What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets;) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets. Byron—Don Juan, Canto I., Verse CXXIX.
The lawyer’s brief is like the surgeon’s knife Dissecting the whole inside of a question, And with it all the process of digestion. Byron—Don Juan, Canto X., Verse XIV.
All feel the ill, yet shun the cure. Can sense this paradox endure? Swift.
Syphilis is frequently referred to, and he represents several of his characters as having it; among them Falstaff and Dame Quickly.
Lysimachus to keeper of a bawdy house: Have you that a man may deal withal and defy the surgeon? Pericles, Act IV., Sc. VI.
You help to make the diseases, Doll: We catch of you, Doll, we catch of you. Henry IV—2d, Act II., Sc. IV.
Boult. Do you know the French knight that cowers i’ the hams? * * * Bawd. As for him he brought his disease hither. Pericles, Act IV., Sc. II.
Doth fortune play the huswife with me now? News have I, that my Nell is dead i’ the spital Of malady of France. Henry V., Act V., Sc. I.
In this sty, where, since I came, Diseases have been sold dearer than physic. Pericles, Act IV., Sc. VI.
With tomboys, * * * with diseas’d ventures, That play with all infirmities for gold, Which rottenness can lend nature! Such boil’d stuff As well might poison poison! Cymbeline, Act I., Sc. VI.