Nature the best physician: a matter of fact, evinced from a most remarkable variolous case, communicated by the learned Dr. Wilmot to the Late Dr. Mead. And now set forth in a poetical narrative / [David Maxwell].
- Maxwell, David
- Date:
- [1756]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Nature the best physician: a matter of fact, evinced from a most remarkable variolous case, communicated by the learned Dr. Wilmot to the Late Dr. Mead. And now set forth in a poetical narrative / [David Maxwell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ferve at the fame time as a Specimen of the whole Performance. The Palfage runs thus,: viz. O quicunque tua haec, infaufto haud Omine, nollra Verfas Scripta manu, Medicus fis, five Sacerdos Dodlus, five fagax Nutrix, (Reverentia Di£tis Apta fit) unum oro, facrum illud, Apolline dignum et, Pe&ore Prasceptum unum oro inviolabile ferves, Artis Praefidium, Fundamentumque Medendi. Palladio hoc fretus firmo, (nec inania canto) Majorem acquires Famam, quam Dextra gementi Si tua mille Bolos, * Pillasve injungeret iEgro Mille, potens prompti Calami. Sic mihi jamdudum, manifefto Numine, Phoebus Praecepit Pater. Ergo ubi jam Veftigia claris Cceperit Indiciis fua prodere Morbus, in Undis Seu Sol Hefperiis properet fe mergere, facram Seu renovet Lucem, Radiis fpedtabilis aureis; O, ut fit placida compoftus Membra Quiete, Haereat /Egrotus Le£fc>, Ledto hasreat, oro, iEgrotus. Tranfiated by me thus: viz. a Whoe’er Thou art, that read’ll this Verfe, Phyfician, b Learn’d Divine, or c Nurfe, Let me without Referve impart d The Sov’reign Secret of our Art. What erfl Apollo to my BreaH feeveal’d, his Godhead full impreft. That I, by Int’reft uncontroll’d. His Veteran Prieft to You unfold. Attend then deep-compos’d and grave, e And hear with all the Ears you have ! This Maxim let me e’er inftill. Availing more than Bole, or Pill. This let me o’er and o’er injoin: Whether the ruddy Sun decline. Polling, with loofely-flowing Rein, To bathe him in th’ Hesperian Main ; Or, * Pjllas] An arbitrary Word forPnutAS,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30784785_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
