Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.
I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.
There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.
It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
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