| 1. The first alteration, the first grudging of the sickness | [7] |
| 2. The strength and the function of the senses, and other faculties, change and fail | [12] |
| 3. The patient takes his bed | [17] |
| 4. The physician is sent for | [23] |
| 5. The physician comes | [30] |
| 6. The physician is afraid | [35] |
| 7. The physician desires to have others joined with him | [43] |
| 8. The king sends his own physician | [50] |
| 9. Upon their consultation, they prescribe | [56] |
| 10. They find the disease to steal on insensibly, and endeavor to meet with it so | [63] |
| 11. They use cordials, to keep the venom and the malignity of the disease from the heart | [69] |
| 12. They apply pigeons, to draw the vapours from the head | [77] |
| 13. The sickness declares the infection and malignity thereof by spots | [83] |
| 14. The Physicians observe these accidents to have fallen upon the critical days | [88] |
| 15. I sleep not day or night | [96] |
| 16. From the bells of the church adjoining, I am daily remembered of my burial in the funerals of others | [102] |
| 17. Now, this bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die | [107] |
| 18. The bell rings out, and tells me in him, that I am dead | [114] |
| 19. At last the physicians, after a long and stormy voyage, see land: They have so good signs of the concoction of the disease, as that they may safely proceed to purge | [122] |
| 20. Upon these indications of digested matter, they proceed to purge | [131] |
| 21. God prospers their practice, and he, by them, calls Lazarus out of his tomb, me out of my bed | [138] |
| 22. The physicians consider the root and occasion, the embers, and coals, and fuel of the disease, and seek to purge or correct that | [145] |
| 23. They warn me of the fearful danger of relapsing | [152] |