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

  • John Armstrong
Date:
1744
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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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    It is not air, but floats a naufeous mafs Of all obfcene, corrupt, offenfive things. Much moifture hurts 5 but here a fordid bath, 80 With oily rancor fraught, relaxes more The folid frame than Ample moifture can. Befides, immur’d in many a fullen bay That never felt the frelhnefs of the breeze, This flumbring deep remains, and ranker grows 85 With lickly reft: and (tho’ the lungs abhor To drink the dun fuliginous abyfs) Did not the acid vigour of the mine, Roll’d from fo many thundring chimneys, tame The putrid falts that overfwarm the sky ; 90 This cauftick venom would perhaps corrode Thofe tender cells that draw the vital air, In vain with all their unctuous rills bedew’d $ Or by the drunken venous tubes, that yawn In countlefs pores o’er all the pervious skin,. Im- *