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We all have mornings when we would turn over and stick to our pillows if we were sure of payment for doing so. The German apparently is the only person in the world who is happy, aegrescit medendo. The Germans keep going, we must all admit that, but at a slower pace, with less energy to spare, and with far less robust love of life. If the men are patient, the women must be more so, and they are.
To prevent all Mistakes that may happen among Gentlemen of the other End of the Town, who come but once a Week to St. No. 25. Thursday, March 29, 1711. Addison. ... AEgrescitque medendo. Vir. The following Letter will explain it self, and needs no Apology.
All discipline evades it; it comes to compose sedition, and is itself full of it; would chastise disobedience, and itself is the example; and, employed for the defence of the laws, rebels against its own. What a condition are we in! Our physic makes us sick! "Nostre mal s'empoisonne Du secours qu'on luy donne." "Exuperat magis, aegrescitque medendo."
It is comforting to the members of our profession, in which the average of life is usually so low, to be able to point out exceptions. It has been aptly said of physicians in general: "Aliis inserviendo consumuntur; aliis medendo moriuntur," or "In serving others they are consumed; in healing others they are destroyed." Recent Instances of Longevity.
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