Talk:Samuel Thomson

Giant box

Samuel Thomson is a major figure in alternative medicine. You do not own this aritcle. -- John Gohde 04:32, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Who said I did. You don't need a giant box to link to alternative medicine. I added it to the see alsos. - Nunh-huh 04:42, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Okay, I will add back the full size infobox tomorrow, except that I will be sure to make it even bigger. I am glad that we are starting to see eye to eye. -- John Gohde 05:40, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Mediawiki message boxes were intended as a stopgap measure. We now have catagories, which render many of those boxes unnecessary. They should certainly not be used when they overwhelm content. - Nunh-huh 05:45, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Like I told another jerk, this project is not going to scrap our work of two months just because somebody made a change today that may not work tomorrow. This project is using infoboxes. So far the new systems changes look pretty bad to me. What !@#$%^&* decided to make the screen smaller for unregistered viewers? Was it you? I should have known! ... -- John Gohde 06:19, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Please try to be civil. I certainly make no decisions concerning screen size, screen formatting, or categories, so you might inquire about them at the village pump. - Nunh-huh 07:11, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thomson's system

While this article describes Samuel Thomson, and his system, I don't think it goes into depth enough about what his system actually is composed of other than that it was somehow connected with 'natural medicine'. There doesn't seem to be an article on wikipedia about it, and thus would be another potential avenue of research. I'd do it myself if I didn't have an impending thesis to write! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dbmurray (talk • contribs) 03:42, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

While I added a reference and some external links, I agree that the article does not go into enough depth to his medicine. In fact I think the anecdote about his wife was not accurate, but will have to double check the facts. His sweating his daughter out of a major illness may be more apt. He had learned about herbal medicine as a child. The references are here, including works by Thompson edited by Lloyd for anyone to upgrade the article. Ksvaughan2 — Preceding undated comment added 21:47, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Influence section

I added more references but there really needs to be a section on his influence, pros and cons. I also changed this from a cleanup to a bio-stub because it really is incomplete rather than unreferenced. KSVaughan2 14:01, 22 August 2007 (UTC)