The guardian of health, long life, and happiness!, or, The whole art of preventing and curing diseases ... to which is now first added, the Christian's universal prayer! with a preface. exhibiting a short sketch of Dr. Graham's religious principles, and moral sentiments ... / by James Graham.

  • Graham, James, 1745-1794.
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[1784]
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Credit: The guardian of health, long life, and happiness!, or, The whole art of preventing and curing diseases ... to which is now first added, the Christian's universal prayer! with a preface. exhibiting a short sketch of Dr. Graham's religious principles, and moral sentiments ... / by James Graham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    oh vegetable and milk diet, and eternal forbearance, fo eSe&ually and happily railes them ! ith- CEPHALIC POWDER! a fafe, fpeedy, and in general certain :» for fits, fpal'ms, lownefs, horrors, moping melancholy, and all violent vulfive, and other nervous affeCtions, w-hetnerot the fainting, hyderical, argic, apopleCtic, epileptic, and maniacal kind; but efp'dally for perio- 1 convulfion fits of long Handing, and that have refuted all other ian means. Thisrich, mild, (teadying antifpai'modic, and mind clearing illuminating powder, gives immediate relief, and by the patient’s pru- -, and perfevering uie of it, generally perfectly cures and prevents any rn of the above molt dreadful, moft (hocking, and mod dangerous of he difcafes to which poor mortals are liable, even when attended with ?me mazenefs or giddinefs of the head, fleepinefs, low nervous atrophies, torpid ftupidnels of the mental powers ; — when all the animal faculties mpaired by a gradual decay or benumbing of the vital Jlamina, when the H.l >us fyftem is become dry, fhrivelled, relaxed, ahd tremulous,—when til-mind is become a wild black chaos of anguifh, horror, and defpair;—• kli’ife itfelf a burthen,—a weary and painful load that the miferable pa- tfl would gladly, nay l'ometies, impioufly and fatally ventures to lay B. While the perfon is under a courfe of the above powder, it ftiould ^knitted, and fome of the Nervous ./Ethereal Balfam lhould be taken for Hi days before the change and the full of the moon. h. .ETHEREAL AMBROSIAL QUINTESSENCE of COLD! HONEY! .05 A-SOLIS ! or Sundew, for nourilhing and rejuvenating the body, ng and illuminating the mind, for preventing and remedying the de- i.-nd evils of old age, and moft happily lengthening out human life to 'ngeft poffible period of mortal exiftence! te difcovery, right preparation, and perfecting this mod noble, mod divine medicine, were Dr Graham’s chief and indeed favourite ftudy tufinefs for upwards of ten years He purfued it with all the ardor hufiafm, and with all the confidence of fuccefs! and it was chiefly he view of bringing this favourite projedt to the htgheft excellency of ion and ulefulm-fs, that he hefltated not to expend upwards of twelve nd pounds flerling, in conftruCting and embsllifhing an Adepti-al- cal, Medico- electrical, and Philofophical Apparatus, infinitely fupe- any thing that now is, or that ever was in the world, i mrdt generous ,/E'hereal Medicine ! may with philofophical truth, rmetic correCtnefs, be called potable gold! condenfed light! a ma- nic efTencc! the mild and harmonious matter or foul of the elements ! it-eflential fpirit of the univerfe ! and is in reality a compendium ot* oration of all the balmy aromatics that the four quarters of the |; produce !—an abftraCt and aggregate fixation of the aftral or ce- influencesf and in a word the mod precious fecret of nature and agreeable co the true principles of the hermetic and rofie-crufian )hers! all of whom! by the divine blefling on this perfection ofhu- ~t, prolonged their exiftence on earth many centuries, and the pro- -the fublime Artephius ! (well known to the learned) extended his one thouland and twenty-five years!— )'r learned man knows, that in all countries, and in all ages of the world, 1 tell, richeft, and moft wonderful medicinal virtues have been aferib- cd