The art of preserving health; a poem, in four books / by John Armstrong.

  • Armstrong, John, 1709-1779.
Date:
1748
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The art of preserving health; a poem, in four books / by John Armstrong. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The nerves fo temper’d never quit their tone. No chronic languors haunt fuch hardy breafts. But all things have their bounds: And he who makes By daily ufe the kindeft regimen 300 ElTential to his health, fliould never mix With human kind, nor art nor trade purfue: He not the fafe viciffitudes of life Without fome fhock endures; ill-fitted he To want the known, or bear unufual things. 305 Befides, the powerful remedies of pain (Since pain in Ipite of all our care will come) Should never with your prolperous days of health Grow too familiar: For by frequent ufe 309 The flrongeft medicines lofe their healing power, And even the fureft poifons theirs to kill. Let thofe who from the frozen Arftos reach Parch’d Mauritania, or the fultry Weft, Or the wide flood that waters Indoftan, Plunge