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ye - @ ae =: ‘. ba 3 a ae: OR \Fatthful & Christian Instructions CONTAINING WONDEROUS AND WELL-TRIED s ‘ FOR oS |MAN AS WELL AS ANIMALS, | WITH MANY PROOFS Of their virtue and efficacy in healing diseases, &c. the greater: part of which was never published until they appeared in print for the first time in the U. 8. in the year 1820. ~~ LITERALLY TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN WORK OF JOHN GEORGE HOHMAN, \| Near Reading, Alsace Township, Berks County, Penn. Ss HARRISBURG, PA.—1850.

PREFACE. TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS LITTLE BOOK. THE author should have preferred writing no preface whatever to this little book, were it not indispensably necessary, in order to meet the erroneous views some men entertain in regard to works of this character. The majority, undoubtedly, approve of the publication and sale of such books, yet some are always found who will persist in denouncing them as something wrong. This latter class I cannot help but pity for being so far led astray; and I earnestly pray every one who might find it in his power, to bring them from off their ways of error. It is true, whosoever taketh the name of Jesus in vain, committeth a great sin.’ Yet is it not expressly written in the 50th Psalm, according to Luther’s translation: **Call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.”’? In the Catholic translation, the same passage 1s found in the 49th Psalm, reading thus: ‘* Call upon me in the day of thy trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.” Where is the doctor who has ever banished the panting or palpitation of the heart and hideboundeness? Where is the doctor who ever banished a wheal? Where is the doctor whoever banished the mother-fits? Where is the doctor who can cure mortification when it once seizes a member of the body? All these cures, and a great many more misterious things are contained in this book; and its author could take an oath at any time upon the fact of his having successfully applied many of the prescriptions on its pages.