The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support read more

The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

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.

This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an't please
your lordship, a kind of sleeping read more

This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, an't please
your lordship, a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson
tingling.

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand read more

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry
them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, read more

[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry
them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as
so many anatomies.

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.
[Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.]

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.
[Lat., Vitiant artus aegrae contagia mentis.]

Apoplexic, and Lethargie,
As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.

Apoplexic, and Lethargie,
As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.