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Excerpt from Formula of Prescriptions, and Various Instructions, for the Service and Guidance of Those Who Have Applied, Are Applying, or Shall Apply, to the Enemy to Human Diseases: To Which Is Prefixed, a Vindication, Concerning the Dietical Abstinence, Detecting the Dangerous Tendency of Several Articles Forbidden as Pernicious to the Human Body
This metallic Proteus juice, ithe extraaed one of the narcone vegetable, going under the name of poppy, alfo, like its volatile partner, to the liberal dlli ributor it gives the facility of having its dreis multiplied and van: ed to infinity. Lnvelligatiung alfo the. E?e?s of this fecondary pretended lpecihc, it is an iiieonteltable truth, that this iimilar cameleon panacea has no other virtue than to be numb the whole frame, and to lull and momentarily give eale to the acceis, which may be compared to the ll ep of the lion, audits furious awakening in?antaneoufly, the paint having ceafed Without the caufe having been deflroyed then, after the examinatioii of the effect operated by the narcotic extraction, varioufly mixed, temporary relief is the only produeiion operated by the intimate partner of the prevalent pha'fmaceutic metallic god, whole mufi notorious effeét in the human body, equal in virtue to the promoter ofprolific lpeéloration, ts to operate an ef?uent: ttupefaéiion And this is the prevalent fecond engine em ployed in the purluit of conquering human difeales. But as their inexpugnable {lubbornnels makes void the attack of thofe pharmaceutic bellipotentarms, and ignorance in the attempt being made lenfible of its incompetency, does not dillemble the iefult of its aggravating remedies. Tat then could give it pretenfion to make the miferable vic tims of blundeis and blindnefs pay, and deprive the ielves of their property, to compenfate for their torment, if not death, without any confideration. Hav ing deteet ed the pernicious effeas of the two pievalent fpecifics employed by ignorance to affuage pain, or extirpate dif eales, obvioufl} proving by eitperience their being of a detrimental nature in human bodies, then what other exi pedient could authorize the claiming any fee, ieward. Or compenfation. Could it be the phlebotomical fcheme. F' Upon that head, it is of old notoriety, that this expedi ent is one of the principal and prevalent ones tifed to expel difeafes and repair human be is the recompenle more legitimated, by indifcriminately and implacably extirpating out of the bodies of the cre dulous, paflive feétaries, their fluxus juice, blood, oz vital effence. Alfo, fuch a reverend denomination might be.
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