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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    That ripening nature rolls as in the ftream Its crumbling banks ; but what the vital force Of plaftic fluids hourly batters down. That very force, thofe plaftic particles 30 Rebuild: So mutable the ftate of man. For this the watchful appetite was giv’n, Daily with frefh materials to repair This unavoidable expence of life, This neceflary wafte of flefti and blood. 35 Hence the conco&ive powers, with various art, Subdue the cruder aliments to chyle; The chyle to blood ; the foamy purple tide To liquors, which thro’ finer arteries To different parts their winding courfe purfue j - . * . 40 To try new changes, and new forms put on, Or for the public, or fome private ufe. E 2 No-