The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-22

feristic of John Wesley, Homo sum; human nihii a me alienum puto." He
 reminds us In the preface that "the
 ancients usually assigned physic di-
 vine original" and adds, Indeed, it was natural thought that He who rad taught it to the very beasts and
 birds, the Cretan estag, the Egyptian ibis, could not be wanting to teach
 man, 'Sanctius his animal, mentisque capacius altae.' Yea, sometimes even by those meaner creatures, for 1t was
 easy to infer, If this will heal that creature, whose flesh is nearly of the
 same texture with mine, then in par allel case it will heal me- The trial | was made, the cure was wrought, and 1 experience and physic grew up togeth- er.''
 1 In giving this little handbook to the
 public it's author was careful to ad- l wise, where life was in danger, that "a | physician that fears God should be
 called in without delay" The Chris l tian Scientists and faith healers of the | present day would have found little fla vor in his sight, although family tra- ditions have handed down to ourselves cures resulting from simple faith, as he enjoined 1t, which equal many of the
 reputed cures at the Grotto of Lourdes.
 He was much ahead of his times: in reference to one of our great curative agencies of the present day John Wes- | ley wrote: "One must aver from
 personal knowledge, grounded on a. i thousand experiments, to be far supe- rior to all the other medicines I have
 known; I mean electricity. I cannot
 but entreat those who are well wishers
 to mankind to make full proof of this. Certainly it comes the nearest to uni versal medicine of any yet known in
 the world" This was added in the pre-
 face to an edition of Primitive Phys I ic'' issued in 1760. ''>
 Some of the recipes are very interest | ing. We read that chi!5ren in marshy
 districts have been cured of ague by | wearing a waistcoat into which bark
 was quilted, and in quartan ague, when ] the It is coming on. poultice, to tht :, head, of the leaves and flowers of wall
 July flowers, beaten together with d l little salt, is said to be useful. Here is
 a cure for badness: "Rub the part morning and evening with onions till
 1t is red, and rub afterward with hon.
 ey. Or. electrify it daily" The bleed- { ing of an amputated limb may be
 stopped, without any cautery, if ripe puffballs are broken warily and the powder be strewn on the wound and 1 bound on it. Two spooffuls of nettle
 juice will stop the vomiting of blood l In the latest edition of his book MT. Wesley marked those medicines he l preferred to the rest, where sveral are 1 given, with an asterisk or with the
 word Tried" and the markings show | how wonderfully energetic and indus , trious he was in the cure of the body 1 as well as in that of the soul. Indeed, my grandfather, who was one of his 1 disciples, used to have his children in
 his study every Saturday night, where,
 after teaching them their church cate
 chism re instructed them from an other little book, alo John Wesley's, l believe, called "The Cateshism on the
 Body" Whether that was it's proper
 title, or only called so by his children,
 I do not know, but I can testify that
 they all did justice to its teaching. In
 the words of the old book "Wisdom
 was justified of her children" John
 Wesley, himself who was, as we head put by his mother "inao a regular mtthad of living from his birth," lived | and worked up to the age of eighty eight, when he died, almost in harness. | Pail Mall Gazette