Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to
reject life itself.
On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue
Men have expended infinite ingenuity in
establishing the remote rhythms of the solar
system and the periodicity of the comet. They
have disdained to trouble about the simpler task of
proving or unproving the cycles of their own
organisms.
Body TimeGay Gaer Luce., Paladin, Frogmore, UK ()
Haven Emerson –
US physician and epidemiologist
Nature heals, under the auspices of the medical
profession.
Lecture
The social cost of sickness is incalculable. The
prevention of disease is for the most part a matter
of education, the cost is moderate, the results
certain and easily demonstrated.
The Social Cost of Sickness
Ralph Waldo Emerson –
US essayist and poet
The poisons are our principal medicines, which
kill the disease and save the life.
The Conduct of LifeCh.
The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny
the existence of health.
The Conduct of Life, Worship
Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing,
but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or
medical practice of the time.
Essays(Second series) ‘Nominalist and Realist’
Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every
woman, has a dash of madness.
Journals
All diseases run into one, old age.
Journals
It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and
convenience for it.
JournalsVol. V
Men resemble their contemporaries even more
than their progenitors.
Representative Men‘Uses of Great Men’
English proverbs
A bald head is soon shaven.
A deadly disease neither physician nor physic
can ease.
James Sanford’s The Garden of Pleasure()
A dry cough is the trumpeter of death.
A small hurt in the eye is a great one.
A wound heals but the scar remains.
After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile.
Die well that live well.
Feed sparingly and defy the physician.
From the womb to the tomb.
In: Gascoigne’s The Drum of Doomsday()
Health is better than wealth.
He looks like a tooth-drawer, i.e. very thin and
meagre.
He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.
He that goes to bed thirsty rises healthy.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
One doctor makes work for another.
V.S. Lean Collectanea(–)
Never rub your eye but with your elbow.
Physicians’ faults are covered with earth, and rich
men’s with money.
Six hours sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and
eight for a fool.
They who would be young when they are old must
be old when they are young.
Wash your hands often, your feet seldom, and
your head never.
When the head aches, all the body is the worse.English sailors’ proverb
The only cure for sea-sickness is to sit on the
shady side of an old brick church in the country.Ennius –BC
Roman poet
How like us is that ugly brute, the ape!
On the Nature of the Gods(Cicero)Epicurus –BC
Greek philosoper
So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to
us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us;
but when death comes, then we do not exist.
It does not then concern either the living or the
dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter
are no more.
Letter to Menoeceus
The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the
removal of all pain.
Sovran MaximsErassistratus c.BC
Alexandrian physician
Nature is the great artist who in her care for living
beings, has perfected all parts of the body and has
organised them purposively. ·