Salt, the forbidden fruit, or food : the chief cause of diseases of the body and mind of man, and of animals : as taught by the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men and by Scripture : in accordance with the author's experience of many years / by Robert Howard.

  • Howard, R. J. (Robert J.)
Date:
1851
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Credit: Salt, the forbidden fruit, or food : the chief cause of diseases of the body and mind of man, and of animals : as taught by the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men and by Scripture : in accordance with the author's experience of many years / by Robert Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    derived directly from that source. But, as his- tory relates, the wise men, or poets, of ancient Greece, went into Egypt, and having there in- structed themselves in the wisdom of the wise men, again set it forth in their poetical represen- tations, known as the Histories of the Grecian Bards; and it is by an explanation, and interpre- tation of these, that we arrive at a certain know- ledge of the wisdom of Egypt. The wisdom of Egypt is instructive of the wisdom of nature, apart from the wisdom of art; showing the former and the future conditions of this world and its creatures; the conditions of the mother earth and her children. It teaches, and truly too, as shown in these works, that nature and art have alternate rule in this world ; that that condition of this world, over which nature reigns in the absence of art, constitutes the hea- venly state, the future heaven above ; when the existence of the inhabitants of earth is attended with uninterrupted happiness and pleasure. And secondly, that that condition of the earth, over which art prevails, as now, is one of sorrow, suffer- ing, disease, and death: not however condemning art; but showing that nature, and art, have alter- nate rule, by the ordination of nature herself: that nature makes of this inferior world, or world of art, a stage, on which it is intended that art should, by her various doings, (in imitation of the works of nature, and otherwise,) employ, amuse, and please the tribes of earth to satiety; that