Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them,

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies. – Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

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