The dispensary : a poem in six canto's [sic] / [Anon].

  • Samuel Garth
Date:
1703
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Credit: The dispensary : a poem in six canto's [sic] / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Nerves unbrace: Nay, at the fight of thee, A Scratch turns Cancer, thTtch a Leprofie. Cou’dft thou propofe, That we, the Friends o5 Fates, Who fill Church-yards, and who unpeople States, Who baffle Nature, and difpofe of Lives, Whilft Ruffel, as we pleafe, or ftarves, or thrives, Shou’d e’er fubmit to their Imperious Will, Who out o’ Confultation fcarce can kill ? The tow’ring Alps fhall iboner fink to Yales, And Leaches, in our Glafies, fwell to Whales j Or Norwich trade in Implements of Steel, And Bromingham in Stuffs and Druggets deal: The Sick to tif Hundreds fooner fhall repair. And change the Gravel-Fits for Effex Air. No, no, the Faculty fhall foon confefs Our Force encreafes, as our Funds grow lefs ^ And