Revelations of Egyptian mysteries : history of the Creation, the causes and the progress of the degeneration of nature, the conflagration and manner of the resurrection of the world, as allegorically represented by the Egyptian philosophy: showing the justice of the inculcations of the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men, teaching that salt was fatally hurtful to human nature : with a discourse on the maintenance and acquisition of health, on principles in accordance with the wisdom of the ancients / by Robert Howard.

  • Howard, Robert, approximately 1812-1854.
Date:
1850
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Credit: Revelations of Egyptian mysteries : history of the Creation, the causes and the progress of the degeneration of nature, the conflagration and manner of the resurrection of the world, as allegorically represented by the Egyptian philosophy: showing the justice of the inculcations of the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men, teaching that salt was fatally hurtful to human nature : with a discourse on the maintenance and acquisition of health, on principles in accordance with the wisdom of the ancients / by Robert Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have always been wont to occur in cities from this cause; because the earth cannot bear such accumu- lated weights on its surface without sustaining injury; hence it has thus made exertions to get rid of the incumbrance they presented. There is nothing more remarkable than the havoc which history shows has been made amongst cities by earthquakes. We read that in the time of Valens, the Roman Emperor, a hundred cities in Crete were destroyed by earthquakes, and all within a short time. In 1693, fifty-four cities and towns and a great many villages were destroyed in Sicily: this catastrophe included the celebrated Catania, which - is said to have been overwhelmed in the short space of two minutes. It is related by Don Antonio de Ulloa that, in 1698, all the houses in the region of Quito, in South America, were thrown down by a terrible earthquake. And so late as 1783, two hun- dred towns and villages were destroyed by earth- quakes in Calabria. Whenever there has been an extensive prevalence ^^^^^ of earthquakes in cities, it has always been seen that ^=^1^- the same force has been vigorously employed in the agitation of rocky districts; and hills have usually been rent, rocks shattered and thrown down, and cities overwhelmed, when all the rest of the coun- tries where they have happened have remained unaltered. Thus nature has always striven with elevated stony districts and cities, showing that they occasion a condition of the surface of the earth which is intolerable to her: that is, a condensed, impervious state, by which the passage upwards of that universal subterranean gaseous generation is opposed.