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Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":0,"text":"Primitive Phyfick : EASY and NATURAL By JOHN WESLEY. Homofum ; humani nihil a me alienum puto. The FOURTEENTH EDITION , corrected and much enlarged, Price 1s. 6d. bound in Sheep. HEN man came first out of the hands of the great Creator, cloathed in body as well as in foul, with immortality and incorruption, there was no place for phy sick , or the art of healing. As he knew. no fin , fo he knew no pain , no sickness , weakness , or bodily diforder. The habitation wherein the angelick mind, the Divine Particula Aurae abode , although. originally formed out ofthe duft of the earth , was liable to no decay . It had no feeds of corruption or diffolution within itfelf. And there was nothing without to injure it : Heaven and earth and all the hofts of them were mild, benign and friendly to human nature . The entire creation was at peace with man, fo long as. as man was at peace with his Creator. So that wellmight the morningfarsfing together, and all the fons of Godfhoutforjoy. 2. But since man rebell'd against the Sovereign of heaven and earth , how entirely is the fcene chang'd ! The incorruptible frame hath put on corruption , the immer. tal has put on mortality. The feeds of weakness and pain , of sickness and death , are now lodged in our inmost substance ; whence a thoufand diforders continually fpring, even without the aid of external violence . And how is the number of these increased, every thing round about us ? The heavens, the earth, and all things contained therein , confpire to punish the rebels againft their Creator. The fun and moon fhed unwholefome influences from above ; the earth exhales poisonous damps from beneath : the beafls of the field , the birds of the air,the fifles ofthe fea , are in a ftate of hoftility : the air itself that furrounds us on every fide, is replete with the fhafts of death : yea, the food we eat, daily faps the foundation of the life , which cannot be fuftained without it. So has the Lord of all fecured the execution of his decree , 66 Duft","word_count":376,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["reign-of-god","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.856043"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-001","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":1,"text":"፡፡Duft thou art, and unto duft fhalt thou return. \"\" In 3. But can there nothing be found to leffen those inconveniences, which cannot be wholly removed ? To foften the evils of life, and prevent in part the sickness and pain to which we are continually exposed ? Without question there may. One grand preventive of pain and ficknefs of various kinds, feems intimated by the great author of nature, in the very fentence that intails death upon us : thefweat ofthy face fhalt thou eat bread , ' till thou return to the ground.\" The power of exercise both to preferve and reflore health, is greater than can well be canceived especially in those who add temperance thereto ; who if they do not confine themselves altogether to eat either \" Bread or the herb of the Field ,\" (which. God does not require them to do) yet fteadily observe both that kind and meafure of food, which experience fhews to be most friendly to health and strength. 4. 'Tis probable, Phyfic, as well as Religion, was in the first ages chiefly traditional every father delivering down to his fons, what he had himself in like manner","word_count":199,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["means-of-grace","reign-of-god","communion"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.858148"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-002","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":2,"text":"manner received, concerning the manner of healing both outward hurts , with the diseases incident to each climate , and the medicines which were of the greatest efficacy for the cure of each diforder. 'Tis certain , this is the method wherein the art of healing is preferved among the Americans to this day. Their diseases indeed are exceeding few ; nor do they often occur, by reason of their continual exercise, and (' till of late, universal) temperance. But if any is sick, or bit by a ferpent, or torn by a wild beaft , the fa-` thers immediately tell their children what remedy to apply. And ' tis rare, that the patient fuffers long ; those medicines being quick, as well as generally infallible. 5. Hence it was perhaps that the Antients, not only of Greece and Rome, but even ofbarbarous nations, usually affign'd physic a divine original . And indeed it was a natural thought, That He who had taught it to the very beafts and birds, the Cretan Stag, the Egyptian Ibis, could not be wanting to teach man, Sanctius his Animal, menifque capacius altæ : Yea sometimes even by those meaner creatures : For it was easy to infer, If this","word_count":206,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["means-of-grace","assurance","scriptural-authority"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.858257"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-003","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":3,"text":"The this will heal that creature , whofe flesh is nearly of the fame texture with mine , then in a parallel cafe it will heal me .\" trial was made . The cure was wrought. And experience and physic grew up together. 6. And has not the author of nature taught us the use ofmany other medicines, bywhat is vulgarly term'd accident ? Thus one walking some years since in a grove of pines, at a time when many in the neighbouring town were afflicted with a kind of new distemper, little fores in the infide of the mouth, a drop of natural gum fell from one of the trees on the book which he was reading. This he took up, and thoughtlefly applied to one of those fore places. Finding the pain immediately ceafe, he applied it to another, which was also presently healed . The fame remedy he afterwards imparted to others, and it did not fail to heal any that applied it. And doubtless numberlefs remedies have been thus cafually discovered in every age and nation, 7. Thus far physic was wholly founded on experiment. The European, as well as the American, said to his neighbour,","word_count":200,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["free-will","social-holiness","catholic-spirit"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.858333"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-004","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":4,"text":"bour, Are you sick? Drink the juice of this herb, and your sickness will be at an end. Are you in a burning heat ? Leap into that river, and then sweat till you are well. Has the fnake bitten you ? Chew and aply that root, and the poifon will not hurt you . Thus antient men, having a little experience joined with common fenfe, and common humanity, cured both them . felves and their neighbours , of most of the diftempers to which every nation was fubject. 8. But in procefs of time, men of philosophical turn, were not fatisfied with this. They began to enquire , how they might account for these things ? How such Medicines wrought such effects ? They examined the human body, and all its parts ; the nature of the flesh, veins, arteries, nerves ; the ftructure of the brain, heart, lungs, stomach, bowels ; with the fprings of the several animal functions. They explored the several kinds of animal and mineral, as well as vegetable fubftances. And hence the whole order of physic which had obtained to that time, came gradually to be inverted. Men of learning began to fet experience afide ; to build physic upon hypothefes ; to form theories","word_count":211,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["universal-redemption","free-will","social-holiness"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.858407"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-005","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":5,"text":"ries of diseases and their cure, and to fubflitute these in the place of experiments. 9. As theories increased , simple medicines were more and more difregarded and difufed ; ' till in a courfe of years , the greater part ofthem were forgotten , at least in the politer nations. Inthe room ofthefe, abundance of new ones were introduced , by reafoning, fpeculative men ; and those more and more difficult to be applied , as being more remote from common obfervation . Hence rules for the application of those , and medical books were immenfely multiplied ; ' till at length physic became an abftrufe fcience, quite out of the reach of ordinary men. 10. Phyficians now began to be had in admiration , as perfons who were something more than human. And profit attended their employ, as well as honour ; fo that they had now two weighty reafons for keeping the bulk of mankind at a diftance, that they might not pry into the myfleries of the profeffion . To this end, they increased those difficulties by design , which began in a manner by accident. They filled their writings with abundance oftechnical terms, utterly unintelligible to plain men.","word_count":203,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["means-of-grace","social-holiness","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.858482"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-006","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":6,"text":"x - men. They affected to deliver their rules, and to reason upon them, in an abstruse and philosophical manner. They reprefented the critical knowledge of Anatomy, natural Philofophy (and what not ? Some of them infifting on that of Aftronomy and Aftrology too) as neceffarily previous to the understanding the art of healing. Those who understood only, how to reflore the sick to health, they branded with the name of Empirics. They introduced. into practice, abundance of compoundmedicines, confifting of fo many ingredients, that it was scarce poffible for common people to know which it was that wrought a cure Abundance of exotics , neither the nature nor names ofwhich their own countrymen understood : Of chymicals , such as they neither had skill , nor fortune , nor time to prepare Yea , and of dangerous ones, such as they could not use , without hazarding life , but by the advice of a physician. And thus both their honour and gain were fecured ; a vast majority of mankind being utterly cut off, from helping either themselves or their neighbours, or once daring to attempt it. 11. Yet there have not been wanting from time to time, some lovers of mankind,","word_count":204,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["experience","universal-redemption","free-will"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.858586"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-007","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":7,"text":"kind, who have endeavoured (even con trary to their own intereft ) to reduce physic to its antient ftandard : Who have laboured to explode out of it all hypotheses , and fine-spun theories, and to make it a plain intelligible thing, as it was in the beginning : Having no more mystery in it than this, \" Such a medicine removes such a pain.\" These have demonftrably shewn , That neither the knowledge of aftrology, astronomy, natural philofophy, nor even anatomy itself, is abfolutely neceffary to the quick and effectual cure of most diseases incident to human bodies : Nor yet any chymical, or exotick, or compound medicine, but a single plant or fruit duly applied . So that every man of common fense (unless in some rare cafes) may prefcribe either to himself or his neighbour ; and may be very fecure from doing harm , even where he can do no good. 12. Even in the last age there was something of this kind done, particularly by the great and good Dr. Sydenham : And in the present, by his pupil Dr. Dover, who hás pointed out simple medicines for many diseases. And some such may be found in the writings of the learned and ingenious Dr. Cheyne : Who doubtless would have communicated","word_count":217,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","social-holiness"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.858738"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-008","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":8,"text":"communicated many more to the world, but for the melancholy reason he gave one of his friends, that preft him with some paffages in his works, which too much countenanced the modern practice, Sir, we must do something to oblige the faculty, or they will tear us in pieces . 13. Without any regard to this, without any concern about theobliging or difobliging any man living, a mean hand has made here some little attempt, toward a plain and easy way of curing most difeafes. have only confulted herein , experience, common fenfe, and the common intereft ofmankind. And fuppofing they can be cured this easy way, who would desire to use any other ? Who would not wish to have a physician always in his house, and one that attends without fee or reward ? To be able . (unless in some few complicated cafes) to prescribe to his family, as well as himfelf? 14. Ifit be said, but what need is there of such an attempt ? I answer the greatest that can poffibly be conceived. Is it not needful in the highest degree, to ' refcue men from the jaws of destruction ? From wafting their fortunes as thousands have done,","word_count":204,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["social-holiness","free-will","experience"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.859976"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-009","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":9,"text":"done, and continue to do daily ? From pineingaway in sickness and pain , either through the ignorance or knavery of phyficians ? Yea, and many times throwing away their lives, after their health, and time, and fubftance ? Is it enquired, but are there not books enough already, on every part of the art of medicine ? Yes, too many, ten times over, confidering how little to the purpose the far greater part ofthem speak. But befide this , they are too dear for poor men to buy, and too hard for plain men to understand. Do you fay, but there are enough of these collections of receipts . Where? I have not feen one yet , either in our own or any other tongue , which contains only safe and cheap and easy mea. ines . In all that have yet fallen into my hand, I find many dear and many farfetch'd medicines : Befides many of fo dangerous a kind, as a prudent man would never meddle with. And against the greater part of those medicines there is a farther objection : They confift oftwo many ingredients. The common method compounding and decompounding medi . cines, can never be reconciled to common fenfe. Experience fhews, that one thing of will","word_count":213,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["social-holiness","catholic-spirit","experience"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.860050"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-010","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":10,"text":"will cure most diforders, at least as well as twenty put together. Then why do you add the other nineteen ? Only to fwell the Apothecary's bill : Nay, poffibly, on purpole to prolong the distemper, that the doctor and he may divide the spoil. But admitting there is some quality in the medicine propofed, which has need to be corrected : Will not one thing correc it as well as twenty ? It is probable, much better. And ifnot, there is a fufficiency of other medicines, which need no such correction . How often, by this compounding medicines of oppofite qualities, is the virtue of both utterly deftroyed ? Nay, how often do those joined together deflroy life, which fingle might have preferved it ? This occafioned that caution of the great Boerhaave, against mixing things without evident neceffity , and without full proof of the effect they will produce when joined together, as well as of that they produced when afunder : Seeing (as he obferves) several things, which feparatly taken , are safe and powerful medicines, when compounded, not only lose their former powers, but commence a strong and deadly poison . 15. As","word_count":197,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["free-will","social-holiness","works-piety"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.860121"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-011","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":11,"text":"15. As to the manner of using the medicines here fet down, I should advise as soon as you know your distemper, (which is very easy, unless in a complication of diforders, and then you would do well to apply to a physician that fears God) First, ufe the first ofthe remedies for that difeafe which occurs in the enfuing collection ; (unless some other of them be easier to be had , and then it may do just as well . ) Secondly, after a competent time , if it takes no effect, use the second , the third , and fo on. Ihave purpofely fet down ( in most cafes) several remedies for each disorder ; not only because all are not equally easy to be procured at all times and in all pla ces : But likewise because the medicine which cures one man , will not always cure another of the fame distemper. Nor will it cure the fame man at all times. Therefore it was neceffary to have a variety, However, I have fubjoin'd the letter I, to those medicines . which are said to be infallible. Thirdly, obferve all the time the greatest exactness in your regimen , or manner of living. Abstain from all mixt, all high -feafon'd food . Ufe plain diet, easy of digestion : and this as sparingly as you can , confiftent with ease and ftrength. Drink only water, if it agrees with your flomach ;","word_count":247,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","free-will"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.860190"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-012","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":12,"text":"stomach ; if not, good clear small beer. Ufe as much exercile daily, in the open air, as you can without weariness . Sup at fix or seven on the lighteft food : Go to bed early, and rife betimes. To perfevere with fteadiness in this course , is often more then half the cure. Above all , add to the reft, (for it is not labour loft ) that oid, unfashionable medicine , Prayer. And have faith in God, who \" killeth and maketh alive, who bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up.\" 16. For the fake of those who desire, through the bleffing of God , to retain the health which they have recovered , I have added a few plain easy rules, chiefly tranfcribed from Dr. Cheyne. 1. The air we breathe is of great confequence to our health. Those who have been long abroad in efterly or northerdly winds , should drink some thin and warm liquor going to bed , or a draught of toast and water. 2. Tender people should have those who lie with them, or are much about them, found, sweet and healthy. 3. Every 3. Every one that would preferve health, should be as clean and sweet as poffible in their houses, cloaths and furniture. The great rule of eating and drinking is, To fuit the quality and quanty of the food to the ftrength of our digestion ; to take always such a fort and such a measure of food , as fits light and easy on the stomach. 2. All pickled, or fmoaked, or falted food , and all high- season'd is unwhol some. 3. Nothing conduces more to health, than abstinence and plain food with due labour. 4. For ftudious perfons, about eight ounces of animal food, and twelve of vegitable in twenty - four hours is fuffi cient. 5. Water is the wholefomeft of all drinks ; quickens the appetite and strength ens the digestion most.. 6. Strong, and more especially fpirituous liquors, are a certain though flow poison . 7. Experience:","word_count":346,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","reign-of-god"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.860295"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-013","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":13,"text":"7. Experience fhews, there is very seldom any danger in leaving them off all at once . 8. Strong liquors do not prevent the mifchiefs of a furfeit, nor carry it off fo fafely as water. 9. Malt liquors (except clear small-beer of a due age) are exceeding hurtful to tender perfons . 10. Coffee and tea are extremely hurtful to perfons who have weak nerves. 1. Tender perfons should eat very light fuppers ; and that two or three hours before going to bed . 2. They ought constantly to go to bed about nine, and rife at four or five. 1. A due degree of exercise is indifpenfably neceffary to health and long life. 2. Walking is the best exercise for those who are able to bear it, riding for those who art not. The open air, when the weather xix - weather is fair, contributes much to the. benefit of exercise. 3. We may strengthen any weak part of the body by constant exercise . Thus the lungs may be ftrengthened by loud speaking, or walking up an easy afcent : the digestion , and the nerves by riding : the arms or hams by strongly rubbing them daily. 4. The ftudious ought to have ftated times for exercise, at least two or three hours a day : the one half of this before dinner, the other before going to bed. 5. They should frequently fhave, and frequently wafh their feet. 6. Those who read or write much, should learn to do it standing ; otherwife it will impair their health. 7. The fewer cloaths any one ufes, by day or night, the hardier he will be. 8. Exercise, first, should be always on an empty flomach ; fecondly, should ne ver be continued to weariness ; thirdly , after","word_count":303,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["prevenient-grace","free-will","trinity"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.860392"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-014","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":14,"text":"after it, we should take care to cool by degrees : otherwife we fhall catch cold. 9. The flesh -brush is a most useful exercise, especially to strengthen any part that is weak. 10. Cold -bathing is of great advantage to health. It prevents abundance ofdiseases. It promotes perfpiration , helps the circulation of the blood, and prevents the danger of catching old. Tender people should pour water upon the head before. they go in, and walk in fwiftly. To jump in with the head foremoft, is too great a fhock to nature . V. 1.Costiveness cannot long confift with health. Therefore care should be taken to remove it at the beginning : and when it is removed, to prevent its return, by soft, cool, opening diet. Obflructed perfpiration (vulgarly called catching cold) is one great fource of diseases . Whenever there appears the least fign of this, let it be removed by gentle fweats, VI. 1. The VI. 1. The paffions have a greater influence on health than most people are aware. of. 2. All violent and fudden paffions difpose to, or actually throw people into acute difeafes. 3. The flow and lafting paffions, such as grief and hopeless love, bring on chronical diseases. Till the paffion which caused the disease is calm'd, medicine is applied in vain. 5. The love of God , as it is the fovereign remedy of all miseries , fo in particular it effectually prevents all the bodily disorders the paffions introduce , by keeping the paffions themfelves within due bounds. And by the unspeakable joy and perfect calm, ferenity and tranquility it gives the mind, it becomes the most powerful of all the means of health and long life. LONDON, June 11 ,","word_count":290,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["social-holiness","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.860502"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-015","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":15,"text":"T was a greatfurprife to the editor ofthe following collection , that there wasfofwift and large a demand for it ; that three impreffions were called for infour orfive years ; and that it was not only re - published by the bookfellers of a neighbouring nation ; but also inferted by parts in their publick papers, andfopropagated. through the whole kingdom . This encouraged him carefully to revife the whole, and to publish it again, with several alterations, which it is hoped may make it ofgreater ufe to those who love commonfenfe and common honefty. 2. Those alterations are fill in purfuance of myfirst defign , tofet down cheap , safe, and easy medicines ; easy to be known , easy to beprocured, and easy to be applied by plain, unlettered men. Accordingly, I have omitted a confiderable number, which, tho' cheap and safe, were not fo common common or well known ; and have added almost an equal number, to which that objection cannot be made : Which are not only offmallprice, and extremelyfafe, but likewise easily to be found, if not in every houfe or yard , yet in every town, and almost every village throughout the kingdom. 3. Itis because they are not safe, but extremely dangerous, that I have omitted (together with Antimony) the four Herculean medicines, Opium, the Bark, Steel, and most of the preparations of Quickfilver. Herculean indeed ! Far too ftrongfor common men to grapple with. How manyfatal effects have these produced , even in the hands of no ordinary phyficians ! With regard tofour of these , the inftances are glaring and undeniable. Andwhereas Quickfilver , the fifth, is in its native form, as innocent as bread or water, has not the art been difcovered, fo to prepare it, as to make it the most deadly ofallpoifons? Thefe phyficians have juftly termed edged tools. But they have not yet taught them to wound at a diftance : And honeft men are under no neceffity of touching them , or coming within their reach. 4. Inftead ofthefe , I have once more ventured to recommend tomen ofplain unbiaffed reason, such Except in a very few Cafés.","word_count":364,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["social-holiness","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.860648"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-016","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":16,"text":"such remedies as air, water, milk, whey, honey, treacle, salt , vinegar, and common English herbs, with afewforeign medicines, almost equally cheap, safe and common. And this I have done on that principle, whereby I desire to be governed in all myactions, \" Whatfoever ye would that men should do unto you , the fame do unto them .\" 5. At the request of many perfons, I have likewise added plain definitions ofmoft diftempers; not indeed accurate or philosophical definitions, butfuch as arefuited to men ofordinary capaci ties, and as may just enable them, in common , simple cafes, to diflinguifh one difeafe from another. In uncommon or complicated difeafes, or where life is more immediately in danger, I again advise every man without delay to apply to a physician thatfears God. BRISTOL , Oct. 16, LONDON , Nov. 10 , 1760 . URING the obfervation and experience of more than five years, which have passed since the last impreffion ofthis tract , I have had many opportunities of trying the virtues of the enfuing remedies. And I have now added the the word tried to those, which I have found to be ofthegreatest efficacy. I believe many others to be of equal virtue but it has not lain in my way to make the trial, In this courfe oftime I have likewise had oc cafion to collect several other remedies , tried either by myself or others, which are inferted under their proper heads. Some ofthefe I havefound to be ofuncommon virtue, equal to any ofthofe which were before published : and one, 1 muft aver, from perfonal knowledge , grounded on a thousand experiments, to be farfuperior to all the other medicines I have known ; I mean Electricity. I cannot but intreat all those who are well- wishersto mankind; to make full proof of this. Certainly it comes the nearest an universal. medicine, ofanyyet known in the world. One grand advantage which most of these medicines have above those commonly used is this : you may be sure ofhaving them good in their","word_count":346,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["universal-redemption","catholic-spirit","social-holiness"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.860754"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-017","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":17,"text":"their kind ; pure, genuine, unfophifticate . But who can be sure of this, when the medicines he ufes are compounded by an apothecary? Perhaps he has not the drug prefcribed by the physician, andfo puts in its place \" what will do as well. Perhaps he has it ; but it isftale and perifhed yet you would not have him \" throw it away. Indeed he cannot afford it.\" Perhaps he cannot afford to make up the medicine as the difpenfatory directs , and fell it at the common price. Sohe puts in cheaper ingredients : and you take neitheryou noryour physician knows what ! How many inconveniences must this occafion ? How many conflitutions are ruined hereby? How many valuable lives are loft ? Whereas all these inconveniences may be prevented, by a little care and common fenfe , in the ufe of those plainfimple remedies, which are here collected. 1. Abortion, (to prevent) . SE daily a Decoction of Lignum Gu aiacum : Us 2. Or, in a fanguine Habit, let blood. 2. For an Ague. 3. Go into the Cold Bath just before the Cold : Fit : 4. Or, take a Handful of Groundfell, fhred it small, put it into a Paper Bag, four Inches fquare, pricking that Side which is to be next the skin full of holes. Cover this with a thin Linen , and wear it on the Pit ofthe Stomach, renewing it two Hours before the Fit.-Tried. 5. Or, An Ague is, An Intermitting Fever, cach Fit of which is preceded by a cold Shivering and goes off in a Sweat.","word_count":270,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["prevenient-grace","social-holiness","sanctifying-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.860864"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-018","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":18,"text":"5. Or, apply a Handful of Yarrow in like Manner : 6. Or, sliced Roots of Water- Lillies :-Tried . 7. Or, a large Onion flit : 8. Or, melt two - penny worth of Frankincense, spread it on Linen, grate a Nutmeg upon it, cover it with Linen , and hang this Bag on the Pit of the Stomach .-I have never, yet known it fail : 9. Or, boil Yarrow in new Milk, ' till it is tender enough to spread as a Flaifter. An Hour before the cold Fit, apply this tothe wrifts, and let it be on 'till the hot Fit is over. If another Fit comes, ufe a fresh Plaifter : This often cures a Quartan : 10. Or, drink a Quart of coldWater, just before the cold Fit. Then go to Bed and sweat : 11. Or, mix fix middling Pills of Cobwebs. Take one a little before the cold Fit : Two a little before the next Fit. The other three, ifNeed be, a little before the third Fit. This seldom fails : 12. Or, two Tea -spoonfuls of Sal Prunellaan Hour before the Fit. It commonly cures in thrice taking : 13. Or, twenty Grains of Sal Ammoniac, two Hours before the Fit : 14. Or, ofpowdered Nutmeg and Alum : 15. Or , a Tea spoonful of Spirits ofHartshorn, in a Glafs of Water : 16. Or, a large Spoonful of Brimstone powdered, in a Cup of hot White Wine. Then lie down in Bed and sweat : 17. Or, eat a Lemon, Rind and all : 18. Or,","word_count":268,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["prevenient-grace","means-of-grace","catholic-spirit"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.860948"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-019","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":19,"text":"18. Or, drink a Pint of Decoction of Camomile, fweeten'd with Treacle. Take it warm in Bed, and sweat two Hours. 19. Or, in the hot Fit, if violent, take ten, twelve, or fifteen Drops of Laudanum : If coftive, in Hierapica : It is proper to take a gentle Vomit, andfometimes a Purge, before you use any of these Medicines. If a Vomit is takentwo Hours before the Fit is expected, it generallyprevents that Fit, andfometimes cures an Ague : Especially in Children. It is also proper to repeat the Medicine ( whatever it be) about a Week after, in order to prevent a Relapfe . Do not take any Purge soon after.-The daily use of the Flefb-brufb, and frequent Cold Bathing are ofgreat ufe toprevent Relapfes. 3. A Tertian Ague. 20. Is often cured by taking a Purge one Day, and the next, bleeding in the Beginning ofthe Fit : 21. Or, boil a Handful of Ribwort in Whey. Drink this warm an Hour before the Fit comes, and lie down and sweat : 22. Or, a Tea-spoonful of Salt ofTartar in Spring Water. This also cures double Tertians, triple Quartans, long lafting Fevers, and most Difeafes rifing from Obstructions : Especially if Sena be premised twice or thrice . 23. Or, before, yea in the midft ofthe Fit, take twenty Drops of Spirit of Sulphur, in a Pint of cold Water : 24. Or, That is, An Ague which returns every other Day. - In this ufe light and sparing Diet on the Day between.","word_count":258,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["prevenient-grace","pneumatology","assurance"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.861219"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-020","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":20,"text":"24. Or, after Purging, Vomiting, or Bleeding, take a Dram of Treacle in Plantane Water, three Mornings : 25. Or, apply to each Wrift, a Plaister of Treacle and Soot.-Tried . 26. Or, ufe the Cold Bath. (Unless you are ofan advanced Age, or extremely weak . ) But when you ufe this, on any Account whatever, it is proper, 1. To bleed or purge, before you begin : 2. To go in cool ; to immerge at once, but not Head foremoft ; to ftay in only two or three Minutes, (or less, at first :) 3. Never to bathe on a full Stomach : 4. To bathe twice or thrice a Week at least, 'till have bathed nine or ten Times : you 5. To sweat immediately after it (going to Bed) in Palfies , Rickets , and all Difeafes wherein the Nerves are obstructed : 6. You may use yourself to it, without any Danger, by beginning in May, and at first just plunging in, and coming out immediately. But many have begun in Winter, without any Inconvenience. 4 . A Double Tertian . 27. Take before the Fit, (after a Purge or two) three Ounces of Cichory-Water, half a Dram of Salt ofWormwood, and fifteen Drops of Spirit of Sulphur : 28. To perfect the Cure, on the Fourth Day after you mifs the Fit, take two Drams of Sena, half","word_count":235,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["trinity","prevenient-grace","pneumatology"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.861322"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-021","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":21,"text":"halfa Dram of Salt ofTartar, infused all Night in four Ounces of Cichory-Water. Strain it and drink it. 5. A Quartan Ague. 29. Apply to the Suture of the Head , when the Fit is coming, Wall July Flowers, beating together Leaves and Flowers with a little . Salt. Keep it on 'till the hot Fit is over. Repeat this, if Need be. 30. Ufe Arong Exercife, (as Riding or Walking, as far as you can bear it) an Hour or two beforethe Fit. If poffible, continue it ' till the Fit begins. 'This alone will frequently cure :-Tried . 31. Or, apply to the Wrifts a Plaister of Turpentine : 32. Or , of bruifed Garlick: 33. Or, of bruifed Pepper, mixt with Treacle : 34. Or, apply Oil ofTurpentine to the small of the Back, before the Fit: 35. For a Tertian or Quartan, vomit an Hour after the cold Fit begins. Then go to Bed , and continue a large Sweat by Lemonade, (that is, Lemon, Sugar and Water ) for fix or eight Hours. This usually cures in three or four Times : If it does not, use the Cold Bath between the Fits. 36. Or, drink every Morning a Gill of White Wine, That is, An Ague which miffes two Days, coming on Monday (fuppole) and again on Thursday.","word_count":224,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","prevenient-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.861399"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-022","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":22,"text":"Wine, wherein half a sliced Seville Orange is boiled : 37. Or, take for seven Mornings, an Infufion of Sena, with a Tea spoonful of Cream ofTartar : 38. Or, take for ten, twelve or fourteen Mornings, half a Pint of Water, in which half an Ounce of Sena, and a Dram of Salt ofTartar have been infused twelve Hours : 39. Or, take ten Grains of powder'd Saffron before the Fit, in a Glafs of White Wine. 40. Or, take Sugar Candy, three Drams , Ginger, two Drams, Camphire , one Dram. Mix them into a Powder, and take a Dram in warm Water. 6. St. Anthony's Fire.+ 41. Take a Glafs of Tar-Water warm, in Bed, every Hour, washing the Part with the fame. Tar-Water is made thus.-Put a Gallon ofcold Water to a Quart of Norway Tar. Stir them together with a flat Stick for five or fix Minutes After it has food cover'dfor three Days, pour off the Water clear, bottle and cork it. 42. Or, drink just so much Sea-Water as does not vomitorpurge, every Morning for seven Days : This is the proper Meafure, in whatever Cafe it is taken. It seldom fails. 43. Or, + St. Anthony's Fire is a Fever attended with a red and painful Swelling, full of Pimples , which afterwards turn into fmallBlifters, on the Face or some other Part of the Body. The fooner the Eruption is, the less Danger. Let your Diet be onlyWater Grue!, er Barley Broth, with roafted Apples. who","word_count":255,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["prevenient-grace","means-of-grace","catholic-spirit"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.861471"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-023","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":23,"text":"43. Or, take a Decoction of Elder-Leaves, as a Sweat. 44. Or, of wild Thyme, applying to the Part a Cloth dipt in Lime-Water, mixt with a little camphorated Spirits ofWine. Lime-Water is made thus.-Infufe a Pound of good quick Lime, in fix Quarts of Spring Water for twenty-four Hours. Decant and keep it for Ufe. 45. Or, take two or three gentle Purges. No acute Fever bears repeated Purges better than this, especially when it affects the Head : 46. Or, (ufing the Internal Medicine at the fame Time) apply a Plaister of Venice Treacle : 47. Or, wash it with Water wherein Bran is boiled : 48. Or, boil a Handful of Sage, two Handfuls of Elder-Leaves (or Bark) and an Ounce of Allum in two Quarts of Forge Water, to a Pint. Anoint with this every Night. 7. The Apoplexy. 49. To prevent, use the Gold Bath, and drink only Water. 50. In the Fit, put a Handful of Salt into a Pint ofcold Water, and if poffible, pour it down the Throat of the Patient. He will immediately come An Apoplexy is, A total Lofs ofall Senfe, and voluntary Motion, commonly attended with a strong Pulse, hard Breathing and Snorting.","word_count":204,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["prevenient-grace","free-will","catholic-spirit"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.861556"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-024","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":24,"text":"cometo himself. So will one who seems dead by a Fall : 51. Or, fill the Mouth with Salt : 52. Or, blow Powder of White Hellebore up the Nofe, and fix a Cupping Glass, without fcarifying, to the Nape of the Neck, and another to each Shoulder. But fend for a good Phyfician immediately : 53. If the Fit be soon after a Meal, do not bleed, but vomit. 54. Rub the Head, Feet, and Hands strongly, and let two strong Men carry the Patient upright, backward and forward about the Room. 55. A Seton in the Neck, with low Diet, has often prevented a Relapse. 8. Canine Appetite. 56. \" If it be without Vomiting, is often cured by a small Bit of Bread dipt in Wine, and applied to the Noftrils.\" Dr. Schomberg. 9. The Afthma.. 57. Take a Pint of cold Water every Night, as you lie down in Bed : 58. Or, a Pint of cold Water every Morning, washing the Head therein immediately after, and ufing the Gold Bath once a Fortnight : An infatiable Defire of Eating, 59. Or, An Afkma is a Difficulty of Breathing , from a Diforder in the Lungs . In the common (or moift) Afthma, the Patient fpits much.","word_count":211,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["means-of-grace","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.861628"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-025","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":25,"text":"59. Or, cut an Ounce of tick Liquorice into Alices. Steep this in a Quart of Water, four and twenty Hours, and use it, when you are worse than usual , as common Drink . I have known this give much ease. 60. Or, half a Pint of Tar Water twice a Day: 61. Or, drink Sea Water every Morning : 62. Or, live a Fortnight on boiled Carrots only. It seldom fails : 63. Or, take two Spoonfuls of Nettle-juice, mixt with clarified Honey, every Night and Morning : 64. Or , take an Ounce of Quickfilver every Morning, and a Spoonful of Aqua Sulphurata, in a large Glafs of Spring-Water at Five in the Evening, and at Bed-time, ' till you are well. Tried. 65. For prefent Relief, vomit with a Quart or more of warm Water. The more you drink of it the better. Do this whenever you find any Motion to vomit, and take Care always to keep your Body open. 10. A Dry or Convulsive Afthma. 66. Juice of Radishes relieves much ; so does 67. A Cup of strong Coffee: 68. Or, Garlick, either raw or preferved , or in Syrup : 69. Or, Tea made with Hyop, or Ground-Ivy, or Daify-Flowers and Liquorice : 70. Or, drink a Pint of new Milk Morning and Evening.This has cured an inveterate Aftbmq. 71. Use","word_count":229,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","social-holiness"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.861701"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-026","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":26,"text":"a 71. Ufethe Cold Bath thrice a Week : 72. Or, beat fine Saffron small, and take eight or ten Grains every Night : Tried. 73. Or, dry and powder a Toad. Make it into small Pills, and take one every Hour ' till the Convulfions cease : 74. Take from three to every Morning ; or every other Evening. Month or fix Weeks. mit. In a violent fit, 75. In any Afthma, the best Drink is Apple-Water That is, Boiling Water poured on sliced Apples. five Grains of Ipecacuanha from five to ten Grains Do this if need be, for a Five Grains usually votake a Scruple inftantly. 11. To cure Baldness. 76 Rub the Part Morning and Evening, with Onions, ' till it is red ; and rub it afterwards with Honey. Or, Wafh it with a Decoction of Boxwood. Or , electrify it daily. 12. Bleeding at the Nofe (to prevent. ) 77. Drink Whey largely every Morning, and eat Raifins much. 78. To cure it, apply to the Neck behind and on each Side, a Cloth dipt in coldWater: 79. Or, wash the Temples, Nose and Neck with Vinegar: 80. Or, snuff up Vinegar and Water : 81. Or, chew Nettle Root, fpitting out the Juice : 82. Or,","word_count":213,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","prevenient-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.861772"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-027","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":27,"text":"82. Or, hold a red-hot Poker under the Nofe : 83. Or, fteep a Linen Rag in sharp Vinegar, burn it, and blow it up the Nofe with a Quill. 84. In a violent Cafe, go into a Pond or River.- Tried. See Extract from Dr. Tiffot. Bleeding of a Wound. 85. Make tight Ligatures on the Arms : 86. Or, apply Tops of Nettles bruised 87. Or, Leaves of All-heal bruifed : 1. 88. Or, spread the Afbes of a Linen Cloth thick on another Linen Cloth , and apply it : 89. Or, strew on it the Afbes of a Linen Rag, dipt in sharp Vinegar and burnt : 90. Or, take ripe Puff-Balls: Break them warily and fave the Powder. Strew this on the Wound and bind it on. I- This will stop the Bleeding of an amputated Limb without any Cautery. 91. Or, take of Brandy, two Ounces, Caftile Soap two Drams, Pot- Ajb one Dram. Scrape the Soap fine and diffolve it in the Brandy ; then add the Pot-afh. Mix them well together and keep them close stopt in a Phil. Apply a little of this warmed to a bleeding Veffel , and the Blood immediately congeals . 14. Spitting Blood. 92. Take half a Pint of few'd Prunes, at lying down, for two or three Nights : Tried. 93. Or,","word_count":227,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["christology","free-will","social-holiness"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.861844"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-028","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":28,"text":"93. Or, a Glafs of Decoction of Onions : 94. Or, two Spoonfuls of Juice of Nettles every Morning ; and a large Cup of Decoction of Nettles at Night , for a Week : Tried . 95. Or, take frequently a Spoonful of the Juice of Nettles and Plantane Leaves, mixt and sweetned with Sugar Candy: 96. Or, three Spoonfuls of Sage juice in a little Honey. This presently ftops either spitting or vomiting Blood : Tried. 97. Or, half a Tea-spoonful of Barbadoes Tar on a Lump of Loaf Sugar at Night. It commonly cures at once. 15. Vomiting Blood. 98. Take two Spoonfuls of Nettle-juice. This also diffolves Blood coagulated in the Stomach .) Tried. 99. Or, one Spoonful ofthe Juice of Quinces : 100. Or, a Quarter of a Pint of Decoction of Nettles and Plantane two or three Times a Day. 16. To diffolve coagulated Blood . 10. Bind on the Part for some Hours a Pafte made of Black Soap, and Crumbs ofwhite Bread: 102. Or, grated Root of Burdock spread on a Rag : Renew this twice a Day. 17. Boils. 103. Apply a little Venice Turpentine : 104. Or, 104. Or, a Plaifter of Honey and Wheat-flower : 105. Or, of Figs : 106. Or, a little Saffron in a white Bread Poultis. 'Tis properto purge also. 18. Hard Breafts. 107. Apply Turnips roafted 'till soft, then mash'd and mixt with a little Oil of Rofes. Change this twice a Day, keeping the Breaft very warm with Flannel. 19. Sore Breasts and swell'd . 108. Boil a handful of Camomile and as much Mallows in Milk and Water. Foment with it between two Flannels as hot as can be bo ne every twelve Hours. It also diffolves any Knob or Swelling in any Part. 20. A Bruife. 109. Immediatkly apply Treacle spread on brown. Paper: Tried. 10. Or, clarified Honey: 111. Or rub it with one Spoonful of Oil ofTurpentine and two of Neat's -foot Oil: 112. Or, apply a Plaister of chopt Parsley mixt with Butter : 113. Or, a Fomentation of Verjuice and Camomile Flowers. 114. Or, Electrify the Part. This is the quickest Cure of all. 21. To","word_count":369,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["christology","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.861957"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-029","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":29,"text":"21. To prevent Swellingfrom a Bruise. 115. Immediately apply a Cloth, five or fix Times doubled, dipt in coldWater, and new dipt when it grows warm . Tried. 22. To cure a Swellingfrom a Bruife. 116. Foment it halfan Hour, Morning and Evening, with Cloths dipt in Water, as hot as you can bear : 117. Or, apply Sea-weed. 23. A Burn or Scald. 118. Immediately plunge the Part into coldWater. Keep it an Hour, if not well before. Perhaps for four or five Hours : Tried. 119. Or Electrify it. If this can be done prefently, it totally cures the most desperate Burn. Or, If the Part cannot be dipt , apply a Cloth four Times doubled, dipt in cold Water, changing it when it grows warm : 121. Or, apply a bruifed Onion : 122. Or, Tincture of Myrrh : 123. Or, Oil and Parfley stamp together : 124. Or, apply Oil, and strew on it powder'd Ginger. 24. A deep Burn or Scald. 125. Apply black Varnish with a Feather ' till it is well : 126. Or, inner Rind of Elder well mixt with fresh Butter. When this is bound on with a Rag, plunge the Part into cold Water. This will fufpend the Pain 'till the Medicine heals. 25. A Cancer inthe Breast, 127. Of thirteen Years standing was cured by frequently applying Red Poppy- Water, Plantane and Rofe-Water, mixt with Honey of Rofes. Afterwards the Waters used alone perfected the Care. 128. Ufe the ColdBath. (This has cured many.) This cured Mrs. Bates of Leicestershire, of a Cancer in her Breaft, a Confumption, a Sciatica, and Rheumatism, which he had near twenty Years. She bathed daily for a Month, and drink only Water. Generally where Cold Bathing is necessaryto cure any Difeafe, Water-drinking is so to prevent a Relapfe. 129. If it be not broke, apply a Piece ofSheet-lead beat very thin, and pricked full of Pin-holes, for Days ACancer is anhard, round, uneven, painful Swelling, of a blackifh or leaden Colour, the Veins round whichfeem readyto burft. It comes comm: nly atfirftwith aSwellingaboutas big as aPea,which does not at first give much Pain, nor change the Colour of the Skin,","word_count":367,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["prevenient-grace","social-holiness","free-will"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.862082"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-030","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":30,"text":"Days or Weeks, to the whole Breast.-Purges should be added every third or fourth Day: 130. Or,Rub the whole Breaft Morning and Evening with Spirits of Hartfborn : 131. Or keep it continually moist with Honey. 132. Or take a mellow Apple, cut offthe Top, take out the Core, fill the Hole with Hogs-greafe, then cover it with the Top, and roast the apple thoroughly, take off the Paring, beat the Pap well , spread it thick on Linen , and lay it warm on the Sore, putting a Bladder over it.- Change this every twelve or twenty-four Hours : 133. Or take Horse- Spurs and dry them by the Fire, 'till they willbeat to Powder. Sit and infuse two Drams in two Quarts of Ale ; drink half a Pint every fix Hours, new Milk warm. It has cured many. Tried. 134. Or, apply Goofe Dung and Celandine beat well : together and spread on a fine Rag. It will both cleanfe and heal the Sore : 135. Or, a Poultis of wild Parsnips, Flowers, Leaves and Stalks, changing it Morning and Evening: Or, feraded Carrots : 136. Or, livethree Months on Apples and Appla Water: 137. Or take half a Dram of Venice Soap twice a Day : 138.Or, take Brimftone andAqua Sulphurata,as Art. 64.-This has cured one far advanced in Years. Dr. Cheyne fays, a total Afs- Milk Diet, about two Quarts a Day, without any other Food or Drink, will cure a confirmed Cancer. There","word_count":249,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","free-will"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.862162"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-031","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":31,"text":"Three inveterate Cancers, which adhered to the Bones, were totally cured at Paris, by anointing the Ulcers thrice a Day with Infufion of Leaves of Plumbago in Olive Oil. The Pain which the Application at first occafioned was over in about a Fortnight. 26. A Cancer in any other Part. 139. Apply red Onions bruifed : 140. Or, make a Plaifter of Roch- Alum, Vinegar, and Honey, equal Quantities, with Wheat-flour. Change it every twelve Hours. It often cures in three or four Days : 141. Or, stamp the Flowers , Leaves and Stalks of wild Parfnips, and apply them as a Plaifter, changing it every twelve Hours. It usually cures in a few Days. 27. A Cancer in the Mouth. 142. Boil a few Leaves of Succory, Plantane, and Rue with a Spoonful of Honey, for a Quarter of an Hour. Gargle with this often in an Hour : I. 143. Or, with Vinegar and Honey wherein half an Ounce of Roch- Alum is boiled : 144. Or, mix as much burnt Alum, and as much black Pepper as lies on a Sixpence with an Ounce of Honey, and frequently touch the part . 145. Or, with a little Roman Vitriol diffolved in a Pint of Water ; then apply Cream . speedily cures the Shingles : Tried. This also 142. Or.","word_count":223,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","trinity"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.862231"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-032","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":32,"text":"146. Or, take an Ounce of Fleur ofSulphur, and half an Ounce of Roch Alum finely powder'd. Mix these well together with pure Honey and apply often. 28. Chilblains (to prevent. ) 147. Wear Flannel Socks : 148. Or, wash the Hands with Flour of Muflard. 29. Chilblains (to cure.) 149. Apply Salt and Onions pounded together : 150. Or, a Poultis of roafted Onions hot. Keep it on two or three Days, if not cured fooner : 151. Or, hot Turnip-parings roasted, changing them twice orthrice a Day. 152. Wash them (if broke) with Tincture of Myrrh in a little Water. See Extract from Tiffot. Children.. 153. To prevent the Rickets , Tenderness and Weaknefs, dip them in Cold Water every Morning, till they are eight or nine Months old ; afterwards their Hands and Feet. No Roller should ever be put round their Bodies, nor any Stays ufed. Inftead of them, when they are put into fhort Petticoats, put a Waiftcoat under their Frocks. Let them go bare-footed and bare-headed , till they are three or four years old at least. 'Tis","word_count":184,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["prevenient-grace","social-holiness","trinity"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.862299"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-033","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":33,"text":"'Tis best to wean a Child when seven Months old. It should lie in the Cradle at least a Year. No child should touch any fpirituous or fermented Liquor, nor animal Food, before two Years old. Their drink should be Water. Tea they should never taste, till ten or twelve Years old. Milk, Milk- porridge and Water-gruel, are the proper Breakfasts for Children. Chin-Cough or Hooping-Cough. Ufe the Cold Bath daily: 155. Or, rubthe Feet thoroughly with Hogs-lard, before the Fire, at going to Bed, and keep the Child warm therein : Tried . 156. Or, rub the Back at lying down with old Rum. It seldom fails : 157. Or, give a Spoonful of Juice of Penny-royal, mixt with brown Sugar-candy, twice a Day: 158. Or, halfa Pint of Milk warm from the Cow, with the Quantity of a Nutmeg of Conserve of Rofes diffolved in it, every Morning. 159. Or, diffolve a scruple of Salt of Wormwood in a Quarter of a Pint of clear Water : Add to to it ten Grains of finely powder'd Cochineal, and sweeten it with Loaf-Sugar. Give a Child within the Year, the fourth Part of a Spoonful of this four Times a Day, with a Spoonful of Barley-water after it . Give a Child two Years old, half a spoonful : A Child above four Years old, a Spoonful. Boiled Apples put into warm Milk may be his chief Food. This relieves","word_count":241,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["prevenient-grace","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.862686"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-034","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":34,"text":"relieves in twenty-four Hours, and cures in five er fix Days. 160. Or, from three to five Grains of Gum Gamboge. It vomits and purges : And, Dr. Cook fays, always cures. 1 61. In desperate Cases , change of Air alone has cured. Cholera Morbus, i . e . Flux and Vomiting. 162. Drink two or three Quarts of cold Water, if strong; of warm Water, if weak : 163. Or, drink a Draught ofVinegar and Water : 164. Or, boil a Chicken an Hour in two Gallons ofWater, and drink of this 'till the Vomiting ceases. 165. Or, Take fix Grains of Laudanum, and apply a flit Onion to the Stomach. 33. Chopt Hands (to prevent. ) 166. Wash them with Flour ofMustard: 167. Or,fin Bran and Water boiled together. 168. To cure, wash with soft Soap mixt with red Sand: Tried. 169. Or, apply Oil ofMyrrh. 31. Chopt Lips, 170. Apply a little Sal Prunella. 35. A Cold. 171. Drink a Pint of cold Water lying down in Bed : Tried , 172. Or , a Spoonful of Treacle in half a Pint of Water : Tried. 173. Or, to one Spoonful of Oatmeal, and one Spoonful of Honey, add a Piece of Butter, the Bignefs of a Nutmeg : Pour on gradually near a Pint of boiling Water ; drink this lying down in Bed. 36. A Cold in the Head . 174. Pare very thin the yellow Rind of an Orange. Roll it up infide out, and thruft a Roll into each Noftril . The Cholic (in the Fit . ) 175. Drink a Pint of clod Water: Tried . 175. Or, a Quart of warm Water : Tried. 177. Or, as largely as poffible of warm Tar-water : 178. Or, a Pint of Water in which a red hot Flint is quenched : 179. Or, drink largely of Camomile Tea : 180. Or, ofDecoction of Mallows : 181. Or, takethirty Drops of Spirits of Turpentine, in a Glafs of Water : 182. Or, from two Scruples to half a Dram of Yellow-peel","word_count":348,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["trinity","prevenient-grace","social-holiness"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.862999"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-035","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":35,"text":"Yellow-peel of Oranges powder'd, in a Glass of Water : 183. Or , beat together into a Cake one Part of ftoned Raifins of the Sun, and three Parts of Juniper-Berries ; eat more or less according to the Pain : 184. Or, take from thirty to fixty drops of Oil of Anise-feed on a Lump of Sugar : 185. Or, apply outwardly a Bag of hot Oats : 186. Or, hot Water in a Bladder. 38. Cholic in Children . 187. Give a Scruple ofpowder'd Anise -feed in their Meat : Tried . Bilious Cholic. 188. Give a Spoonful offweet Oil every Hour.- This has cured onejudged to be at the Point of Death . 189. Or, boil an Ounce of bruifed Anise-feed in two Quarts of Water, 'till half is boiled away. When it is cool , infuse an Ounce of Manna, and four Drams of Glauber's Salts . Drink as much of it as you can. Tried. 40. An Habitual Cholic. 190. Wear a thin, soft Flannel on the Part. This is generally attended with vomiting a greenish or a frothy Matter, with feverish Heat, violent Thirst , a bitter Taste in the Mouth, and little and high coloured Urine.","word_count":203,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["social-holiness","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.863112"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-036","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":36,"text":"41. An Hyfterick Cholic.+ 191. Mrs. Watts, by ufing the Cold Bath two and twenty Times in a Month, was entirely cured of an Hyfterick Cholic, Fits, and convulfive Motions, continual Sweatings and Vomiting, wandering Pains in her Limbs and Head, with total Lofs of Appetite. 192. In the Fit drink half a Pint of Water with a little Wheat-flower in it, and a Spoonful of Vinegar: 193. Or, ofwarm Lemonade : Tried . 194. Or, a Glafs full of Vinegar : 195. Or, take 20, 30, or 40 Drops of Balfam of Peru on fine Sugar : If need be, take this twice or thrice a Day : 196. Or, in Extremity, boil three Ounces of Bur dock feed in Water, which give as a Clyster. 197. Or, twenty Drops of Laudanum, in any proper Clyster, which thus injected give inftant: Eafe.. 42. A Nervous Cholic. 198. Ufe the Cold Bath, daily for a Month : 199. Or, take Quickfilver and Aqua Sulphurata, daily for a Month : As Art. 64. 43. Cholic + Is attended with a violent Pain about the Pit ofthe Stomach, with great Sinking of the Spirits, and often with greenish Vomitings.This is frequently term'd the dry Belly-ach. It often contines several Days, with little Urine, and obstinate Costiveness.","word_count":214,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["trinity","pneumatology"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.863179"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-037","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":37,"text":"43. Cholicfrom the Fumes of Lead, or White Lead, Verdigreafe, c. 200. In the Fit, drink fresh melted Butter, and then vomit with warm Water : 201. Or, give Glifters of Oil or fat Broth. 202. To prevent or cure, breakfast daily on fat Broth, and ufe Oil of sweet Almonds frequently and largely. 203. Smelters of Metals , Plumbers , c. may be in a good Measure preferved from the poisonous Fumes that furround them by breathing thro' Cloth or Flannel Mufflers twice or thrice doub led, dipt in a Solution of Sea-salt, or Salt ofTartar and then dried . Thefe Mufflers might also be of great Ufe, in many fimilar Cafes . 44. Chops in Women's Nipples. 204. Apply Balfam of Sugar. 45. To prevent the ill Effects ofCold. 205. The Moment a Perfon gets into an House, with his Hands or Feet quite chilled, let him put them into a Vefil of Water , as cold as can be got, and hold them there ' till they begin to glow. This they will do in a Minute or two. This Method likewise effectually prevents Chilblains.","word_count":188,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["prevenient-grace","free-will","means-of-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.863243"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-038","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":38,"text":"46. A Confumption . 206. A beginning Confumption was cured by drinking Decoction of Guaiacum Morning and Evening for fifteen Days (without Sweating) with a light Diet. 207. Cold Bathing has cured many deep Confumptions : Tried. 208. One in a deep Confumption was advised to drink nothing but Water, and eat nothing but Water-gruel, without Salt or Sugar . In three Months Time he was perfectly well. 209. Take no Food but new Butter-milk, churn'di in a Bottle , and white Bread. I have known this fuccessful : 210. Or, boil two Handfuls of Sorrel in a Pint of Whey. Strain it, and drink a Glafs thrice a Day. Tried. 211. Or, take a Spoonful of Syrup of Fox-glove, Morning and Evening : Tried. 212. Or, turn a Pint of fkim'd Milk with half a Pint of small Beer. Boil in this Whey, about twenty Ivy-leaves, and two or three Sprigs of Hyffop, drink half over Night, the rest in the Morning. Do this, ifneedful, for two Months daily. This has cured in a desperate Cafe :- Tried. 213. Or, take a Cow heel from the Tripe-houfe ready dreft , two Quarts of new Milk, two Ounces of Hartshorn-fhavings, two Ounces of Ifing glafs, a Quarter of a Pound of Sugar-candy, and a Race","word_count":215,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["trinity","means-of-grace","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.863318"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-039","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":39,"text":"a Race of Ginger. Put all these in a Pot ; and fet them in an Oven after the Bread is drawn. Let it continue there ' till the Oven is near cold ; and let the Patient live on this .-I have known this cure a deep Confumption more than once. 214. Or, every Morning cut up a little Turf of fresh Earth, and lying down, breathe into the Hole for a Quarter,of an Hour. I have known a deep Confumption cured thus : 215. Or, live on Raifins and Bread, and drink only Decoction ofBarley and Liquorice. Mr. Mafters of Evesham , was fo far gone in a Confumption, that he could not stand alone. I advifed him to lofe fix Ounces of Blood, every Day for a Fortnight, ifhe lived fo long; and then every other. Day ; then every third Day ; then every fifth Day, for the fame Time. In three Months he was well.-Dr. Dover. Tried. 217. Or, throw Frankincenfe on burning Coals, and receive the Smoke daily thro' a proper Tube into the Lungs. Tried. 218. Or, smoke Balfam of Tolu , like Tobacco . 290. In the last Stage, Suck an healthy Woman daily. Tried bymy Father. 220. To remove the Fever, mix Saltpetre one Dram, Cochineal half a Dram, the best Brandy and Sugar an Ounce each, with a Quarter of a Pint ofWater. Of this Mixture take two large Spoonfulls, every third or fourth hour. For Diet, ufe Milk and Apples, or Water-gruel made with fine Flour. Drink Cyder-whey, Barley-","word_count":260,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["universal-redemption","catholic-spirit","means-of-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.863386"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-040","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":40,"text":"ley-water, sharpened with Lemon-juice, or Applewater. So long as the fit of the tickling Cough continues, chew well and swallow a Mouthful or two , of a Bifcuit or Crust of Bread . If you cannot swallow it, fpit it out. This will always fhorten the. Fit and would often prevent a Confumption . To strengthen the Body,take Saltpetre half a Dram, Salt of Steel fifteen Grains, in a Quarter of a Pint of Water. Add two Ounces of the best Brandy, and fweeten it with Loaf Sugar . Drink two Spoonfuls of this about Eleven in the Morning, and at five in the Afternoon , washing it down with a Dish of Sage Tea. This Mixture may be repeated twice or thrice. 47. Convulfions. 221. Ufe the Cold Bath : 222. Or, take a Tea-spoonful of Valerian- root powder'd in a Cup ofWater every Evening : 223. Or, half a Dram of Miffelto powder'd , every fix Hours, drinking after it a Draught of strong Infufion thereof. 48. Convulfions in Children. 224. Scrape Piony Roots fresh digged . Apply what you have fcraped off to the Soles of the Feet. It helps immediately. Tried. 49. Con 49. Convulfions in the Bowels of Children . 225. Give a Child of a Quarter old, a Spoonful of the Juice of Pellitory ofthe Wall, two or three Times a Day. It goes thro' at once, but purges no more. had. Ufe Syrup, if Juice cannot be Corns (to prevent. ) 226. Wafh the Feet often in coldWater. 51. Corns (to cure .) 227. Apply fresh every Morning the Yeast ofSmall Beer, spread on a Rag : 228. Or, boilthe Juice of Radishes, 'till it is thick enough to spread as a Plaifter. grows dry : Shift it as it 229. Or, cleanse from Earth the Root and Herb of Houfeleek ; crufh it with your Fingers and apply it. Renew it every three Hours , for twenty-four Hours : I. 230. Or, after paring them close, apply bruifed Ivy-leaves daily, and in fifteen Days they will drop out. 231. Some Corns are cured by a Pitch Plaifter. 232. All are greatly eased by steeping the Feet in hot Water, wherein Oatmeal is boiled . This also helps dry and hot Feet. 52. Coftive-","word_count":381,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","prevenient-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.863500"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-041","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":41,"text":"52. Coftivenes 233. Rife early every Morning : 234. Or, boil in a Pint and half of Broth, half a Handful ofMallow - leaves chopt : Strain this and drink it before you eat any Thing else . Do this frequently, if needful : 235. Or , breakfaft twice a Week, or oftner, on Water gruel with Currants. Tried . 236. Or , take the Bignefs of a large Nutmeg of Cream ofTartar, mixt with Honey, as often as you need. 237. Or, take daily two Hours before Dinner a small Tea-cup offlewed Prunes, and a Glafs of Wine and Water before and after it : 238. Or, boil an Ounce and a half of Tamarinds in three Pints of Water to a Quart . In this ftrained, when cold , infuse all Night two Drams of Sena and one Dram of red Rofe Leaves. Drink a Cup every Morning. See. Dr. Tissot. 53. A Cough. 239. Every Cough is a dry Cough at first . As long as it continues fo, it may be cured by chewing immediately after you cough, the Quantity of a Pepper- corn of Peruvian-Bark. Swallow your Spittle as long as it is bitter, and then spit out the Wood. If you cough again, do this again. It very seldom fails to cure any dry Cough. I earnestly advise every one who has any regard for his Health to try this within 24 Hours, after he first perceives a Cough., 240. Or,","word_count":247,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","prevenient-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.863575"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-042","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":42,"text":"240. Or, drink a Pint of cold Water lying down in Bed : Tried. 241. Or, mix an Ounce of Linseed Oil, with an Ounce of white Sugar-candy powder'd and take a Tea-spoonful whenever the Cough comes : 242. Or, make a Hole thro ' a Lemon and fill it with Honey. Roaft it, and catch the Juice. Take a Tea-spoonful ofthis frequently : Tried. 54. An Afthmatic Cough . 243. Take Spanish Liquorice two Ounces, Salt of Tartar half an Ounce : Boil the Liquorice in three Pints ofWaterto a Quart. Add the Saltto it when it is Blood-warm . Drink two Spoonfuls of this every two Hours .- It seldom fails : Tried.' 55. Confumptive Cough. 244. Boil a Pound of Raifins ftoned in a Quart of oldVerjuice to about a Pint. Then add a Pound ofbrown Sugar-candy and let it fimmer into Syrup. Take near a Spoonful every three or four Hours. 245. To top it for a Time, at lying down keep a little flick Liquorice fhaved like Horse-radifh, between the Cheek and the Gums .-I believe this never fails. 55. A Convulsive Cough. 246. Eat preferv'd Walnuts : 247. Or, boil a Handful of Bay-leaves in Milk, turn this with white Wine, and drink of the Whey often. 57. An Inveterate Cough. 248. Wash the Head in coldWater, every Morning : 249. Or, ufe the cold Bath. It seldom fails : 250. Or , take half a Pint of Decoction of Onions, Morning and Evening. 251. Or, a Spoonful of Juice of Onions : 252. Or, peel and slice a large Turnip, spread coarfe Sugar between the Slices, and let it stand in a Dish till all the Juice drains down . Take a Spoonful of this whenever you cough . 253. Or, mix the Juice of boil'd Turnips with fine powder'd Sugar-candy, ' till it is a Kind of Syrup. Swallow a little of it Drop by Drop from Time to Time : 254. Or, take a Spoonful of Syrup of Horehound Morning and Evening : Tried. 255. Or, put a Scruple of Sperma Ceti into the Yolk ofa new laid-Egg, and fup it up in the -Morning fasting. 58. A Pleuritic Cough . Powder an Ounce of Sperma Ceti fine. Work","word_count":378,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","trinity"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.863705"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-043","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":43,"text":"Work it in a Marble Mortar with the Yolk of a new-laid Egg. Mix them in white Wine, and take a small Glass every three Hours. 59. Tickling Cough. 257. Drink Water whiten'd with Oatmeal four Times a Day : 258. Or, keep a Piece of Barley-Sugar or Sugarcandy constantly in the Mouth. Violent Coughing from a sharp thin Rheum . 259. Work into old Conserve of Rofes, as much as you can of pure Olibanum, powder'd as fine as poffible. Take a Bolus of this twice or thrice a Day, It eafes prefently, and cures in two or three Weeks : 206. Or, ufe Milk diet as much as poffible. 61. The Cramp (to prevent. ) 261. Tie your Garter smooth and tight under your Knee at going to Bed :-I never knew this fail. 262. Or, be electrified thro' the Part which uses to be affected. This generally prevents it for a Month : Sometimes for a Twelvemonth. 263. Or, Take half a Pint of Tar-Water Morning and Evening : 62. The 62. The Cramp (to cure.) 264. Stretch out the Limb immediately : 265. Or, chafe the Part with Hungary Water: 266 Or, with rectified Spirits ofWine : 267. Hold a roll of Brimftone in your Hand. have frequently done this with Success . 63. A Cut. 268. Keep it closed with your Thumb a Quarter , of an Hour. Then double a Rag five or fix Times; dip it in cold Water, and bind it on : Tried. 269. Or, bind on toasted Cheese. This will cure a deep Cut. 270. Or, pounded Grafs. Shake it off after twelve Hours, and if need be, apply fresh. 64. Deafness. 271. Be electrified thro ' the Ear : Tried. 272. Or, usethe cold Bath : 273. Or, put a little Salt into the Ear : 274. Or, Salt Petre: 275. Or, drop into it a Tea-spoonful offalt Water: 276. Or, of Spring Water, in a Pint of which a spoonful ofBay Salt has been diffolved for four and twenty. Hours. Do this if need be, seven or eight Nights, lying on the oppofite Side : 277. Or,","word_count":359,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["trinity","sanctifying-grace","prevenient-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.863823"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-044","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":44,"text":"277. Or, ofJuice ofGround-Ivy : 278. Or, three or four Drops of Onion-juice atlying down, and stop it with a little Wool. 65. Deafnefsfrom Wax . 279. Syringe the Ear with warm Sage-tea : Tried. 280. Or, put in wild Mint bruifed, with theJuice, changing it often. 66. Deafnefs with a dry Ear. 281. Mix Brandy and Sweet Oil : Dip black Wool in this, and put it into the Ear. When it grows dry, wath it well in Brandy ; dip it, and put it in again. 67. Deafnefs with Head-ach and Buzzing in the Head. 282. Peel a Clove of Garlick ; dip it in Honey, and put it into your Ear at Night with a little black Wool. Lie with that Ear uppermoft . Put the fame in the other Ear next Night. Do this, if need be, eight or ten Days. 68. A Settled Deafness. 283. Take a red Onion, pick out the Core; the Place with Oil ofroafted Almonds. stand a Night ; then bruise and strain it. fill up Let it Drop three .","word_count":180,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["trinity"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.863900"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-045","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":45,"text":"three or four Drops into the Ear, Morning and Evening, and stop it with black Wool. 69. To cause an easy Delivery. 284. Peel, slice and fry a large white Onion in two or three Spoonfuls of the best Oil, 'till it is tender. Boil this with half a Glafs of Water : Strain and drink it in the Morning fasting, for two or three Weeks before the Time of Childbrith . N. B. The Mother's first Milk is the only proper Purge for the Child. Let it begin to fuck ten or twelve Hours after the Birth. 70. A Diabetes. § 285. Drink Wine boiled with Ginger, as much and as often as your Strength will bear. Let your Drink be Milk and Water. All Milk Meats are good : 286. Or, drink three or four Times a Day a Quarter of a Pint of Alum Poffet drink, putting three Drams of Alum to four Pints of Milk,- It seldom fails to cure in eight or ten Days. Dr. Mead. 287. Or, infuse half an Ounce of Cantharides in a Pound of Elixir of Vitriol. Give from 15 to 30or even 40 Drops in Briflal-Water, twice or thrice a Day. 71. The ADiabetes is a frequent and large Difcharge ofpale and fweetifh Urine, attended with constant Thirst, and a Wafting of the whole Body.","word_count":225,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["trinity","prevenient-grace","free-will"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.863976"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-046","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":46,"text":"71. The Dropfy 288. Ufe the Cold Bath daily, after purging.: 289, Or, rub the swelled Parts with fallad Oil by a warm Hand, at least an Hour a Day. This has done Wonders in some Cafes. 290. Or, drink nothing but Lemonade, i. e. Lemon, Sugar and Water : 291. Or, cover the whole Belly with a large new Sponge dipt in frong Lime-water, and then fqueezed out. This bound on, often cures, even without any fenfible Evacuation of Water : 292. Or, apply green Dock leaves to the Joints and Soles of the Feet, changing them once a Day : -293 . Or, mix half an Ounce of Amber with a Quart of Wine-Vinegar. Heat a Brick (only not red hot) and put it into a Tub. Pour them upon it, and hold the Parts swell'd over the Smoke, covering the Tub close, to keep in the Smoke. The Water will come out incredibly, and the Patient be cured : Tried. 294. Or, eat a Crust of Bread every Morning fasting : Tried. 295. Or, A Drofpy is, a preternatural Collection of Water, in the Head, Breft, Belly, or all over the Body. It is attended with a consinual Thirst. The Part swelled pits, if you prefs it with your Fingers. The Urine is pale and little. 295. Or, take as much as lies on a Six-pence of powder'd Lawrel-leaves, every second or third Day. It works both Ways : Tried : 295. Or, mix a Pound ofthe coarfeft Sugar with a Pint of Juice of Pellitory ofthe Wall bruifed in a Marble Mortar. Boil it as long as any Scum rifes. When cool, bottle and cork it. If very bad, take three Spoonfuls at Night, and two in the Morning. It seldom fails : Tried. 297. Or, take Morning and Afternoon halfa Pint of a strong Tea of Lavender-cotton : Eating a Slice of Bread and Butter, strew'd thick with Garlick :","word_count":325,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["means-of-grace","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.864068"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-047","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":47,"text":"298. Or, boit two Handfuls of Elder-roots in a Quart of Water. Strain it and drink a large Glafs thrice a Day for thirty Days . It frequent ly cures in that Time. 299 . Or, make Tea of Roots of Dwarf-Elder It works by Urine . Every twelve or fourteen Minutes, (that is , after every Difcharge ) drink a Tea-cup full .-I have known a Droply cured by this, in twelve Hours Time. 300. Tar water drank twice a Day has cured many : So has an Infufion of Juniper Berries roafted, and made into a Liquor like Coffee : 301. Or, take a Spoonful of the Juice of Artichoke-leaves, Morning and Evening : 302. Or, three Spoonfuls of the Juice of Leeks and Elder-leaves : Tried.. 303. Or, half a Pint of Decoction of Butchers Broom, (intermixing Purge's twice or thrice a Week.) The proper Purge is ten Grains ofJalap lap with fix of powder'd Ginger. It maybe encreas'd or leffen'd according to the Strength of the Patient : 304. Or, of the Decoction of the Tops of OakBoughs. This cured an inveterate Dropfy in fifteen Days : 305. Or, take a Spoonful of whole Muflard-feed, Night and Morning, and drink on it half a Pint ofDecoction of green Broom tops. This works both by Stool and Urine : 306. Or, ufe Sal Prunella in your common Drink thirty Days : 307. Or, take Sena, Cream of Tartar, and Jalap, half an Ounce each . Mix them and take a Dram every Morning in Broth. It usually cures in twenty Days. This is nearlythe fame, with Dr. Ward's Powder, I fuppofe he took it from hence . He fays, it seldom fails, either in the watry or windy Dropfy. 308. Or, dink Sea -Water, Morning and Evening : 309. Or, abftain from all Drink for thirty Days. To ease your Thirft hold often on yourTongue, a think small Slice of toasted Bread dipt in Brandy ; or, wash the Mouth with Juice of Lemons : Tried. 310. Or, be Electrified : This cures Dropfies fuppofed incurable. 72. Drowned. 311. Rub the Trunk ofthe Body all over with Salt","word_count":361,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","means-of-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.864185"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-048","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":48,"text":"Salt. It frequently rocovers them that feem dead. See Dr. Tiffot. 73. The Ear-Ach. 312. Rub the Ear hard for a Quarter of an Hour : Tried. 313. Or, be electrified : 314. Or, apply to it a hot Roll: 315. Or, put in a roasted Fig, as hot as may be : 316. Or, blow the Smoak ofTobacco strongly into it. 74. Ear-Achfrom Cold . 317. Boil Rue, or Rofemary, or Garlick, and let the Steam go into the Ear thro' a Funnel. 75. Ear-Achfrom Heat . 318. Apply Cloths four Times doubled and dipt in cold Water, changing them when warm, for half an Hour : Ear-Achfrom Worms. 319. Drop inwarm Milk, and it brings them out : 320. Or, Juice of Wormwood which kills them : 321. Or, Oil of bitter Almonds. 77. Noife 77. Noife in the Ears.. 322. Drop in Juice of Onions : 323. Or, fill them with bruised Hyffop. 78. Hard Wax in the Ear.. 324. Is best diffolv'd by warm Water. 79. Eyes blear'd: 325. Drop into them Juice of Crab Apples.. 80. A Blood-fhot Eye. 326. Apply Linen Rags dipt in cold Water for two or three Hours : 327. Or, blow in white Sugar- candy finely pow der'd': 328. Or, apply boil'd Hylop as a Poultis .-This has a wonderful Efficacy . 81. A Bruife in the Eye. 329. Apply as a Plaister Conserve ofRofes : 330. Or, a Paste of black Soap and white BreadCrumbs. But take Care it get not into the Eye. 82. Clouds flying before the Eye. 331. Take a Dram of powder'd Betony every Morning. 83. Blind","word_count":272,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["prevenient-grace","social-holiness","catholic-spirit"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.864329"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-049","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":49,"text":"83. Blindness. 332. Is often cured by-cold Bathing : 333. Or, by electrifying : Tried. This has cured even a Gutta Serena of twenty-four Years standing. Eyes dim or decay'd. 334. Use Eye-bright Tea daily : 335. Or, powder'd Eye-bright, both in Meat and Drink. Dull Sight. 336. Drop in two or three Drops of Juice of rotten Apples often.. 86. Films. 337. Dry Zibethum Occidentale, i . e . Stercus umanum, flowly ; powder it fine, and blow it into the Eye twice or thrice a Day: 338. Or, take the white Part of Hens- Dung, carefully dried, with an equal Quantity of burnt Alum and double- refined Sugar ; fift them and blow a little into the Eye at going to bed. 339. Or, mix Juice of Ground-ivy with a little Honey, and two or three Grains of Bay- Salt. Drop it in Morning and Evening. 87. Hot 87. Hot orfharp Humours. 340. Beat the White of an Egg into Water, in which mix fine Sugar, and drop it into theEye : 341. Or, apply a few Drops of a Syrup made with double- refined Sugar, melted in Brandy. Tried. 342. Or, drop in Juice of Daifies Morning and Evening. 343. Or, boil a Handful of Bramble-leaves with a little Alum in a Quart of Spring Water to a Pint. Drop this frequently into the Eye, This likewise fpeedily cures Cankers or any Sores. 344. Or, lay a thin slice of raw Beef on the Nape of the Neck : Tried. 88. Eyes inflam'd. 345. Apply as a Poultis, boil'd, roafted, or rotten Apples warm : 346. Or, a thick Apple-paring lying down in Bed: 347. Or, Wormwood-tops with the Yolk of an Egg: This will hardly fail . 348. Or, beat up the White of an Egg with two Spoonfuls of white Rofe Water into a white Froth. Apply this on a fine Rag, changing it fo that it may not grow dry, ' till the Eye is well : Tried..","word_count":334,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["trinity","free-will"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.864439"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-050","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":50,"text":"89. A Lachrymal Fistula. 349. Apply a Poultis of fine Leaves of Rue: 350. Or, wash the Eye Morning and Evening with Decoction of Quince-leaves :· 351. Or, take a Dram of Betony-leaves powder'd, daily. 90. Pearl in the Eye. 352. Apply a Drop of Juice of Celandine with a Feather thrice a Day : 353. Or, of the Juice of Rue : 354. Or, of three-leav'd Grafs. It commonly cures in seven Days. 355. Or, diffolve a little Sal Ammoniac in Rofe-water. Keep this three Days in a Copper Veffel. Drop it twice a Day into the Eye. 91. White Specks in the Eye. 356. Going to Bed, put a little Ear-wax on the Speck. This has cured many. 357. Or, a Drop of the Juice of Fennel : 358. Or, ofIvy-juice : Afterwards blow in a little powder'd Loaffugar. 92. An excellent Eye-Water. 359. Heat half an Ounce of Lapis Calaminaris red hot, and quench it in half a Pint of French white Wine, This Diforder in the inner Corner of the Eye, caufes the Tearsto flow involuntarily. Wine, and as much white Rofe -water: Then pound it small and infuse it. Shake the Bottle when you use it. It cures Soreness, Weakness, and most Diseases of the Eye. I have known it cure total Blindness. 93. Another. 360. Infufe in Lime-water a dram of Sal Ammoniac powder'd, for twelve Hours ; then strain and keep it for Ufe. This also cures most Disorders in the Eyes. 94. Another. 361. Boil verylightly one Spoonful of white Copperas fcrap'd, and three Spoonfuls of white Salt, in three Pints of Spring Water. When cold , bottle it in large Vials without ftraining. Take up the Vial foftly, and put a Drop or two in the Eye Morning and Evening. It anfwers the Intention ofalmost all the preceding Medicines : It takes away Redness, or any Soreness whatever : It cures Pearls, Rheums, and often Blindness itself. 95. Another. 362. Stamp and strain Ground- Ivy, Celandine, and Daifies an equal Quantity : Add a little RoseWater and Leaf Sugar. Drop a Drop or two at a Time into the Eye, and it takes away all Manner","word_count":365,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["trinity","means-of-grace","catholic-spirit"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.864578"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-051","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":51,"text":"Manner of Inflammation, fmarting, itching, Spots, Webs, or any other Disorder whatsoever, yea, tho' the Sight were almost gone. An Eye Water which was used by Sir Stephen Fox , when he was 60 Years of Age, and could hardly fee with the help of Spectacles ; but hereby in some Time he recover'd his Sight, and could fee to read the fmalleft Print without Glafs or Spectacles, ' till above Eighly. Take fix Ounces of rectify'd Spirits ofWine, diffolve in it one Dram of Camphire : then add two Pugils of dry'd Elder Flowers. In twentyfour Hours after it is infused, it is ready for Ule. Take out a little in a Tea-fpoon ; dip your Finger in it, and bathe your Forehead over your Eyes, and each Temple with it several Times, Morning, and Night, and twice more in the Day constantly. Mean time dip a soft Rag in dead small Beer, new Milk warm , and dabb each Eye a Dozen Times gently, Morning and Evening. If it is a watry Humour, you may with your Finger wet the Eyelids two or three Times apiece ; but be sure to fhut your Eyes, or it makesthem fmart and burn exceffively. If you have the Tooth ach or swelled Face rub it well in on the Part, and it will take away the Pain. It will cure any Bruife also ifufed immediately : Tried. It will cure any Inflammation in the Eyes, by a long Course ofufing. 95. Weak","word_count":251,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["free-will","works-mercy","trinity"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.864645"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-052","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":52,"text":"96. Weak Eyes. 364. Moiften the Eyelids Morning and Evening with camphorated Spirits ofWine, keeping the Eye fhut. 365. Wafh the Head daily with coldWater: Tried. 97. Fainting on letting Blood, 366. Is prevented, by taking before it some good Broth. 98. Thefalling Sickness . 367. Be electrified. Tried. 368. Or, ufe the cold Bath for a Month daily : 369. Or, take a Tea - spoonful of Piony Root dried and grated fine, Morning and Evening for three Months : 370. Or, half a Spoonful of Valerian- root powdered. It often cures in twice taking : 371. Or, drink a Draught ofVinegar and Water, every Morning, and a Spoonful of Vinegar before the Fit. 372. Or, take a Spoonful of the Juice of Rue, Morning and Evening, for a Month : 373. Or, In the falling Sickness , the Patient falls to the Ground, either quite ftiff, or convulfed all over, utterly fenfelefs, gnashing his Teeth, and foaming at the Mouth .","word_count":163,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["prevenient-grace","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.864708"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-053","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":53,"text":"373. Or, half a Pint of Decoction of Lignum Guaicum, Morning and Evening : I. 374. Or, of Tar-water for three Months : 375. Or, take five Drops of Laudanum fasting, for fix or seven Mornings. many : This has cured 376. Or, usean entire Milk Diet for three Months : It seldom fails . 377. Or, take half a Dram of powder'd Miffelto every fix Hours, drinking after it a strong Infufion of Miffelto : I. 378. In the Fit, blow up the Nofe a little powder'd Ginger : 379. Or, Leaves ofAffarabacca powder'd .- This is the famous Major's Snuff. 380. One who is fubject to the Falling - sickness , may prevent a Fit, if he feels it coming, by this simple Experiment. Let him always carry with him a Piece of Metal , as broad as he is able to hold between his Teeth, when his Jaws are ftretched to the utmost . When he feels the Fit approaching, let him immediately put this between his Teeth, fo as to keep his Jaws at their utmost Stretch. In about a Minute this will bring him quite to himself, and prevent the Fit for that Time. If one put this Metal between the Teeth of one that is in the Fit, and force them open, ' till his Jaws are at the utmost Stretch, the Fit will immediately go off and the Patient very soon recover. 99. The ( 76 )` 99. The falling of the Fundament. 381. Apply a Cloth covered thick with BrickDuft: 382. Or, boil eight Beetles, in Oil ofMaftich, and anoint the Part, and fprinkle thereon powder'd Egg Shells. 383. Or, boil a Handful of red Rofe Leaves in a Quarter ofa Pint of red Wine : Dip a Cloth in it, and apply it as hot as can be borne. Do this 'till all is used. 100. Afalling down ofthe Womb.","word_count":319,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["prevenient-grace","free-will","catholic-spirit"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.864916"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-054","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":54,"text":"384. May be cured inthe Manner last-mentioned. 101. A Fever. 385. Drink a Pint and Half of cold Water lying downin Bed : I never knew it do Hurt : 386. Or, a large Glafs ofTar-water warm , every Hour. 387. The best of all Juleps in a Fever, is this : Toast a large thin Slice of Bread , without Burning; put it hot into a Pint of cold Water ; then fet it on the Fire 'till it is pretty hot . In a dry Heat it may be given cold ; in a moift Heat warm ; the more largely the better : Tried. 388. Or, put an Ounce of Rice in a Pint ofWater. ter. Set it nearthe Fire, ' till it is fcalding hot. Then pour it off clear. 389. Or, for a Change, ufe Pippin or WoodforrelTea: Or, Pippin Poffet Drink : Or , Woodforrel Poffet Drink: 390. Or, Decoction of Violet-leaves : 391. Or, ofStrawberry-leaves : 392. To prevent catching any infectious Fever, do not breathe near the Face ofthe sick Perfon, neither swallow your Spittle while in the Room ... Infection feizes the Stomach first. 102. A Burning Fever.. 393. Stamp a Handful of Leaves of Caprifolium ; put fair Water to it, and use it cold as a Clyster. It commonly cures in an Hour : 394. Or, ímear the Wrifts, five or fix Inches long with warm Treacle, and cover it with ♪ brown Paper. See Dr. Tiffot. 103. A Continual Fever.. 395. If not very violent, take a Dram of Sal Pru nelle, every four Hours, in warm Water ' till it. abates. 104. A Hectick Fever 396. Drink only thin Water-gruel, or boil'd Milk and Water. The more you drink the better.","word_count":294,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","prevenient-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.865031"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-055","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":55,"text":"105. A High Fever, 397. Attended with a Delirium and a Vigilia, has been cured by plunging into cold Water ; which is a safe and sure Remedy in the Beginning of any Fever. 398. Such a Delirium is often cured by applying warm Lamb's-lungs to the Head. Or, a Treadeplaifter : Tried . 106. An intermitting Fever. 399 Drink warm Lemonade in the Beginning of every Fit : It cures in a few Days : Tried .\" 400. Or, Take a Tea-spoonful of Oil of Sulphur in a Cup of Balm Tea, unce or twice a Day. 401. Or, half a Dram of powder'd Cochineal, an Hour before each fit. Or, fix Grains of powdered Snake - root, every hour during the intermiflion. Or, a Quarter of a Pint of Burdock Tea : ufing eitherthe leaf or Root. 107. A Fever with Pains in the Limbs. 402. Take twenty Drops of Spirits of Hartshorn in a Cup ofWater twice or thrice in twenty-four Hours. 403. Or, infrong Camomile Tea, lying down in Bed. 108. A Rafh Fever. 404. Drink every Hour a Spoonful of Juice of Ground-ivy. It cures in twenty-four Hours. Ufe the Decoction when you have not the Juice. 109. A Slow Fever. 405. Ufe the cold Bath for two or three Weeks, daily. 110. A Fistula. 406. Grind an Ounce of Mercury Sublimate, in a Glafs Mortar, with a Glafs Peftle, as fine as poffible. Put it into a Glafs Bottle, and pour on it two Quarts of pure Spring Water. Cork it close, and for fix Days fhake it well every Hour. Then letit fettle for twenty-four Hours. Pour it off clear ; filter, it in a Glafs Funnel ; and keep it for use close stopt. Put half a Spoonful of this Water in a Vial, and add two Spoonfuls ofpure Spring Water : Shake them well- toge ther, and drink it fasting. It works both by Vomit andby Stool, but very fafely. Keep yourfelf very warm , and walk as much as you can. The first Time neither eat nor drink 'till two Hours after it has done working. Take this every other Day. In forty Days this will also cure any Cancer, any Old Sore or King's-Evil, broken or unbroken. After the first or second Vomit","word_count":384,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","sanctifying-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.865143"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-056","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":56,"text":"Vomit, you may use Water- gruel , as in other Vomits. Veryweak Perfons should not use this. But Ihave known it ufedfafely andfuccessfully. 111. To deftroy Fleas or other Vermin . 407. Cover the Floor of the Room with the Leaves of Alder, gathered while the Dew hangs upon them. Adhering to these, they are killed thereby. 408. Or, powder Stavefcare, and sprinkle it on the Body, or on the Bed. Flegm . 409. To prevent or cure, take a Spoonful of warm Water the first Thing in the Morning. 113. Flooding (in lying in.) 410. Cover the Body with Cloths, dipt in Oxycrate (i. e. Vinegar and Water) changing them. as they grow warm. Drink cooling, acid Liquors. 411. Or, take four Ounces of Juice of Nettles, Morning and Evening for two Days ; apply mean Time a Sponge dipt in Vinegar and red Wine. 114. A Flux. 412. Ufe the Cold Bath daily , and drink a Draught ofWater-from the Spring. 413. Or, fit over Camomile- Flowers boil'd in Milk : 414. Or, receive the Smoke of Turpentine caft on burning","word_count":183,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["prevenient-grace","means-of-grace","primitive-christianity"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.865205"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-057","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":57,"text":"burning Coals. This cures also the Bloody Flux, and the Falling of the Fundament. 415. Or, drink two or three Quarts of warm Water. 416. Or, put a large brown Toast into three Quarts of Water, with a Dram of Cochineal, and a Dram of Salt ofWormwood. Drink it all in as fhort Time as you conveniently can. This rarely fails to cure all Fluxes, Cholera Morbus, yea, and Inflammations of the Bowels : Tried. 417. Or, take a Spoonful of Plantane-feed bruifed, Morning and Evening, ' till it stops : 418. Or, the Leaves of it boiled in small Broth : 419. Or, three or four Ounces of its Juice : 420. Or, a small Nutmeg powder'd in the Yolk of an Egg : 421. Or, a Dram ofthe Seed of Flix- weed in two or three Spoonfuls of Broth : I. 422. Or, ten Grains of Ipecacuanha three Mornings fucceffively. It is likewise excellent as a Sudorific. 423. Or, boil the Fat of a Breaft of Mutton in a Quart of Water for an Hour. Drink the Broth as soon as you can conveniently. This will cure the most inveterate Flux : Tried. 115. A Bloody Flux. 424. Apply a Suppofitory of Linen dipt in Aqua Vita: 425. Or,","word_count":211,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["trinity","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.865274"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-058","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":58,"text":"425. Or, drink cold Water as largely as poffible, taking nothing else ' till the Flux ftops : 426. Or, take a large Apple, and at the Top pick out all the Core, and fill up the Place with a Piece of Honey-comb ; (the Honey being ftrained out) roast the Apple in Embers, and eat it, and this will stop the Flux immediately : 427. Or, a Dram of Salt of Vitriol diffolved in Water : 428. Or, thirty Grains of powder'd Root of Gladwin, at Night, twice or thrice a Week : It is just as good as Rhubarb in most Cafes : 429. Or, Decoction of Primrofe leaves, Morning and Evening : Or, of Millet-feed: 430. Or, grated Rhubarb, as much as lies on a Shilling, with half as much of grated Nutmeg, in a Glass of white Wine, lying down, every other Night : Tried . 431. Or, take four Drops of Laudanum, and applyto the Belly a Poultis of Worm-wood and red Rofes boiled in Milk. 432. Or, a Pint of Decoction of Burnet, with a Lump of Butter in it, Morning and Evening. It usually cures in three Days. 116. To prevent (orstop a beginning) Gangrene. 433. Foment continually with Vinegar, in which Drofs ofIron hasbeen boiled. 117. The","word_count":215,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","prevenient-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.865342"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-059","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":59,"text":"117. The Gout in the Stomach. 434. \" Diffolve two Drams ofVenice Treacle in a Glafs of Mountain After drinking it, go to Bed. You will be eafier in two Hours, and well in fixteen.\" Dr. Dover. 435. Or, take two Spoonfuls of Juice of Wormwood : 436. Or, boil a Pugil of Tanfey in a Quarter ofa Pint of Mountain. Drink it in Bed. I believe this never fails. 437. To prevent its Return, diffolve half an Ounce of Gum Guaiacum, in two Ounces of Sal Volatile. Take a Tea-spoonful of this every Morning, in a Glafs ofSpring Water. This helps anyfharp Pain in the Stomach. Dr. Boerhaave. 118. The Gout in the Foot or Hand. 438. Apply a raw lean Beef-ftake. Change it once in twelve Hours, 'till cured. 119. The Gout in any Limb. 439. Rub the Part with warm Treacle, and then bind on a Flannel fmear'd therewith. Repeat this, ifNeed be, once in twelve Hours. This has cured an inveterate Gout in 36 Hours. 440. Or, Regard not them who fay, The Gout ought not to be cured. They mean, It annot. Iknow it cannot by their regular Prefcrip tions. But I have known it cured in many Cafes, without any ill Effects following.","word_count":209,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["justifying-grace","prevenient-grace","free-will"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.865436"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-060","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":60,"text":"440. Or, mix in warm Water half a Spoonful of Salt, three Spoonfuls of Yeaft, with Rye-meal, and spread it on Flannel. Sew this to the Soles of the Feet. Renew this (keeping your Bed) every twelve Hours. It generally cures , in three Days : 441. Or, drink a Pint of a strong infufion of Elder- buds, dry or green, Morning and Evening. This has cured inveterate Gouts. 442. Or, dry Sage in the Sun for a Day. Apply this, andin one Night it will ease the Pain. 443. Or, apply bruifed Nettles : 444. Or, at fix in the Evening, undress, and wrap yourfelf up in Blankets.-Then put your Legs up to the Knees in Water, as hot as you can bear it. As it cools, let hot Waterbe poured in, fo as to keep you in a strong Sweat 'till Ten. Then go into a Bed well warm'd and sweat ' till Morning.-I have known this cure an inveterate Gout, in a Perfon above Sixty, who lived eleven Years after.-The very Matter of the Gout is furely deftroyed by a steady Ufe of Mynficht's Elixir ofVitriol. 120. The Gravel. 445. Eat largely of Spinach : 446. Or, drink largely of warm Water fweetened with Honey: 447. Or, of Peach-leave Tea: 448. Or, of Pellitory of the Wall Tea, so sweet- ned : 449, Or, 450. Or, of Decoction of Arsesmart. 451. Or, infuse an Ounce of wild Parfley Seeds in a Pint of white Wine for twelve Days. Drink a Glafs of it fasting, three Months . To prevent its return, breakfast for three Months on Agrimony Tea. It entirely cured me twenty Years ago, nor have I had the least Symptom of it since. 452. Take as much as lies upon a Shilling of Broom-feed finely ground, Morning and Evening. 121. The Green Sickness. 453. Take an Ounce of Quick-filver every Morning. 454. Or, a Cup of Decoction of Lignum -Guaia . cum, Morning and Evening. 455. Or, grind together into a fine Powder three Ounces ofthe finest Steel filings, and two Ounces of red Sugar Candy. Take from a Scruple to halfa Dram every Morning . See Dr. Tifot. 122. To kill Animalcula that cause the Gums to waste awayfrom the Teeth. 456. Gargle thrice a Day with Salt and Water. 123. The","word_count":388,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["trinity","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.865585"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-061","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":61,"text":"123. The Head-ach . 457. Rub the Head for a Quarter of an Hour : Tried. 458. Or, be electrified : Tried.. 459. Or, apply to each Temple the thin yellow Rind ofa Lemon , newly pared off : 460. Or, pour upon the Palm ofthe Hand a little Brandy, with some Zift of Lemon, and hold it to the Forehead : 461. Or, if you have catched Cold, boil a Handful of Rofemary in a Quart of Water. Put this in a Mug, and hold your Head (cover'd with a Napkin) over the Steam, as hot as you can bear. Repeat this ' till the Pain ceafes : Tried. 462. Or, drop Juice of Pimpernell into the Ear : 463. Or, snuff up the Nose camphorated Spirits of Lavender : 464. Or, Juice of Ground-Ivy : 465. Or, a little Juice of Horse- Radish : 466. Or, drink half a Pint of strong Decoction of Ground-Ivy, Morning and Evening. 124. A Chronical Head-ach. 467. Keep your Feet in warm Water, a Quarter of an Hour before you go to Bed ; for two or three Weeks : Tried. 468. Or, wear tender Hemlock-leaves, under the Feet, changing them daily : 469. Oi,","word_count":203,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["prevenient-grace","trinity","pneumatology"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.865654"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-062","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":62,"text":"469. Or, order a Tea-kettle of cold Water to be pour'd on your Head, every Morning in a flender Stream : 470. Or, apply to the Head bruifed Cummin-feed, fried with an Egg : 471. Or, take a large Tea cup full of Carduus Tea, without Sugar, fasting, for fix or seven Mornings : Tried. 125. Head-achfrom Heat . 472. Apply to the Forehead Cloths dipt in cold Water for an Hour : Tried. 473. Or, beat white Poppy-feed to Powder ; mix this with Yolks of Eggs, and apply it to the Temples and Forehead : 474. Or, dry and powder Primrofe : Leaves . Take a Pinch of this twice or thrice a Day. 126. A Nervous Head-ach . 475. Dry and powder an Ounce of Marjarem and half an Ounce of Affarabacca ; mix them and take them as Snuff, keeping the Ears and Throat warm . This is of great Use even in a Cancer : But it will fuffice to take a small Pinch every other Night, lying down in Bed : 476. Or, take half a Dram of powder'd Marum Morning and Evening in any Liquid , 127. An 127. An Hemicrania . 477. Ufe cold Bathing : 478. Or, apply to that Part ofthe Head fhaved, a Plaifter that will flick, with a Hole cut in the Middle of it as big as an Half penny : Place over that Hole Leaves of Ranunculas , bruised and very moist. It is a gentle Blifter. 479. Or, snuff up Smoke of Amber for half an Hour. 128. Stoppage in the Head . 480.,Snuff up Juice of Primrose, keeping the Head waim . 129. The Heart-Burning. † 481. Drink a Pint of cold Water : Tried. 482. Or, drink flowly of Decoction of Cammomile Flowers : 483. Or, chew five or fix Pepper Corns a little ; , then swallow them : 484. Or, take fix Almonds and twelve raw Peas, and eat them together : 485. Sometimes a Vomit is needful , of Ipecacuanha, or Carduus Tea : 486. In This is, an Head-ach which affects but one Side ofthe Head . + A sharp gnawing Pain inthe Orifice ofthe Stomach.","word_count":367,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["free-will","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.865771"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-063","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":63,"text":"486. In the Fit, take a Scruple of Salt of Worm wood, in a Spoonful of Lemon Juice : 487. Or, a Tea spoonful of Crabs Eyes, ground to an impalpable Powder. 130. The Hiccup. 488. Swallow a Mouthful of Water, ftopping the Mouth and Ears : Tried : 489. Or, take any Thing that makes you sneeze : 490. Or, a little candid Ginger : 491. Or, two or three preferv'd Damfons :: 492. Or, three Drops of Oil of Cinnamon on a Lump of Sugar. Tried. 131. Hoarfenefs.. 493. Rub the Soles of the Feet before the Fire, - with Garlick and Lard well beaten together, 、 over Night. The Hoarseness will be gone next Day : 494. Or, take a Pint of coldWater lying down : 495. Or, instead of Supper, eat an Apple and drink half a Pint of Water : 495. Or, swallow flowly the Juice of Radishes : 497. Or, take a Spoonful of Sage-juice Morning : and Evening: 498. Or, half a Pint of Muflard Whey, lying down : 499.; Or, 499. Or , a Tea-spoonful of Conserve ofRoses every Night : Tried. 500. Or, boil a large Handful of Bran and afew Raifins in a Quart of Water. Strain and sweeten it with Sugar-candy, and use it for common Drink. 501. Or, fifteen Drops of Balfam ofSulphur on a Lump ofSugar : 502. Or, dry Nettle-roots in an Oven. Then powder them finely, and mix with an equal Quantity of Treacle. Take a Tea-spoonful of this twice a Day. Hypochondriac and Hysteric Diforders. 503. Ufe cold Bathing : 504. Or, take an Ounce of Quicksilver every Morning. 133. The Jaundice. 505. Wear Leaves of Celandine upon and under the Feet: 506. Or, take a small Pill of Caftile Soap every Morning for eight or ten Days : Tried. 507. Or, beat the White of an Egg thin : Take it Morning and Evening in a Glafs of Water: 1. 508. Or, half a Pint of strong Decoction of Netiles : 509. Or,","word_count":340,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","social-holiness"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.865941"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-064","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":64,"text":"509. Or, boil a large Burdock-root in two Quarts ofWater to three Pints. Let it foak therein for twenty-four Hours cover'd close. Tea-cup ofthis every Morning. Drink a 134. The Jaundice in Children. 510. Take halfan Ounce offine Rhubarb, powder'd. Mix with it thoroughly, by long beating, two Handfuls of good well-cleanfed Currants. Of this give a Tea - spoonful every Morning. 135. The Iliac Paffion . 511. Apply warm Flannels foak'd in Spirits of Wine : 512. Or, hold a live Puppy constantly on the Belly.Dr. Sydenham. 513. Or, immerge up to the Breaft in a warm Bath: 514. Or, take a Decoction of the Seed of Dillin Oil and Water, and then a bit ofBread dipt in Water : 515. Or, Ounce by Ounce, a Pound or a Pound and a halfof Quickfilver.- See Dr. Tiffot. 136. An In this violent Kind of Cholick the Excrements are thrown up by the Mouth in vomiting. 136. An Impoftume. 516. Put the White of two Leeks in a wet Cloth, and fo roast them in Ashes, but not too much . Stamp them in a Mortar with a little Hogs-greafe. Spread it thick Plaifter-wife, and apply, changing it every Hour, 'till all the Matter be come out, which it will be in three Times . 137. Pain in the Joints. 517. Drink Decoction of Herb Robert, and apply it as a Poultice. 138. The Itch. 518. Wath the Parts affected with frong Rum : Tried. 519. Or, with strong Decoction of Dock-root for nine or ten Days : 520. Or, ofHyffop, for four or five Days : 521. Or, with Water in which Quicksilver has beenboiled : 522. Or, anoint them with black Soap : 523. Or, steep a Shirt half an Hour in a Quart of Water, This Distemper, is nothing but a Kind of very small Lice whichburrow under the Skin. Therefore inward Medicines are abfolutely needlefs -Is it poffible any Physician should be igno rant of this ?","word_count":331,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","trinity"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.866173"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-065","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":65,"text":"Water mixt with half an Ounce of powder'd Brimflone. Dry it flowly, and wear it five or fix Days. Sometimes it needs repeating :. Tried. 524. Or, mix Powder of white Hellebore with Cream for three Days. Anoint the Joints three Mornings and Evenings .- It seldom fails : 525. Or, mix a little fine Bay-salt, and as much Flour of Brimflone, with a littlefweet Oil. , Rub it well in the Palms of the Hands , and dry it in. -Itcommonly cures in three Days : 526. Or, beat together the Juice of two or three Lemons, with the fame Quantity of Oil of Rofes. Anoint the Parts affected. It cures in two or three Times ufing. 527. Or, mix an Ounce of Ginger finely powder'd with a Quarter of a Pound of fresh Butter. Ufe it Morning and Evening.- It cures in four or five Days. 139. The King's Evil. 528. Take as much Cream ofTartar as lies on a Six-pence, every Morning and Evening ; 529. Or, drink for fix Weeks half a Pint of a strong Decoction of Devil's bit : Tried. 530. Or, of Ground - Ivy : 531. Or, of dead Nettles : 532. Or, It commonly appears first, by the Thickness ofthe Lips ; or a ftubborn Humour in the Eyes, then come hard Swellings, in the Neck chiefly; then running Sores.","word_count":229,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["trinity","reign-of-god","social-holiness"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.866705"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-066","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":66,"text":"532. Or, of Colts-foot : Mean-time, apply the Herbbeaten up with powder'd Linfeed and Hogslard, to the Sores ; Renewing it twice a Day : 533. Or, ufe Lime-water for common drink : 534. Or, the Diet-drink, as in the Article Scorbutic Sores. I have known this cure one whose Breaft was as full of Holes as an Honey-comb : 535: Or, fet a Quart of Honey by the Fire to melt. When it is cold, strew into it a Pound and half of Quick-lime beat very fine, and fearfed through a Hair Sieve. Stir this about 'till it boil up of itself into a hard Lump . Beat this when cold very fine, and fearfe it, as before. Take ofthis as much as lies on a Shilling in a Glafs of Water every Morning fasting ; an Hour before Breakfast, at Four in the Afternoon, and at going to Bed. 536. Or, take two Spoonfuls of the Juice of Water Parfnips, with two Spoonfuls of Milk, every Morning fasting, for the fix Summer Months. Two Hours after, breakfast on Water-gruel with a little Bread . This cures the Scurvy in three Months . 140. Lameness, From a fixt Contraction of the Parts. 537. Beat the Yolk of a new-laid Egg very thin, and by a Spoonful at a Time, add and beat up with it three Ounces of Water. Rub this gently into the Parts for a few Minutes , three or four Times a Day. 141. The","word_count":249,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["prevenient-grace","trinity","catholic-spirit"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.866837"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-067","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":67,"text":"( 95 ) · 141. The Legs inflam'd. 538. Apply Fullers Earth spread on brown Paper : It seldom fails: Or, bruised Turnips : 539. Or, boiled Turnips mixt with Mutton -suet : 540. Or, rub them with warm Juice of Plantane. 142. Legs fore and running. 541. Wash them in Brandy and apply Elder-leaves, changing them twice a Day. This will dry up all the Sores, though the Leg were like an Honey comb: Tried. 542. Or, Poultis them with Rotten-Apples : Tried 143. The Leprofy. 543. Ufe the cold Bath: 544. Or, apply Nettles bruifed in a Mortar. 545. Or, wash in the Sea often and long : 546. Or, wash the Parts with Juice of Calamint : 547. Or, mix well an Ounce of Pomatum, a Dram of powder'd Brimftone , and half an Ounce of Sal Prunella and anoint the Parts fo long as there is Need : 548. Or, In this Disease the Skin inmany Parts iscovered with rough, whitish, fcaly Pustules, and if these are rubb'd off, with aKind, offcaly Scurf. 548. Or, add a Pint of Juice of Houfeleek; and half a Pint of Verjuice, to a Pint and a half of Poffetdrink. Drink up this in twenty - four Hours.- It cures also the Quinfy, and all Sorts of white Swellings on the Joints : 549. Or, drink half a Pint of Cellery - whey, Morning and Evening. This has cured in a most desperate Cafe: 550. Or, drink for a Month a Decoction of Elm Bark, Morning and Evening : 551. Or, of Burdock-leaves. Tried. 144. The Lethargy. 552. Snuff strong Vinegar up the Nose : 553. Or, Powder of white Hellebore: 554. Or, take half a Pint of Decoction of Savory, Morning and Evening : 555. Or, of Infufion of Water-Crees. 145. Lice (to kill.) 556. Sprinkle Spanish Snuff over the Head : 557. Or, wash it with a Decoction of Amaranth. For one feemingly killed with Lightning, a Damp, or Suffocated. 558. Plunge him immediately ito cold Water : 559. Or, blow strongly with Bellows down his Throat. This may recover a Perfon feemingly it drowned.","word_count":357,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","free-will"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.866973"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-068","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":68,"text":"drowned. It is ftill better, if a strong man. blows into his Mouth. 147. Lues Venerea. 560. Take an Ounce of Quicksilver every Morning, and a Spoonful of Aqua Sulphurata in a Glafs of Water at Five in the Afternoon . I have known a Perfon cured by this, when fupposed to be at the Point of Death, who had been infected by a foul Nurse, before she was a Year old. infert this for the Sake of such innocent Sufferers. 148. Lunacy. 561. Give Decoction of Agrimony four Times a Day : 562. Or, rub the Head several Times a Day with Vinegar, in which Ground- Ivy Leaves have been infufed : 563. Or, boil Juice of Ground-ivy with sweet Oil and white Wine into an Ointment. Shave the Head, anoint it therewith, and chafe it in warm, every other Day for three Weeks . Bruife allo the Leaves and bind them on the Head , and give three Spoonfuls of the Juice warm every Morning. This generally cures Melancholy : 564. Or, Electrify. Tried . 149. Raging","word_count":179,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","trinity"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.867172"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-069","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":69,"text":"149. Raging Madness . 565. Apply to the Head Cloths dipt in cold Water: 566. Or, fet the Patient with his Head under a great Water -fall, as long as his Strength will bear Or, pour Water on his Head out of a Tea kettle : 567. Or, let him eat nothing but Apples for a Month : 568. Or, nothing but Bread and Milk: Tried. 150. The Bite ofa mad Dog. 569. Plunge into cold Water daily for twenty Days, and keep as long under it as poffible. This has cured, even after the Hydrophobia was begun. 570. Or, mix_Ashes of Trefoil with Hogs lard and anoint the Part as soon as poffible. Repeat twice or thrice at fix Hours Distance. This has cured many, and particularly, a Dog bit on the Nose by a Mad Dog. 571. Or, as soon as bitten, moisten a Spoonful or two of Salt with Water ; but do not make it quite fluid. Rub some of it into the Wound, and repeat this three or four Times a Day for ten Days, binding likewise Part of it on the Wound. Spirit Itis a sure Rule, that all Madmen areCowards, and may conquered by binding only, without beating.-Dr. Mead. be Ifthis is really a Nervous Disorder, what Wonder, if it should be cured by cold Bathing ?","word_count":224,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["pneumatology","free-will","means-of-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.867248"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-070","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":70,"text":"Spirit of Salt, a little diluted with Water, has the fame Effect, if it be applied to the Wound immediately, and for several Days. 572. Or, mix a Pound of Salt with a Quart of Water. Squeeze, bathe and wash the Wound with this for an Hour. Then bind some Salt upon it for twelve Hours . N. B. The Author of this Receipt was bit fix Times by Maddogs , and always cured himself by this Means. 573. Galen fays, none ever failed of a Cure who took two Spoonfuls of Ajhes of Craw- Fish daily for forty Days : 574. Or, apply Juice of Dragons blood mixt with Vinegar, outwardly, and drink of the fame Morning and Evening, five or fix Days : 575. Or mix powder'd Liver-wort four Drams, black Pepper two Drams. Divide this into four Parts, and take one in warm Milk for four Mornings fasting. Dr. Mead affirms, he never knew this fail .-But it has some Times failed . 576. Or, take two or three Spoonfuls of the Juice of Ribwort, Morning and Evening, as soon as poffible afterthe Bite. Repeat this for two of three Changes of the Moon. It has not been known to fail . 151. The Meafles . 577. Drink only thin Water-gruel, or Milk and Water, the more the better ; or, Toast and Water. 578. If This Distemper is always preceded by a violent Cough often fourteen Days before the red Spots come out.","word_count":247,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["trinity","pneumatology","prevenient-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.867328"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-071","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":71,"text":"578. Ifthe Cough be very troublefome, take frequently a Spoonful of Barley-water fweetened with Oil of sweet Almonds newly drawn , mixt with Syrup of Maiden-hair. 579. After the Meafles, for some Weeks, take Care of catching Cold, ufelight Diet, and drink Barley-water, inftead of Malt-drink. 152. Menfes obftructed . 580. Be electrified : Tried . 581. Or, take half a Pint of strong Decoction of Penny-royal every Night at going to Bed : 582. Or, three or four Spoonfuls of Nettle -juice every Morning. A Dram of the Seed powder'd has the fame Effect. 583. Or, a Spoonful of Juice or Syrup of Brooklime, Morning and Evening : 584. Or, a Tea spoonful of Columbine -feeds, pow der'd, thrice a Day. 585. Or, boil five large Heads of Hemp in a Pint ofWaterto half. Strain it, and drink it going to Bed, two or three Nights . It seldom fails. Tried. 586. Or, take from eight to twelve Grains of Calomel, in a Pill, for two or three Nights, taking Care not to catch Cold. It vomits and purges : Tried. 587. Or, pour twelve Ounces of rectified Spirits of Wine on four Ounces of Roots of black Hellebore, and let it stand in a warm Place twentyfour Hours. Pour it off and take from thirty to forty Drops in any Liquid fasting . It is good likewise in the Green Sicknefs , in all Hypochondrical Cafes, and in obftinate Madness. 588. Or,","word_count":244,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","trinity"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.867892"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-072","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":72,"text":"588. Or, burn a little Sulphur of Antimony on 2 Chafing difh of Coals, and receive the Smoke by a Funnel. In a few Minutes it will taker Effect . Let any ofthefe Medicines be used at the regular Times as near as can bejudged. See Dr. Tiflot. Menfes Nimii. 589. Drink nothing but cold Water, with a Spoonful of fine Flour tirred in it. At that Time , drink a Glafs of the coldeft Water you can get, and apply a thick Cloth dipt in cold Water : 590. Or, put the Feet into cold Water : 591. Or, apply a Sponge dipt in Red Wine and Vinegar: 592. Or, bleed in the Arm. Stop the Orifice often with the Finger, and then let it bleed again : 593. Or, boil four or five Leaves ofthe Red HolyOak in a Pint of Milk, with a small Quantity of Sugar. Drink this inthe Morning if the Perfon can afford it, fhe may add a Tea-spoonful of Balm ofGilead.-This does not often fail : 594. Or, after a small Rhubarb Purge, boil the Peel of seven Seville Oranges in three Pints of Spring Water to a Quart . Take ten Spoonfuls fweetned with white Sugar, four Times a Day : 595. Or, ufe daily Decoction , Syrup, or Powder ofHorfe - tail, Nettles, or Plantane. 596. Or, reduce to a fine Powder half an Ounce of Alum, with a Quarter of an Ounce of Dragan's-blood. In a violent Cafe, take a Quarter of","word_count":252,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["free-will","means-of-grace","communion"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.867992"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-073","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":73,"text":"ofa Dram every half Hour. It fcarce ever fails to stop the Flux , before half an Ounce is taken. This also cures the Whites. 597. Or, take about fix in the Evening, five or fix Ounces of the Juice of Nettles, and apply below the Navel, a Poultis of the fame Juice and Wheat-flour. If need be, repeat both at Midnight. 154. To refolve coagulated Milk. 598. Cover the Woman with a Table cloth, and hold a Pan ofhot Water just under her Breast ; then stroke it three or Four Minutes. Do this twice a Day, ' till it is cured. 155. To increafe Milk. 599. Drink a Pint of Water, going to Bed : 600. Or , drink largely of Pottage made with Lentils. 156. To make Milk agree with the Stomach . 601. Ifit lie heavy, put a little Salt in it ; if it curdle, Sugar. For bilious Perfons, mix it with Water. Nervous Disorders. 602. Are of two Kinds ; 1. Those which proceed from","word_count":171,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["prevenient-grace","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.868082"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-074","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":74,"text":"from the Nerves being comprefs'd by the Swelling of the muscular Flesh : Or, 2. When the Nerves themselves are disorder'd . In the former Cafe, Temperance and Abftemioufnefs will generally cure In the latter, when the Nerves perform their Office too languidly, a GOOD AIR is the first requifite. The patient alsoshould rife early, and as soon as the Dew is off the Ground walk: Let his Breakfast be Mother ofThyme Tea, gather'd in June, ufing half as much as we do of common Tea. It should be drunk with the finest Sugar ; and Cream may be added if he please Coffee must be avoided. When the Nerves are too fenfible, let the Perfon breathe a proper Air. Let him eat Veal, Chickens, or Mutton. Vegetables should be eat sparingly ; the most innocent is the French Bean whilft young, and the best Root the Turnip. Wine should be avoided carefully : So should all Sauces. Sometimes he may Breakfast upon a Quarter of an Ounce of the Powder ofValerian-root infus'd in hot Water, to which he may add Cream and Sugar. Tea is not proper. When the Perfon finds an uncommon Oppreffion, let him take a large Spoonful of the Tincture of Valerian-root. This Tincture should be made thus. Cut to Pieces fix Ounces ofwild Valerian root gather'd in June, andfresh dried. Bruife it by a few Strokes in a Mortar, that the Pieces may befplit, but it should not be beat into Powder : Put this into a Quart offrong white Wine ; cork the Bottle and let itfland three Weeks, fhaking it every Day ; then press it out andfiltre the Tincture thro' Paper. 603. Take","word_count":281,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["means-of-grace","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.868256"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-075","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":75,"text":"603. Take also as much as will lie on a Shilling ofthe Powder of Miletoe, twice a Day, when the Stomach is most empty, fasting two Hours after it ; then once a Day, and afterwards every other, or every third Day, ' till there is no more Need of Medicines. Let this Plant be gather'd in May, and theLeaves and Bark dried carefully in the free Air, without Sun, till they are brittle. Let them then be reduced to a fine powder, and kept in that Form. Dr. Hill. N. B. The true , wild Valerian has no bad smell . If it has, Cats have urined upon it, which they will do, if they can come at it. 604. But I am firmly perfuaded, there is no Remedy in Nature, for Nervous Disorders of every Kind, comparable tothe proper and constant Ufe ofthe Electrical Machine. 158. Old Age. Take Tar-water Morning and Evening : Tried . 606. Or, Decoction of Nettles : Either of these will probably renew the Strength for fomeYears. 607. Or, be electrified daily. 159. An oldftubborn Pain in the Back . 608. Steep Root ofWater-Fern in Water, till the Water become thick and clammy. Then rub the Partstherewith Morning and Evening. 100. The","word_count":209,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["free-will","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.868329"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-076","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":76,"text":"160. The Palfy. 609. Be electrified daily for three Months, from the Places where the Nerves fpring, which are brought tothe Paralytic Part. Ifthe Parts beneath the Head are affected , the Fault is in the fpinal Marrow. If half the Body, half the Marrow is touched. A Palfy may be cured in Spring or Summer, but rarely in Winter. 610. Or, ufe the cold Bath, ifyou are under Fifty, rubbing and sweating after it : 611. Or, fhred white Onions, and bake them gently in an earthen Pot, 'till they are soft, spread a thick Plaister of this, and apply it to the benum'd Part, all over the Side, if need be. I have known this cure a Perfon of feventy-five Years old. 612. Or, take Tar water, Morning and Evening. 613. Or, boil white and red Sage, a Handful of cach in a Quart of white Wine . Strain and bottle it. Take a small Glafs Morning and Evening. This helps all Nervous Disorders : 614. Or, apply to the Parts boil'd Sage- leaves hot; and drink Decoction of Sage Morning and Evening: 615. Or, of Water dock, applying the boil'd Leaves. 616. Or, A Palfy is the Lofs of Motion or Feeling, or both, in any particular Part ofthe Body. 616. Or, take a Tea-spoonful of powder'd Sage, lying down in Bed. Palfy ofthe Hands . 617. Wash them often in Decoction of Sage as hot asyou can bear : 618. Or, boil a Handful of Elder-Leaves, or two or three Spoonfuls of Mustard -feed in a Quart of Water. Wafh often in this, as hot as may be. 162. Palfy ofthe Mouth. 619. After purging well , chew Mustard -feed often : 620. Or, hold in your Mouth half an Ounce of Spirits ofLavender. 621. Or, gargle with Juice ofWood-fage. 163. Palfyfrom working with White Lead or Verdigreafe. 622. Ufe warm Baths and a Milk-Diet. 161. The Palpitation or Beating of the Heart. 623. Drink a Pint of coldWater : 624. Or, apply outwardly a Rag dipt in Vinegar : 625, Or,","word_count":346,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","trinity"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.868471"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-077","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":77,"text":"625. Or, be electrified : Tried . 626. Or , take a Decoction of Mother-wort every Night. 165. The Piles (to prevent. ) 627. Wafh the Parts often with cold Water. 166, The Piles (to cure.) 628. Applywarm Treacle: 629. Or, a Tobacco-leaffteep'd in Water twentyfour Hours : 630. Or, a Poultis of boil'd Brook-lime. It seldom fails : 631. Or, a bruised Onion fkin'd ; or roafted in Ashes. It perfectly cures the dry Piles : 632. Or, Leeks fried in Butter : 633. Or, Varnish. It perfectly cures both the blind and bleeding Piles : Tried. 634. Or, fumigate with House-leek, boiled in white Wine. 635. Or, with Vinegar, wherein red hot Flints have been quenched. This foftens even fchirhous Tumours. 167. The Inward Piles. 636. Drink largely of Treacle and Water : 637. Or, 637. Or, swallow a Pill of Pitch fasting. One Pill usually cures the bleeding Piles. 638. Or, drink a Spoonful of Juice ofYarrow, or of Leeks, three or four Mornings : Tried. 639. Or, take from one to two Drams ofFlour of Brimftone twice a Day in a Cup of WaterGruel : 640. Or, as much Sulphur-vivum as lies on a Shilling. It should open the Body a little : I. 168. Violent bleeding Piles. 641. Lightly boil Juice of Nettles, with a little Sugar: Take two Ounces. It seldom needs repeating. 169. The Plague (to prevent.) 642. Eat Marigold Flowers daily, as a Sallad, with Oiland Vinegar : 643. Or, a little of the Tops of Rue, with Bread and Butter, every Morning : 644. Or, infuse Rue, Sage, Mint, Rosemary, Wormwood, ofeach a Handful, in two Quarts of the fharpest Vinegar, over warm Embers for eightDays. Then strain it through a Flannel, and add half an Ounce of Camphire, diffolved in three Ounces of rectified Spirits ofWine. With this wash the Loins, Face , and Mouth, and snuff a little up the Nofe when you go abroad. Smell to a Spunge dipt therein, when you approach infected Perfons or Places. 170. The","word_count":341,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["prevenient-grace","means-of-grace","catholic-spirit"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.868614"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-078","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":78,"text":"170. The Plague (to cure. ) Cold Water alone, drank largely, has cured it : 646. Or, an Ounce or two ofthe Juice of Marygolds : 647. Or, take a Dram of Angelica powder'd, every fix Hours. It is a strong sweat : 648. Or, after bleeding fifty or fixty Ounces, drink very largely of Water tharpened with Spirit of Vitriol: 649. Or, a Draught of Brine as soon as seized ; fweatin Bed ; take no other Drink for some Hours. 650. Ufe Lemon-Juice largely in every Thing. 171. The Pleurify. 651. Apply to the Side Onions roafted in the Em- 'bers, mixt with Cream : 652. Or, take half a Dram of Soot: 653. Or, take out the Core of an Apple, fill it with white Frankincenfe ; stop it close with the Piece you cut out, and roast it in Ashes. Mafh and eat it. 654. Or, A Pleurify is a Feverattended with a violent Pain in the Side, and a Pulfe remarkably hard . 654. Or, a Glafs of Tar-water, warm , every half Hour: 655. Or, of Decoction of Nettles ; and apply the boiled Herb hot, as a Poultis . Tried. 656. Or, boiled Fennel or Camomile flowers. 657. Or, a Plaifter of Flour of Brimstone and White of an Egg Tried.-See Dr. Tiffot. 658. In Disorders of this Kind, Dr. Huxham advifes, fup almost continually thin Whey, Barley-water, or Hyffop-tea, fharpened with Lemon or Vinegar and Water. Ifthe Spitting stop fuddenly, take a little Vomit. Likewife Camphorated Vinegar, with Syrup of Elder or Rasberries is good. To appease the Cough, take often, a little at a Time of roafted Apples, yea, Strawberries, Rafberries, or Currants . 172. To one Poifon'd. 659. Give one or two Drams of diftill'd Verdigreafe : It vomits in an Instant : 660. Let one poifon'd with Mercury Sublimate, diffolve an Ounce of Salt ofWormwoodin a Gallon of Water, and drink largely of it. This will intirely destroy the Force of the Poifon, if it be used soon. 661. Nothing cures the African Poison, but a Decoction ofthe Roots of the Senfitive Plant. 173. Polypus","word_count":356,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","pneumatology"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.868912"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-079","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":79,"text":"173. Polypus in the Nofe. 662. Powder a Lump of Alum and snuff it up frequently. Then diffolve powder'd Alum in Brandy; dip Lint therein, and apply it at going to Bed. 174. A Prick or Cut that Fefters. 663. Apply Turpentine. 175. An easy Purge. 664. Drink a Pint of warmish Water fasting, walking after it : 665. Or, infuse from half a Dram to two Drams of Damafk Rofe-leaves dried, in half a Pint of warm Water for twelve Hours : 666. Or, infuse three Drams of Sena, and a Scruple of Salt ofTartar, in half a Pint of River Water for twelve Hours. Then strain and take it in the Morning. 667. Wild-Afb is a Plant ofthe very fame Nature with Sena, but of greater Virtue. Its Leaves taken in the fame Quantity purge full as well, and do not gripe as Sena does. It is therefore far preferable to that which is brought from Turkey or Haly. 176. Aftronger Purge. 668. Drink half a Pint of strong Docoction of Dock root: 669. Or, two Drams of the powder'd Root of Monks Rhubarb, with a Scruple of Ginger. 177. The Quinfy. 670. Apply a large White-bread Toast, half an Inch thick , dipt in Brandy, to the Crown ofthe Head, ' till it dries : 671. Or, drink a Quart of cold Water lying down in Bed : 672. Or, fwalllow flowly white Rofe Water, mixt with Syrup of Mulberries : Tried . 673. Or, Juice or Jelly of black Currants , or Decoction ofthe Leaves or Bark. 674. Or, draw in, as hot as you can bear the Fumes of red-rofe Leaves, or Camomile Flowers boiled in Vinegar. 178. The Rheumatism.t 675. Ufe the cold Bath, with Rubbing and Sweating : The Quinly is, A Feverattended with Difficulty of Swallowing, and often of Breathing.. Rheumatical Pains are generally most violent as soon as you are warm in Bed.","word_count":322,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["works-piety","prevenient-grace","means-of-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.869562"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-080","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":80,"text":"676. Or, rub in warm Treacle, and apply to the Part brown Paper fmeared therewith : Change it in twelve Hours : Tried. 677. Or, drink very largely of warm Water in Bed : 678. Or, drink half a Pint of Tar- water Morning and Evening. 679. Or, fteep fix or seven Cloves of Garlick, in half a Pint of white Wine . Drink it lying down. It fweats, and frequently cures at once : 680. Or, mix Flour of Brimftone with Honey, equal Quantities. Take three Tea-spoonfuls at Night, twoin the Morning ; and one afterwards Morning and Evening, 'till cured . This fucceeds oftner than any Remedy I have found: 681. Or, take Morning and Evening, as much Lignum Guaicum powder'd as lies on a Shilling : 682. Or, as much Flour of Sulphur, wafhing it down with Decoction of Lignum Guaiacum : 683. Or, live on new Milk- whey and white Bread for fourteenDays . This has cured in a desperate Cafe. •684. Or, pound the green Stalks of English Rhu barb in May, with an equal Quantity oflump Sugar. Take a Nutmeg of this three or four Times a Day. This seldom fails. 179. To restore the Strength after a Rheumatism . 685. Make a strong Broth of Cow -heels, and wafh the the Parts with it warm twice a Day. It has reftored one who was quite a Cripple, having no Strength left either in his Leg, Thigh, or Loins . 686. Or, drink every Morning half a Pint of Buckbane Tea, with a Tea-spoonful of Spirits of Hartshorn . 180. The Rickets (to prevent or cure.) 687. Wash the Child everyMorning in coldWater. 181. Ring Worms. 688. Apply rotten Apples : 689. Or, rub them with Oil ofPaper : 690. Or, with the Juice of Houfe-leek : 691. Or, wash them with Hungary- water camphorated . 182. Running at the Nofe. 692. Snuff up a Tea-spoonful of Spirit ofHartsborn. 183. A Rupture. 693. Foment with hot Aqua-vita for two Hours 694. Take Agrimony, Spleen-wort, Solomon's-feal, Strawberry- roots, a Handful each ; pick and wash them well ; stamp and boil them two Hours,","word_count":359,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["pneumatology","means-of-grace","communion"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.869847"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-081","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":81,"text":"Hours, in two Quarts of white Wine in a Vef. fel close stopt. Strain and drink a large Glass ofthis every Morning, and an Hour after drink another. It commonly cures in a Fortnight. A good Trufs mean Time is ofgreat Use. 695. \" I Place, fays Dr. Riviere, a broad Plank floping from the Side of the Bed to the Ground. On this I lay the Patient upon Pillows, with his Head downward. Then I foment the Part for half an Hour, with Cloths four Times doubled steeped in cold Water, gently touching it with my Fingers. Afterwards I bind on it a many-times doubled Cloth fhaped like a Triangle, wet in cold Water. The Gut is generalJy reftored to its Place in a few Hours. If not, I repeat the Operation twice a Day, and in two or three Days the Disease is cur'd.\" 184. A Fresh Rupture. 696. Take Decoction of Plantane-leaves, Morning and Evening : 697. Or, dry a Spoonful of Plantane-feed by the Fire ; boil it in Milk, and take half a Pint every Morning. 185. A Rupture in Children. 698. Boil a Spoonful of Egg-fhells dried in an Oven and powder'd, in a Pint of Milk or three Quarters of a Pint. Feed the Child constantly with Bread boil'd in this Milk. 186. A Windy Rupture. 699. Warm Cow Dung well. Spread it thick on Leather, ftrewing some Cummin-feeds on it, and apply it hot. When cold put on a new one. It commonly cures a Child (keeping his Bed) in two Days . 187. A Scald Head. 700. Anoint it with Barbadoes - Tar : 701. Or, with Yarrow Ointment made with GoofeGreafe : 702. Or, apply daily White-wine Vinegar. Tried. 188. The Sciatica . 703. Is certainly cured by a Purge taken in a few Hours after it begins : 704. Or, ufe cold Pathing, and sweat, together with the Flesh Brush twice a Day : 705. Or, apply Leaves of Ranunculus bruifed, for fix Hours : 706. \" Many have been cured in four or five Days, only by drinking half a Pint of coldWater daily, in the Morning, and at four in the Afternoon.\" 707. Or, The Sciatica is a violent Pain in the Hip, chieflyin the Joint ofthe thigh Bone.","word_count":382,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["means-of-grace","communion","catholic-spirit"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.888338"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-082","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":82,"text":"707. Or, apply pounded Roots of Burdock and of Elecampane cold. This usually cures , if kept on twenty-four Hours : but it gives Pain : 708. Or boil Nettles ' till soft. Foment with the Liquor, then apply the Herb as a Poultis .-I. have known this cure a Sciatica of forty-five Years standing : Or, apply Nettles bruised in a Mortar : 709. Or, boil Calamint ; apply this as a Poultis fhifting it daily. Meantime drink a Decoction of it Morning and Evening. 710. Or, apply Flannels dipt in ftale Lie, boil'd with Salt as hot as you can bear, for an Hour : 711. Or, a Mud made of powder'd Pitcoal and warm Water. This also cures Palfies, Weaknefs ofthe Limbs , most Disorders of the Legs, and Swellings and Stiffneís of the Joints. It cured a Swelling of the Elbow Joint, tho' accompanied with a Fistula, arising from a Caries ofthe Bone. 189. Inflammations or Swelling ofthe Scrotum . 712. Wash it thrice a Day with strong Decoction of Agrimony. 190. A Scorbutic Atrophy. 713. Ufe cold Bathing : Which also cures all 191. Scorbutic Pains. 192. Scorbutic Sores. 714. Put half a Pound of fresh fhav'd Lignum Guaiacum, and half an Ounce of Sena into an Earthen Pot, that holds fix Quarts. Add five Quarts offoft Water, and lute the Pot close. Set this in a Kettle of cold Water, and put it overa Fire, 'till it has boiled three Hours. Let it stand in the Kettle ' till cold. When it has ftood one Night drink daily half a Pint, new Milk-warm , fasting, and at Four in the Afternoon. Wash with a little ofit . Inthree Months all the Sores will be dried up. Tried. 193. The Scurvy .† 715. Live on Turnips for a Month : 716. Or, an entire Milk Diet, for fix Months : 717 Or, Such a Degree of Scurvy, as caufes the Flesh to waste away like a Confumption. The Scurvy is known byHeavinefs of Body, Weariness, Rottenness of Gums, and Yellow, Lead or Violet-colour'd Spots on the Legs.","word_count":352,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","sanctifying-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.888516"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-083","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":83,"text":"717. Or, take Tar-water Morning and Evening, for three Months : 718. Or, Infufion of Horse-radifh : 719. Or, Decoction of great Water-dock. Perhaps there is not in Nature, a more effectual Plant for the Scurvy than Water- dock : Especially when it appears in cautaneous Eruptions. But sometimes it requires Patience . The best Way ofmaking the Decoction is this : Put half a Pound ofthe Bark from the Root in an earthen Veffel. Pour on it Six Pints of Rain-water, and boil it gently, till a Quart is wafted . Then keep it in a cool Place for Ufe. You may drink half a Pint warm two, three, or four Tines a Day. It cures also Relaxation, or Wind at the Stomach, and all Disorders proceeding therefrom . It cures all Difeafes of the Nerves, as Twitchings, Contractions, Tremblings, Convulfions, Palfies, febrile Heats and Colds , Head- achs, Vertigos, Vapours , Melancholy. 720. Or, three Spoonfuls of Nettle Juice every Morning : Tried . 721. Or, Decoction of Burdeck. Boil three Ounces ofthe dried Root in two Quarts ofWater to three Pints . Take a Pint daily, unless it purges too much , if so, take less. A Decoction of the Leaves (boiling one Leaffour Minutes in a Quart of Water) has the fame Effect. 722. Or, infuse dried Dock-roots in your common Drink : 723. Or,","word_count":229,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["trinity","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.888597"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-084","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":84,"text":"23. Or, ufe Infufion or Powder of Wall-rue, Morning and Evening. 724. Or, pound into a Pulp of Seville Oranges flic ed, Rind and all, and powder Sugar, equal Quantities. Take a Tea- spoonful three or four Times a Day: Tried. 725. Or, fqueeze the Juice of half of a Seville Orange into a Pint of Milk over the Fire. Sweetenthe Whey with Loaf Sugar, and drink it every Morning, new Milk warm . To make any Whey, Milk should be fkim'd, after it is boil'd.. 726. Or, pour three Quarts of boiling Water on a Quart of Ground- Malt : Stir them well, and let the Mixture stand, covered close, for four Hours. Strain it off, and use this as common Drink. In hot Weather, brew this fresh every Day. It will hardly fail. 727. Or, ufe as common Drink, water made very sweet with Treacle, Honey or Sugar. 728. Or, take Morning and Evening a Spoonful or two of Lemon -juice and Sugar. It is a precious Remedy and well tried.\"-Dr. Macbride. 729. Or, boil Scurvy grafs, and Sorrel in Broth, and feed upon it daily. 730. Water and Garden Creffes, Muftard , and Juice ofScurvy - grafs help in a cold Scurvy : 731. When there is a continual salt Taste in the Mouth, take a Pint of Lime- water Morning and Evening. 194. A Broken Shin . 732. Bind a dry Oak-leafupon it. 195. The Shingles. 733. Drink Sea-water every Morningfor a Wee toward the Clofe, bathe also. 196. Sickifhnefs in the Morning. 734. Eat nothing after Six in the Evening. Sinewsfhrunk. 735. Rub it every Morning withfafling Spittle. Tried. 736. Or, beat the Yolk ofa new laid Egg, mix it with a spoonful of Water, and rub the Partwith it before the Fire three or four Times a Day. 198. Skin rubb'd off. 737. Apply pounded All-heal.-It seldom needs \" repeating. 199. The A Kind of Ring-Worm, which incircles the Body, like a Belt, of an Hand's Breadth.","word_count":333,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","trinity"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.888775"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-085","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":85,"text":"199. Small Pox. 738. Drink largely of Toast andWater : 739. Or, let your whole Food be Milk and Water, mixt with a little white Bread : Tried . 740. Or, Milk and Apples : 741. Take Care to have a free, pure, and cool Air. Therefore open the Cafement every Day, only do not let it chill the Patient : 742. If they ftrike in, and Convulfions follow, drink a Pint of cold Water immediately . This inftantly stops the Convulfions , and drives out the Pock : Tried. There may be Puftules a second Time, coming out and ripening like the Smallpox, but it is barely a cutaneous Disorder. \" In violent Cafes, bleed in the Foot : Bathe the Legs in warm Water twice or thrice a Day, before and at the Eruption ; and apply boiled Turnips tothe Feet . Never keep the Head too hot. \" In very low deprefled Cafes , Wine may begiven And if the Puftules lie buried in the Skin, a gentle Vomit. In many Cafes, a gentle Purge of Manna, Cream ofTartar, or Rhubarb. \" In the crude, ichorofe Small-pox, a Difh of Coffee now and then with a little think Milk in it, has often quieted the vexatious Cough. After the Incruftation is formed, change the Sick ; but let it be with very dry, warm Linen.\" -Dr. Huxham.","word_count":230,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["means-of-grace","communion","sanctifying-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.888842"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-086","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":86,"text":"200. A long-runningSore in the Back, 743. Was entirely cured by eating Betony in every Thing : 744. Or, take every Morning two or three Spoonfuls of Nettle-juice, and apply bruifed Nettles in a Mortar to the Part. This cures any old Sore or Ulcer. 201. A Sore Mouth. 745. Apply the White of an Egg, beat up with Loaf Sugar : 746. Or, gargle with the Juice of Cinquefoil : 747. Or, boil together a Pound of Treacle, three Yolks ofEggs, an Ounce of Bole-Armoniac and a Nutmeg of Alum, a Quarter of an Hour. Apply this to the fore Part, or to an aching Tooth. Tried. 202. A Sore Throat. 748. Take a Pint of cold Water lying down in Bed : Tried. 749. Or, apply a Chin-ftay of roafted Figs : 750. Or, a Flannel fprinkled with Spirits of Hartsborn to the Throat, rubbing Hungary- water on the Top ofthe Head : Tried . 751. Or snuff a little Honey up the Nofe.. 752. An old fore Throat was cured by living wholly on Apples and Apple- water,","word_count":181,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","trinity"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.888910"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-087","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":87,"text":"203. A Sprain. 753. Hold the Part in very cold water for two Hours : Tried . 754. Or, apply Cloths dipt therein, four Times doubled, fortwo Hours, changing them as they grow warm : 755. Or, bath it in good Crab- verjuice : 756. Or, ftoop it with one Spoonful of Brandy, two of Vinegar, and four ofWater. 757. Or, boil Bran in Wine Vinegar to a Poultis. Apply this warm , and renew it once in twelve Hours : 758. Or, boil eight Ounces of Caftile. Soap and as much Bay-salt in four Quarts of Water. Put the Partfprained into this for half an Hour ; or, foment with it : 759. Or mix a little Turpentine with Flour and the Yolk of an Egg ; and apply it as a Plaister. This cures in a desperate Cafe. 760. Weakness remaining after a Sprain, is cured byfomenting the Part daily with Beef brine. 761. Suppofe the Ankle fprained, 1. Foment it with warm Vinegar , four or five Minutes every four Hours. 2. Stand if you can , three or four Minutes at a Time on both your Feet, and frequently move the fprained Foot. Sometimes also, while fitting with your Foot on a low Stool, move it to and fro. 3. Let it be gently rubbed with a warm Hand, at least thrice a Day. 4. Two Hours after every Application of the Vinegar, let it be just wetted with Spirits ofWine, and then gently rubbed. 204. AVenom- 204. A venomous Sting. 762. Apply a little Venice Treacle : 763. Or, a Poultis of bruised Plantane and Honey : 764. Or, take inwardly, one Dram of black Currant-Leaves powder'd. It is an excellent Counterpoison. 205. The Sting ofa Bee. 765. Apply Honey. 206. The Sting ofa Nettle. 766. Rub the Part with Juice ofNettles. 207. The Sting of a Wafp. 767. Rub the Part with bruifed Leaves of Houfe leek. 768. Or, ofWater-Creffes : 769. Or, of Rue : 770. Or, apply Venice Treacle : 771. Or, Common Treacle : 772. Or, bruifed Onions. 208. The Sting of a Bee or Wafp in the Eye. 773. Apply Carduus bruifed, with the White of an Egg: Renew it if it grows dry.","word_count":374,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["prevenient-grace","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.889008"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-088","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":88,"text":"209. A Stitch in the Side. 774. Apply Treacle spread on a hot Toast . Tried. 210. Frequent or violent Stitches. 775. Drink Decoction of Nettles, and apply the Herbs hot : Tried . 211. Accidental Sicknefs, or Pain in the Stomach. 776. Vomit with a Quart of warm Water. Do this twice or thrice, omitting a Day between. Pain in the Stomach from bad Digeflion. 777. Take fasting, or in the Fit, half a Pint of Camomile Tea. Do this five or fix Mornings : 778. Or , drink the Juice of half a large Lemon immediately after Dinner every Day :-Dr. Mead. 779. Or, from twenty to forty Drops of Elixir of Vitriol in Sage Tea, twice or thrice a Day : 780. Or, in the Fit, a Glafs full of Vinegar. 213. Cholerick, Hot Pains in the Stomach. 781. Take half a Pint of Decoction of Groundluy, with a Tea spoonful of the Powder of it, five or fix Mornings . 214. Cold 214. Coldness ofthe Stomach. 782. Take a Spoonful of the Syrup ofthe Juice of Carduus Benedictus, fasting, for three or four Mornings. I 783. Or, chew a leaf of Carduus every Morning and swallow the spittle. 215. Pain in the Stomach, with Coldnefs and Wind. 784. Swallow five or fix Corns of white Pepper, for fix orfeven Mornings. Tried. 216. The Stone (to prevent.) 785. Eat a Crust of dry bread every Morning : Tried. If 786. Or, drink a Pint of warm Water dailyjuft before Dinner. After difcharging one Stone, this will prevent the generating of another. 787. Stoop down, and rise yourself up again. you feel Pain as if cut through the Middle, the Pain is not from the Stone, but Rheumatism : 788. Beware of Costiveness. Use no violent Diuretics. Mead is a proper Drink. 789. In the fit, slice a large Onion ; pour half a Pint of warm Water upon it. After it has ftood twelve Hours, drink the Water. Do this every Morning 'till you are well. 217. In","word_count":341,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","prevenient-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.889116"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-089","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":89,"text":"217. In a Raging Fit. 790. Beat Onions into a Pulp, and apply them as a Poultis, Part to the Back, and Part to each Groin. It gives fspeedy Eafe in the most racking Pain : Tried. 791. Or, apply heated Parsley. 218. The Stone (to ease or cure.) 792. Take Decoction of Agrimony Morning and Evening : Tried . 793. Or, of Camomile : 794. Or, boil half a Pound of Parsnips in a Quart of Water. Drink a Glafs of this Morning and Evening, and ufe no other Drink all the Day. It usually cures in fix Weeks : 795. Or, take daily four Pints of Lime- water, made by pouring four Quarts of Water on a Pound of fresh calcined Oyfter-fbells and Cocklefhells: 796. \" Or, take Morning and Evening, a Teafpoonful of Onions calcined into white Afhes, in white Wine. An Ounce will often diffolve the Stone.\" 797. Or, take a Tea-spoonful of Violet feed pow pered, Morning and Evening. It both waftes the Stone, and brings it away: 798. Or, burn the dried Shells of Kidney Beans to Powder. Put two Tea-fpoonfuls of this into a Half-pint Half pint Tea pot. Pour boiling Water on it at Night. In the Morning pour it off clear, warm it again, and drink it sweetened with Honey. Do this daily every other Fortnight 'till cured. 219. The Stone in the Kidneys. 199. Ufe the cold Bath : 800. Or, drink half a Pint ofWater every Morn ing : 801. Or, Decoction of Speedwell largely : 802. Or, boil an Ounce of Thistle-root, and four Drams of Liquorice in a Pint of Water. Drink half of it every Morning. 220. Stoppage in the Kidneys. 803. Take Decoction or Juice or Syrup ofGroundIvy, Morning and Evening : 804. Or, of Pellitory ofthe Wall : 805. Or, of Juice of Radishes : 806. Or, half a Pint of Tar-water : 807. Or, twelve Grains of Salt of Amber in a little Water. 221. The Strangury. 808. Ufe the cold Bath : 809. Or,","word_count":342,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","free-will"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.889202"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-090","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":90,"text":"809. Or, drink largely of Decoction of Turnips fweetened with Honey : 810. Or, of warm Lemonade : Tried. 811. Or, of Decoction of Malloros : 812. Or, of Decoction of red Nettle feed. 222. Sunburn, (fmarting. ) 813. Wafh the Face with Sage-Tea: 223. A Surfeit. 814. Take about a Nutmeg ofthe green Tops of Wormwood. 224. Toftop profufe Sweating. 815. Drink largely of cold Water. 225. To prevent it. 816. Mix an Ounce of Tincture of Peruvian Bark, with half an Ounce of Spirit of Vitriol. Take a Tea-spoonful Morning and Night, in a Glass ofWater. 226. To cure Night -fweats . 817. Drink a Gill of warm Milk, at lying down. 227. Swelled 227. Swelled Glands in the Neck. 818. Take Sea-water every other Day. 228. Swelled Legs . 819. Bathe them every Morning in coldWater, and take an easy Purge twice a Week : 820. Or, take Wormwood, Stuthernwood, and Rue, stamp them together, and fry them in Honey, 'till they grow dry : Then apply them as hot as you can bear. 229. A Swelled Throat. 821. Gargle with Decoction of Nettles : 822. Or, of Primrofe-leaves : 230. A white Swelling (on the Joints. ) 823. Hold the Part half an Hour every Morning, under the Stream that falls from a Mill ; or under a Pump or Cock . This cures also any Pains inthe Joints. It seldom fails. Tried. 824. Or, pour on it daily a Stream of warm Water: 825. Or, a Stream of cold Water one Day, and warm the next, and fo on by Turns : 826. Or, apply daily a Bladder filled with warm Water.-Ufe these Remedies at the first, if poffible.","word_count":284,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","pneumatology"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.889291"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-091","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":91,"text":"fible. It is likewise proper to intermix gentle Purges, to prevent a Relapse : 827. Or, apply a Poultis of Wormwood fried with Hog's-lard. 828. Or, of boiled Nettles. 231.Todiffolve white or hard Swellings. 829. Take white Rofes, Elder Flowers, Leaves of Fox-glove, and of St. John's Wort, a Handful of each Mix with Hog's-lard, and make an Ointment : 830. Or, a green Cole-wort Leaf, having the Veins bruifed with the Haft ofa Knife. Renew it twice a Day. 831. Or, hold them Morning and Evening in the Steam of Vinegar poured on red hot Flints. 232. Tofaften the Teeth . 832. Chew often Roots of Brook-lime: 833. Or, put powder'd Alum the Quantity of a Nutmeg, in a Quart of SpringWater, for twenty-four Hours. Then strain the Water and gargle with it : 834. Or, boil fo much of Alum therein. Strain and keep it for Use : 835. Or, gargle often with Phyllyrea-leaves, boiled with a little Alum in Forge-water. 233. To clean the Teeth . 836. Rub them with Ahes of burnt Bread. 234. To 234. To prevent the Tooth-ach. 837. Wafh the Mouth with cold Water every Morning, and rinse them after every Meal : 828. Or, rub the Teeth often with Tobacco-afhes. 235. To cure the Tooth-ach . 839. Be electrified thro' the Teeth : Tried. 840. Or, apply to the aking Tooth an artificial Magnet : 841. Or, rub the Cheek a Quarter of an Hour : 842. Or, put a Clove of Garlick into the Ear : 843. Or, Parsley much bruifed, with a little Bay Salt : 844. Or, a Piece of Plantane-root, fresh digg'd up and washed : 845. Or, lay roasted Parings of Turnips, as hot as may be, behind the Ear 846. Or, put a Leaf of Betony, bruifed, up the Nofe : 847. Or, lay bruised or boil'd Nettles to the Cheek: Tried . 848. Or, lay a Clove of Garlick on the Tooth : 849. Or, hold a Slice of Apple flightly boiled between the Teeth : Tried. 850. Or, gargle with Decoction of Mulberryleaves : 851. Or,","word_count":352,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["prevenient-grace","catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.889394"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-092","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":92,"text":"851. Or, put into the hollow Tooth, a little Cotton, dipt in Lucatelli's Balfam : 852. Or, a Drop or two of Oil of Cloves on Cotton : 853. Or, diffolve a Dram ofcrude Sal Armoniac in two Drams of Lemon-juice : Wet Cotton herein and apply : . 854. Or, apply to the Cheek Gum Tacamahac spread on Silk : 855. Or, keep the Feet in warm Water, and rub them well with Bran , just before Bed-time : Tried. The first twenty Teeth generally last till the fixth or feventh Year. After that, till the fourteenth or fifteenth Year, they fall out one by one, and are fucceeded by others. The fhedding of the Teeth is wifely intended, and brought about in a fingular Manner. Their Hardness will not admit of Diftenfion like other Parts ofthe Body . Hence after an Inlargement of the Jaw-bone, the original Teeth are no longer able to fill up the Cavities of it. They must stand unfupported by each other, and leave Spaces betweenthem. Under the fift Teeth therefore is placed a new Set, which by constantly preffing upon their Roots, rob them of their Nourishment and Hold, and finally push them out of their Sockets. 2:36. Toath 236. Tooth-achfrom cold Air. 856. Keep the Mouth full of warm Water. 237. Teethfet on Edge. 857. Rub the Tops of the Teeth with a dry Towell : 858. Or , chew Sorrel-leaves. There is no such Thing as Worms in the Teeth. Children's ufing Coral, is always useless, often hurtful. Forcing the Teeth into Order is always dangerous ; Filing is generally hurtful. All rough and cutting Powders deftroy the Teeth : So do all the common Tinctures. Sweet Meats are apt to hurt the Teeth, if the Mouth is not rinsed after them . Cracking Nuts often breaks off the Enamel ; fo does biting Thread in two. Conftant Ufe of Tooth picks is a bad Practice : Conftant Smoking of Tobacco, destroys many good Sets of Teeth. \"- Mr. Beardmore. 238. Extreme Thirft . 859. Drink Spring water, in which a little Sal Prunella is diffolved. 239. Pain","word_count":357,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","primitive-christianity"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.889489"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-093","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":93,"text":"239. Pain in the Teflicles. 860. Apply Pellitory of the Wall beaten up into Poultis, changing it Morning and Evening. 240. Tefticles inflamed. 861. Boil Bean-flour, in three Parts Water, one Part Vinegar. Apply it as a Poultis. 241. To draw out Thorns, Splinters, and Bones. 862. Apply Nettle-Roots and Salt: 863. Or, Turpentine spread on Leather. 242. Thrufh. 864. Mix Juice of Celandine with Honey , to the Thickness of Cream . Infuse a little powder'd Saffron Let this fimmer a- while and fcum it : Apply it (where needed) with a Feather. At the fame Time give eight or ten Grains ofRhubarb To a grown Perfon twenty. 243.Torpor (orNumbness ) of theLimbs. 865. Ufe the cold Bath, with rubbing and sweating. Little white Ulcers in the Mouth. 244. Twisting 244. Twifting of the Guts. 866. Many at the Point of Death have been cured by taking one , two or three Pounds of Quickfilver, Ounce by Ounce.-Pareus . The Tympany or Windy Dropfy. 867. Use the cold Bath, with Purges intermixt ; 868. Or, mix the Juice of Leeks and of Elder. Take two or three Spoonfuls of this Morning. and Evening ; Tried . 246. A Vein or Sinew cut. 869. Apply the inner green Rind of Hazel fresh scraped. The Vertigo or Swimming in the Head. 870. Take a Vomit or two : 871. Or, use the cold Bath for a Month : 872: Or, drop Juice of Pimpernel into the Ear Morning and Evening : 873. Or, in a May Morning about Sun rife, ínuff up daily the Dew that is on Mallowleaves : 874. Or,","word_count":271,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["trinity","prevenient-grace","experience"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.889616"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-094","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":94,"text":"874. Or, apply to the Top of the Head, fhaven, a Plaifter of Flour of Brimftone, and Whites of Eggs : Tried. 875. Or, drink Morning and Evening halfa Pint of Decoction of Primrofe root : 1. 876. Or, of Sage washing also the Head therewith : 877. Or, take every Morning half a Dram of Mustard-feed. 248. Vigilia, Inability to Sleep. 8-8 . Apply to the Forehead for two Hours,Cloths four Times doubled and dipt in cold Water. have known this applied to a lying-in'Woman, and her Life faved thereby : 879. Or, ufe the cold Bath.-It cures even in desperate Cafes : 880. Or, apply to the Head Leaves of water Lillies: 881. Or, a Poultice of Henbane and Poppy feed, beaten together . 882. Or, ufefmall Dofes of Camphire . It is both fafer and furerthan Opium : 883. Afa-foetida likewise will in most Cafes have as much effect as Opium. 249. Bite ofa Viper or a Rattle-Snake. 884. Apply bruised Garlick : 885. Or, Apply it 885. Or, powder Pit-coal fine and fearce it. Mix it into a Pafte with a little Water. daily. This cures even foul Bones : 886. Or, rub the Place immediately with common Oil. Quere, Would not the fame cure the Bite of a mad Dog ? Would t not be worth while, to make the Trial on a Dog ? 250. Toprevent the Bite of aViper. 887. Rubthe Hands with Juice of Radishes. 251. An Ulcer. 888. Dry and powder a Walnut-leaf, and strew it on, and lay another Walnut-leaf on that : Tried. 889. Or, boil Walnut tree Leaves in Water with a little sugar. Apply a Cloth dipt in this, changing it once in two Days. This has done Wonders. 890. Or, foment Morning and Evening with a Decoction of Walnut tree Leaves, and bind the Leaves on. This has cured foul Bones : Yea, and a Leprofy. Tried. 252. An inward Ulcer. 891. Drink Tar-water Morning and Evening : 892. Or, Decoction of Pimpernel. 253. Ulcer","word_count":339,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["social-holiness","free-will","catholic-spirit"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.889707"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-095","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":95,"text":"Ulcer in the Bladder or Kidneys. 893. Take Decoction of Agrimony, thrice a Day : 894. Or, Decoction, Powder, or Syrup of Horsetail. 251. Ulcer in the Gum or Faw. 895. Apply Honey ofRofes fharpened with Spirit of Vitriol: 896. Or, fill the Whites ofEggs boiled hard and fit, with Myrrh and Sugar candy powdered. Te them up, and hang them on Sticks lying ac ofs a Glafs. A Liquid diftills , with which anointthe Sores often in a Day.. 255. A Fiftulous Ulcer. 897. Apply Wood Betony bruised, changing it daily : 898. Or, Leaves of IVater - dock bruifed. 256. A Bleeding Varicous Ulcer in the Leg, 899. Was cured only by constantly cold Bathing. 257. A Malignant Ulcer. 900. Foment Morning and Evening, with a Decoction of Mint. Then fprinkle on it finely powder'd Rue: 901. Or, apply Juice of Pimpernel boiled with the Herb. 258. A Stubborn Ulcer. 902. Burn to Ashes (but not too long) the grofs Stalks on which the red Coleworts grow. Make a Plaifter with this and fresh Butter. Change it once a Day. 903. Or, apply a Poultis ofboil'd Parsnips. This will cure even when the Bone is foul. 904. Or, be electrified daily. Tried. 259. An Ulcer in the Urethra. 905. Take a Clove of Garlick, Morning and Evening : 260. An eafyandfafe Vomit. 906. Boil half a Handful of Artichoke-leaves in a Quart ofWater. The more you drink of warm Water after it the Better : 907. Or , a Dram and a half of Primrofe-root powder'd : It is best ifgathered in August . 908. Or,","word_count":268,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["pneumatology","free-will","assurance"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.949896"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-096","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":96,"text":"908. Or, infuse three Drams of Radifh -feed in a Quart of warm Water for twelve Hours. Squeeze off the Water, and take it : 909. Or, pour a Difh of Tea on twenty Grains of Ipecacuanha. You may fweeten it, ifyou please . When it has flood four or five Minutes, pour the Tea off clear, and drink it. 261. To ftopVomiting. 910. Ifthe Vomiting be not the Effect of a Medicine ; after every Vomit drink a Pint of warm Water : 911. Or, apply a large Onion flit, to the Pit of the Stomach : Tried. 912. Or, take a Spoonful of Lemon -juice and fix Grains of Salt of Wormwood: 913. Or, infuse an Ounce of Quicksilver in a large Glafs full of Water for twenty- four Hours. Then drink the Water : 262. Bloody Urine. 914. Take a Quarter ofa Pint of Sheeps Milk twice a Day : 915. Or, half a Pint of Decoction of Agrimony : 916. Or, ofDeco tion of Yarrow. 263. Urine 363. Urine by Drops with Heat and Pain.. 917. Drink nothing but Lemonade : Tried . 918. Or, beat up the Pulp of five or fix roafted Appleswith near a Quart of Water. Take it at lying down. It commonly cures before Morning. 264. Involuntary Urine. 919. Ufe the cold Bath : 920. Or, take a Tea- spoonful of powder'd Agrimony in a little Water, Morning and Evening : 921. Or, a Quarter of a Pint of Alum-possetDrink, every Night : 922. Or, foment with Rofe-leaves and Plantaneleaves boiled in Smiths Forge- water. Then apply Plaifters of Alum and Bole Armoniac, made up with Oil and Vinegar, 265. Sharp Urine. 923. Take two Spoonfuls offresh Juice ofGroundlvy. 266. Suppreffion of Urine, 924. Is sometimes relieved by Bleeding = 925. Or,","word_count":301,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","prevenient-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.950045"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-097","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":97,"text":"925. Or, drink largely of warm Lemonade : Tried. 926. Or, a Scruple of Nitre, every two Hours : 927. Or, take a Spoonful of Juice of Lemons, fweetened with Syrup of Violets : 928. Or, a spoonful ofJuice of Radishes: 929. Or, two Spoonfuls of Juice of Onions : 930. Or, of bruised Mußard-feed. 267. Uvula inflamed. 931. Gargle with a Decoction of beaten Hempfeed: 932. Or, with aDecoction of Dandelion. 268. Uvula relaxed. 933. Bruife the Veins of a Cabbage-leaf, and lay it hot on the Crown of the Head . Repeat, if needed, in two Hours.- I never knew it fail. 934. Or, gargle with Decoction of Water-dock : 935. Or, with an Infusion of Mustard-feed. 269. Warts. 936. Rub them daily with a Radish : 937. Or, with Juice of Dandelion : This is afually called the Palate of the Mouth. 938. Or, 938. Or, of Marigold Flowers : 939. Or, Water in which Sal Armoniac is diffolved : 940, Or, anoint them four or five Times with the Milk of a Fig-tree ; 941. Or, apply bruifed Purflane as a Poultis, changing it twice a Day. It cures in seven or eight Days. 270. Weakness in the Ankles. 942. Hold them in cold Water a Quarter of an Hour, Morning and Evening. 271. Afoft Wen. 943. Wrap Leaves of Sorrel in a wet Paper, and roast them in the Embers . Mix it with finelyfifted Afbes into a Poultis. Apply this warm daily. 944. Dr. Riviere fays, \" I cured a Wen as big as a large Fift, thus : I made an Inftrument of hard Wood, like the Stone with which the Painters grind their Colours on a Marble. With this I rubbed it half an hour twice a Day. Then I laid on a fuppurating Plaifter very hot, which Ikept on four or five Days. The Wen fuppuratd and was open'd . Afterward all the Subftance of it turned into Matter and was evacuated. Thus I have cured many since.\" 272. The","word_count":339,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.950461"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-098","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":98,"text":"272. The Whites. 945. Live chaftly. Feed sparingly. Ufe Exercife constantly. Sleep moderately, but never lying on your Back : 946. Take eight Grains ofFalep every eight Days. This usually cures in five Weeks : 947. Or, first bleed . Then purge thrice with twenty Grains of Rhubarb and five of Calomel: 948. Or, boil four or five Leaves of the white Holy Oak, in a Pint of Milk with a little Sugar. Then add a Tea-spoonful of Balm of Gilead. Drink this every Morning.-It rarely fails. 949. Or, boil an Handful of Dead Nettle Flowers, and a Dram of Cinnamon in half a Pint of Milk. Drink half of it every Night and Morning. 950. Or, make Venice Turpentine, Flour and fine Sugar, equal Quantities , into small Pills. Take three or four of these Morning and Evening. This also cures must Pains in the Back : 951. Or, in a Quarter of a Pint of Water , wherein three Drams of Tamarinds and a Dram of Lentifh-wood has been boiled , when cold , infuse Sena, a Dram, Coriander-feed and LiLet them quoirice a Dram and half each . stand all Night. Strain the Liquor in the Morning, and drink it daily two Hours before Breakfast : 952. Or, 952. Or, take Quickfilver and Aqua Sulphurata, as for an Afthma.-This seldom fails : 953. Or, after Purging, take about fifteen Grains of Cerufe of Antimony in white Wine, twice or thrice a Day. 273. A Whitlow. Apply Treacle : Tried. 955. Or, Honey and Flour : Tried. 956. Or, a Poultis ofchew'd Bread. Shift it once a Day : 957. Or, ofWater-Lilly: 958. Or, a Plaister of Ground Ivy ftampt. 274. Worms. 959. Take a Spoonful of Salt in a Glafs ofWater every Morning : 960. Or, a Tea - cup full of frong Infufion of Peach-leaves, fweetned with Honey, fasting an Hour after : 961. Or , a Dram and a Halfof Nitre in Broth : 962. Or, a Spoonful of Juice of Spear-mint 963. Or, A Child may be known to have the Worms, by Chilliness Palenefs, hollow Eyes, Itching of the Nofe, Starting in Sleep, and an unusually stinking Breath .-Worms are never found in Children that live wholly on Milk,","word_count":376,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","means-of-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.950596"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-099","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":99,"text":"964. Or, ofJuice of Lemons : Or, two Spoonfuls of Nettle-juice. 965. Or, a Glafs ofOnion-water : 966. Or, boil an Ounce of Quicksilver in half a Pint of Spring Water. Ufe this for common Drink : 967. Or, boil four Ounces of Quickfilver an Hour, in a Quart of clear Water. Pour it off and bottle it up. You may ufe the fame Quickfilver again and again. Ufe this for common Drink : or at least, Night and Morning for a Week or two. Then purge off the dead Worms with fifteen or twenty Grains of Jalap. 968. Or, take two Tea-fpoonfuls of Worm-feed mixt with Treacle for fix Mornings : 969. Or, a Dram of powder'd Fern-root boil'd in Mead. This kills both the flat and round Worms. Repeat the Medicine from Time to Time. 275. Flat Worms. 970. Take Filings ofTin and red Coral, of each an equal Quantity : Pound them together into a very fine Powder : Of which one Dram, made into a Bolus with Conserve ofthe Tops of Seawormwood, is to be taken twice a Day. 276. Wounds. 971. Apply Juice or Powder of Yarrow : 1. 972. Or, 972. Or, bind Leaves ofGround- Ivy upon it : 973. Or, bruifed Hyffop, with a little Sugar : 974 Or , Wood- betony bruifed. This quickly heals even cutVeins and Sinews , and draws outThorns or Splinters. 975. Or, keep the Part in cold Water for an Hour, keeping the Wound clofed with your Thumb. Then bind onthe thin Skin of an Egg Shell for Days or Weeks , 'till it falls off of itself. Regard not tho ' it prick or shoot for a Time. 277. Contufed or ulcerated Wounds. 976. Boil half an Ounce of fine Verdigrease in a Pound of Linfeed Oil 'till it is diffolved. 278. Inward Wounds. 977. Infuse Yarrowtwelve Hours in warm Water Take a Cup of this four Times a Day. 279. Putrid Wounds. 678.Wafh them Morning and Evening with warm Decoction of Agrimony. If they heal too soon, and a Matter gather underneath, apply a Poultis of the Leaves pounded , changing them once. a Day''till well . 280. Wounded Tendons.. 979. Boil Comfrey Roots to a thick Mucilage, and apply this as a Poultis, changing it once a Day..","word_count":384,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["social-holiness","experience"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.950699"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-100","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":100,"text":"Cures Young Children of Coughs, Cutaneous Inflammations, Pimples and Scabs, Gravel, Inflammations of the Ears, Navel and Mouth, Rickets, Suppreffion of Urine, Vomiting, Want of Sleep . It prevents the Growth of Hereditary Apoplexies, Afthma's, Blindness, Confumptions, Deafness, Deliria, Gout, King's Evil, Melancholy, Palfies, Rheumatism, Stone, It frequently cures every Nervous, and every Paralytic Diförder : In particular, The Afthma, Ague of every Sort, Atrophy, Blindnefs, Cancer, Chin- cough, Coagulated Blood after Bruifes, Confumption, Convulfions, Coughs, Complication of Diftempers, Convulsive Pains, Deafness, Dropfy, Epilepfy, Violent Fevers, Gout, (running) Hectic Fevers, Hemicrania, Hysteric Pains Incubus, Inflammations, Involuntary Stool, or Urine, Lameness, (Old) Leprofy, Lethargy, Lofs of Appetite, of Smell, Speech, Taste, Nephritic Pains , Palpitation of the Heart, Pain in the Back, Joints, Stomach, Rheumatifms, And this, I apprehend, accounts for its frequently curing the Bure of aMad Dog; efpecially if it be repeated for twenty five orthirtyDaysfucceffively. Rupture, Suffocations, Sciatica, Surfeits ( at the Beginning) Scorbutic Pains , Swelling onthe Joints, Stone in the Kidneys, Torper of the Limbs, even when the Ufe of them is loft, Tetanus, Tympany, Vertigo, St. Vitus's Dance, Vigilia, Varicous Ulcers, The Whites. But in all Cafes where the Nerves are obftruted, (such as are those marked thus ) you should go to Bed immediately after, and sweat. 'Tis often useful , to ufe the Hot Bath a few Days, before you use the Cold. Wife Parents should dip their Children in cold Water every Morning, till they are three Quarters old ; and afterwards their Hands and their Feet. N. B. No Child should ever be swath'd tight. It lays the Foundation for many Difeafes.- Tis best to wean a Child at about seven Months old. They should lie in the Cradle at least a Year. No wife Parents should fuffer a Child to drink any Tea ; (at least, ' till it is ten or twelve Years old) or to eat much Spice or Sugar. Milk, Milk porridge,. and Water-gruel are the proper Breakfafts for Children. Washing","word_count":334,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","prevenient-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.951005"},{"id":"jw-primitive-physick-101","author":"john-wesley","source_id":"jw-primitive-physick","source_title":"Primitive Physick (14th ed., 1770)","source_type":"treatise","year":1770,"chunk_index":101,"text":"Washing the Head every Morning in cold Wa ter, prevents Rheums, and cures Coughs, old Head-achs, and fore Eyes. Water drinking generally prevents Apoplexies, Afthma's, Convulfions, Gout, Hysteric Fits, Madness, Palfies, Stone, Trembling. To this Children should be bred up from their Cradles. The best Water to drink, especially for those who are much troubled with the Wind, is Rainwater. After it has fettled , draw it off clear into anotherVeffel, and it will keep sweet for a long Time. Electrifying in a proper Manner, cures St. Anthony's Fire, Blindness, Blood extravafated, Bronchocele, Burns or Scalds, Coldness in the Feet, Contraction of the Limbs, Convulfions , Cramp, Deafness, Falling Sickness, Feet Feet violently diforder'd, Felons, Fistula Lacrymalis, Fits, Flooding, Ganglions, Gout, Head-ach, Impofthumes, Inflammations, King's- Evil, Knots inthe Flefh, Lameness, Wafting, Weakness ofthe Legs, Locked Jaws or Joints, Leprofy, Menftrual Obftructions, Pain in the Stomach, Palpitation ofthe Heart, Palfy, Rheumatism , Ring-Worms, Sciatica, Shingles, Sinews fhrunk, Stiff-joints, Sprain, however old, Surfeit, Swellings of all Sorts, Throat fore, Tooth-ach, Ulcers, Wens. Nor Nor have I yet known one fingle Inftance, wherein it has done Harm : So that I cannot but doubt the Veracity of those who have affirmed the contrary. de Haen pofitively affirms, \" it can do no hurt in any cafe :\" that is, unless the Shock were immoderatelystrong. Fafling Spittle outwardly applied every Morning, has sometimes relieved, and sometimes cured Blindness, Contracted Sinews, from a Cut, Corns, (mixt with chew'd Bread and applied every Morning) Cuts, ¡fresh) Deafness, Eye-lids, red and inflamed, Scorbutic Tetters, Sore Legs, Warts, Taken inwardly, it relieves or cures Afthma's, Cancers, Falling Sickness, Gout. Gravel , King's Evil, Leprofy, Palfy, Rheumatism , Scurvy, Stone, Swelled Liver. The The best Way is , To eat about an Ounce of hard Bread, or Sea-b.fcuit, every Morning ; fasting two or three Hours after. This should be done, in ftubborn Cafes, for a Month or fix Weeks.","word_count":321,"source_url":"https://wesleyscholar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Primitive-Physick-14th-ed-1770.pdf","themes":["catholic-spirit","universal-redemption","means-of-grace"],"created_at":"2026-02-27T07:26:36.951248"}]}