Footnotes
This serialized history drew on the journals herein beginning with the 4 July 1855 issue of the Deseret News and with the 3 January 1857 issue of the LDS Millennial Star.
The labels on the spines of the four volumes read respectively as follows: “Joseph Smith’s Journal—1842–3 by Willard Richards” (book 1); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843” (book 2); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843–4” (book 3); and “W. Richards’ Journal 1844 Vol. 4” (book 4). Richards kept JS’s journal in the front of book 4, and after JS’s death Richards kept his own journal in the back of the volume.
“Schedule of Church Records, Nauvoo 1846,” [1], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
“Inventory. Historian’s Office. 4th April 1855,” [1]; “Contents of the Historian and Recorder’s Office G. S. L. City July 1858,” 2; “Index of Records and Journals in the Historian’s Office 1878,” [11]–[12], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL; Johnson, Register of the Joseph Smith Collection, 7.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Johnson, Jeffery O. Register of the Joseph Smith Collection in the Church Archives, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1973.
Footnotes
Historical Introduction to JS, Journal, Dec. 1841–Dec. 1842.
Source Note to JS, Journal, 1835–1836; Source Note to JS, Journal, Mar.–Sept. 1838.
See Appendix 3.
Thomsonian or “botanic” physicians like Brink believed all illness was caused by cold and that any treatment producing heat would aid in recovery. They used cayenne pepper, steam baths, and Lobelia inflata (a plant) to cause heavy sweating and vomiting. Foster, Weld, and Bennett, on the other hand, were “regular” physicians—doctors who had been educated at medical academies and universities and who believed that a hyperactive state of the arteries was the cause of disease. “Regular” doctors treated patients with an aggressive form of bloodletting and calomel purges. Brink’s lawyers, Rigdon and Marr, objected to the testimony of Drs. Foster, Weld, and Bennett in this trial on the grounds that the testimony of practitioners of a competing school of thought not only could bias the court against Brink but could also prejudice the local citizens against Brink’s professional practice. (Haller, People’s Doctors, 40; Porter, Greatest Benefit to Mankind, 393; Whorton, Nature Cures, 28–31; “Medical Notice,” The Wasp, 2 July 1842, [3]; see also “Thomsonianism,” Hagerstown [MD] Mail, 27 May 1836, [2]; and “Calomel,” Tioga Eagle [Wellsboro, PA], 17 Aug. 1842, [3].)
Haller, John S., Jr. The People’s Doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement, 1790–1860. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.
Porter, Ray. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.
Whorton, James C. Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
The Wasp. Nauvoo, IL. Apr. 1842–Apr. 1843.
Hagerstown Mail. Hagerstown, MD. 1831–1890.
Tioga Eagle. Wellsboro, PA. 1838–1856/1857.
Eighteenth-century physician and professor Herman Boerhaave of Leiden University began a tradition of practical university education of medical students that was later adopted and altered by William Cullen, Scottish physician and professor at University of Edinburgh. Benjamin Rush trained as a physician under Cullen, adopting the idea of university education in medicine yet altering Cullen’s philosophy of health and disease. Rush educated some three thousand medical students in his lectures at the newly founded University of Pennsylvania. Rigdon is using Boerhaave and Rush as symbols of pragmatic, university trained, “regular” physicians. (King, Medical World, 60–86; Porter, Greatest Benefit to Mankind, 246–247.)
King, Lester S. The Medical World of the Eighteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.
Porter, Ray. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.
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