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Sick – Sick – Sick … O Sick – Sick – Spew

DAVID GARRICK, in a letter

I’m sick of gruel, and the dietetics,

I’m sick of pills, and sicker of emetics,

I’m sick of pulses, tardiness or quickness,

I’m sick of blood, its thinness or its thickness, –

In short, within a word, I’m sick of sickness!

THOMAS HOOD, ‘Fragment’, c. 1844

They are shallow animals, having always employed their minds about Body and Gut, they imagine that in the whole system of things there is nothing but Gut and Body.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, on doctors (1796)