Salt, the forbidden fruit, or food : the chief cause of diseases of the body and mind of man, and of animals : as taught by the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men and by Scripture : in accordance with the author's experience of many years / by Robert Howard.

  • Howard, R. J. (Robert J.)
Date:
1851
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Credit: Salt, the forbidden fruit, or food : the chief cause of diseases of the body and mind of man, and of animals : as taught by the ancient Egyptian priests and wise men and by Scripture : in accordance with the author's experience of many years / by Robert Howard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDEX. Abomination of Desolation explained, 9. Abstinence from salt, now much prac- ticed, 59. Art, great discoveries in the arts. 13. Art, fall of, vii., xi. Art, reign of, vi. Asthma, cause of, 59. Beauty, restoration of, xv., 39. Beer, 75. Biliousness, how caused, 44. Bloodvessels, bursting of, how caused, 60. Blood, why forbidden in Scripture, 13. Bot, how produced in the horse, 31. Bread, 78. Burning of the World, xx. Cabirian mystery, xxii. Cancer, how caused, 68. Calomel, its terribly hurtful effects, 22, 52. Cats, why so afflicted with worms, 32. Chilblains cured by abstinence from salt, 64. Colds, caused by salt, 49. Consumption caused by salt, 54, 57. Corpulency and extreme leanness op- posed to health, 55. Creatures of the Saturnian age, 6. Cripples, crowds of monstrous, 37, 38. Dead Sea, how it became salt, 8. Dogs, why so afflicted with worms, 32. Dogs, why so afflicted with man's dis- eases, 67. Drinking immoderately, caused by salt, 37, 76. Eye diseases caused by salt, 45, 47. Foods and drinks adulterated, diseases so caused, 72. Fruits and corn anciently diseased in the country of the Dead Sea, 9, 43. Fungous growths of the nose, and other parts of the skin, cause of, 61. Generative function in the animal races deranged by salt, 33. Generative function in the human race disturbed by salt, 35. Gfold and silver, their origin, 13. Heart disease, 60. Hesiod, the Wise Man, xix. Homer's prophecy, xiv., xvii. Hypochondriacs, 59. Insanity of mind, cause of, 62. Iron, its hurtfulness, 25. Joys of the heavenly Age of Saturn, xii. Lead improper for refining sugar, 77. Lord Bacon's observation, xvii. Madness caused by salt water, 39, 63. Madness of dogs, how caused, 69. Mineral medicines, hurtful effects of, 22. Monkeys, why so consumptive, 70. Mountains melted, xxi. Mystery of the Stork, 15. Mystery of the Forbidden Fruit, or Food, explained, 2, 34. Nature, reign of, vii., xvii. Olive oil used instead of butter, 76. Parrots, why consumptive, 70. Pillar of Salt, its meaning, 9. Plague of calomel, 25.