Letter from Benjamin Waterhouse to Wooster Beach

Letter from Benjamin Waterhouse to Wooster Beach

Correspondence

Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846 (author)

Botany, Medical

Materia medica

Beach, W. (Wooster), 1794-1868

One of the most notable supporters of Samuel Thomson was Benjamin Waterhouse, formerly Harvard's Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic. Here, in a letter to Wooster Beach (1794-1868), founder of the eclectic medical movement, Waterhouse states he has "seen so many unequivocal instances of substantial benefit in chronic disorders from the use of the lobelia emetic and the subsequent cleansing of the whole tract of the intestines, and the elimination of the secretory glands, and various vessels between the bowels and the skin by means of the steam, or vapour bath, that I must be blind, or will fully shut my eyes to conviction not to acknowledge its salutiferous efficacy."

Letter from Benjamin Waterhouse, Cambridge, Mass., to Wooster Beach, New York, concerning Thomsonian medicine

Waterhouse, Benjamin, 1754-1846

1836 July 20-23

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Papers of Benjamin Waterhouse, 1786-1836 (inclusive). H MS c16.1

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Gift of Mary Ware Sampson and Margaret Thayer Lancaster to the Harvard Medical School Library, 1941