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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    judgment of the uncontrolable Judge of human actions. And for what concerns the responsibility of the hell- ish tantalous beverage thereof, some enquiry should have been made before its introduction among those refined, moral, civilized tribes, and those making a pompous show of their superior faith and virtue, and by those who have hope of a reward for their practice of good actions. Concerning those firing li- quids, if not having been effectually blinded by the hell- ish sovereign, of whom the guiltiferous liquor so forcibly & powerfully serves the most important interest, & con- scious of the truth, some seriovgs discussion should have been made previous to the general use, for the purpose of knowing upon whom should be laid the trespasses of the toleration of the crime, promoting essential spirit by the supreme human souls' Judicature. For as the virulent life-liquid antagonist of the human beings' burning flame's Embrosice, have argued, as the fabrication must be compared to a fertile nursery, or to a fecund mint, coining the most capital crimes to be put afterwards in circulation ; but, to have decided the question of their respective answerableness, supposing, for instance, that an inordinate drunkard's soul, after having quitted its sur- feited and permanently intoxicated and inflamed frame, for the immortal region, and to receive the reward of its former habitation, for the meritorious deeds that its un- temporated body had performed upon earth. And if have said the irreconcilable enemies of the human rea- son drink, effectual destroyer, and potential antidote— thence for the purpose, supposing the said aoul of the in- ordinate drunkard at the bar of the heavenly Throne of Justice, and also of souls' inspection and final compensa- tion, and there the said drunkard's immaterial and im- mortal remains or soul there interrogated by the grand Judge of the celestial and eternal Court of human per- formance and recompense, concerning the species of one ihat she come to. claim for the multiplicity and enormity of crimes that her noxious body had committed, while drowned in the infamous spirit of sins and intoxication. have said to the perspieacio