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When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
Apoplexic, and Lethargie,
As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.
Apoplexic, and Lethargie,
As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.
I'll forbear;
And am fallen out with my more headier will
To take the indisposed and sickly read more
I'll forbear;
And am fallen out with my more headier will
To take the indisposed and sickly fit
For the sound man.
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of read more
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
We are the carriers of health and disease--either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of read more
We are the carriers of health and disease--either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety.
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of read more
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves,
the fruit, or the flower.
[It., D'ogni read more
The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves,
the fruit, or the flower.
[It., D'ogni pianta palesa l'aspetto
Il difetto, che il tronco nasconde
Per le fronde, dal frutto, o dal fior.]