
“Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.”
Source: Prometheus Bound, line 378; compare: "Apt words have power to suage / The tumours of a troubl'd mind", John Milton, Samson Agonistes.
Book II, Ch. 9
The History of Tom Jones (1749)
“Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.”
Source: Prometheus Bound, line 378; compare: "Apt words have power to suage / The tumours of a troubl'd mind", John Milton, Samson Agonistes.
“The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it”
Speech, Plumstead (30 November 1878)
1870s
“Cured yesterday of my disease,
I died last night of my physician.”
The Remedy Worse than the Disease (1714).
VI. Metuit. The physician is afraid
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)
Part 4, section 21.
The Cunning Man (1994)
Dipsychus http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/C/CloughArthurHugh/verse/poemsproseremains/dipsychusprologue.html, Pt. I, sc. v (1862).
“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.”