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EPIGRAM CLXXXII.
[Say, can there be a viand nam'd]
QUOCUNQUE MODO REM.
Say, can there be a viand nam'd,
Which doctors have not prais'd and blam'd?
About our wine, how vast a pother!
Drink it, says one; dread it, says t'other.
Warm regimen some, some cool propose;
Live high, say these; live low, say those.
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Save only pocketing the fee!—
That part of medical practice still,
Stuff, starve, dose, diet us, as they will,
(Whatever systems they asperse all,)
Is uniform,—and universal!
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