The long lost friend, or, Faithful & Christian instructions containing wonderous and well-tried arts & remedies, for man as well as animals : with many proofs of their virtue and efficacy in healing diseases, &c. : the greater part of which was never published until they appeared in print for the first time in the U.S. in the year 1820 / literally translated from the German work of John George Hohman.

  • Hohman, Johann Georg.
Date:
1850
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Credit: The long lost friend, or, Faithful & Christian instructions containing wonderous and well-tried arts & remedies, for man as well as animals : with many proofs of their virtue and efficacy in healing diseases, &c. : the greater part of which was never published until they appeared in print for the first time in the U.S. in the year 1820 / literally translated from the German work of John George Hohman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS LITTLE BOOK. THE author should have preferred writing no preface whatever to this little book, were it not indispensably neces- sary, in order to meet the erroneous views some men enter- tain in regard to works of this character. The majority, undoubtedly, approve of the publication and sale of such books, yet some are always found who will persist in de- nouncing them as something wrong. This latter class I cannot help but pity for being so far led astray; and I earnestly pray every one who might find it in his power, to bring them from off their ways of error. It is true, whoso- ever taketh the name of Jesus in vain, committeth a great sin.’ Yet is it not expressly written in the 50th Psalm, according to Luther’s translation: **Call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.”’? In the Catholic translation, the same passage 1s found in the 49th Psalm, reading thus: ‘* Call upon me in the day of thy trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.” Where is the doctor who has ever banished the panting or palpitation of the heart and hideboundeness ? Where is the doctor who ever banished a wheal? Where is the doctor whoever banished the mother-fits? Where is the doctor who can cure mortification when it once seizes a member of the body ? All these cures, and a great many more mis- terious things are contained in this book ; and its author could take an oath at any time upon the fact of his having successfully applied many of the prescriptions on its pages.