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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    duce degenerate plants, which are diseased by weak- ness and exhaustion, and so slender as to be of little value. Therefore they send every year to Malta for a new supply of garden-seeds. In this instance we observe a disease in plants no doubt occasioned by the saltness of the soil; but which disease appears to subside in the absence of the stimulus of salt. It has frequently been ob- served in England, that on lands usually overflown by the sea, the corn grown immediately after their recovery has run up to five or six feet in height. Disease of I think it very probable that the disease which Ztoe.' has lately affected the potatoe plant, has been occa- sioned by the land having been rendered extremely saline by the improper use of salt manures, which seem of late years to have been much in fashion. This opinion seems to be in some degree supported by the fact, that the potatoe disease has been parti- cularly observed, in many instances, to have been most prevalent in places where most manure had been used. Tn some parts of Ireland, particularly the northward coasts, where sea-weed exists in great profusion, I have observed that it is much used for manuring the land, which, especially with respect to the potatoe, I suppose to be improper. The potatoe is a succulent and very delicate and tender plant, one which, it appears, would be about the first to show the effects of a salt soil. The potatoe disease, in its present form, does not appear to be new; it seems to have existed gene- rally throughout Britain, and most probably other countries, during many years, not, however, to such an extent as to have attracted particular attention.