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ON HYGIENE by HILAIRE BELLOC

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First Line: OF OLD WHEN FOLK LAY SICK AND SORELY TRIED
Last Line: BOTH HOW TO MAKE MEN SICK AND KEEP THEM SO
Subject(s): MEDICINE; DRUGS, PRESCRIPTION;
Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried
The doctors gave them physic, and they died.
But here's a happier age: for now we know
Both how to make men sick and keep them so



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