The art of preserving health; a poem / [John Armstrong].

  • Armstrong, John, 1709-1779
Date:
1768
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The art of preserving health; a poem / [John Armstrong]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    O For from the humid foil, and watry reign, Eternal vapours rife ; the fpungy air For ever weeps; or, turgid with the weight Of waters, pours a founding deluge down. Skies fuch as thefe let ev’ry mortal fhun Who dreads the dropfy, palfy, or the gout. Tertian, corrofive fcurvy, or moift catarrh ; Or any other injury that grows From raWfpun fibres idle and unfrrung. Skin ill-perfpiring, and the purple hood In languid eddies loitering into phlegm. “ 155 160 Yet not alone from humid Ikies we pine ; For Air may be too dry. The fubtle heaven, 165 That winnows into dull the blalled downs. Bare and extended wide without a hream. Too fall imbibes th’ attenuated lymph. Which, by the furface, from the blood exhales. The lungs grow rigid, and with toil elTay lyo Their flexible vibrations; or inflam’d. Their tender ever-moving llrufture thaws. Spoil’d of its limpid vehicle, the blood A mafs of lees remains, a drolfy tide That flow as Lethe wanders thro’ the veins; 175 Un^cliye in the fervices of life. Unlit