Revelations of Egyptian mysteries : history of the Creation, the causes and the progress of the degeneration of nature, the conflagration and manner of the resurrection of the world, as allegorically represented by the Egyptian philosophy: showing the justice of the inculcations of the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men, teaching that salt was fatally hurtful to human nature : with a discourse on the maintenance and acquisition of health, on principles in accordance with the wisdom of the ancients / by Robert Howard.

  • Howard, Robert, approximately 1812-1854.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Revelations of Egyptian mysteries : history of the Creation, the causes and the progress of the degeneration of nature, the conflagration and manner of the resurrection of the world, as allegorically represented by the Egyptian philosophy: showing the justice of the inculcations of the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men, teaching that salt was fatally hurtful to human nature : with a discourse on the maintenance and acquisition of health, on principles in accordance with the wisdom of the ancients / by Robert Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER IV. OF ANIMAL FOOD, AND THE MEANS BY WEIICM IT AND VEGETABLES ARE RENDERED MOST WHOLESOME. One of the strongest proofs of the radical im- propriety of man's feeding on flesh, must be that which is armed with the fact that the human body invariably withers and perishes most miserably when confined constantly to it. It cannot be denied that a diet consisting exclusively of fruit and farinaceous matters is favourable to the human constitution. But a diet composed entirely of animal matters has always been productive of the most terrible effects. By the force of long habit it becomes more toler- able to the constitution, but its pernicious in- fluence never fails to render itself conspicuously apparent. , When flesh has been long and exclusively used Disease for food, it has always been found to overheat and l^l]^^^ stimulate, and at length to exhaust and debilitate fl=sh. the system, although at first it might have appeared to derive nourishment and vigour from it. Under the influence of such a diet, the action of the nervous system speedily becomes deranged ; an indescribable heaviness pervades the body ; the functions of respi- ration, of digestion, and of the circulation of the blood, are no longer efficiently performed ; the breath becomes foetid, and the breathing hurried on the slightest occasion ; the stomach is greatly oppressed and nauseated ; the gums, and lining membrane