Salt, the forbidden fruit, or food : and the chief cause of diseases of the body and mind of man, and of animals; as taught by the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men, and by scripture ... / by Robert Howard.

  • Howard, Robert, -1854.
Date:
1851
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    the loss of man’s immortality ; which is, now to us, the most ])ractically important feature of the wisdom of Egypt; and this is the conclusion of his speech: “We judge that if any one would constantly proceed hy a certain law and method^ in the road of experience, and not allow himself to be biased by such considerations as make for profit or ostentation, nor quit the original design for the sake of these, he might he the useful hearer of a new and accumulate divine bounty to man- kindMuch time has elapsed since Bacon said this; because this difficulty stood in opposition: “ by what most extraordinary concomitance of circumstances in human life, was any son of art to be induced to proceed steadily in the most unusual course pointed out by Lord Bacon ; and which he himself could not pursue, and therefore gave this signal only to his posterity, to show that he knew the way, and saw it open, but could not travel on it!” Now, because man became liable to death by eating salt, and the reception of other mineral matter into his body, it does not from that follow that abstinence from salt, and all mineral matter, should now, by a renewal of the youthful attri- butes, absolutely restore him to immortality, but, under favourable circumstances, it will cure his diseases, and so in effect rendering him much younger, and protecting him from diseases, it will wonderfully prolong his life, as experience has shown. It is however evident that in ancient