Observations on the means of preserving and restoring health in the West-Indies / [by John Rollo].

Date:
1783
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the means of preserving and restoring health in the West-Indies / [by John Rollo]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ( ) Deep in the night the mafly locuft Iheds, Quench my hot limbs j or lead me thro’ the maze. Embowering endlefs, of the Indian fig ; Or thrown at gayer eafe on fome fair brow. Let me behold, by breezy murmurs cool’d. Broad o’er my head the verdant cedar wave. And high palmetos lift their graceful fliade; Or, flretch’d amid thefe orchards of the fun. Give me to drain the cocoa’s milky bowl. And from the palm to draw its frelhening wine. More bounteous far than all the frantic juice Which Bacchus pours. Nor on its flender twigs. Low bending, be the full pomegranate fcorn’d; Nor, creeping thro’ the woods, the gelid race Of berries. Oft in humble ftation dwells Unboaftful Worth, above faftidious Pomp : Witnefs, thou bell anana ! thou, the pride Of vegetable life, beyond whate’er The poets imag’d in the Golden Age : Quick let me ftrip thee of thy tufty coat. Spread thy ambrofial llores, and feaft with