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Show ' Medicine of Long Ago. I Aniliew WIImiii, Ihe well known iinlurnllsl and wilier, in (ommeiittng on Culpepper's "Complet Method ' published In 1!r.2, shows how this ell ahb'd a man to "cure himself, being sick, for threepence charge with suih things only ux grow In Kngland they Ik lug most fit for Kngllsh bodies " "John Wesley practiced phslc." Wll Mil continues. "His system was not htrlctl) limited to vegetable simples. Wesley prescribed boiled cariols as an exclusive diet for a fortnight for the cure of asthma, and recommended bald-headed people to wash their vacant va-cant spots with a decoction of boxwood. box-wood. For bleeding fiom tho lungs or stomach the Juice of nettles Is ordered nnd for nu ague tlx pills of middllug-slzo middllug-slzo or cobwebs." |