Primitive physic, or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases / by John Wesley.

  • John Wesley
Date:
1858
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Credit: Primitive physic, or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases / by John Wesley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    thin* round about us! The heavens, the earth, and ail things contained therein, conspire to punish the rebels against their Creator. The sun and moon shed un- wholesome influences from above ; the earth exhales poi- sonous damps from beneath ; the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, the fishes of the sea, are in a state of hostility: the air itself that surrounds us on every side, is replete with the shafts of death : yea, the food we eat, daily saps the foundation of the life which cannot be sustained without it. So has the Lord of all secured the execution of his decree,— Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return. 3. But can there nothing be found to lessen those inconveniences, which cannot be wholly removed ? To soften the evils of life, and prevent in part the sickness and pain to which we are continually exposed? With- out question there may. One grand preventative of pain and sickness of various kinds, seems intimated by the great Author of nature in the very sentence that intails death upon us : In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return to the ground. The power of exercise, both to preserve and restore health, is greater than can well be conceived ; especially in those who add temperance thereto ; who if they do not confine themselves altogether to eat either bread or the herb of the field. (which God does not require them to do) yet steadily observe both that kind and measure of fool, which experience shews to be most friendly to strength and health.
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