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John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health
John Armstrong's 2000-line poem The Art of Preserving Health was among the most popular works of eighteenth-century literature and medicine. It was among the first to popularize Scottish medical ideas concerning emotional and anatomical sensibility to British readers, doing so through the then-fashionable georgic style. Within three years of its publication in 1744, it was in its third edition, and by 1795 it commanded fourteen editions printed in London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and Benjamin Franklin's shop in Philadelphia. Maintaining its place amongst more famous works of the Enlightenment, this poem was read well into the nineteenth century, remaining in print in English, French, and Italian. ...
John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health
Adam Budd's critical edition presents John Armstrong's poem The Art of Preserving Health (1744) and other key sources of the eighteenth-century cult of sensibility. It also includes a comprehensive introduction and explanatory notes, clarifying Armstrong's classical, medical, and social references. Readers will come away convinced of the poem's uniquely engaging perspective on the place of literature, medicine, the body, and the book trade in the literary history of sensibility.
English Literature for Competitive Examinations
English Literature for Competitive Examinations- Vol III, Autobiography, Biography, Collaborations, Dictionaries, Historical works, First in literature, Writers and prison, Physicians, Supernatural Elements, Into India, Irish writers, Irish element , Scottish writers, Travelogues, travel books, Latin Works, Translations, Incomplete works, unfinished works,Elegies, Poets laureate, Pseudonyms, Titles and subtitles, Turors, Trukigues, Literary clubs, Literary societies, Periodicals, Important characters, Women Writers.
Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations
'. . . absolutely fascinating... It is impossible to open this book at any page without finding something that will interest or entertain you... The rich and famous are certainly well represented in compilation and quite rightly so. Then there are real gems, including those from the most unlikely sources... This book is a little treasure.' -The Bulletin of the Royal College of Pathologists, 128'It's no laughing matter going to the doctor but at least this collection of cracking quotes can make the visit more bearable.' -Northern Echo'If you wish to pepper a presentation or if you enjoy writing... then you will find much in this volume to quote. I haven't counted them in detail, but I estimat...
