Primitive physic, or An easy and natural method of curing most diseases / by John Wesley, M.A.

  • Wesley, John, 1703-1791.
Date:
MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
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Credit: Primitive physic, or An easy and natural method of curing most diseases / by John Wesley, M.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    THE Preface. WHEN man came firft out of the hands of the great Creator, cloth- ed in body as well as in foul, with immor- tality and incorruption, there was no place for phyfic, or the art of healing. As he knew no fin, fo he knew no pain, no fick- nefs, weaknefs, or bodily diforder. The habitation wherein the angelic mind, the Divinseparticula Aurae abode, though originally formed out of the duft of the earth, was liable to no decay. It had ho feeds of corruption or diflblution within it- felf. And there was nothing without to injure it: Heaven and earth and all the hods of them were mild, benign and friend- ly to human nature. The entire creation was it peace with man, fo long as man was at peace with his Creator. So that well might •* the morning ftars fmg together, and all the Ions of God fhout for joy.'' 2. But fince man rebelled againii the So- vereign of heaven and earth, how entirely is the fcenc changed! The incorruptible A 2 frame