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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    Vast numbers of cows die of disease of the luiigs ; and bullocks, after a certain age, are very liable to it; as is also the case with swine ; in sheep, the dis- ease falls more into the liver. The giving of salt, or any mineral substance, to animals, is a most fatal and destructive error; and the strewine- of salt and saline manures on the ground, is most highly calculated to occasion diseases amongst them, by the production of an unwhole- some vegetation. Disease, existing amongst animals whose flesh is used for food, will, with unerring cer- tainty, pass on to the human race, but not neces- sarily to show itself under the same form. It is a very remarkable fact, that in proportion as animals become domesticated, they also become more infirm and afflicted with many diseases which are identically the same as those which occur amongst the human race. This very important circum- stance surely ought to admit of some further expla- nation than what has hitherto been given to it, I believe the dog affords one of the best examples of this. It has generally been observed that dogs Diseases living much in-doors upon the refuse of human °^'^^^^^ food, or being principally fed from the table, soon become obnoxious to a great many diseases which are essentially the same as those which afflict man. The dog is a purely carnivorous animal, but his as- sociation with man renders him in some degree om- nivorous. The use of vegetable food is probably not beneficial to his constitution; but it does not seem sufficient to explain why he is so frequently afflicted, neither does the circumstance of his living princi- pally in-doors. E 2