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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    Of feftal luxury, the wife indulge 270 Molt in the tender vegetable breed : Then chiefly when the fummer’s beam s inflame The brazen heavens 5 or angry Syrius flieds A feverifh taint thro’ the ftill gulph of air. The moifl: cool viands then, and flowing cup 275 From the freih dairy-virgin’s liberal hand, Will fave your head from harm, tho’ round the world The dreaded * Caufos roll his wafteful fires. Pale humid Winter loves the generous board, l The meal more copious, and a warmer fare 5 280 And longs, with old wood and old wine, to cheer His quaking heart. The feafons which divide Th’ empires of heat and cold 5 by neither claim’d, Influenc’d by both 5 a middle regimen * The burning fever. Impofe. ;