“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.
“Every physician almost hath his favorite disease.”
Book II, Ch. 9
The History of Tom Jones (1749)
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