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

  • John Armstrong
Date:
1744
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Credit: The art of preserving health; a poem / [John Armstrong]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nothing fo foreign but th' athletic hind Can labour into blood. The hungry meal Alone he fears, or aliments too thin, 45 By violent powers too eafily fubdu’d, t . . - Too foon expell’d. His daily labour thaws, To friendly chyle, the moft rebellious mafs That fait can harden, or the fmoke of years ; Nor does his gorge the rancid bacon rue, 5 o Nor that which Ceftria fends, tenacious pafte Of folid milk. But ye of fofter clay Infirm and delicate ! and ye who wafte With pale and bloated floth the tedious day! Avoid the ftubborn aliment, avoid 55 The full repaft; and let fagacious age Grow wifer, leflon’d by the dropping teeth. Half lubtiliz’d to chyle, the liquid food Readieft obeys th’ afiimilating powers j And