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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    fruits have occni)iecl places in our lists of remedial agents almost to the present time. It is only from the dispensatories which have been put forth during the last century that those fruits, or the preparations derived from them, have been excluded from the ])]aces of the first and most efficient remedial means, in the diseases to which they are applicable. It is very remarkable that many of those fruits possess an exquisite acid, combined with a bitter or tonic principle, most admirably appropriate for the cure of the diseases, or for warding off the effects of the morbific causes which are wont to prevail, more especially at the times when the earth presents those fruits. Thus the pomegranate possesses an acidulous property, with a fine bitter tonic principle residing in the spongy substance v^^hich forms its internal cells. The sour oranges also contain the acid and the bitter principle of the most eminent medicinal virtue. Quinces have a delicious and most refreshing acid combined with an astringent tonic, as is also the case with certain apples and plums; other fruits, as limes and lemons are more simply acid and cooling. Such have been the arrangements of nature, but M-e now commonly find it necessary, by the extrac- tion and preservation of essential principles, to form in our prescriptions such combinations in imitation of the qualities of those natural remedies, as may approach sufficiently near to them, to answer our purposes, and to which we often have recourse, as being most readily at hand. The protective power with which the constitution has been endowed, is not however generally capable