Primitive physic: or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases.

  • Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Date:
1801
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Credit: Primitive physic: or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    re 2 aR Se rae, Cr ue ea ane | ms ' a : - Bis it area UDR PACE, eee V \ HEN man came firft out of the hands of the great Creas | tor, clothed in body, as well as in foul, with immortality and i incorruption, there was no place for phyfic, or the art of heale ing. As he knew no fin, fo he knew no pain, no ficknefs, x Weaknefs, or. bodily diforder. The habitation wherein the: angelic mind, the. Divine Particula Aure abode, although Originally formed out of the duft of the earth, was liable to no decay, It had no feeds of corruption or. diffolution within. _itfelf, And there was nothing without to injure it: heaven — and earth, and allthe hofls of them, were mild, benign, and» friendly to human nature. Thé entire creation was at peace With man, fo.long as man was at peace with his Creator. Sa — that we)] might ‘* the morning flars fing together, and all the fons of God {Rout for joy.” = » Oe es 2. But fince man rebelled againft the Sovereign of heaverm — ‘and earth, how entirely is the fcene changed! The incorrup-, ‘tible frame hath put on corruption, the immortal has put on — mortality. The feeds of weaknefs and pain, of ficknefs an death, are now lodged in our inmoft fubftance; whence thoufand diforders continually fpring, even without the aid. external violénce. And how is the number of thefe increa by every thing round about us? The heavens, the earth, : Alf things contaimed therein, confpire to punifh the r againft their Creator. The fun and moon fhed unwhole yofluences from above; the earth exhales poifonous from beneath: the beaits of the field, the birds of the fifhes of the fea, are in a ftate of hoftility: the ai that furrounds us on every fide, is replete with the tha death: yea, the food we cat, daily faps the foundation o Vife which cannot be fuftained without it. So has the Lo all fecured the execution of his decree,—** Duff thou art, unto duff thou fhalt return.” | idee ~~g, But can nothing be found to leffen thofe inéonveniencié which cannot be wholly removed? To foften the evils of and prevent in part the ficknefs and pain to which we are € finually expofed? Without queftion there may. One preventative of pain and ficknefs of various kinds, feen mated by the grand Author of Nature, in the very shat intails death* upon us? ae the fweat of thy 4 a VE