A treatise on salt : showing its hurtful effects on the body and mind of man, and on animals; its tendency to cause diseases, especially consumption. As taught by the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men, in accordance with the author's experience ... / by Robert Howard.

  • Howard, R. J.
Date:
1850
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Credit: A treatise on salt : showing its hurtful effects on the body and mind of man, and on animals; its tendency to cause diseases, especially consumption. As taught by the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men, in accordance with the author's experience ... / by Robert Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with this kind of knowledge, has developed itself in man’s mind. It appears that these ancient and only true doc¬ trines, will now again pervade the whole earth, in accordance with the prophecy of Scripture, and of the Ancient Poets. The tendency of the public mind seems to show this very plainly. It has earnestly sought after the truth, and here it is. The work concludes with a Discourse on the Maintenance and Acquisition of Health on princi¬ ples in accordance with the Wisdom of the An¬ cients. The object of this Discourse is, in great part, to demonstrate the great advantages to be de¬ rived from the employment of fruits in the place of other vegetable substances as food, and for the removal of diseases, and also the great benefit arising from the treatment of diseases, as in ancient time, with the vegetable Acids, especially the Acetic, or Acetous Acids, and of their use in the place of mineral and other seasoning sub¬ stances. In a review of this work, the British and Fo¬ reign Medico-Cliirurgical Review says, “ To meet with a man who gravely assures us, that in the hieroglyphics of the Egyptian Philosophers and in the earliest writings of the Grecian Poets, are locked up the greatest treasures of medical wisdom, and *■ that the diseases and the degeneracy of mankind have resulted from a departure from their precepts, is, to