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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this rough draught of man: this rude sketch. . . ." Indeed Wesley had written A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation: or, A Compendium of Natural Philosophy. But he did not altogether desert superstition for science: among the 725 prescriptions for 243 diseases listed in his Primitive Physick: or, An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases is the remedy for "a consumption"-"take a cow-heel from the Tripe-house ready drest . . . two ounces of Isinglass . . . Sugar-candy ... set them in the oven after the bread is drawn . . . let the Patient live on this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fleeing From The Wrath | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

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