The guardian of health, long life, and happiness!, or, The whole art of preventing and curing diseases ... to which is now first added, the Christian's universal prayer! with a preface. exhibiting a short sketch of Dr. Graham's religious principles, and moral sentiments ... / by James Graham.

  • Graham, James, 1745-1794.
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[1784]
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Credit: The guardian of health, long life, and happiness!, or, The whole art of preventing and curing diseases ... to which is now first added, the Christian's universal prayer! with a preface. exhibiting a short sketch of Dr. Graham's religious principles, and moral sentiments ... / by James Graham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ges of the facred writ! for in the holy fcriptures are contained all health i comfort ; in them are the pure eternal fountains which refrefh and invieoi the body-r.v* hich elevate and expand the mind !—and they are the paths wl lead to peace and honour here, and to elevation, happinefs, andg oryin fat Hates ol exjftence l Bpt, after a’l, my dear friends ! if by long and deep-rooted habits, of the force ol temptation or of ridicule, you cannot flnftly and continually ferve all the above dive&ions, as to regimen, See. you mult conform ? the* much, as nearly, and as often as you can; yourgreated difficulties will fa Hrft fetting out; but perfevere, and you will affuredly enjoy perfeff and u» terrupted health, obtaining the approbation, the love, and the admsratir* all fenfible and good men and wtunen, and likewii'e, of what is of f»rgr#|j importance.—the approbation and gratulations of your own confcienc? which is certainly the approbation of God ! ! !-—to whofe love, dirfdHon, protection, I earnefliy and pr,od affectionately recommend you, my g. pe&der, ajpd the whole human fpecics. TEMPLE OF HEALTH! London, In Pall-Mall, near the King’s-Palace. JAMES GRAHAM M I :i| May 25th, 1784. So much for regimen, and for the regulation of your general condmft thr a life, which will C077iparatively be angelical: I now proceed to give you ai Ihort and inadequate account of my cabinet of approved dorneltic medi which I boldly and truly aver to be, without exception, the fated, che and molt efficacious in the world; and a very great bleffing toperlons of rank, from the higheft to the lowed Rations. But at the fame time, fne to allure you, that fimplicity, moderation, abstinence, and judicious /H are far better, fafer, healthier, and more natural remedies than vomits, pa or violent evacuations of aDy kind : and to exhort you againft “ falling, thg perance or vice, into the hands of the phylician -abhor the expf and deadly farce of apothecaries, and the tortures of tortured chymicals id. TMPERIAL PiLLS! or Univerfal Family Medicine: being a X and abiolutely infallible cure for all bilious, gouty and rheumatic plaints, however complicated or blended in the blood, or however lo deeply ’rooted in the conflitution. The title of Imperial was given to to mark their high and decided fupetiority over all the analeptic, - or ftotr.ach pills, Daffy’s Elixir, magnefia alba, and other alterati opening medicines that perhaps ever were invented, or which are no in the worlds In all weakneffes, oppreffions, flatulencies, cholicky want of appetite, flitches in the fide, and windy diltenfions of the u and bowels, efpecially when thole unealy and tormenting complaio ceed from venereal relics, icorbtiric, gouty, rheumatic, or bilious hu fretting, corroding, and irrjtrating the nervous coats of the flom-