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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    I and oppressive sweetness, and the wine is apt to have a very disgusting flavour. Volcanic The volcanic process has latterly gone on very storms, slowly; thus Etna has been burning upwards of three thousand years, as appears by Homer, who describes its fires; and Vesuvius since the year seventy-nine of the Christian era. This slow pro- gress appears to be in consequence of the want of water. As the smith's fire will not burn with suf- ficient intensity without constant wetting, so will not the volcanic process go on with vigour without a supply of water. And the means to which nature has recourse to supply water to volcanoes in erup- tions, are extremely curious. During volcanic com- bustion the gases which go to form water are largely evolved; and it appears that some water is produced by the coming together of these elements in the interior of volcanoes in eruption; but much escapes in the gaseous form, rushing out with great force, accompanied by a loud whistling, or sonorous noise, mounting up to a vast height, and forming a dense black cloud over the top of the mountain, accompanied by great and incessant lightnings, by which the watery elements are brought together, and the rain, descending like a cataract over the top of the mountain amongst the ashes, great torrents of muddy water impetuously roll down its sides, over- whelming every thing they meet in their course, and deluging and fertilizing the surrounding ])lains by the ashes subsiding from their expanded waters. This, according to Breislak and Winspeare of Na- ples, has often been mistaken for water poured out from the crater, which most certainly never happens,