Wesley Corpus

bour, Are you fick? Drink the juice of this herb, and your fickness will be at an end. Are you in a burning heat ? Leap into that river, and then fweat 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 philofophical turn, were not fatisfied with this. They began to enquire , how they might account for thefe things ? How such Medicines wrought fuch 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, ftomach, bowels ; with the fprings of the feveral animal functions. They explored the feveral kinds of animal and mineral, as well as vegetable fubftances. And hence the whole order of phyfic which had obtained to that time, came gradually to be inverted. Men of learning began to fet experience afide ; to build phyfic upon hypothefes ; to form theories