A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine

John Wesley's Primitive Physic (1747) achieved twenty-three editions in his lifetime, ensuring its popular and controversial status in eighteenth-century medicine.This is the first full-length study to examine the theological, intellectual and cultural background to one of the period's most successful medical texts. By exploring Wesley's work in the context of his theology, A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine ' extends the on-going reconfiguration of the relationship between religion and medicine