Life in the sick-room : $b EssaysMartineau, Harriet
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Life in the sick-room : $b Essays
Martineau, Harriet
Conduct of life; Sick
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ESSAYS.
“Quand on se porte bien, on ne comprend pas comment on pourrait
faire si on était malade; et quand on l’est, on prend médecine
gaiement: le mal y résout. On n’a plus les passions et les désirs
des divertissements et des promenades, que la santé donnait, et qui
sont incompatibles avec les nécessités de la maladie. La nature
donne alors des passions et des désirs conformes à l’état présent.
Ce ne sont que les craintes que nous nous donnons nous-mêmes, et
non pas la nature, qui nous troublent; parcequ’elles joignent à
l’état où nous sommes les passions de l’état où nous ne sommes
pas.”--PASCAL.
LIFE IN THE SICK-ROOM.
ESSAYS.
BY
AN INVALID.
“For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain.”--SHAKSPERE.
“The saddest birds a season find to sing.”--ROBERT SOUTHWELL.
SECOND EDITION.
LONDON:
EDWARD MOXON, DOVER-STREET.
MDCCCXLIV.
LONDON:
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
TO ---- vii
THE TRANSIENT AND THE PERMANENT IN THE SICK-ROOM 1
SYMPATHY TO THE INVALID 11
NATURE TO THE INVALID 43
LIFE TO THE INVALID 64
DEATH TO THE INVALID 104
TEMPER 126
BECOMING INJURED 146
POWER OF IDEAS IN THE SICK-ROOM 155
SOME PERILS AND PAINS OF INVALIDISM 176
SOME GAINS AND SWEETS OF INVALIDISM 197
TO----
“Passion I see is catching; for mine eyes,
Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine,
Began to water.”
SHAKSPERE.
“When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes;
Who alone suffers suffers most i’ the mind,
Leaving free things and happy shows behind.
But then the mind much sufferance doth o’erskip,
When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.”
SHAKSPERE.
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