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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
 A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within 
itself, may, after all, be but a read more 
 A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within 
itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the 
spiritual part. 
 Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.
 [Lat., Aere non certo corpora languor habet.]  
 Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.
 [Lat., Aere non certo corpora languor habet.] 
 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. 
Some remedies are worse than the diseases.
Some remedies are worse than the diseases.
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.
 As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath,
 Receives the lurking principle of death,
  The younger disease, read more 
 As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath,
 Receives the lurking principle of death,
  The younger disease, that must subdue at length,
   Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. 
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes read more
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...
 Against diseases here the strongest fence,
 Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.  
 Against diseases here the strongest fence,
 Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.