A confidential communication of the enemy of human diseases : and the afflicted applying to him, to whom only is intended this supplementary reflection concerning the cause of human prevalent miseries ... / By Sylvan, enemy to human diseases.

  • Sylvan, pseud.
Date:
1814
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    ing by such fatal diseases. Then the one, who has the knowledge of the Creator's remedies, and, in those occa- sions, dares to make use of them, and rescue those hap- less and wretched beings, and preserve them upon earth, and free them from the danger of pain excru ciations, long agony, and a slow, and one must say infernal death. Hence, in those cases, th~ consequence of being endow- ed of sympathy and obedience in fulfilling the universal Maker's command, for the puqwse of giving relief to one's fellow creatures' distress, and applying to the Creator's expedient, intended to help and heal those mor- tals, then the beings obedient to the dictate of nature, and the supreme order, must be compensated by the martyrdom of reputation, life, & estate. And being on the topic of estate, it must be understood, that like, if, this moment or at any future period, some hellish amphibious Labrax,* cast out of the Phlegethon Styx,f or a Tartarean metallic predacious bird, should, with the look and human shape, have the special mission upon earth of coming for the express purpose of perverting and disgracing its pro- vidential inhabitants, by obtaining from them protection, assistance, and particular license of extorting and depre- dating the resources that could help the afflicted's innu- merable maladies. And on the occasion, one might have recourse to the old adage, proverbially saying, Birds of a feather flock together—consequently, if the Tarta- rean ill-boding fowl, or the amphibious hellish monster Labrax or fresh river water shark—then if the aquatic de- vouring beast should succeed in making incursion upon earth, and could be protected by its own fellow-creatures, patronized, and enabled with its infected rapacious, and broad mouth, to swallow up the portion or the necessary substance, and the destined one, principal and indispensa- ble ingredient, to serve the nectar of affliction. Then, if such occurrence should take place one day, it could not be denied that the Albion physical predictors should de- serve credit for accuracy of prediction, and that those ! The Latin,Jbroad-mouthed fish, and fresh water shark and monster, t Hells rivers.