Poems on various subjects; with some essays in prose, letters to correspondents, &c., and a treatise on health : dedicated to Charles Boyle, Lord Viscount Dungarvan / By Samuel Bowden.

  • Bowden, Samuel, active 1733-1761.
Date:
1754
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Credit: Poems on various subjects; with some essays in prose, letters to correspondents, &c., and a treatise on health : dedicated to Charles Boyle, Lord Viscount Dungarvan / By Samuel Bowden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 34^ ] the fame objed feen thro’ various mediums, and in different positions of the fpedator : Befldes, as this book is like to fall into many hands, I am willing to embrace this opportunity, to attempt fomething which may be of more real fervice to mankind than the amufements of rhime, and the more idle entertain¬ ments of poetry $ efpecially as they are the refult for the moft part of my own obfervations, in pra&ifing phylic, and attending the fick in a large and populous town between twenty and thirty years : And 1 muff have paffed my time very ill in fuch a fituation, not to have digefted fome remarks on the oeconomy of life, and the method of preferving and reftoring Health. Others may boaft of more fplendid and more profitable pradice, in wealthy and luxurious ci- tys ; but obfcure villages and country towns afford as much, or more room for experience and fpeculation. Here difeafes are found in their more native fimple drefs; and are often more the effeds of bad air, and contagious effluvia, than the debauches of art, and the luxurious indulgences of high life. Health, after all the definitions of various wri¬ ters, may be laid to confift in an equal, calm, and uniform motion, or circulation of the blood and jui¬ ces, through all the tubes and canals of the human frame : Every thing, therefore, which has a ten¬ dency to difturb, or obftrud, to accelerate, or retard this