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.

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.]

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

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

Diseases desperate grown
By desparate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.

Diseases desperate grown
By desparate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.

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.]

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

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

It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it.

It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

[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.