For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. (The Tempest)
Illness Quotes
I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world – when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify […]
Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
The water treatment was new, now, and Tom’s low condition was a windfall to her (Aunt Polly). She had him out at daylight every morning, stood him up in the woodshed and drowned him with a deluge of cold water; then she scrubbed him down with a towel like a file, and so brought him […]
My privy and well drain into each other After the custom of Christendie… Fevers and fluxes are wasting my mother. Why has the Lord afflicted me? The Saints are helpless for all I offer – So are the clergy I used to fee. Henceforward I keep my cash in my coffer, Because the Lord has […]
Sickness, like sex, demands a private room, or at the very least, a discreet curtain around the ward bed.
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!
