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JOHN GEORGE HOHMAN'S
POW-WOWS;
OR,
LONG LOST FRIEND
A COLLECTION
OF MYSTERIOUS AND INVALUABLE
ARTS AND REMEDIES,
FOR
MAN AS WELL AS ANIMALS.
WITH MANY PROOFS
Of their virtue and efficacy in healing diseases, etc., the greatest part which
was never published until they appeared in print for the first time in the U.S.
in the year 1820.
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
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PREFACE
TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THIS USEFUL BOOK.
THE author would 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 everyone 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 fiftieth 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 is found in the
forty-ninth 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 cured or banished the panting or palpitation of
the heart, and hide-boundness? Where is the doctor who ever banished a wheal?
Where is the doctor who ever banished the mother-fits? Where is the doctor that
can cure mortification when it once seizes a member of the body? All these
cures, and a great many more mysterious and wonderful things are contained in
this book; and its author could take an oath at any time upon the fact of
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his having successfully applied many of the prescriptions contained herein.
I say: any and every man who knowingly neglects using this book in saving the
eye, or the leg, or any other limb of his fellow-man, is guilty of the loss of
such limb, and thus commits a sin, by which he may forfeit to himself all hope
of salvation. Such men refuse to call upon the Lord in their trouble, although
He especially commands it. If men were not allowed to use sympathetic words, nor
the name of the MOST HIGH, it certainly would not have been revealed to them;
and what is more, the Lord would not help where they are made use of. God can in
no manner be forced to intercede where it is not his divine pleasure.
Another thing I have to notice here: There are men who will say, if one has used
sympathetic words in vain, the medicines of doctors could not avail any, because