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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    520 Suftain, and juft fuftain, th’impetuous blood. Here ftops the growth. With overbearing pulfe And preffure, ftill the great deftroy the fmall; Still with the ruins of the fmall grow ftrong. Life glows mean time, amid the grinding force 525 Of vifcous fluids and elaftic tubes$ Its various functions vigoroufly are plied . By ftrong machinery 5 and in folid health The man confirm’d long triumphs o’er difeafe. But the full ocean ebbs : There is a point, 530 By nature fix’d,whence life muft downwards tend. For ftill the beating tide confolidates The ftubborn veflels, more reluctant ftill, • To the weak throbbings of th’ enfeebled heart. This languilhing, thefe ftrengthning by degrees 535 hard unyielding unelaftic bone, Thro’ tedious channels the congealing flood 1 . . - Crawls