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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.
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.
Against diseases here the strongest fence,
Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.
Against diseases here the strongest fence,
Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.
[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 desperate grown
By desparate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.
Diseases desperate grown
By desparate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.
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.]
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.
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.
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.
