Primitive physic; or, an easy and natural method of curing most diseases / by the Rev. John Wesley.

  • Wesley, John, 1703-1791.
Date:
1828
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    sickness of various kinds, seems intimated by the great Author of nature in the very sentence that entails death upon us: In the sweat of thy face shalt thou, cat bread, till thou return to the ground.—The power of exercise, both to preserve and restore health, is greater than can well be conceived, especially in those who add temperance thereto ; who, if they do not confine themselves altogether to eat either bread, or the herb of the field, (which Cod does not require them to do,) yet steadily observe both that kind and measure of food, which expe- rience shows to be most friendly to health and strength. 4. It is probable, physic, as well as religion, was, in the first ages, chiefly traditional; every father delivering down to his sons what he had himself in like manner received, concerning the manner of healing both outward hurts, and the diseases incident to each season and climate, and the medicines which were of the greatest efficacy for the cure of each disorder. It is certain, this is the method wherein the art of healing is preserved among the Americans to this day. Their diseases, indeed, are exceeding few ; nor do they often occur, by reason of their continual exercise, and (till of late, universal) temperance. But if any arc sick or bit by a serpent, or torn by a wild beast, the fathers