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prepared some efficient remedies for their re- 

 storation to health in the day of need* But 

 this has not been the case ; wherefore, we may- 

 conclude, that no such provision was necessary; 

 and upon the strength of this, we may surmise 

 with just reason, that we have brought our 

 sicknesses upon ourselves by our own follies; for, 

 as we are at the head of the creation, we cannot 

 suppose for a moment that Heaven would in- 

 troduce disease into its primest work, and allow 

 its secondary product to be without it. 



When we see that the brute creation thrives 

 so admirably upon uniformity of food, and that 

 man is observed to languish under a multi- 

 plicity of it, we are enabled, without much 

 difficulty, to get at the source which gives rise 

 to his innumerable infirmities. And this leads 

 us straight into his kitchen ; ay, his kitchen ! 

 that sweet enchanting tempter, but, at the same 

 time, an inexorable foe to health, the best and 

 truest friend of man. 



On the day that Oliver Cromwell (there now 

 wants two by all accounts) went to scour the 

 Parliament House, and met Sir Harry Vane in 

 the threshold, he cried out in horror, with up- 

 lifted hands, " The Lord deliver me from Sir 



