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called " Primitive Physic, or an Easy and Natural Method of Curing
most Diseases." After deprecating the manner in which drugs were
imposed upon mankind, the mysteries with which the science of
medicine is surrounded, and the interested conduct of medical men,
the Rev. gentleman proceeds to shew, that he was fully aware of the
healing powers of water; and from the long list which he has given,
and which follows, it will be evident that he thought water capable
of curing almost every disease to which human nature is exposed. He
writes:? " The common method of compounding and decompounding
medicines, can never be reconciled to common sense. Experience
shews, that one thing will cure most disorders, at least as well as
twenty put together. Then why do you add the other nineteen ? Only
to swell the apothecary's bill! nay, possibly on purpose to prolong
the distemper, that the doctor and he may divide the spoil. " How
often, by thus compounding medicines of opposite qualities, is the
virtue of both utterly destroyed? " Nay, how often do those joined
together destroy life, which, singly they might have preserved? "
This occasioned that caution of the great Boerhaave, against mixing
things without evident necessity, and without full proof of the
effect they will produce when joined together, as well as of that
they produce when asunder; seeing (as he observes) that several
things which taken separately are safe and powerful medicines, when
compounded not only lose their former power, but compose a strong
and deadly poison." In recommending to his followers the use of
water, Mr. Wesley proceeds to state, " that cold bathing cures
young children of the following complaints:? Convulsions, coughs,
gravel Inflammations of ears, navel and mouth Rickets Cutaneous
inflam...
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