i8o The Life and Writings of 



169. Price One Dollar. | The Palmist; | or, | Introduction to the Art 

 of Curing and Preventing the | Consumption | or | Chronic 

 Phthisis. | A Medical Essay, including a new and better 

 Distinc- | tion of its Causes, Kinds, Remedies, Diets, | and 

 other Peculiarities. | | The Consumption is not an in 

 curable disease; but its reme- | dies are to be chiefly con 

 veyed to the lungs by breathing | or inhalation no. | 



| By Prof. Rafinesque, Ph. D. & Pulmist. | Professor of Prac 

 tical and Medical Botany, Natural and Civil | History, &c, 

 &c. | Author of the Manual of Medical Botany of the United 

 States, the | Analysis of Nature, and 50 other works or 

 phamphlets. | Member of the Medical Societies of Cincinnati 

 and L,exington ; the Philadelphia | Society and Lyceum of 

 New York ; the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- | 

 phia ; the American Antiquity Society of Worcester and 

 Nashville; the Kentucky | Institute, &c; and of several 

 learned Societies of Europe, in Paris, Bruxelles, Vi- | enna, 



Bonn, Florence, Naples, &c. | | Philadelphia: | Printed 



for the Author, | By C. Alexander, 112 Chestnut street. I 

 - | 1829. (8vo, pp. 72, i fig.) 



This curious work has no scientific medical value. 

 During these years, which were among the saddest of 

 the last decade of our author s life, he engaged in the 

 practices that now commonly attach to medical charla 

 tans. Two extracts from this book will serve to show 

 that his methods were not at all unlike those adopted 

 at the present day. On page 8 he writes: &quot;My dislike 

 of every appearance of empiricism, and my wish to avoid 

 censure, induced me to conceal myself under the name 



