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

  • Wesley, John, 1703-1791.
Date:
1801
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Credit: Primitive physic: or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases / by John Wesley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University.

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    ( = ; V. i. CoftivcncTs cannot long confifl with health. There* fore care fliould be taken to remove it at the beginning; and ■when it is removed, to prevent its return, by foft, cool, open diet. 2. Obflru&ed perfpiration, (vulgarly called catching cold,) is one great fource of difeafes. Whenever there appears th* Jeaft fign of this, let it be removed by gentle fweats. VI, i. The pajfiovs have a greater influence on health, thaa Htoft people are aware of. a. All violent and fudden paffions difpofe to, or actually throw people into acute difeafes. 3. The flow and lading paffions, fuch as grief and hopelefs love, bring on chronical difeafes. 4. Till the paffion, which caufed the difeafe is calmed, hiedicine is applied in vain. 5. The love of God, as it is the fovereign remedy of all irnfenes,. fo in particular. \\ effeilually prevents all the bodily fiiforders the paffions introduce, by keeping ihe paffions them* fclves within due bounds. And by the unfpeakable joy, and perfefl calm ferenity and tranquility it gives the mind, it be« comes the molt powerful of all the means of health and loBg life. London, June n, 1747. POSTSCRIPT. J.T was a great furprife to the Editor of the following Cof- kftion, that there was fo fwift and large a demand for it; that three impreffions were called for in four or five years ; and thatit yr;,s^not or.ly re-publilhed by the Bookfellers of a neighbouring nation ; but alfo inferted by parts in their public papers, and fii propaga'ed through the whole kingdom. This encouraged me carefully to revife the whole, and to publifh it again with feve* ral alterations, which it is hoped may make it of greater ufe to thofe who love common fenfe and common bonefty. 2. Thofe alterations are flill in purfuanCe of my firft «lefign, to fet down cheap, fafe and eafy medicines; eafy; to be known,.eafy to be procured, and eafy to be applied by plain, unlettered men. Accordingly, I have omitted a con*- iiderable number, which though cheap and fafe, were not fo common or well known ; and have added at leaft an equai number, to which that objection cannot be m.»de : which are not.only.of fmall price, and extremely fafe, but likewife ealily to. be Tout d, if not in every houfc or vard, yet in every town, and almofl every village ihroughout the kingdom. v 3. It