The guardian goddess of health, or, The whole art of preventing and curing diseases : and of enjoying peace and hapiness of body and of mind to the longest possible period of human existence : with precepts for the preservation and exaltation of personal beauty and loveliness : to which is added, an account of the composition, preparation, and properties of the three great medicines prepared and dispensed at the Temple of Health, Adelphi, and at the Temple of Hymen, Pall-Mall, London.
- Graham, James, 1745-1794.
- Date:
- 1785
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The guardian goddess of health, or, The whole art of preventing and curing diseases : and of enjoying peace and hapiness of body and of mind to the longest possible period of human existence : with precepts for the preservation and exaltation of personal beauty and loveliness : to which is added, an account of the composition, preparation, and properties of the three great medicines prepared and dispensed at the Temple of Health, Adelphi, and at the Temple of Hymen, Pall-Mall, London. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![[ ^5 ] $ty and effe&s arc produced by the large portion of eleAricaJ Ad. )hur or celeltial phofphorous which they contain. While a perfon takes thefe mod excellent pills they may drink •as much cold water as they pleafe, or go out in any weather. The following drinks will likewife be very proper,- chicken veal or mutton broth, without fait. Beef-tea, capillaire and cold water! Infulions of Ample herbs, &c. but when the pills are taken for levere and continued difeafes, proper regard fhould be paid to the nature and degree of the diforder or complaint, and the drinks management, &c.—ordered accordingly. For inftance, in the ve- nereal, fcorbutic, oi fciophulous ddeafes, a firong decodfion of farfapnrilla, or of the giiaiacum and faffafras woods, with plenty of li- quorice root, fhould be drank daily. In gouty, bilious, afihmatic, confumptive,' and rheumatic cafes, infuiions of baum, rofemary* tanley, horleradidi root, chamomile flowers, pennyroyal, hyfop* groundivy, horehound, linfeeds, liquorice root,with bjuifed fen nil or anifeeds, fweetened with treacle, honey, fugar candy, or barley fugar, will be found extremely ferviceabje ; and in all nervous and windy complaints, and in relaxation, irritation and debility of the i'yftem in general, ftrong decodions or rather infufions of the Peru- vian Bark, in grofs powder, columbo or comfry roots, ied rofe leaves chamomile flowers, bitter orange peel, with a little bruifed cinnamon w wiJl be produdive of the-happieft and moft aftonifliing good etfeds ‘ But in every cafe, and in every conftitution, when any one, or all of my Three Great Medicines1 are taken, I have found half a pint or a whole one of apple tea, water gruel, barley water,, or of the following compound infrrfion, extremely good and agreeable, viz. of baum faie rofemary, mint, and bruifed anifeeds—each an equal quantity alid the. tea fweetened with fugar candy, barley fugar-treacle or Konev - or rather with a mixture of the two laft. This tea or infufion mould be crank warm, and indeed very warm and often, when any confl- derable degree of perfpiration is wiflied for or intended. In the= >“t«rvals between taking the medicines, and*indeed in molt conftitutions, even at the time of taking them, a milk*d;et is .warmly recommended. A quart or two, or even three quarts of good new milk may be ufed every day, not warm from the cow, or boiled, but cold, and as it is called, raw: for the natural heat ot the human ftomach is fully fufficient to cook, or prepare milk eggs, &c. for every purpofe of nutrition, and of health. The nre- •vious application of fire renders them hard and indigeftible.— Many people lofe the great—the unfpeakable-the balmy benefit of a milk diet, by rel.nqti,flung it too foon. They find the firfi day or two, a ful- nefs or fleknefs at their flomach-a griping or laxity of their bowels they therefore conclude that it difag- ecs with them, and they leave it oiF* But they ought to continue it by all means fora week or ten D](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28520762_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
