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.

James Graham

Date:: [1784]

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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$( 2? ) it, he got out of be.], and had the politnefs to put on his cloathes with- making even the lead noife, and after he had looked and liftened to find ether I u*as afleep, and imagining that I was fo, he kneeled down by the dovv next his bed, and appeared to be very intenfe indeed, in devotion! ie moved his lips,—beat his breaft very much, and bowed,—and at gth he bowed down to the ground and beat the floor, repeatedly ih his forehead.- his devotions being finifhed, finding that I ftirredi was awake, he came fmiling to my bedfide, and killed my hand as tad done the night before, with the molt obliging and molt affectionate liality and kindnefs.-—I never in my life was more deeply affeCted with an ny of delight;—ana I parted with the favage angel with the molt poig- t regret. Does tny reader fuppofe that the civilized and enlightened lilh Captain was infinitely more amiable in the eyes of men!—infinitely :e worthy or precious in the fight of angels—or of God!—No. Why vhy! will not Englifh and Scots Captains learn of and emulate the fagacity the goodnefs of what we call the brute creation ? i 4 c following Trophies, or little pieces of Poetry, and especially the follow- g Ode, which was fet to mufic, and performed at noon in the Great polio Apartments at the folemn dedication of the Temple of Healti!, London, cn the organ, the harmonica, and the celeftina, accompanied th flutes, clarionets, and by fome of the fineft. vocal performers, give io eet an idea of the gentle nature and falutary effedfs of my excellent rae- :ines, allonifhing apparatus, and of my peculiar methods and great fuc- s in curing dileafes, and reftoring decayed conllitutions to blooming a!th and and juvenile ftrength, that they muft be introduced with the ::ateft propriety at the clofe of this pamphlet. RECITATIVE (The Sun blazing in its Meridian Splendor.J !Hail| Vital Air /Ethereal! — Magnetic Magic—Hail! : Iron Arm—thy bracing flnewy arm!—is everlafting ftrength! Harmony—Mufic Divine!* 1!—thrice Hail!—Thy Soul is Love—Joy —Peace—and Health! / 1! Wondrous Combination!—Heavenly Unity!—In Majefty & Myftery combin’d ! on’d—unveil’d—in this tremendous-— this raoft geniai temple! r to Britannia's Sons—to Britain's daughters—on thy loft foflering wings bitle progrefs thro’ the balmy—the ^Ethereal Air—bear the belt bieffing, HEALTH! ek to each human Being—without excepting one of any rank or nation, •thankfully accepts thy proffer’d Gifts, the twelve great Succours give! I ten wide thy band, that flings the R.ofe of Health o’er the pale cheek of Sicknefs— >.; \ ind Hand—that bears the healing branch ! O let it far— >m these sacred Walls remove dire pain, difeafe and melancholy, ie long trainol ills, which ever and anon torment their wretched vi&ims. .. The Light mode) a ted by the intervention of rofe-colourcd Curtains. Come, then, ah come, O facred HEALTH ! The monarch's blifs!——the beggar’s wealth ; The feas’ning of all good below, The fov’rcign friend in joy or woe, O thou ! mod courted, rnoft defpifed, And but in abfence—duly ptized; ’ Root$