[For the encouragement of the sickly and infirm, this tract, on the benefits arising from the use of Solomon's Cordial Balm of Gilead, with a variety of authenticated cases and cures, is submitted].

Solomon, S. (Samuel), 1780-1818.

Date:: [1815?]

Credit: [For the encouragement of the sickly and infirm, this tract, on the benefits arising from the use of Solomon's Cordial Balm of Gilead, with a variety of authenticated cases and cures, is submitted]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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$prevent their votaries from follovnn.^' tlieir respective avocatittns^ by engToysin^ tlieir ideas, even wiien they should be employed ill devotion or biisine?s, rojidering' them stupid, dull, and thoua^htlu), and de. ^royinp^ their vivacity, cheerinlness, and health, hy btmii* iiio’ on consumption, weakiK^ss, barrennejifs, and all that dreadhd train of complaiuts 'vldcii makes them timid, whimsical, and ridi- euions. The mind is a^itatii^ with Irigmtliil ideas and horrid dreams, which mtimateiy render them fearful of being lelt alone for a few minutes! Surely such a train of miseries might he siilii- eieat to deter young people from entering into such courses ! They should take time to consider, that every act of this kind strikQS deep at the root of their coiistitution, inevitably hastens many alarming diseases, <md liriiigs on ail the languishing inlimiities of old age, ami linaily, premature dissolution.—These maladies are not only relieved, but ultimately cured, by this excellent me- dicine, wbidi warms and steadies the cold and tremulous nerves, invigorates the miiscuiar system, animates the spirits, and reno- vate'- the man. '' \ An opinion prevails tiiat nervous diseases are at present more common in Europe than at any former period, and that they are chiehy a.Itributable to excess of indulgeucies practised in these times of reiinement and luxury. It is certainly true, that the tar- fher we depart from simplicity and temperance in diet, and ilie more we sacrifice wholesome exercises to the inactivity’atteilding domestie amusements, the greater will be the influence of every error, in diminishing the ^'igour of the constiiution; Diseases of the nerves are incident to lioth sexes, witli only this diHerence, that in the frmale^ howo the natural delicacy of the constitution and the softer manner of life, they are in general more frequent and 'violent than in the male. Weaknesses of the nervous syshmi are oflen, a]a«! too often, occasioned ify irregularities in one sex, and sensual excesses in the other. ' The most common symptom of this disease is a co;n- stant dread of death, which pervades with its halefiil influence the whole nervous system, writhing the heart with inexpressible an- guish, and excitihg the most dreadful suggestions ol horror and de^^pair! To this demon havetiioiisamls fallen a sacrifice in tae direful transports of its rage.$