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Primitive physick : or, An easy and natural method of curing most diseases.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wesley, John, 1703-1791, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Herbs--Therapeutic use.
- Herbs.
- Medicine, Popular.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume (xxiv, 136 pages)).
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin : printed for Oli. Nelson, 1752.
- Summary:
- Wesley, the founder of Methodism, advocated common herbs which would supposedly do no harm and might cure. He rejected dangerous and expensive drugs like mercury and opium. First published in England in 1747, his book was reprinted dozens of times.
- Notes:
- Collection reference: 63051.D.1
- In his own medical thinking, Wesley continually pits proven experience against rational hypothesizing, especially against the rampant medical theorizing of his own era. He was not an innovator in medicine, but rather was faithful to medical tradition, whose therapeutics he sought to simplify, while purging it of some of its more harmful tendencies.
- Includes index.
- Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Library Company of Philadelphia's catalogue, and 'An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform', compiled by Christopher Hoolihan.
- Description based on online resource (last viewed March 21, 2025).
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