Health for the million : including hints on the physical training of youth, and the treatment of invalids and old age, with observations on unhealthy employments / by the author of How to make home happy, The accidents of life, etc., etc.

Date:
1858
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Health for the million : including hints on the physical training of youth, and the treatment of invalids and old age, with observations on unhealthy employments / by the author of How to make home happy, The accidents of life, etc., etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INVOCATION TO HEALTH. “ Daughter of Paeon, queen of ev'ry joy, Hygeia, whose indulgent smile sustains The various race luxuriant Nature pours. And on th’ immortal essences bestows Immortal youth; ausjncious, 0 descend! Thou cheerful guardian of the rolling year. Whether thou wanton’st on the western gale. Or shak’st the rigid pinions of the north, DifFuse.st life and vigour through the tracts Of air, through earth, and ocean’s deep domain. When through the blue serenity of heaven Thy power approaches, all the wasteful host Of Pain and Sickness, squalid and deform’d. Confounded sink into the loathsome gloom. Where, in deep Erebus involved, the fiends Grow more profane. Whatever shapes of death. Shook from the hideous chambers of the globe, Swarm through the shudd’ring air; whatever plagues Or meagre famine breeds, or with slow wings Rise from the putrid wat’ry element, The damp waste forest, motionless and rank, That smothers earth and all the breathless winds. Or the vile carnage of tli’ inhuman field; Whatever baneful breathes the rotten south; Whatever ills th’ extremes or sudden change Of cold and hot, or moist and dry produce; They fly thy pure etfulgence—they and all The secret poisons of avenging heaven, And all the pale tribes halting in the train Of Vice and heedless Pleasure; or, if aught The comet’s glare amid the burning sky, Mournful eclipse, or planets ill-combined, Portend disastrous to the vital world, Thy salutary power averts their rage. Averts the general bane; and but for thee Nature woidd sicken, nature soon would die.” AtOlSXRONG.