CHAPTER XX.
CHRONO-THERMALISM.
Chrono-Thermalism is a recent form of medical quackery. The originator of this sect was Samuel Dickson, who was born in Edinburgh in 1802. He appears to have studied law some, and medicine some, and to have taken the degree of M.D. at Glasgow, at the age of about thirty. In 1836 he published his first Sketches of Chrono-Thermalism. In 1840 he commenced lecturing in London upon his new scheme. He soon drew around him great numbers anxious to find something new to feed their curiosity upon. His converts petitioned Parliament and obtained an act of incorporation for a Chrono-Thermal College. This novelty soon found advocates in France, Germany, Sweden, Prussia, and Denmark. The scheme was first introduced into the United States about twenty years ago. by Dr. William Turner, of the State of New
