A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c.

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1719
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Credit: A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cognita. Thefe things are not vulgarly known. Animg filer ifque Gentium Theolo• gis di£fg Moft of the Heathen Divines called human Souls (I fuppofe in their fingle State, both before Infitfion in¬ to the Body, and Separation from it) by the Name of Bees. For this he quotes Por¬ phyry, as he had done Sofihocles. But I re¬ turn. How greatly they efteemed Honey, may¬ be well luppoled from their Appellative Ex- pre (lions, Virgil's is Aerii Mellis cceleftm dona ; Pliny's Pivinum Neffiar • Ariftausr Me Ha non minima hujus vitg munera; a Frefcnt from Heaven. Divine NeVar^ one of the greareft Bleffings of this Life. And lo fome of them made it their daily Food. Pythagoras lived almoft wholly up¬ on it (as they fay the Humming Bird doth.) And the Pythagoreans, as Athengus tells us fPeifinof. l.z. c. 3.) eat little elfe but Bread and Honey : And did lo, becaufe they belie¬ ved it to be one of the moft falutiferous, and fovereign Things in Nature. b }cn$ imagined the Cyrnians of Corjlca were therefore long lived, becaufe they were always feeding on Honey. Twas fo agreeable, ufeful and natural to 1Democritus (whole Life ftretched out to a- bout an hundred and nine Years) that when one asked him. how ihe might fecure an heal-
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