A plain statement of authenticated facts respecting the system for the prevention and removal of disease / invented and practised by John St. John Long.

  • Long, John St. John, 1798-1834.
Date:
1834
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Credit: A plain statement of authenticated facts respecting the system for the prevention and removal of disease / invented and practised by John St. John Long. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VIU subtract from the weight of this testimony, a strong impression is not made in favour of the reahty of the cures that I have performed, then I must say that any testimony is utterly valueless, and that no system, resting upon evidence, can have a solid foundation in reason. But if the evidence which I have adduced be sufficient to prove the reality of the facts, nothing more is necessary to uphold my system. There is one feature of my system to which I would, in a more especial manner, call the atten- tion of the reader. The Lotion which I use for the etctraction of morbid matter will take no ef- fect whatever upon those parts of the body which are not diseased. Wherever disease is present, its application will attract the peccant humour to the surface, and cause it to pass away by gradual discharges, until the whole is removed ; and when that object is accomplished, its con- tinued application will only have the effect of accelerating the healing of the part from which that humour was extracted, I believe I may venture to say that this is a property not belong- ing to any medicine at present known to the re- cognised professors of the healing art in this country ; and it is a property which I have in thousands of instances, and in the presence of most competent judges, man5'^ of them medical men, and all of them men of rank and education, proved, by experiment, to belong to my Lotion.