Wesley Corpus

fuch remedies as air, water, milk, whey, honey, treacle, falt , vinegar, and common English herbs, with afewforeign medicines, almoft equally cheap, fafe and common. And this I have done on that principle, whereby I defire to be governed in all myactions, " Whatfoever ye would that men fhould do unto you , the fame do unto them ." 5. At the request of many perfons, I have likewife added plain definitions ofmoft diftempers; not indeed accurate or philofophical definitions, butfuch as arefuited to men ofordinary capaci ties, and as may juft enable them, in common , fimple cafes, to diflinguifh one difeafe from another. In uncommon or complicated difeafes, or where life is more immediately in danger, I again advife every man without delay to apply to a phyfician thatfears God. BRISTOL , Oct. 16, LONDON , Nov. 10 , 1760 . URING the obfervation and experience of more than five years, which have passed fince the laft 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 thofe, 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 likewife had oc cafion to collect feveral 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 thofe who are well- wishersto mankind; to make full proof of this. Certainly it comes the nearest an univerfal. medicine, ofanyyet known in the world. One grand advantage which most of thefe medicines have above thofe commonly used is this : you may be fure ofhaving them good in their