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

  • Samuel Garth
Date:
1700
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Credit: The dispensary : a poem in six canto's [sic] / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    How fick’ning Phyfick hangs her penfive Head, •And what was once a Science, now’s a Trade* Her Son’s ne’er rifle her Myfterious Store, Jut ftudy Nature lefs, and Lucre more. -J I Ihow’d of old, how vital Currents glide. And the Meanders of their refluent Tide. Then, Willk, why fpontaneous Actions here. And whence involuntary Motions there: And how the Spirits by mechanick Laws, [n wild Careers, tumultuous Riots caufe. Nor wou’d our Wharton, E»t, and Gliffon lie [n the Abyfs of blind Obfcurity. But now fuch wondrous Searches are forborn, 1/ 'And Plan’s Art is by Divifions torn. tThen let your Charge attend, and I’ll explain How Phyfick her loft Luftre may regain. Hafte,
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