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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    From the crude ore can fpin the ductile gold ? Grofs riot treafures up a wealthy fund Of plagues : but more immedicable ills 220 Attend the lean extreme. For phyfic knows How to disburden the too tumid veins, k I Even how to ripen the half-labour’d blood ; But to unlock the elemental tubes, Collaps’d and Ihrunk with long inanity, 225 And with balfamic nutriment repair The dried and worn-out habit, were to bid Old age grow green, and wear a fecond fpring; Or the tall afh, long ravifh’d from the foil, Thro’ wither’d veins imbibe the vernal dew. 230 When hunger calls, obey 5 nor often wait Till hunger fharpen to corrofive pain : For the keen appetite will feaft beyond ♦ % W hat nature well can bear; and one extreme Ne’er without danger meets its own reverfe. . 1 Too /