The spirit of medicine. Part the first. / [Aben Zebra].

  • Aben Zebra, pseud.
Date:
[1764]
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Credit: The spirit of medicine. Part the first. / [Aben Zebra]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Carte, in his fagacious Hiftory of England, tells.us a ftory of a man that went to the Pretender to be cured of the Kind’s Evil. o The Botanifts of Rome, who well conceived the nature of terredrial divinity, and the little good or harm it was capable of effect¬ ing, primarily, undertook the man’s cure, and managed him fo well as apparently to perform it; and when they found their la¬ bour, in the courfe of a happy ifftie, they recommended him to the Touch, and in a few days after the man appeared very well; not fo perfectly cured, but that on his re¬ turning to his old courfe of life, he was in the fame date as before : however, this was the Patient’s, not the Phyfician’s fault. The cure was faid to be performed, merely by dieting. It is hard to eradicate thofe fixed maladies, as they are generally the effedis of venereal poifoa, and, .as it were, affociated with the blood from generation to genera¬ tion. To perfecd a cure, requires the like art as to make gold, it muff have the regular maturation of ages; in time, the whole fy- ftern may be altered, and a kind of new body formed by artificial conftrudtion : but to this time muff be added, refolution and patience, which men, endued with ftrong paffions