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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    In queft of fites, avoid the mournful plain Where ofiers thrive, and trees that love the lake \ 150 Where many lazy muddy rivers flow : Nor for the wealth that all the Indies roll Fix near the marlhy margin of the main. For from the humid foil, and watry reign, Eternal vapours rife; the fpungy air 15 5 For ever weeps; or, turgid with the weight Of waters, pours a founding deluge down. Skies fuch as thefe let every mortal Ihun Who dreads the dropfy, palfy, or the gout, Tertian, corrofive fcurvy, or moift catarrh; 160 Or any other injury that grows From raw-fpun fibres idle and unftrung, Skin ill-perfpiring, and the purple flood In languid eddies loitering into phlegm. Yet