A Narrative of the Life and Medical Discoveries of Samuel Thomson

"Look! See the rapid strides of our enemies the doctors. Behold all their secret working among the legislatures of the different states! And the people have no sentinels to guard themselves. I think we never had more need to be on our guard than at the present time. The people are crammed with their poison drugs, and the law says they shall not examine and judge for themselves. The effects are pains, lingering sickness, and death. When dead, the doctor often takes the whole, or nearly the whole, of the little property remaining; and the widow and orphans become subjects of the poorhouse, or go out as servants. The question is, who is to be blamed? All, all are to be blamed. The doctors for deceiving the people; and the people for being deceived by them." Samuel Thomson-approximately 1835