I Am a Thomsonian!

 

A healer known as Dr. Samuel Thomson (because he healed many people after “learned doctors” destroyed their healthfulness and others who simply experienced dis-easements) apparently had quite a following back in 1800. These eager women and men were willing to learn about cayenne pepper and other herbs, and to sweat and then dip in cold water so they listened to him. I read his book and know how the establishment loathed him and even threw him in jail. As I read his book, I felt Dr. Christopher, who I first heard of in 1990 (related to cayenne pepper and other herbs), was the reincarnated Samuel. Know that a learned doctor is one who goes to school and uses poisons on the sick. Dr. Thomson didn't go to medical school. He simply healed people.

Well, I’m reading Part II of Gregg’s Commerce of the Prairies and in the final chapter as Gregg is relaying how prairie “Indians” use plants, the vapor lodge, and the cold bath, he called them “primitive Thomsonians.” It’s funny how the group that is contrary to established thought is always given a name. “Conspiracy theorist” comes to mind. Well, I had no idea that in about 1840, people who didn’t want learned doctors' poisons and what the agents of the government were peddling at the time were called Thomsonians. 

So, I just found out, I’m a Thomsonian.

Call me Conspiracy theorist again, and I’ll correct you with gladness.