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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![which they fweeten, purify,enrich, and animate; nourifhing, bracing, and coiling up the nervous fyftem when weakened and relaxed^• overcoming every degree of putrefa&ion, recruiting decayed ftrength, and generally acting on an exhaufted body like frefh oil poured into an expiring lamp. After all, however, Dr. Graham is far from pretending to work miracles or impofHbiJities. No: he is abundantly fenfible of the impoflibility of curing many difeafes in their advanced and confirmed ftages; and of the fallibility and un- certainty of all fublunary things ; all that he contends for is, that his methods of treating difeafes are far more powerful, fafe and rational, than thofe in general employed by any other Phyfician in the world, and that he ofien fucceeds in curing, effectually and, haltingly, difeafes internal and external, when the mo ft celebrated Surgeons and Phyficians, and even when the more friendly powers of regimen, air, exercife, and the beft mineral waters have failed. ' So amazingly has his bufinefs increafed, that he has -now found it jieceflary, from motives of humanity more than for his own emolu- ment, to fit up additional appartments, and to receive at any hour of the day fuch fick and lame Per fens as cannot afford to give fees for advice; and that they are qow admitted daily, Sundays excepted, from eight o’clock in the morning, till eight at night, to whom advice, and al] meceffary medico-electrical operations,'-&c. are adminiftered gratis, in rotation, according to priority of arrival,-without refpeef of perfons, paying the Apothecary for fuch medicines only (ifany) as their refpec- tive cafes require. But as the^greateft hindrances have arifen from, multitudes crowding into the Temple of Health, under the pre- tence of attending fick friends, but merely to gratify their curiofity, by flaring at the apparatus, to obviate, therefore, in future, thofe i-ncon- vehiencies and impertinencies, and that as many difeafed perfons as poffibJe may partake of the falutary effects of this grand System of Healing ! no poor perfon whatever will be admitted without a ticket, which riiuft be. had of the porter, price Half-a-Crown. This is required only at the firft confultation ; for Dr. Graham, on re- ceiving it, gives another ticket gratis, which admits the patient during the whole coUrfe of the cure.—-No fort of obje&ion, how- ever, is made to one friend attending each patient—that being often neceflary, as well as decent. The nobility, gentry, and others in genteel or eafy circumfhnces, muft pay a Guinea the firft confultation, and at leaf! Half a-Guinea •very time after. No perfons whomfoever, even perfonages of high rank, needexpe£! to be attended at their own noufes, unlefs confined to bed by ficknefs, or to their room through extreme weaknefs; and from thofe whom he attends at their own houfes, Two Guineas the firft, and one Guinea each vifit after, is expe&ed. Dr. Graham, for reafons of the higheft importance to the public, as well as to himfelf, has a large chemical laboratory, arid great medicinal cabinets in his](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28520762_0038.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
