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.
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![1%V and..at IeSth 'tw°uld in general be found to agree pen 1 teiily well, and to produce the happieft effeas P ' there“sn^ainftC!U<)e’ Witll0Ut ^ no£« oJ' the Seneral odi^ At firlt l S!? Pan,acea’ or medicine for the cure of all difeafes] „ r1.? very far from expe£t:ing that even thefe three medicine. __„ij r i 'T''v'ui,6 <-vui uieic tnree medicine!' bu Lnd!ln°erdW £n C°mbined’ CUre 0r even ^eve all diforders ; but .51 advanced in improving them, and in difcovering their virtues in aftual and mofl. extenfive practice, I confefs that my wonder and iurprife exceeded the aftomfhment and delight which was excited in nmtPPAPTf' 7he wonderful 8ood efFeds which I fay argi 1^7:b$ medicines in every cafe, and in every conftitutioni ' alarm and difguft perfons of fenfe and learning, but! on candid and mature views of thefe matters, they will be found tor agree with, and to refult from the fixt nature of things:—for theil general notion of difeafes reafonably confifts in this ; that what is taken into the body is not duly affimilated and diftributed by the force Jrrt%animai ®cono71y- Is u nat> therefore, true that what. n- -i 1 S an 'cttgthens the vis vitae, enables nature either to ammtlate, or to difcharge all grofs and noxious particles, unfubdued uniours, an in a word, the feeds or caufes of all difeafes whatfoever? for the celeftial or eledrical Light or either detained in thefe me- dicines and with which they are fo fully impregnated or faturated, bemg of the very fame nature with the animal fpirits, or nervous eJaitic light or fluid, is. an acceflion of fo much ftrength to the con- ftitut.on or powers of nature, or ftaffof life, by which it is aflifted to affimilate whatever is friendly and nourifhing, or to throw ofFor ex- pel whatever is alien or noxious to her nature,--or prejudicial to good health. Thus, then, thefe great medicines may be juftly called umverfal ones, inafmuch as they work principally by afliftina- the vis vitae, or AafF of life, as an alterative and cordial, enabling nature by a prodigious acceffion of congenial vital fpirits, to aflimilate thole faendty and neceffary recruits or powers, which could not be aifimilated by her own proper force, for fubduing difeafes or maintain- ing health. Thofe who think that this cannot be effeaually done but by flrong evacuations, entertain a moA dangerous opinion; for great and repeated evacuations weaken nature as well as the difeafe ; and thoufands who have recovered of diftempers by great evacuations, and poilonous medicines, fuch as mercury, See. have never, during their whole life, been able to recover of the remedies.—But the luminous balmy—celeflial fpirit or fire which is lodged and detained in thefe three Great Medicines, is of a nature fo mild, benign, and propor- tioned to the human conftitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate or inflame, and to produce that calm ferenity, that fteady joy which naturally accompanies good health, and a virtuous mind:—and that too without thofe agitations, irregular motions, and fubfeejuent horrible linkings or depreffions of the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28520762_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
