1753. Saturday, January 20.—I advised one who had been troubled many years with a
stubborn paralytic disorder to try a new remedy. Accordingly, she was electrified and found
immediate help. By the same means I have known two persons cured of an inveterate pain
in the stomach; and another of a pain in his side which he had had ever since he was a child.
Nevertheless, who can wonder that many gentlemen of the faculty, as well as their good
friends, the apothecaries, decry a medicine so shockingly cheap and easy, as much as they
do quick-silver and tar-water?
Saturday, February 3.—I visited one in the Marshalsea prison, a nursery of all manner of wickedness. Oh, shame to man that there should be such a place, such a picture of hell, upon earth! And shame to those who bear the name of Christ that there should need any prison at all in Christendom!
The Journal of John Wesley
Saturday, February 3.—I visited one in the Marshalsea prison, a nursery of all manner of wickedness. Oh, shame to man that there should be such a place, such a picture of hell, upon earth! And shame to those who bear the name of Christ that there should need any prison at all in Christendom!
The Journal of John Wesley
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