The angel of Bethesda, visiting the invalids of a miserable world [Seven lines of…

THOSE things also, which Fortify the Blood, and restore a Volatile Ferment, in the Vapid and Languid Blood, will do Wonders for us. It is impossible to Kill a Man (the Nishmath-Chajim will never leave him) till the Circulation of his Blood be ruined.

THOSE things also, which Fortify the Blood, and restore a Volatil Ferment, in the Vapid and Languid Blood, will do Wonders for us. It is impossible to Kill a Man (the Nishmath-Chajim will never leave him) till the Circulation of his Blood be ruined.

XXI. WE read, Heaviness in the Heart of man makes it stoop; but a Good Word makes it Glad. We read, A Cheerful Heart does good like a Medicine; but a broken spirit dries the Bones. The Invigoration, or the Debilitation of the Nishmath-Chajim, is that wherein these ancient Observations are accomplished.

XXI. WE read, Heaviness in the Heart of man makes it stoop; but a Good Word makes it Glad. We read, A Chearful Heart does good like a Medicine; but a broken spirit dries the Bones. The Invigoration, or the Debilitation of the Nishmath-Chajim, is that wherein these ancient Observations are accomplished.

IT is a Remark of Baglivi, but it may have been made by Ten Thousand more; That a great part of our Diseases, Either do Rise from, or are Fed by, a Weight of Cares, lying on the Minds of men. Diseases that seem Incurable, are easily Cured by agreeable Conversation. Disorders of the Mind, first bring Diseases on the Stomach; and so the whole Mass of Blood gradually becomes infected. And as long as the Passions of the Mind continue, the Diseases may indeed change their Forms; but they rarely quit the Patients.