I wish I could tell you that," replied the Cripple; "I know plenty of good remedies, but it would puzzle us both to find a good doctor!"-Le Sage's Diable Boiteux.

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PREFACE

ΤΟ

THE FOURTH BRITISH EDITION.

"WHAT have the physicians been about for the last Four Thousand Years? The answer to that question will be found in the following pages !"

Such is the question-such the reply with which the eminent Health Commissioner for the city and county of New York introduces the Chrono-Thermal System of Medicine to his countrymen in the far West. The flattering terms in which Dr. Turner has expressed his acknowledgements to me in his Introduction to the American Reprint of my labours, contrast somewhat curiously with the reception they have met nearer home. To the author of the Chrono-Thermal System he thus writes:

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On a suggestion which the reader will find in Dr. Turner's Introduction, the "Fallacies of the Faculty" is now again presented to the public under its second title-The Chrono-Thermal System of Medicine. In the face of much opposition, this system has already made its way pretty well in the world. Reprinted in America, it has had the further honour to be translated into three of the continental languages - French, German, and Swedish; while the sale of nearly six thousand copies of former editions in this country speaks favourably for its reception. among the British people. When I come to relate how it has been received by the Medical Profession, the great body of them, I fear, will not be much flattered, either by the matter or the manner of the relation. Fifteen years ago it was my fate-I can take your likeness for me, if you will do me the great scarcely call it my fortune-to make two

"New York, May 14th, 1845.

"DEAR SIR,-This note will be handed to you by

my friend, Mr. Richard Burlew, a merchant of this

city, who, visiting England on business, and intending to pass a few days in your metropolis, has kindly undertaken to place in your hands a copy of an edition of your Fallacies of the Faculty,' which I have had reprinted here. He has also been good enough to undertake another commission for me, viz., to make an arrangement with some Daguerreotypist in London to

favour to sit for it.

"The reprint of your book is too recent to enable

me to inform you as to the result. But I think the obstacles to a full reception of your beautiful System in America, are not so great as they have been with you. The daily press here takes cognizance of such works. And thus far I have no reason to complain in this respect. My edition consists of 1000 copies.

"I hope to communicate further with you hereafter,

and would be pleased to receive any hints or suggestions

you may have to offer to your new disciple in this

most important discoveries in Medicine,namely, the Periodicity of Movement of every Organ and Atom of all Living Bodies -and the Intermittency and Unity of All Diseases, however named, and by whatever produced. To these I added a third-the Unity of Action of Cause and Cure,—both of which involve Change of Temperature.

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