Letters to a sick friend, containing such observations as may render the use of remedies effectual towards the removal of sickness, and preservation of health / By J.M. [i.e. John Marlow].

  • Marlow, John, 1648-1695
Date:
1682
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Credit: Letters to a sick friend, containing such observations as may render the use of remedies effectual towards the removal of sickness, and preservation of health / By J.M. [i.e. John Marlow]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PN deg: <RS 24 Letters to a fick Friend plifhment of Huldah’s Prophecy. The Advice of the Phili/iine Diviners is ve- ty obfervable: When the People were {mitten with Hemorrhoids, they pre- {cribed the offering up of golden He- morroids, thinking by that myftical Remedy to appeafe the Difpleafure of Heaven; and to intimate, that they thought the beft of their Sub- ~ftance not valuable, to purchafe Health ; but chiefly to reprefent their Belief that the Cure of Difleafes de- pended upon a divine Influence. Many {mart the longer under the Rod of God, becaufe they eye not the Hand that moves it.. The Rab- bins fay, when Jeroboam’s Hand wi- came by Chance, thereby to divert his reflections from the firft Caule. Some have obferved, that the beft way to cure the Kings-Evil is by the Stroak of the Kings Hand; and fure the beft | i | I) i) thet tep b Got, Hind: Prov Hand Adio to { 4 Pe and P ) piten I Got Mute H eo iT tedioy We { | Mog Id | ey | The a