The scriptural code of health, with observations on the Mosaic prohibitions, and on the principles and benefits of the medicated vapour bath / By Charles Whitlaw.
- Charles Whitlaw
- Date:
- 1838
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The scriptural code of health, with observations on the Mosaic prohibitions, and on the principles and benefits of the medicated vapour bath / By Charles Whitlaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the earth has been burnt up, leaving nothing but sand, iron, clay, and peat soil or black earth, which, when properly combined and mixed with lime or any alkali, will yield the best of crops. There is still another means employed for that purpose, but on a limited scale, by human industry, in draining, planting of Indian corn, and manuring with alkalies and salts. The corn like the pine, soon absorbs the soil, and is the most useful of al] grain when thus cultivated, for the al- kalies neutralizing the noxious qualities of the soil, it becomes the best food for stock and poultry, as well as for man. The great object I have in view, being to point out the physical evils, attending the neglect of the prohibitions in the Mosaic Law, it will be necessary to make a few obser- vations on that servant of the most High God, to whom the divine oracles were delivered ; on the difficulties he had to encounter, in reforming the nation of slaves under him, and the code of health laid down and dictated by divine wisdom, which far surpasses the ingenuity of man. It has been ob- served that Moses received his education at the schools of Egypt, and the court of Pharoah, which I positively deny, as the very law I am about to review, is diametrically opposed to the policy pursued ; and-the diseases prevalent in Egypt, had no existence among the Jews, so long as they obeyed the law, but on their disobedience, all the denunciations of the plagues of Egypt came upon them, and followed them; their strength was completely sapped, and every part unsound ; down they sunk, and spread ruin around, until they became a reproach among the nations. What an awful lesson to us at the present day! we are fast verging on the precipice, which engulphed that unfortunate people. The plagues pre- dicted by Moses, particularly in the 28th chapter of Deute- rouomy, to overthrow the Jewish nation, for their neglect of the law, enforcing the proper system of agriculture, that their flocks, grain and fruit would become diseased and their soil sterile; were followed with all the curses written in the Bible, Moses reasoning from cause to effect, sinning and suf- fering ; after all the plagues enumerated in the law were poured out upon them, there was yet a fearful catalogue not written, with which they were to be afflicted, and which has been fulfilled to the very letter. D](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29297734_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
