Sermons to the rich and studious, on temperance and exercise. With a dedication to Dr. Cadogan / By a physician [i.e. B. Rush].

  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Date:
1772
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Credit: Sermons to the rich and studious, on temperance and exercise. With a dedication to Dr. Cadogan / By a physician [i.e. B. Rush]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Pe] the patchment upon the earth—a cloud received her, and fhe immediately afcended and difappeared from their fight.—A filence enfued—more expreflive of approbation than the loudeft peals of applaufe. One of them approached with reverence to the fpot where the ftood—took up the fcroll, and read the contents of it to his compa- nions. Jt contained dire€tions to each of them, what they fhould do to reftore their health. ‘They all prepared themfelves to obey the advice of the heavenly vifion. ‘The gouty man broke his vial of elixir, threw his powders into the fire, and walked four or five miles every day before break- raft. The man afflifted with the gravel threw afide his drops, and began to work in bis garden, or to play two or three hours every day at bowls. ‘The hypochondriac and hyfteric patients difcharged their boxes of aflafcetida, and took a journey on horfe- back, to diftant and oppofite ends of the ifland. The melancholic threw afide his gloomy fyftems of philofophy, and fent for 3 a dancing-