The book of miracles; or, celestial museum, being an entertaining and instructive treatise on love, law, trade, and physic with the Bank of Heaven, containing a never-failing method for ladies to obtain good husbands, and gentlemen good wives. With happiness and felicity after marriage : showing how to prevent all disappointments in love; and also all unhappy marriages; how a lady may become amiable, beautiful, lovely, and handsome in the sight of any man, by the rules of art; and how to protect and defend all injured females ... the whole containing greater miracles, performed in all these various departments, than were ever known to be done before in this kingdom, within the memory of the oldest man living; all of which is well proved and substantiated, as hereinafter mentioned, from several curious examples, cases, and facts, delivered from the evidence of several remarkable post letters inserted herein; which are also now in possession of the author; forming the greatest and most useful curiosity, now in extant in the world ... / by Dr. Parkins.

  • Parkins, Dr. (John), 1771-1830.
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[1817]
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Credit: The book of miracles; or, celestial museum, being an entertaining and instructive treatise on love, law, trade, and physic with the Bank of Heaven, containing a never-failing method for ladies to obtain good husbands, and gentlemen good wives. With happiness and felicity after marriage : showing how to prevent all disappointments in love; and also all unhappy marriages; how a lady may become amiable, beautiful, lovely, and handsome in the sight of any man, by the rules of art; and how to protect and defend all injured females ... the whole containing greater miracles, performed in all these various departments, than were ever known to be done before in this kingdom, within the memory of the oldest man living; all of which is well proved and substantiated, as hereinafter mentioned, from several curious examples, cases, and facts, delivered from the evidence of several remarkable post letters inserted herein; which are also now in possession of the author; forming the greatest and most useful curiosity, now in extant in the world ... / by Dr. Parkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    many me just for the sake of obtaining mv portion-, and when he hath gained that point, I may then perhaps do as well as I can, and not as 1 would.—He may secretly hide, from me all his evil propensities, faults, and failings ; and thus I may be deceived, even while I am so far engaged that I cannot retract ; so that my repentance may come too late. When I may also suffer much trouble and affliction by reason of my enemies’ false reports, and a variety of other causes, and being also liable, like other unfortunate females^ to be afflicted by a most fatal disease, which is explained in the Celestial Physician, (a book now extant) called furor uterinus ; or, the madness of the womb ; which hath brought so many thousands of unhappy females to their complete ruin,and destruction, and also to an untimely grave ; and being also truly sensible of my own weakness and inability to help or defend myself under any of these most alarming and 5 dreadful circumstances which have such a particular effect on my spirits^ that I am fearful of all these most afflicting and dangerous catastrophes. Therefore I shalT now be much obliged to you to take all those evils, acci¬ dents, perils, and dangers out of my nativity, by virtue of your art, which I suppose must be done by personal applu cation alone, according to the tenor of the following culver- ifoement, viz. Dr, Parkin's Grand Celestial Arcanum, For the benefit.of the ladies in general, by personal applica¬ tion alone. Which is a . most special remedy and cure for all- those who are in trouble and affliction, which mitigates and prevents all unhappy marriages, insults, and violence from all their enemies,- together with the various evils, acci-« dents, perils, and dangers that may ever be founddn their na¬ tivities, which hath heretofore brought so many thousands' of unhappy and most unfortunate females to their ruin and- destruction, and also to an untimely grave, which said af¬ flictions frequently come suddenly upon them like a thief in the night, while by this said divine art, these calamities, &c; will be speedily and most effectually removed and eradicated, so that by the same they will be most fully enabled to ob¬ tain the blessings of health, prosperity, pleasure, happiness, and felicity, both in this world, and' also in that which is to come, for it is of no use to lock the stable door when the horse is stolen, As numerous most fatal exam¬ ples of this kind are daily set before us7; and also seeing