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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    ( 3* ) tc Thou fhalr,” th’ indulgent God rcply’d. Pear maid, let all thy tears be dry’d, Catherine (hall yet be thine ; Her hand lhall reaffume the quill. And bid the faithful record (till Along thy pages fiiine. To Hop the ravage of the foe, My GRAHAM inftantly (hall go, And fet thy fav’rite free ; No more let forrow fill thine eye* On G'RAHAM's fkill fecurerely, FOR HE WAS TAUGHT BY ME.” *' Oh how,” (the Mufe enraptur’d cries, VVirh tranfports beaming from her eyes) “ Shall i reward him then.” ,r His great reward, faid, “ Shall be the thanks, my deareu „„:a From GREAT MAGAULAY’s pen.’> I llborough, Nov. 2 $tb. J. H. st- rive- foil awing lines are laid before the public as a very great curiofity— were written 'tis fuppofed, by a poor Collier, in a coal-pit; they do Graham however, no lels medical honour, than if an equal number of had been compofed on the occafion by the Poet Laureat. ExtraP from the Neiucajlle Journal, Nov. i6fh. r*e is fo much honeft fimplicity in the introduction to the following lines, at it excites at once a tear of commiferation, and a defire to oblige the unlettered Myfe.” They are indeed a very homely, but a very ) nourable panegyric on Dr. Graham’s medical abilities. SIR, To the Printer of the Newcaflle Journal. you think thefe verfes will not difgrace your paper too much, pray ;t them. 1 beg you would be fo good as to excufc my miftakes; for [ If; perfon that works daily and nightly, I may fay, at the hardeft of la- ; and were it not, fir, for fome few rays of light, which force their through the cold and obfcurity of birth, fituation, and fortune,'I might lely faid to live——or rather to lie buried in the bowels of the earth. Nevibiggert, by the Sea, Oftober 28th. R. G. great Dodlor GRAHAM, ccure rais’d his fame, athasfpread our country around; Ibion’s fair ifle, u fearch ev’ry mile, equal is not to be found, ifurely our God! 11 his facrcd abode, taring the poor (uff’rer mourn, diffus'd from thence, part of his cffence. his hand to make health return, %* See Mrs. Hay’s Cafe, My friend, whom he cur'd. Much pain hath endur’d— Sufficient a monfter to kill; Five long years or more, A diforder (he bore. Which had baffled all medical (kill. The faculty flare, While we all revere, A cure which is clear as noon-day; They are forc’d to be mute, While we all falute. Our neighbour and friend, Mrs, Hay. in Dr. G's Medical Practice. An