CONTENTS
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Donne, John
The Stations of the Sickness
1. The first alteration, the first grudging of the sickness
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