HS 413 Foundations of Herbal Medicine - Samuel Thomson & Thomsonianism
Items held at Dixson Library
615.32/B516a
Berman, Alex and Michael Flannery. (2001) America's botanico-medical movements: vox populi. New York, Pharmaceutical Products Press. 289 p.
615.53/T482zh
Haller, John S. (2000) The people's doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American botanical movement, 1790-1860. Carbondale, Southern Ilinois University Press. 377 p.
615.5/F981
Micozzi, Marc S. Fundamentals of complementary and alternative medicine. New York, Churchill Livingstone, 1996. pp. 168-9.
- a brief intro to Thomson and his work. This book is in the Reserve collection and relevant pages can be copied upon request
615.321/M657p
Mills, Simon and Kerry Bone (2000) Principles and practice of phytotherapy; modern herbal medicine. London, Churchill Livingstone. pp. 12-14
- the recommended text for this unit, it has several index references to Thomson and his work in addition to the pages cited above.
615.5/W628n
Whorton, James C. (2002) Nature cures: the history of alternative medicine in America. New York, Oxford University Press. 368 p.
Articles in reference works
R920.073/A512
Carey, Charles W., jr. (1999) "Samuel Thomson" American National Biography. New York, Oxford University Press. v.21 pp. 596-7.
R615.3203/C527e/2001
Chevallier, Andrew. (2001) Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants. Rev. ed. St. Leonards, NSW, Dorling Kindersley
- introductory historical section has several references to Thomson and his theories.
Individual electronic journal articles
Flannery, MA (2002) "The early botanical medical movement as a reflectin of life, liberty, and literacy in Jacksonian America " Journal of the Medical Library Association Oct. 90(4) pp. 442-54
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=12398251
- available online fulltext at the above address
Try these searches
A Google search on "Samuel Thomson" provides his autobiography listed below. Combining this with herbalism or thomsonianism provides additional material of varying authority.
Relevant web sites
http://www.swsbm.com/ManualsOther/Samuel_Thomson-Lloyd.pdf
- Thomson's autobiography with commentary by J.U. Lloyd
http://www.swsbm.com/ManualsOther/ManOther.html
Full Text of the 1848 book by Benjamin Colby - "A guide to health: The principles and philosophy of Thomsonian herbalism"
Further information
A critical reading of the required text for this unit should provide most of the necessary material to answer this part of Assignment 1.