Wesley Corpus

manner received, concerning the manner of healing both outward hurts , with the diseases incident to each climate , and the medicines which were of the greatest efficacy for the cure of each diforder. 'Tis certain , this is the method wherein the art of healing is preferved among the Americans to this day. Their diseases indeed are exceeding few ; nor do they often occur, by reafon of their continual exercise, and (' till of late, univerfal) temperance. But if any is fick, or bit by a ferpent, or torn by a wild beaft , the fa-` thers immediately tell their children what remedy to apply. And ' tis rare, that the patient fuffers long ; thofe medicines being quick, as well as generally infallible. 5. Hence it was perhaps that the Antients, not only of Greece and Rome, but even ofbarbarous nations, usually affign'd phyfic a divine original . And indeed it was a natural thought, That He who had taught it to the very beafts and birds, the Cretan Stag, the Egyptian Ibis, could not be wanting to teach man, Sanctius his Animal, menifque capacius altæ : Yea fometimes even by those meaner creatures : For it was eafy to infer, If this