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The angel of Bethesda, visiting the invalids of a miserable world [Seven lines of…
The angel of Bethesda, visiting the invalids of a miserable world [Seven lines of quotations] / By a Fellow of the Royal Society.
printed by Timothy Green, 1722
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THE Cure is; First, Quiet the Spirits with Proper Anodynes. Then bring them to Rights, and Revive them & Refresh them, & bring a New Strength into them. In short, Confirm the System. Chalybeates do Wonders this way; And usually the Steel in Substance, more than many of the Common Preparations. Corroborating Plants, infused in Generous Wine, or a Tea of them, have also done Wondrously. Yea, Venice-Treacle alone (our Sydenham says) as Contemptible as it may seem, yet if often used, and a long while, it is a Great Remedy in This, as well as very many other Diseases, and perhaps the most Effectual that has hitherto been known in the World.
THE Force of the Peruvian Bark Regularly administered, for giving a Vigour to the Blood, and so to the Spirits, has also been very Surprising And for the Recovering of People to an Healthy Constitution out of Splenetic and Hysteric Diseases.
THE Force of the Peruvian Bark Regularly administred, for giving a Vigour to the Blood, and so to the Spirits, has also been very Surprising And for the Recovering of People to an Healthy Constitution out of Splenetic and Hysteric Diseases.
BUT there is nothing like the Exercise of Riding on Horse-back, Every Day, when the Weather will allow it; and increasing the Journey by Degrees till one comes to a Score of Miles in a Day.