Health without physic, or, Cordials for youth, manhood, and old age : including maxims, moral and facetious; for the prevention of disease, and the attainment of a long and vigorous life / by an old physician [pseud.].

  • Alcott, William A. (William Andrus), 1798-1859.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Health without physic, or, Cordials for youth, manhood, and old age : including maxims, moral and facetious; for the prevention of disease, and the attainment of a long and vigorous life / by an old physician [pseud.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF THE SEASONS. These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of thee. Forth in thy pleasing spring Thy beauty walks, thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields, the soft'ning air is balm. Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles, And every sense and every heart is joy. Then comes thy glory in the summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection through the swelling year, And oft thy voice in dreadful thunder speaks ; And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By broooks and groves in hollow whispering gales. Thy bounty shines in autumn unconfined, And spreads a common feast for all that live. In winter awful thou ! with clouds and storms Around thee thrown ; tempest o'er tempest roll'd. Majestic darkness! on the whirlwind's wing Hiding sublime, thou bidst the world adore, And humblest nature with thy northern blast. Thompson. The most striking phenomenon resulting from the revolution of the earth, combined with the in- clination of its axis, is the change of the seasons ; the beautiful variety of spring and autumn, summer and winter. If the earth's axis were perpendicular to its orbit, or if the earth remained motionless in the heavens, every portion of its surface would ex- perience a sameness of temperature; it would be constant summer to one place, and constant winter to another; one region would never feel the cheer-