[Several tracts. IV] A letter ... to one of his sons, after his recovery from the smallpox / [John Hales].

  • Hales, John, 1584-1656
Date:
1684
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Credit: [Several tracts. IV] A letter ... to one of his sons, after his recovery from the smallpox / [John Hales]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on of the Blood and humours: Andall Difea: Aes,even thofe that are Epidemical; Natural or Cafual,yet are rendred bythofe vices far more ifharp, lafting’, malignant and incurable’, . | by that ftock of Corrupted matter, they lodge jin-the' body to feed thofe Diféafés, and that finpotency that thefe vices bring uponNature H to réfift them: Therefore if you ever expect . ito have as well a found body, as a found | mind, carefully avoid intemperance and des bauchery: The moft temperate and fober perfons are fubje@ to ficknefs, weaknefs and [Difeafes, but the intemperate can‘ never be lone without them: : |; And thus I have done with’ tHe profpee lof your Difeafe, and at leaft many of thefé profitable ufés- you: may gather from the res * Priembrance of it. | TE Pthallnow in'the fecond place, put you 'n Remembrance of your Deliverance, touch- png which, you’muft remember: 1. That }€ was'a great, eminent, and extraordinary Ph [Deliverance , you neéd no other evidence of i t, than by looking back upon the greatnefs oe iad feverity. of your Difeafé before-men- A] moned: 2. It wasa deliverance by the ims he mediate power arid mercy of that God, that’ ‘ li fent you the Vifitation. |< Una eademoue minds vulnus opemgque tulit. f you had been delivered by the immediate F ® Ei Be soe. pe ie Mee 728 otenectanbenachaerel “Etec sh a Ar Seba ee ulema eat a) Ae Bogie: