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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    77 . B. III. Preferving HEALTH. For thro’ the fmall arterial mouths, that pierce In endlefs millions the clofe-woven skin, The bafer fluids in a conftant ftream Efcape, and viewlefs melt into the winds. 260 While this eternal, this moft copious wafte Of blood degenerate into vapid brine. Maintains its wonted meafure 5 all the powers Of health befriend you, all the wheels of life With eafe and pleafure move : But this reftrain'd 265 Or more or lefs, fo more or lefs you feel The functions labour. From this fatal fource * What woes defcend is never to be lung. To take their numbers, were to count the fands That ride in whirlwind the parch’d Lybian air 5 ». 270 Or waves that,when the bluftering North embroils The Baltic, thunder on the German fhore. Subject not then, by foft emollient arts, This grand expence, on which your fates depend, ■i hi ' •. To