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PHYSICIAN'S ADVICE by AUGUSTUS P. CLARKE

First Line: IN ALL COMPLAINTS THAT SHOW A THREAT'NING FORM
Last Line: WHERE JOY AND MIRTH HAVE EVER REIGNED FORSOOTH?
Subject(s): PHYSICIANS; DOCTORS;
In all complaints that show a threatening form,
Put forth your strength, confront the rising storm;
Keep well in hand your drugs as useful tools,
With pill and chart you may overcome a pain,
And diet changed, your health you will regain.

Why come we here to linger in this field,
To spend long seasons gathering thorny yield,
To leave our homes and pleasures of our youth,
Where joy and mirth have ever reigned forsooth?



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