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Primitive Physic An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases

John Wesley

The Primitive Physic of John Wesley was first crafted in the middle of the 1700s; more than a century later it remained in print in several forms, a testament to its continued use as a tract of folk medicine, proto-homeopathy, and its function as a general pragmatic herbal of sorts.

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The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

It was described as a self-help healthcare manual, written by the founder of the Methodist church, that was incredibly popular in the American frontier, even more so than the Bible in some places by 1850.

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He wrote a book called Primitive Physics which is a self-help healthcare manual that was so successful in the American frontier that as late as 1850, if you were anywhere really in America, by 1850 th...

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It was described as a self-help healthcare manual, written by the founder of the Methodist church, that was incredibly popular in the American frontier, even more so than the Bible in some places by 1850.

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He wrote a book called Primitive Physics which is a self-help healthcare manual that was so successful in the American frontier that as late as 1850, if you were anywhere really in America, by 1850 there would have been a greater chance of you having a copy of Wesley's book, Primitive Physics, and you would your own copy of the Bible.

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