Social Commentaries
On Hygiene
From Verses (1916 edition)
Social CommentariesLiving
Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried,
The doctors gave them medicine and they died.
Here is an happier age, for now we know
Both how to make men sick and keep them so.
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Codex Note
A four-line epigram: of old the doctors gave medicine and patients died; now 'we know both how to make men sick and keep them so'.
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Belloc, Hilaire. “On Hygiene.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/belloc/23/.
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Belloc, Hilaire. “On Hygiene.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/belloc/23/.
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