Primitive physic, or An easy and natural method of curing most diseases / by John Wesley, M.A.

  • Wesley, John, 1703-1791.
Date:
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
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Credit: Primitive physic, or An easy and natural method of curing most diseases / by John Wesley, M.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tell their children what remedy to apply. And 'tis rare, that the patient fullers long; thofe medicines being quick, as well as, generally, infallible. 5. Hence it was, perhaps, that the an- cients, not only of Greece and Rome, but even of barbarous nations, ufually affign- ed phyfic a divine original. And indeed it was a natural thought, that he who had taught it to the very hearts and birds, the Cretan Stag, the Egyptian Ibis, could not be wanting to teach man, SanHius his animal, mentifqut capacius altazi Yea, fometimes even by- thofe meaner creatures: for it was eafy to infer, If this will heal that creature, whole flefh is near- ly of the fame texture with mine, then in a parallel cale it will heal me. The tri- al was made : the cure was wrought: arid experience and phyfic grew up together. 6. And has not the Author of nature taught us the ufe of many other medicines, by what is vulgarly termed accident ? Thus one walking fome years fince in a grove of pines, at a time when many in the neighbouring town were affli£led with a kind of new diltemper, little fores in the mnde of the mouth, a drop of natural sum