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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    I say: Any and every man who knowingly neglects using this book in saving the eye, or the leg, or any other limb of his fellow-man, is guilty of the loss of such limb, and thus committing a sin, he may forfeit to himself all hope of heaven. Such men refuse to call upon the Lord in their trouble, although he especially commands it. If men were not allowed to use sympathetic words, nor the name of the Most High, it would certainly not have been revealed to them ; and what is more, the Lord would not help where they are made use of. God can in no manner be forced to intercede where it is not his divine pleasure. Another thing I have to notice here: there are men who will say, if one has used sympathetic words in vain, the medicines of doctors could not avail any, because the words did not ef- fect acure. This is only the excuse of physicians ; because whatever cannot be cured by sympathetic words can much less be cured by any doctor’s craft or cunning. I could name at any time that catholic priest whose horse was cured with mere words; and I could also give the name of the man who done it. I knew the priest well; he formerly re- sided in Westmoreland county. If it was desired, I could also name a reformed preacher, who cured several persons of the fever, merely by writing them some tickets for that purpose ; and even the names of those persons I could men- tion. ‘This preacher formerly resided in Berks county. — If men but use out of this book what they actually need, they surely commit no sin; yet wo unto those who are guilty that any one loses his life in consequence of mortifi- cation, or loses a limb, or the sight of the eye! Wo unto those who misconstrue these things at the moment of dan- ger, or who follow the ill advise of any preacher who might teach them not to mind what the Lord says in the 50th Psalm: ‘¢Call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.”—-Wo unto those who in obeying the directions of a preacher, neglect using any means offered by this book against mortification, or inflam- advises me not to use any prescriptions found in this book, in such a case I shall not obey him. And wo also unto