A treatise on salt : showing its hurtful effects on the body and mind of man, and on animals; its tendency to cause diseases, especially consumption. As taught by the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men, in accordance with the author's experience ... / by Robert Howard.

  • Howard, R. J.
Date:
1850
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Credit: A treatise on salt : showing its hurtful effects on the body and mind of man, and on animals; its tendency to cause diseases, especially consumption. As taught by the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men, in accordance with the author's experience ... / by Robert Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cruel scourge for the human race, by the introduc¬ tion of mineral substances to take the place of ve¬ getable remedies previously in use. Paracelsus, as history relates, one of the worst of men, who was eminent in the possession of the faculty of deceiv¬ ing his fellow-creatures; for the greater facility of which, he assumed the following pompous names, Pilippus, Aureolus, Theophrastus, Bombastus von Hohenheim,—Paracelsus. The use of mineral substances as remedial agents in modern times, is one of the consequences natu¬ rally following on the loss of the wisdom of nature, to be restored in the latter days of the world, ac¬ cording to prophecy, and indeed naturally, in the course of what is now called the march, or progress of intellect. A wonderful resurrection of truth, as regards the knowledge of nature, is now taking place. The wisdom of nature has now long been concealed from the mind of man, according to the prophecy on which I have more emphatically dwelt in the Revelations of Egyptian Mysteries. “ I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.” 1 Cor. i. 19. The great Sophocles, and other ancient poets, also allude particularly and often to the alter¬ nate perdition and resurrection of the wisdom of nature. Still are the secret things of man revealed, And what is known, again in darkness hid, By endless and immeasurable time.”
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