Primitive physic : or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases: / By J. Wesley.

  • Wesley, John, 1703-1791
Date:
1807
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Credit: Primitive physic : or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases: / By J. Wesley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ) POSTSCRIPT. 11™ fUrprife t0 the Editorof the following Col- threefmnn <? WaS f? fwift and larSe a demand for it; that • mpreflions were called for in four or five years : and that in°uy re~puhh{hed by the Bookfellers of a neighbour- f/-r » but alfo lolertcd by parts in their public Papers, and cLeluUvfo rl-r theuw,hole This encouraged m, alteraii ^ u- t. 'ybole, and to publifh it again with feveral tlnl T\ Wh'Ch’ U i$ h°Ped> may nrake it of greater ufc to tl.ofe who love common fenfe and common honeftyf defie-’n a]terati°ns are Hill in purfuance of my firft defign, to fet down cheap, fafc and eafy medicines ; eafy to be known, eafy to be procured, and eafy to be applied by fi lemhl1 etten , AccordinS^y I have omitted a con- mon or^ w er> wb,cb tbo> cheap and fafe, werenoti'ocom- m wh^hl 1 and haVC added at lea0 an number, n hd °,bjeft,on Cfnnot be made : wbi2h are not only of mail price, and extremely fafe, but likewife eafily to be found, v: \ZLUthr\CT\ h°U°r Jar<1 ’ yet in ever>r town> and ^moft every village throughout the Kingdom. 7 V becaufe they are not fafe, but extremely dangerous, 1 ha^.C cmitted> (together with Antimony) the four Her- m LTn To’ GP'u,m’§ the Bark,§ Steel,§ and mold of the Reparations of Quickhlver. Herculean indeed ! Far too ftron^ lor common men to grapple with. How many fatal effeas have e e produced even in the hands of no ordinary Phyficiansi j 'i -fCbrar to b*ur of thefe, the inftances are glaring and un- fnrmb • A,U whereas ^Uickfilver the fifth, is in its native form as innocent as bread or water: has not the art been dif- covered, lo to prepare it, as to make it the moft deadly of all poilons. Thefej Phyficians have juftly termed edged Tools fut tbey have not yet taught them to wound at a diftance : and honeft men are under no neceffity-of touching them, or comic? •within their reach. s 4. Inftead of thefe, I have once more ventured to recommend to men of plain, unbiafled reafon, fuch remedies as air, water, miR, whey, honey, treacle, fait, vinegar, and common Englifn herbs, with a. few foreign medicines, almoft equally cheap late, and common. And this I have done on that principle* whereby I defire to be governed in all mya&i®ns, “ What-* them^ W°Uld that men 010111(1 do unt0 you, tire fame do unto 5. At the requeft of many perfons, I have likewife added plain definitions of moft diftempers : not indeed accurate or phi- lotophical definitions, but fuch as are fuited to men of ordinary capacities, and as may juft enable them, in common fimple cates, to diftingmfh one dil'eafe from another. In uncommon OJ $ Except in a very few Cafes.