Do you know any thing of the conſtruction of the human frame? If not, it is proper that you ſhould be told what every child ought to know, that when its admirable economy has been diſturbed by intemperance or indolence, I ſpeak not of violent diſorders, but of chronical diſeaſes, it muſt be brought into a healthy ſtate again, by ſlow degrees, and if the functions of life have not been materially injured, regimen, another word for temperance, air, exerciſe, and a few medicines preſcribed by perſons who have ſtudied the human body, are the only human means, yet diſcovered, of recovering that ineſtimable bleſſing, health, that will bear inveſtigation.
Do you then believe that theſe magnetiſers, who, by hocus pocus tricks, pretend to work a miracle, are delegated by God, or aſſiſted by the ſolver of all theſe kinds of difficulties—the devil.
Do they, when they put to flight, as it is ſaid, diſorders that have baffled the powers of medicine, work in conformity to the light of reaſon? or, do they effect theſe wonderful cures by ſupernatural aid?
By a communication, an adept may anſwer, with the world of ſpirits. A noble privilege, it muſt be allowed. Some of the ancients mention familiar dæmons, who guarded them from danger by kindly intimating, we cannot gueſs in what manner, when any danger was nigh; or, pointed out what they ought to undertake. Yet the men who laid claim to this privilege, out of the order of nature, inſiſted that it was the reward, or conſequence, of ſuperiour temperance and piety. But the preſent workers of wonders
