12 Years a Slave narrates Solomon Northup's kidnapping from freedom into slavery and his eventual restoration to his family. Northup is a literate, skilled violinist and laborer living as a free Black man in Saratoga Springs, New York.
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A Burnt-Out Case follows Querry, a celebrated European architect of churches who has lost all feeling: for his work, for women, for God and for himself. Travelling as far as the river boats will take him, he arrives at a leproserie deep in the Belgian Congo run by a community of missionary fathers and by Dr Colin, an atheist physician devoted to his patients.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885) is Robert Louis Stevenson's book of poems spoken in a child's voice: rising by yellow candle-light in winter, watching rain fall on field and sea, playing at pirates, noticing a shadow, and blessing the world's abundance in the two lines of Happy Thought. Written while Stevenson often lived under the discipline of illness, the poems remember gardens, nurseries, and indoor days with affection rather than irony.
A Christmas Carol. In Prose.
The title play, A Doll's House (1879), takes place over three days of Christmas in the comfortable Norwegian home of Torvald Helmer, a newly appointed bank manager, and his wife Nora, whom he treats as a charming pet, calling her his songbird and squirrel. Years earlier, when Torvald was gravely ill and doctors advised a year in Italy, Nora secretly borrowed the money from the lawyer Krogstad, forging her dying father's signature as guarantor.
Frederic Henry, an American serving as a lieutenant in the ambulance service of the Italian army, tells the story of his war and his love in plain, retrospective first-person prose. In 1915-16 his unit is quartered in Gorizia, near the Isonzo front.
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories gathers Flannery O'Connor's early fiction around Southern households where manners, piety, resentment, and violence collide. In the title story, a grandmother's nostalgia and manipulations help divert a family trip toward the Misfit, whose murders expose both her shallow goodness and her final reach toward kinship.
A Letter Concerning Toleration is John Locke's argument that the civil government and the church are two distinct societies with different ends, and that the magistrate has no authority to compel belief or worship. Locke wrote it in Latin, as Epistola de Tolerantia, during the winter of 1685–86 while living in exile in the Dutch Republic, addressing it to his friend the Remonstrant theologian Philipp van Limborch.
A Little Princess opens on a foggy London day as seven-year-old Sara Crewe rides in a cab with her adoring father, Captain Ralph Crewe, a young officer who has brought her from India to Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies. Because her father is rich, Sara is given a private sitting room, a French maid, a pony and a doll named Emily whom she half believes can walk and talk when no one is looking.
A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity is a short paper with a long afterlife. McCulloch and Pitts propose an idealized model of neurons that fire or do not fire according to logical relations among their inputs.
This entry joins Claude Shannon's 1938 master's thesis on relay and switching circuits with his 1948 paper A Mathematical Theory of Communication. The thesis made a decisive engineering move: it showed that Boolean algebra could describe and simplify relay circuits.
A Mathematician's Apology is a short book of twenty-nine numbered sections in which the Cambridge mathematician G. H. Hardy, at sixty-two and conscious that his creative powers had faded, sets out to justify a life spent on pure mathematics. Cambridge University Press published it in 1940.
A Midsummer Night's Dream begins in Athens with a legal crisis: Egeus demands that Hermia marry Demetrius, while Hermia loves Lysander and faces punishment under Theseus's law. The lovers flee into the wood, followed by Demetrius and Helena, and the play transfers civic conflict into a night world governed by Oberon, Titania, Puck, and the flower whose juice alters desire.
A Modest Proposal is Swift's savage 1729 pamphlet on Irish poverty under British rule, written in the voice of a projector who treats hunger, tenancy, children, and mothers as items in a national account. The speaker begins with beggars and starving children in Dublin streets, then adopts the language of calculation: numbers of infants, costs of nursing, market value, culinary uses, and benefits to landlords.
A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia is one of the most important public-health and Black-authored documents of the early United States. Written by Richard Allen and Absalom Jones after the devastating yellow fever epidemic of 1793, it answers Mathew Carey's published accusations that Black Philadelphians profited from disaster or behaved badly during the crisis.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man follows Stephen Dedalus, a boy from a Catholic Dublin family, from his earliest memories to the eve of his departure from Ireland at about twenty. Its five chapters are written in a style that grows with him, from the nursery language of the opening, in which his father tells him a story about a moocow and baby tuckoo, to the abstract arguments and private diary of the last chapter.
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, was published in London in 1843 in two volumes and went through eight editions in John Stuart Mill's lifetime, the last revised in 1872. Of its six books, the third, Of Induction, is the longest and the most influential; the library text gives that book alone, from an 1882 American printing of the eighth edition.
A Tale of Two Cities moves between London and Paris from 1775 to the Reign of Terror in 1793-94. In Book the First, Recalled to Life, Jarvis Lorry, a clerk of Tellson's Bank, travels by the Dover mail and sends back the cryptic message Recalled to life by the porter Jerry Cruncher.
A Theologico-Political Treatise (Tractatus Theologico-Politicus) was published anonymously in Latin in Amsterdam in 1670, under a false Hamburg imprint, by the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Its title page announces its purpose: to show that freedom to philosophize can be granted without harm to piety or the peace of the commonwealth, and cannot be withheld without destroying both.
George Berkeley's Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, published in Dublin in 1710 when its author was a twenty-five-year-old fellow of Trinity College, argues that the material world, understood as an unthinking substance existing outside every mind, is a philosophers' invention. What exists are minds and the ideas they perceive; for sensible things, to be is to be perceived.
Hume subtitled his first book 'an attempt to introduce the experimental method of reasoning into moral subjects', and he meant it literally: as Newton had explained the heavens by a few observed principles, Hume would explain belief, emotion and morality by a few principles of the mind. Book I, Of the Understanding, begins by dividing all perceptions into vivid impressions and fainter ideas, and holds that every simple idea is copied from a prior impression.
Pinel presents insanity as a medical and moral problem rather than a condition to be met chiefly with chains, spectacle, or punishment. The treatise moves between nosology, institutional observation, and therapeutic counsel.
Al-Razi's treatise, known in Arabic as Kitab al-Judari wa al-Hasba (The Book of Smallpox and Measles), is a short practical monograph in fourteen chapters by the leading physician of the Abbasid world. It is usually described as the earliest surviving work devoted to these diseases and the first to set out clearly how to tell them apart at the bedside.
A View from the Bridge is set among the Italian-American longshoremen of Red Hook, Brooklyn, in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge, and is framed by the commentary of Alfieri, a neighbourhood lawyer who acts as a chorus and who knows from the start that the story will end in blood. Eddie Carbone, a hard-working dock labourer, lives with his wife Beatrice and her orphaned niece Catherine, whom they have raised.
Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in about six weeks in the autumn of 1791, and Joseph Johnson published it in London early in 1792. Two years earlier she had answered Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France with A Vindication of the Rights of Men.
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys is Nathaniel Hawthorne's first book of Greek myths retold for children. Six stories are set inside a frame: Eustace Bright, an eighteen-year-old Williams College student on vacation, tells them to a crowd of children staying at Tanglewood, a country house in the Berkshires, whom Hawthorne gives flower and plant names such as Primrose, Periwinkle, Sweet Fern, Dandelion, Squash-Blossom and Buttercup.
Meg Murry is a stubborn, clumsy, unhappy girl with glasses and braces who is doing badly at school, and whose physicist father has been missing for more than a year on secret government work. On a stormy night she comes down to the kitchen of the family's country house to find her mother, a scientist, and her five-year-old brother Charles Wallace, an uncannily gifted child the village thinks is slow.
Across Five Aprils follows the Creighton family of Jasper County in southern Illinois through the Civil War, from April 1861 to April 1865, as seen by the youngest son, Jethro, who is nine when the story opens. The family farm is worked by Matt and Ellen Creighton and their grown and growing children: John, a married son with a family of his own nearby; Bill, thoughtful and gentle, the brother Jethro loves best; Tom, eager for adventure; Jenny, close to Jethro in spirit; and their cousin Eb Carron, raised in the household.
Adam of the Road follows eleven-year-old Adam Quartermayne through a year of wandering in the England of Edward I, beginning in June 1294. Adam is boarding at the abbey school of St. Albans, learning his letters with his friend Perkin, a ploughman's son who longs to study at Oxford, while his red spaniel Nick lodges with an old woman, Dame Malkin, because dogs are not allowed at school.
Frank O'Neal Addington had been hospitalized in Texas state mental hospitals many times between 1969 and 1975. In December 1975, after he was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of assault by threat against his mother, she petitioned for his indefinite commitment.
On the morning of 28 January 1986 the space shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after lifting off from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven of its crew. Among them was Christa McAuliffe, a New Hampshire high school teacher chosen as the first Teacher in Space, and because of her, millions of schoolchildren were watching in their classrooms.
Huckleberry Finn tells his own story in the speech of a half-schooled Missouri boy, some forty or fifty years before the book appeared. After the treasure found at the end of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the Widow Douglas has taken Huck in to civilize him, while her sister Miss Watson drills him in manners and spelling.
Aesop's Fables are short animal tales that turn ordinary encounters—a wolf and a lamb, a lion and a mouse, ants and a grasshopper—into clear morals about justice, prudence, gratitude, and folly. The Greek slave Aesop is the traditional name attached to a body of stories that circulated orally and in later collections; what survives for English readers is a tradition of brief narratives ending in a pointed lesson.
Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge was published in London in 1975 by New Left Books. It began as a long essay of 1970 and was meant to be one half of a joint book with Feyerabend's friend Imre Lakatos, For and Against Method, in which Lakatos would defend scientific rationality and Feyerabend attack it; Lakatos died in 1974, and Feyerabend dedicated the book to him.
On a hot summer afternoon Alice, bored beside her sister on a riverbank, sees a White Rabbit in a waistcoat take a watch out of its pocket and hurry down a rabbit-hole. She follows, falls slowly down a long well past cupboards and bookshelves, and lands in a hall of locked doors.
Paul Bäumer, a young German infantryman not yet twenty, tells in the present tense of his last two years in the Great War. He and his classmates Albert Kropp, Müller and Leer enlisted together, urged on by their schoolmaster Kantorek, and now serve in a company that has just come out of the line with eighty men left of a hundred and fifty.
The Almagest is Ptolemy's complete mathematical account of the motions of the Sun, Moon, planets and fixed stars, written in Greek at Alexandria about AD 150 under the title Mathematike Syntaxis (Mathematical Compilation). Its familiar name comes from the Arabic al-majisti, from a Greek word meaning the greatest.
Alone in Berlin (Jeder stirbt für sich allein, 'Everyone dies for himself alone') opens in Berlin in 1940, as the postwoman Eva Kluge delivers to Otto and Anna Quangel the news that their only son has been killed in the invasion of France. The Quangels live in a tenement at 55 Jablonski Strasse with neighbours who represent the range of life under Nazism: the Persickes, a family of brutal Party loyalists; old Frau Rosenthal, a Jewish widow whose flat is looted and who is hounded until she jumps to her death; and retired judge Fromm, who quietly helps where he can.
Amos Fortune, Free Man is a biographical novel about a real man who was born in Africa around 1710, enslaved in Massachusetts, and died free in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, in 1801. Its ten chapters carry dates.
Hume first published this book in 1748 as Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, and gave it its present title in 1758. It is his deliberate second attempt at the material of Book I of the Treatise, written, he said, so that the argument would no longer fail through its manner.
Locke says in the Epistle to the Reader that the Essay began when five or six friends meeting in his rooms found themselves at a standstill over questions of morality and revealed religion, and he proposed that they first examine what objects human understanding is fitted to deal with. Nearly twenty years later the result was a long, patient survey of where ideas come from, how they combine, how words signify them and how far knowledge and probable belief can reach.
Claude Bernard published this book in Paris in 1865 as the opening of a larger treatise on experimental medicine that he never completed. It sets out, for physicians, the method by which he had made his own discoveries, and argues that medicine must become a science grounded in physiology and the laboratory.
An Investigation of the Laws of Thought is George Boole's attempt to express logic, probability, and reasoning in mathematical form. The book begins from a bold premise: the operations of the mind in reasoning can be studied through symbols and laws analogous to those of algebra.
Animal Farm is a short beast fable about a revolution that turns into a tyranny. On Manor Farm near Willingdon in England, the old prize boar Major gathers the animals one night and describes a dream of a world without Man, who takes their milk, eggs and labour and sends them to the knacker when they are old.
Anne of Green Gables opens in Avonlea, a farming village on Prince Edward Island, where the elderly brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert have arranged to adopt a boy from a Nova Scotia orphan asylum to help on their farm. Through a mistake the child sent is Anne Shirley, an eleven-year-old red-haired girl who talks without stopping, renames everything she loves and has survived a hard childhood by imagination.
Apologia Pro Vita Sua is John Henry Newman's defence of his honesty, written in 1864 in reply to the novelist and clergyman Charles Kingsley, who had written in Macmillan's Magazine that truth for its own sake had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy and that Father Newman taught it need not be. After an exchange of letters and a pamphlet by Kingsley, Newman decided that the only adequate answer was a history of his own mind.
Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England was published in London in November 1644, deliberately without a licence, a printer's name or registration with the Stationers' Company. It is written as an oration addressed to the Lords and Commons, though it was never delivered.
Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, in George Makepeace Towle’s public-domain English translation, follows Phileas Fogg’s Reform Club wager to circle the globe in eighty days with his servant Passepartout, while detective Fix shadows him as a bank-robbery suspect. Steamships, railways, elephants, and storms turn geography into a race; calm precision meets loyal improvisation.
As We May Think is a speculative essay about the problem of intellectual abundance. Written at the end of World War II, it asks what scientists should do when their wartime energies turn toward peace and when the record of human knowledge has grown too large for traditional methods of indexing, filing, and retrieval.
As You Like It begins with two households divided by envy. Orlando, youngest son of the late Sir Rowland de Boys, complains to the old servant Adam that his elder brother Oliver keeps him like a peasant and denies him the education his father willed him.
In the 1990s scientists at Myriad Genetics, a Salt Lake City company, determined the location and nucleotide sequence of two human genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2. Certain mutations in these genes greatly raise a woman's risk of breast and ovarian cancer, and knowledge of the sequences allowed Myriad to build tests that detect those mutations.
Franklin's Autobiography and Poor Richard's Almanack present the founding era through self-fashioning, practical wisdom, and the culture of improvement. The Autobiography narrates Franklin's movement from Boston apprentice to Philadelphia printer, civic organizer, scientist, and public man.
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie is the steel manufacturer's own story of his life, written mostly in summers at a cottage in the Scottish Highlands after his retirement and left unfinished when the First World War began in August 1914. His widow, Louise Whitfield Carnegie, contributes a preface, and Professor John C. Van Dyke, who arranged the manuscript, adds an editor's note and footnotes; the book appeared in 1920, the year after Carnegie's death.
Because I could not stop for Death is Emily Dickinson's most famous poem about dying, written in Amherst around 1862-1863, the years of her greatest productivity and of the Civil War. It was not printed until 1890, four years after her death, when Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson included it in the first collection of her Poems under the title The Chariot.
Bedtime for Frances is a picture book about a little badger who cannot settle down for the night. At seven o'clock Mother and Father tell Frances it is bedtime, and she begins a string of requests: a glass of milk, a piggyback ride to her room, a kiss from each parent, her teddy bear and her doll, and then another round of kisses.
Beowulf remembers a northern heroic world through three combats that join glory to mortality. Hrothgar's hall Heorot, built as a center of gift-giving and song, becomes a place of terror when Grendel attacks the sleeping retainers.
Subtitled 'Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future', Beyond Good and Evil was Nietzsche's attempt to restate in plain argumentative prose, divided into 296 numbered sections and a closing poem, the ideas that Thus Spoke Zarathustra had put in prophetic form. The preface opens by supposing that truth is a woman and that dogmatic philosophers, with their clumsy seriousness, have never known how to win her.
This collection pairs Melville's posthumous novella Billy Budd, Sailor with the best of the short fiction he published in magazines in the 1850s, usually including Bartleby, the Scrivener, Benito Cereno and The Encantadas (contents vary by edition). Bartleby (1853) is narrated by a comfortable Wall Street lawyer who hires a pale, quiet copyist.
Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions, subtitled 'The Autobiography of a Horse', is narrated by a handsome black horse with a white star and one white foot. He grows up in a pleasant meadow under a kind master, Farmer Grey, and his mother Duchess teaches him to be gentle and good and to work willingly.
Black Ships Before Troy is Rosemary Sutcliff's prose retelling of the Trojan War for young readers, in nineteen short chapters. Although subtitled The Story of the Iliad, it begins long before Homer's poem and ends after it.
Bleak House is built around Jarndyce and Jarndyce, an endless lawsuit over a disputed will in the Court of Chancery, and around a secret that links a great lady to an orphan girl. Dickens tells it in two voices: an unnamed narrator in the present tense who surveys London's fog, the lawcourts, fashionable society and the slum called Tom-all-Alone's, and Esther Summerson, who writes her own story modestly in the past tense.
Bliss and Other Stories, Katherine Mansfield's second collection, gathers fourteen stories written between about 1915 and 1920. It opens with Prelude, her longest work, and moves between New Zealand childhood, Bohemian London, Paris cafés and the hotels of the French Riviera.
Maudsley's Body and Mind argues that mental life cannot be separated from bodily organization, nervous function, heredity, and disease. Based on the Gulstonian Lectures, the book brings Victorian psychiatry, physiology, and evolutionary thought into one frame.
Eric Metaxas's Bonhoeffer is a full-length popular biography of the German Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), written for a general Christian readership. It begins with the large, cultured Bonhoeffer family of Breslau and Berlin: his father Karl, a leading professor of psychiatry and neurology; his devout mother Paula, who schooled her children at home in their early years; his twin sister Sabine; and the death of his brother Walter in the First World War, which marked the family deeply.
Botchan is a comic first-person novel about a hot-tempered, stubbornly honest young man from Tokyo who spends a few months teaching mathematics in a provincial middle school and cannot bear the scheming he finds there. The narrator is never named; the old family servant Kiyo calls him Botchan, roughly 'young master', which this translation renders as Master Darling.
This record concerns compulsory sterilization and is best read with a teacher's guidance. In March 1924 Virginia enacted a statute permitting the superintendents of certain state institutions to have inmates sterilized if, after a hearing, they were found to be afflicted with hereditary forms of insanity or what the law called imbecility.
BUtterfield 8, named for a fashionable Manhattan telephone exchange, is set in New York in 1931, in the last years of Prohibition and the early Depression, among speakeasies, apartment hotels and the blurred borderland between respectable society and its demimonde. Its central figure is Gloria Wandrous, a beautiful, intelligent young woman who drinks heavily, sleeps with men who interest her and lives partly on their generosity, while refusing to see herself as a kept woman or a prostitute.
Judith Herrin's Byzantium is a portrait of the Eastern Roman Empire from the founding of Constantinople in 330 to its fall to the Ottomans in 1453, written for readers who know little about it. In the introduction she explains that the book began when two builders who passed her office every day asked her what Byzantium actually was; rather than answer with a continuous chronicle, she wrote twenty-eight short chapters, each built around a theme, monument, event or person, that can be read in sequence or on their own.
Candide, ou l'Optimisme follows a guileless young man raised in the castle of the Baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh in Westphalia, where the tutor Pangloss teaches that this is the best of all possible worlds and that everything is for the best. Candide is kicked out of the castle for kissing the Baron's daughter Cunégonde behind a screen, and the rest of the tale tests Pangloss's doctrine against an avalanche of catastrophe.
Cannery Row is a loosely plotted, affectionate portrait of the sardine-cannery district of Monterey, California, during the Depression, built from short narrative chapters alternating with self-contained vignettes or 'inter-chapters'. Its centre is Doc, a gentle, learned marine biologist who runs the Western Biological Laboratory, collects specimens from the tide pools, listens to Gregorian chant and Bach, reads poetry, and is trusted by everyone on the Row.
Captains Courageous begins in the smoking-room of a transatlantic liner in fog, where fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne, the spoiled only son of an American railroad and shipping millionaire, brags about his pocket money and annoys the grown men. Sick from a strong cigar, he goes out on deck, is pitched overboard by a roll of the ship, and is pulled out of the sea by Manuel, a Portuguese fisherman in a dory from the Gloucester schooner We're Here.
Carmilla is a Gothic vampire novella narrated by Laura, the nineteen-year-old daughter of an Englishman who retired from the Austrian service and bought a lonely castle in the forests of Styria. A brief prologue presents the story as a case from the papers of the physician Doctor Hesselius and notes that its narrator has since died.
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch is a fictionalized biography of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838), the self-taught Salem mathematician whose New American Practical Navigator became the standard American guide to navigation at sea. It opens in Salem, Massachusetts, during the Revolutionary War, when Nat is a small boy in a seafaring family led by his father, Captain Habakkuk Bowditch.
Sallust wrote two short monographs on episodes of the late Roman Republic, each opened by a philosophical preface and each meant to show how ambition and greed were corrupting the state. The library text is the Rev. John Selby Watson's literal English version, with his argument (chapter outline) before each work and his explanatory notes after it.
Centesimus Annus marks the hundredth anniversary of Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum and reads the social question through the upheavals of the twentieth century. John Paul II returns first to 1891: industrial labor, socialist agitation, private property, wages, association, and the rights of workers.
Ceremony follows Tayo, a young man of mixed Laguna and white ancestry, who returns to the Laguna Pueblo reservation in New Mexico after the Second World War deeply ill in body and mind. In the Philippines he fought alongside his cousin Rocky, the family's favoured son, and endured the Bataan Death March; Rocky died of his wounds during the march, and Tayo could not save him.
Characters is a collection of brief sketches of recognizable social types: the dissembler, flatterer, chatterer, boor, complaisant man, reckless man, tactless man, mean man, show-off, coward, oligarchic sympathizer, late learner, slanderer and many others. Each sketch begins with a definition and then offers small scenes in which the type reveals himself through repeated behavior.
Charlotte's Web opens at breakfast on the Arable farm, when eight-year-old Fern learns that her father is going out to kill the runt of a new litter of pigs. She protests so fiercely against killing a creature for being small that he gives her the piglet to raise.
Chess (Schachnovelle, also translated as The Royal Game or Chess Story) is narrated by a passenger on a liner sailing from New York to Buenos Aires shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War. Aboard is the world chess champion Mirko Czentovic, a stolid, almost illiterate son of a poor Danube boatman who was raised by a village priest, revealed an uncanny talent for chess, and now plays mechanically and greedily for money, showing no curiosity about anything else.
Christ Legends is a book of eleven stories in which the Swedish novelist Selma Lagerlöf retells and invents legends about the life of Jesus, from the night of His birth to the Crucifixion and after. Some come from old Christian tradition, some from folk tales, and some are her own; all are told in a simple, warm voice suited to reading aloud.
Villehardouin's chronicle is the eyewitness account of the Fourth Crusade by one of its leaders. It opens in 1198-99 with the preaching of Fulk of Neuilly and the indulgence proclaimed by Pope Innocent III, and with a tournament at Écry in Champagne where Count Thibaut of Champagne and Count Louis of Blois take the cross, soon joined by Count Baldwin of Flanders.
The Chronographia of Michael Psellos is a history of the Byzantine court across roughly a century, from the accession of Basil II in 976 to the reign of Michael VII Doukas in the 1070s. It is arranged by reign rather than by year and covers fourteen emperors and empresses.
City of God is Augustine’s monumental argument that Rome’s disaster does not discredit Christianity and that human history must be understood through two loves. The immediate occasion is the sack of Rome by Alaric in 410, after which critics blamed Christians for weakening the old gods.
Freud's late essay, in German Das Unbehagen in der Kultur ('the uneasiness in culture'), asks why civilized people, who have built so much for their own protection, are so often unhappy. It is written in eight short chapters in a conversational, self-questioning style.
Cold Comfort Farm is a comic novel parodying the overwrought rural fiction of the early twentieth century, the 'loam and lovechild' school associated with writers such as Mary Webb and D. H. Lawrence. It is set in a slightly futuristic England of video-phones and air taxis.
Sir William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, published at Oxford by the Clarendon Press in four volumes between 1765 and 1769, grew out of the lectures he gave at Oxford from 1753 and as first Vinerian Professor from 1758. It was the first full account of English law written for educated readers rather than for practising lawyers, arranged as a reasoned system instead of a collection of cases.
This Paine anthology gathers the pamphlets that made revolutionary argument feel urgent, portable, and democratic. Common Sense, published in January 1776, attacks monarchy, hereditary succession, reconciliation with Britain, and political hesitation.
Parker's Complete Poems gathers the light verse that made her one of the best-selling poets of the 1920s and 1930s. The core of the volume is her three collections, Enough Rope (1926), Sunset Gun (1928) and Death and Taxes (1931), which were combined in Not So Deep as a Well (1936), together with uncollected and early verse published in magazines from the 1910s onward.
The Confessions is a prayer in thirteen books addressed to God, in which Augustine recounts his life up to his mother's death and then turns to philosophical reflection on memory, time and the creation narrative of Genesis. Books I to IX are autobiographical.
Rousseau's Confessions is the founding text of modern autobiography. It promises to show 'a man in all the integrity of nature', the author himself, concealing nothing.
Cranford is a small English country town, twenty miles by railway from the busy commercial city of Drumble, where nearly every householder of the better sort is a single lady or a widow. The narrator, Mary Smith, a young woman from Drumble, visits often and describes their code: calls of exactly fifteen minutes, card parties with wafer bread-and-butter, and an 'elegant economy' that treats spending as vulgar and never names poverty.
Crime and Punishment follows Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished former student in St. Petersburg, as he murders the pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna and her sister Lizaveta while testing an idea about extraordinary persons who may step over ordinary law. Dostoevsky makes the crime happen early, so the central drama becomes not detection alone but the decomposition of Raskolnikov's theory inside his body, mind, and relationships.
Immanuel Kant's Critique of Practical Reason, published at Riga in 1788, is the second of his three Critiques. Where the first Critique limited what reason can know about God, freedom and the soul, this book argues that pure reason is practical by itself: it can determine the will without any help from desire, and in doing so it gives freedom, God and immortality a secure footing as matters of rational belief.
Kant's first Critique asks whether metaphysics is possible as a science, and answers by examining reason's own powers before trusting any of its claims about God, the soul or the world as a whole. The first-edition preface describes human reason as burdened by questions it cannot dismiss and cannot answer, and the second-edition preface proposes a Copernican experiment: instead of assuming that knowledge must conform to objects, suppose that objects must conform to the forms of our knowing.
On the night of 11 January 1983 Nancy Beth Cruzan, a young Missouri woman, lost control of her car on a county road in Jasper County. Paramedics restored her breathing and heartbeat, but she never regained consciousness, and the trial court later found her to be in a persistent vegetative state, kept alive by a surgically implanted feeding tube in a state hospital.
Cuchulain of Muirthemne is Lady Gregory's arrangement of the Ulster Cycle, the oldest group of Irish heroic tales, told in the English of the Kiltartan countryside in County Galway, with its Irish turns of phrase such as 'it is what he said'. Working from medieval Irish texts and the editions and translations of nineteenth-century scholars, she joined the separate tales into a single life of the hero Cuchulain, leaving out what she thought her readers would not care for and adding little of her own.
Cybernetics presents one of the twentieth century's boldest attempts to unite machines, organisms, and societies under a single vocabulary of control, communication, feedback, and information. Wiener begins from wartime problems of prediction, especially the effort to anticipate the path of aircraft quickly enough for anti-aircraft fire.
Cyrano de Bergerac is Edmond Rostand's five-act verse play about a seventeenth-century Gascon soldier, poet and swordsman whose enormous nose convinces him that no woman could love him. Act I opens in 1640 at the Hôtel de Bourgogne theatre in Paris.
Daisy Miller: A Study is told in close third person through Frederick Winterbourne, a young American who has lived most of his life in Geneva and has grown, in his aunt's phrase, too used to European ways. At a hotel in Vevey on Lake Geneva he meets Annie 'Daisy' Miller, a pretty, rich and uninhibited girl from Schenectady, New York, travelling with her vague, dyspeptic mother and her brash little brother Randolph, accompanied by a courier, Eugenio, whom they treat almost as a member of the family.
David Copperfield is the first-person autobiography of a novelist looking back on his life. David is born at Blunderstone in Suffolk six months after his father's death, on a night when his formidable great-aunt Betsey Trotwood storms out on learning he is not a girl.
De Anima asks what soul is by beginning with the observable powers of living things. Aristotle reviews earlier accounts from thinkers such as Democritus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Plato, then rejects explanations that make soul either a wandering body, a harmony, or a separate passenger inside the organism.
De Materia Medica is an ancient pharmacopoeia: a systematic guide to plants, animals, minerals, wines, oils and manufactured preparations used as medicines. Dioscorides does not write a narrative.
De Regno is Aquinas's unfinished treatise on kingship, addressed to the king of Cyprus and concerned with why political rule exists, how it can serve the common good, and how it can decay into tyranny. Aquinas begins from the social nature of human beings.
Death Comes for the Archbishop follows Jean Marie Latour and Joseph Vaillant, French missionary priests sent to the newly annexed American Southwest to organize the Catholic Church in New Mexico. Cather shapes the novel less as a conventional plot than as a sequence of remembered journeys, encounters, hardships, and acts of pastoral administration.
Death in Venice follows the last weeks of Gustav von Aschenbach, a celebrated German writer in his fifties, ennobled on his fiftieth birthday, whose prose epic on Frederick the Great and other works have made him a model of disciplined art. Thomas Mann published the novella in 1912, and it is told in five chapters by a narrator who comments on Aschenbach with a mixture of sympathy and irony.
Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem covers the last twenty-four hours or so of Willy Loman, a sixty-three-year-old travelling salesman, interwoven with his memories and imaginings of the past. Willy returns early to his small Brooklyn house, now hemmed in by apartment buildings, because he can no longer keep the car on the road: his mind keeps drifting.
Deliverance from Error (al-Munqidh min al-dalal) is the intellectual autobiography of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, the most influential theologian of medieval Sunni Islam. Written in Arabic about 1106–1110, after he had resumed teaching at Nishapur, it answers a 'brother in the faith' who has asked how he found his way through the quarrelling schools of his day and why he gave up his famous chair at Baghdad.
Bleuler's Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias reworks Kraepelin's deteriorating psychosis into a broader and more psychologically complex group of disorders. Its most famous act is terminological: Bleuler introduces schizophrenia to name a splitting or disjunction in psychic functions, not a split personality in the popular sense.
Democracy in America is Tocqueville's great comparative study of democratic society. The first volume examines American political institutions: township government, federalism, courts, associations, parties, newspapers, religion, and the habits that sustain self-government.
Tuke describes the York Retreat, a Quaker institution founded after scandals in local madhouse care, as an alternative to fear, neglect, and routine coercion. The book gives the Retreat a history, an architecture, a daily rhythm, and a theory of treatment.
Destruction and Creation and the OODA Loop Briefings gather John Boyd's strategic thought from thermodynamics and epistemology to conflict, command, and adaptation. Destruction and Creation argues that organisms and organizations must break apart old mental concepts and rebuild new ones in order to cope with a changing reality.
Modelled on Cicero's On the Nature of the Gods, Hume's Dialogues are narrated by Pamphilus, a young man, to his friend Hermippus, and report a conversation at the house of Pamphilus's tutor, Cleanthes. Three speakers debate not whether God exists, which all profess to accept, but what can be known of God's nature by reason.
In 1972 Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, a microbiologist working for the General Electric Company, applied for a patent on a bacterium of the genus Pseudomonas into which he had introduced plasmids, hereditary units outside the chromosome, that allowed it to break down several components of crude oil. No natural bacterium had this combined capacity.
Dignitatis Humanae, the Second Vatican Council's declaration on religious freedom, argues that the human person has a right not to be coerced by individuals, groups, or the state in religious matters. The document grounds that right in dignity, conscience, and the nature of truth, while insisting that the right concerns immunity from coercion rather than indifference about religious truth.
The Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and Seeking Truth in the Sciences was published anonymously in Leiden in 1637 as a preface to three scientific essays, the Dioptrics, the Meteors and the Geometry. Descartes wrote it in French rather than Latin so that readers using their natural reason, including women, could judge it without scholastic training, and he presented it not as a treatise but as a history or fable of his own mind.
The Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men is Jean-Jacques Rousseau's answer to a prize question set by the Academy of Dijon in 1753: what is the origin of inequality among men, and is it authorized by natural law? Rousseau's essay did not win the prize, but it was printed at Amsterdam by Marc-Michel Rey in 1755 with a dedication to the Republic of Geneva, a preface and extensive notes.
The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude is a short essay asking one question with unusual persistence: how can so many men, cities and nations put up with a single tyrant, who has no power except what they give him? La Boétie, writing as a young law student around 1548 (some scholars date it to about 1552-53), addresses the question to a friend named Longa and answers it in stages.
The Discourses and the Encheiridion preserve the teaching of Epictetus, a lame former slave who ran a school of Stoic philosophy at Nicopolis in western Greece in the early second century. Epictetus wrote nothing.
The Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius are Niccolò Machiavelli's long commentary on the first ten books of Livy's history of Rome, which run from the founding of the city to the Samnite wars of the early third century BC. Machiavelli wrote them in the years after 1513, when he had been dismissed from the service of the Florentine Republic, and discussed them with young friends in the Rucellai gardens in Florence; he dedicated them to two of those friends, Zanobi Buondelmonti and Cosimo Rucellai, explaining that he had chosen men who deserved to be princes rather than men who were.
The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha was published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615. An impoverished hidalgo of about fifty, Alonso Quixano, reads chivalric romances until, from too little sleep and too much reading, his brain dries up and he loses his wits.
Dracula is told through journals, letters, phonograph diaries, telegrams and newspaper cuttings assembled by its characters. Jonathan Harker, a young English solicitor, travels to Transylvania to arrange the purchase of a London property, Carfax, for Count Dracula.
Early Black Church Sermons and Addresses is an anthology concept rather than one single-author book: it gathers public religious speech from Black Christian leaders before 1950, using only public-domain sermons, convention addresses, ordination sermons, and printed appeals. Its center is the Black church as pulpit, school, refuge, protest platform, mutual-aid network, and political institution.
Early Christian Lives gathers late antique biographies of saints, monks and holy figures, often including Athanasius’ Life of Antony and Jerome’s lives of Paul, Hilarion and Malchus. These works do not present biography as neutral chronology.
Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers gathers short texts from Christianity’s formative generations after the apostles. The collection usually includes 1 Clement, the letters of Ignatius, Polycarp’s letter, the Martyrdom of Polycarp, the Didache, the Epistle of Barnabas, the Shepherd of Hermas, 2 Clement and fragments such as Papias or the Epistle to Diognetus, depending on edition.
Francis of Assisi reaches modern popular culture through birds, wolves, poverty, brown robes, garden statues, animal blessings, Christmas cribs, and an almost ecological tenderness. The early sources are more demanding.
This volume joins Robert Frost's first three books of poems, all written about New England farm country and published between 1913 and 1916. A Boy's Will (London, 1913) is a book of short lyrics arranged in three parts, and the library text keeps the original contents page, where each title is followed by an italic gloss in the third person describing what the youth of the book is feeling: in Into My Own he imagines stealing away into dark trees and believes those who follow will find him only more sure of all he thought was true; in Storm Fear he is afraid of his own isolation; in The Tuft of Flowers a mower finds a patch of butterfly weed spared by the man who scythed the field before him and decides that men work together whether they work together or apart; and in Mowing a scythe whispers in the hay while the speaker concludes that fact is the sweetest dream labor knows.
East of Eden is a multigenerational saga set mainly in the Salinas Valley of California from the Civil War to the First World War, which retells the story of Cain and Abel through two families: the Trasks and the Hamiltons, the latter being the narrator's own maternal ancestors. Samuel Hamilton, a poor, inventive, generous Irish immigrant farmer and blacksmith, raises a large family on barren land.
Ecce Homo is Nietzsche's late self-interpretation, part autobiography, part literary self-defense, part philosophical performance. Its chapter headings are famously outrageous: why he is so wise, clever, and a destiny; why he writes such good books.
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, finished in 731 at the monastery of Jarrow, tells how the peoples of Britain received the Christian faith. A dedication to King Ceolwulf of Northumbria explains that history offers good examples to imitate and bad ones to shun, and names his informants, chief among them Abbot Albinus of Canterbury and the priest Nothelm, who searched the papal archives in Rome.
Effi Briest opens at Hohen-Cremmen, the Brandenburg estate of the Briest family, where seventeen-year-old Effi, playful and still half a child, is suddenly engaged to Baron Geert von Innstetten, a thirty-eight-year-old district administrator who long ago courted her mother. Effi accepts, partly from ambition and partly from a wish for excitement, and the couple marry and move to Kessin, a small Baltic resort town in Pomerania.
Gray's Elegy is a meditation spoken at dusk in a village churchyard. In the opening stanzas the curfew bell rings, the cattle wind home, the ploughman plods away, and the speaker is left alone with the darkening fields, an owl complaining from the ivied tower, and the grassy mounds where the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Elements of Chemistry (Traité élémentaire de chimie, Paris, 1789) is Antoine Lavoisier's systematic textbook of the new chemistry he had built over the previous fifteen years. The library text is Robert Kerr's English translation, published at Edinburgh in 1790; Kerr, an Edinburgh surgeon, added Fahrenheit temperatures in brackets beside Lavoisier's Réaumur degrees and appended rules for converting French weights and measures, and the text describes the thirteen copperplates of apparatus drawn by Madame Lavoisier.
Emma Woodhouse, not quite twenty-one, is the clever, handsome and wealthy mistress of Hartfield, a house in the Surrey village of Highbury, where she keeps company with her fond, fretful and health-obsessed widowed father. When her governess and friend Miss Taylor marries the genial widower Mr. Weston, Emma credits herself with the match and resolves to arrange more.
The Enneads collect Plotinus's treatises as arranged by his student Porphyry into six groups of nine. They do not form a continuous textbook, but they return again and again to a metaphysical pattern: all reality proceeds from the One, through Intellect, to Soul, and the philosophical life is a movement of return toward unity.
The Essays volume is a selection from the Moralia, the miscellaneous body of some seventy-eight surviving treatises attributed to Plutarch, alongside his famous Lives. Where the Lives teach ethics through the example of great men, the Moralia address readers directly, offering practical moral philosophy in the form of lectures, letters, dialogues and consolations.
Montaigne called his pieces essais, 'trials' or 'attempts', and the word names both a method and a new literary genre. The book gathers 107 chapters in three books, ranging from one-page notes on thumbs, smells and names to the sprawling 'Apology for Raymond Sebond', which fills a sixth of the whole.
Bacon's Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral, grew over almost thirty years from a slim volume of ten pieces in 1597 to fifty-eight in the final edition of 1625, the text used here. Bacon borrowed the name essay from Montaigne, but where Montaigne explored himself at leisure, Bacon compressed observation into dense, balanced sentences meant for men of business and government.
Essays and Aphorisms is the title of the selection translated by R. J. Hollingdale from Schopenhauer's Parerga and Paralipomena, the two volumes of 'appendices and omissions' he published in 1851 to make his system available to general readers. The book that resulted is the opposite of a treatise: short, sardonic, quotable pieces on suffering, death, religion, women, reading, noise, ethics and psychology, all resting on the metaphysics of his early masterpiece.
Essays on Education in a Republic gathers the six essays on schooling that open Benjamin Rush's Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical, published in Philadelphia in 1798. Rush, a physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, wrote them between 1786 and 1791 to ask what kind of education a free people needs once it has made itself a republic.
David Hume's Essays, Moral and Political first appeared anonymously in Edinburgh in two volumes in 1741 and 1742, after his Treatise of Human Nature had, in his own phrase, fallen dead-born from the press. Written in the manner of Addison's Spectator for a polite reading public, they brought the philosophy of the Treatise to bear on British politics, religion, taste and manners.
Essays: First Series gathers twelve essays that Emerson worked up from his journals and from the lecture courses he gave in Boston in the late 1830s. Each pursues one idea through a rush of aphorisms, examples and images rather than a step-by-step argument, and together they set out his conviction that the same universal mind or soul speaks in every person and in nature.
Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order is set out like Euclid: definitions, axioms, numbered propositions, proofs, corollaries and the discursive notes (scholia) where Spinoza speaks most freely. Its five parts lead from God to human blessedness.
Evangelium Vitae is John Paul II's 1995 encyclical on the dignity and inviolability of human life. It opens with biblical meditation, especially the story of Cain and Abel, and then develops a moral analysis of what the pope calls threats to life in modern law, medicine, family life, and political culture.
Experimental Researches in Electricity gathers the numbered papers that Michael Faraday read to the Royal Society and printed in its Philosophical Transactions, in which he discovered electromagnetic induction, showed that all kinds of electricity are one, and found the quantitative laws of electrolysis. Volume 1, first published in London in 1839, collects the first fourteen Series, written between 1831 and 1838, in 1,748 numbered paragraphs, with a preface, an index and plates; the library text is the 1849 second edition reprint.
Gregor Mendel's 'Experiments in Plant Hybridisation' was read to the Natural History Society of Brünn (now Brno, in the Czech Republic) at its meetings of 8 February and 8 March 1865 and printed in the Society's proceedings, which appeared in 1866. Mendel, an Augustinian friar and schoolteacher, reported eight years of crossing varieties of the garden pea in his monastery garden.
Fahrenheit 451 is set in an American city of an unspecified future where houses are fireproof and firemen no longer put out fires but start them, burning books and the houses of people who hide them. Guy Montag, a fireman of ten years, loves the work.
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry is an anthology of Irish fairy lore, ghost stories, legends and comic tales chosen and introduced by the young W. B. Yeats. Rather than collecting stories himself, Yeats gathered the best versions already printed by nineteenth-century Irish writers and folklorists: Thomas Crofton Croker, William Carleton, Samuel Lover, Patrick Kennedy, Lady Wilde, Letitia Maclintock, Douglas Hyde and others, along with poems by William Allingham, Samuel Ferguson, Edward Walsh and Yeats himself.
This selection gathers fourteen of Hans Christian Andersen's most loved fairy tales, written between 1835 and 1845, in the English versions revised and partly newly translated by the Scottish scholar W. A. Craigie for Oxford University Press in 1914. In The Tinder-Box a returning soldier fetches a magic tinder-box from a hollow tree for a witch, keeps it, and with the help of three dogs with enormous eyes wins a princess and a kingdom.
Gabriel Oak, a young shepherd farming his own small flock on Norcombe Hill, falls in love with Bathsheba Everdene, a proud, lively girl staying with her aunt nearby. She saves his life when he nearly suffocates in his smoky hut, but refuses his plain proposal, saying she wants somebody to tame her.
Washington's Farewell Address and selected letters present leadership as restraint, reputation, and institutional precedent. The Farewell Address, published in 1796 near the end of his presidency, warns against sectional division, party spirit, foreign entanglement, public debt, and attacks on constitutional authority.
Lou Gehrig's farewell speech was delivered at Yankee Stadium on 4 July 1939, Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day, between the games of a doubleheader against the Washington Senators. Two months earlier Gehrig, whose strength had been failing for a season, had taken himself out of the lineup in Detroit, ending his streak of 2,130 consecutive games.
Farmer Boy tells about a year and more in the boyhood of Almanzo Wilder, the author's future husband, on his family's prosperous farm near Malone in northern New York in the 1860s. Almanzo is almost nine when the book opens in January, walking to the schoolhouse with his brother Royal and his sisters Eliza Jane and Alice.
Father Goriot opens in 1819 in the Maison Vauquer, a shabby boarding house in the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève on the poor edge of the Latin Quarter, which Balzac describes room by room, smell by smell, before introducing its lodgers. Among them are Eugène de Rastignac, a law student from a poor noble family near Angoulême; the hearty, mocking Vautrin, who claims to be a retired merchant; the spinster Mlle.
Fathers and Sons is set in the Russian countryside in the spring and summer of 1859, two years before the emancipation of the serfs. Arkady Kirsanov, a newly graduated student, returns to his father's modest, poorly run estate, Maryino, bringing his friend and mentor Yevgeny Bazarov, a brusque, brilliant medical student of humble origins who calls himself a nihilist: he accepts no principle on authority and values only what is useful, especially natural science.
Faust, Part One opens with three frames: a verse Dedication, a Prelude at the Theatre in which a Manager, a Poet and a comic actor argue about what a play should be, and a Prologue in Heaven modelled on the Book of Job. There Mephistopheles mocks mankind, and the Lord permits him to tempt Doctor Faust, saying that man errs as long as he strives but that a good man keeps an instinct of the right way.
Fear and Trembling: Dialectical Lyric appeared in Copenhagen on 16 October 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio, 'John of silence', the same day as Repetition. Its subject is Genesis 22, in which God commands Abraham to take his son Isaac to Mount Moriah and offer him as a burnt offering.
Fides et Ratio is John Paul II's 1998 encyclical on the relation between faith and reason. Its governing image is that the human spirit rises toward contemplation of truth by two wings, and the whole argument defends the compatibility and mutual need of revelation and philosophical inquiry.
First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC is not a polished monograph but a technical memorandum whose influence exceeds its form. Written in 1945 for the Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer project, it describes a general-purpose electronic digital computer in which numerical data and operating instructions occupy the same high-speed memory.
Franklin Roosevelt was inaugurated on Saturday, 4 March 1933, at the low point of the Great Depression. About a quarter of the work force was unemployed, farm prices had collapsed, and in the weeks before the ceremony a wave of bank runs had led governors in most states to close or restrict their banks.
The First Oration Against Catiline is the speech Cicero, as consul, delivered to the Roman senate on 8 November 63 BC in the temple of Jupiter Stator, with Lucius Sergius Catilina himself sitting among the senators. Catiline, twice defeated for the consulship and deep in debt, had been organizing a rising: his ally Gaius Manlius was raising an army in Etruria, and on the night of 6-7 November conspirators met at the house of Marcus Laeca, where two men undertook to murder Cicero at his morning reception.
Cyril, Anthea, Robert, and Jane, with their baby brother the Lamb, have come from two years in Camden Town to a white house in the Kent countryside near Rochester, between a chalk-quarry and a gravel-pit. Their father is called away on business and their mother goes to nurse their sick grandmother, leaving them in the care of the nursemaid Martha and the other servants.
Heraclitus's book does not survive; what remains are roughly 130 short sayings preserved as quotations by later authors such as Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Sextus Empiricus, Clement of Alexandria, Hippolytus and Diogenes Laertius. Modern editions number them according to Hermann Diels and Walther Kranz (DK), and the reference edition presents them in a fresh translation with commentary.
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a frame narrative told through the letters of Robert Walton, an English explorer whose ship is trapped in Arctic ice. Walton rescues a dying stranger, Victor Frankenstein, who has been pursuing a gigantic figure across the frozen sea, and who tells his story as a warning to a man whose ambition resembles his own.
Frog and Toad Are Friends is a book of five short stories about two friends who live near each other by a meadow and a stream. In "Spring," Frog runs to Toad's house in April to wake him from his winter sleep, but Toad, who has been in bed since November, will not get up and asks Frog to come back at about half past May.
Galen: Selected Works introduces a physician whose ambition was encyclopedic. The surviving Galenic corpus ranges from technical anatomy and pulse lore to philosophical defenses of method, from therapeutics and compound drugs to autobiography and polemic against rivals.
This volume gathers three works from the three stages of Galileo's career: the discoverer, the defender, and the old master of mechanics. The Starry Messenger (Sidereus Nuncius), printed at Venice in March 1610 and here read in Edward Stafford Carlos's 1880 English version, reports what Galileo saw through a telescope he had built and improved after hearing of a Dutch spyglass.
Gargantua and Pantagruel is the collective title of five comic books about a dynasty of giants, written by François Rabelais and published between 1532 and 1564. Pantagruel appeared first, at Lyon in 1532, under the anagram pen-name Alcofribas Nasier; Gargantua, about the father, followed in 1534 or 1535 and is now printed as Book I. The Third Book (1546) and the Fourth Book (complete 1552) bore Rabelais's own name, and a Fifth Book was published in 1564, eleven years after his death; how much of it he wrote is disputed.
Germ Theory Papers gathers four scientific papers that the Harvard Classics printed together in 1910, in the volume of Scientific Papers that also contains Harvey: one by the Glasgow surgeon Joseph Lister and three by the French chemist Louis Pasteur. Each comes with the series' brief introductory note on its author.
In 1996 California voters approved Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act, which exempted from state prosecution seriously ill patients and their caregivers who possessed or grew marijuana for medical use on a physician's recommendation. Angel Raich and Diane Monson, two California residents with serious medical conditions, used marijuana on the advice of their doctors.
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners is John Bunyan's account of his own conversion, written in the Bedford county jail and first published in 1666. It is told in 339 numbered paragraphs, opened by a preface addressed to the members of his congregation, whom he calls his children in the faith, and to whom he sends what he calls honey taken from the carcase of a lion.
Grasshopper on the Road is an easy-reader book of six short linked stories about a grasshopper who decides one morning to follow a road wherever it leads, and about the creatures he meets on the way, each of whom has made one idea the whole of life. In "The Club," a crowd of beetles welcomes him to their We Love Morning club and chants the praises of dew and sunrise, until Grasshopper admits that he also likes afternoon and night; they throw him out, and he walks on.
Great Expectations is the first-person story of Philip Pirrip, called Pip, an orphan brought up by hand by his harsh elder sister and her gentle husband Joe Gargery, the village blacksmith on the Kent marshes. On Christmas Eve, in the churchyard where his parents lie, an escaped convict seizes Pip and makes him bring a file and food; Pip steals both from his sister's house, and the convict is later recaptured struggling with another fugitive.
Because it concerns contraception and marriage, the case is best studied with a teacher's guidance. Since 1879 Connecticut law had made it a crime for any person to use a drug or device to prevent conception, and a general accessory statute allowed anyone who assisted or counseled such use to be punished as a principal.
Kant's Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten (1785), translated by Abbott as Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals, is a short book with a narrow and ambitious aim: to identify and establish the supreme principle of morality. It does not offer a full ethical system, which Kant postponed to the Metaphysics of Morals of 1797, but clears the ground by asking what must be true of moral obligation if it is to bind every rational being without exception.
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver, presents itself as the sober memoir of a ship's surgeon. In Part I, shipwrecked, Gulliver wakes on the shore of Lilliput tied down by people six inches tall.
Hamlet opens on the battlements of Elsinore, where sentries and the scholar Horatio see the ghost of the late King Hamlet of Denmark. Prince Hamlet, called home from university at Wittenberg for his father's funeral, is grieving and disgusted that his mother Gertrude has married his uncle Claudius, now king, within two months.
On a cold December morning in Holland, fifteen-year-old Hans Brinker and his twelve-year-old sister Gretel skate on the canal near the village of Broek on wooden runners Hans has carved himself. Their family is very poor.
Hard Times, subtitled For These Times, is Dickens's shortest and most concentrated novel, set in Coketown, a smoky northern mill town of red brick, black canals, and identical streets. Thomas Gradgrind, a retired hardware merchant and later a member of Parliament, runs a model school and his own household on a single principle: children must be taught Facts and nothing else.
Heart of Darkness is told by an unnamed narrator aboard the yawl Nellie, anchored in the Thames estuary at dusk, who reports a story told by his companion, the seaman Charles Marlow. Marlow begins by observing that the Thames, too, was once one of the dark places of the earth when the Romans came.
Heidi, in Elisabeth P. Stork’s public-domain English translation, tells of a small orphan brought to live with her reclusive Alm-Uncle high in the Swiss Alps, then carried away to Frankfurt’s closed rooms before homesickness and providence return her to mountain air, goats, and fir trees. Johanna Spyri’s novel joins outdoor joy to serious care for the sick, the lonely, and the hard-hearted.
Henry IV, Part 1 shows King Henry IV, who took the crown from Richard II, troubled by rebellion and by his own son. In Act I the king, hoping to lead a crusade to atone for Richard's fall, hears instead of war on the Welsh and Scottish borders, and envies the Earl of Northumberland his son Harry Percy, called Hotspur, who has won a victory at Holmedon, while his own heir, Prince Hal, wastes his days in the taverns of Eastcheap with the fat old knight Sir John Falstaff.
Henry V follows the young King Henry, once the tavern-haunting Prince Hal, as he leads England to war with France and wins the battle of Agincourt in 1415. A Chorus opens each act, asking the audience to let their imaginations fill the small wooden theatre with the vasty fields of France.
The Heroides (Heroines) is a collection of twenty-one verse letters in elegiac couplets, written as if by women of myth and legend to the men who have left, betrayed or endangered them, together with three pairs of letters exchanged between lovers. Ovid claimed to have invented the form.
Hippocratic Writings is not a single book but a library of early Greek medicine: case histories, ethical rules, theoretical essays, surgical manuals, dietetic advice, aphorisms and polemics against rival healers. Its strongest works begin from the sickbed.
The first two books of Procopius's History of the Wars tell the long contest between the Roman Empire, ruled from Constantinople, and Sasanian Persia, from the early fifth century to 549. Procopius opens by declaring that he writes so that great deeds will not be lost, that he was an eyewitness as adviser to Belisarius, and that truth alone suits history.
Death, be not proud is one of John Donne's Holy Sonnets, a group of religious sonnets probably written around 1609-1610, circulated in manuscript among friends and printed only after his death in the Poems of 1633. In Herbert Grierson's 1912 edition, followed here, it is Holy Sonnet X; the numbering differs among manuscripts and early printings.
Augustine's Homilies on the Gospel of John are pastoral expositions of one of Christianity's most theologically dense texts. Preached to a congregation rather than composed as a detached treatise, they move through John's prologue, signs, discourses, passion narrative, resurrection appearances, and final scenes with Peter and the beloved disciple.
Homilies on the Statues records Chrysostom preaching to Antioch during a civic emergency in 387. After unpopular imperial taxes provoked unrest, a crowd in Antioch insulted and damaged statues of Emperor Theodosius and his family.
Household Stories is Lucy Crane's English translation of fifty-two tales chosen from the Brothers Grimm's Kinder- und Hausmärchen, first published in London by Macmillan in 1882 with pictures by her brother Walter Crane; the library text follows a later reprint and omits the illustrations. The selection mixes the most famous wonder tales with comic stories, animal fables and short nursery pieces.
Humboldt's Gift is narrated by Charlie Citrine, a successful middle-aged Chicago writer who has won a Pulitzer Prize and made a fortune from a Broadway hit about the eighteenth-century adventurer Baron von Trenck, which was also made into a film. Now in his fifties, Charlie is distracted, spiritually restless and steadily losing his money.
I Am Prepared to Die is Nelson Mandela's statement from the dock during the Rivonia Trial in 1964. Facing charges that could lead to death, Mandela uses the courtroom not primarily to plead for mercy but to explain the political history and moral logic of resistance to apartheid.
I Will Fight No More Forever is the message of surrender that Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce sent to General Oliver O. Howard and Colonel Nelson A. Miles on 5 October 1877, at the end of the siege at the Bear Paw Mountains in Montana Territory. Since June the non-treaty Nez Perce bands, some 750 people including many women, children, and elderly, had retreated more than a thousand miles from Idaho, through the Bitterroot Mountains, across Yellowstone, and north toward refuge in Canada, fighting a series of engagements with the army along the way.
Illustrations of the Logic of Science is a series of six essays that Charles Sanders Peirce published in Popular Science Monthly between November 1877 and August 1878. Written for a general educated readership, they set out a theory of inquiry, a rule for clarifying the meaning of ideas, a frequency account of probability, and a three-part classification of inference.
In Flanders Fields is a fifteen-line poem written in early May 1915 by John McCrae, a Canadian army doctor, during the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium, the battle in which German forces first used chlorine gas on the Western Front. By the traditional account, McCrae wrote it the day after burying his friend and former student Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, killed by a shell on 2 May, in a small cemetery near his dressing station beside the Yser canal, where wild poppies were blooming among the graves.
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is Harriet Jacobs's account of her life in slavery and escape, told under the name Linda Brent with the names of people and places changed. Linda grows up in a North Carolina town believing herself free until, at six, her mother dies and she learns she is a slave.
Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's ordered account of Christian doctrine, written to train readers in godliness and to show the King of France what his persecuted evangelical subjects actually believed. The library text opens with the Prefatory Address to Francis I, which pleads that the Reformers teach nothing new but the faith of Scripture and the early fathers, and with Calvin's Epistle to the Reader, dated Geneva, 1 August 1559, in which he says he was never satisfied until the work was set in its present order.
Frederick wrote the treatise known in English as Instructions for His Generals in the winter of 1746–1747, after the first two Silesian Wars had won and held the rich Austrian province of Silesia. Its French title was Les Principes généraux de la guerre; a German version, Die General-Principia vom Kriege, was printed in 1748 in a small number of copies for Prussian generals, who were bound to keep it secret.
This volume completes the library's surviving plays of Euripides with eleven works in Edward P. Coleridge's prose translation of 1891. Iphigenia in Aulis, produced after the poet's death in 405 BC, opens at night on the shore of Aulis, where the Greek fleet is held back by windless weather.
Island of the Blue Dolphins is narrated by Karana, a girl of about twelve who lives in the village of Ghalas-at on a small island off the California coast in the early nineteenth century; her people call it the Island of the Blue Dolphins. A red-sailed ship brings Captain Orlov, a Russian, and a crew of Aleut hunters, who ask Karana's father, Chief Chowig, to let them take sea otter in exchange for goods.
Ivanhoe is set in England in 1194, when King Richard the Lion-Hearted is making his way home in secret after captivity in Austria and his brother Prince John is scheming to take the crown. More than a century after the Norman Conquest, Saxons and Normans are still bitterly divided.
A Massachusetts statute authorized the board of health of any city or town to require the vaccination of its inhabitants when it judged that necessary for public health or safety, and provided a five-dollar penalty for adults who refused; children certified by a physician as unfit for vaccination were exempt. In February 1902, during a smallpox outbreak, the Cambridge board of health ordered all inhabitants who had not been vaccinated since 1897 to be vaccinated, and offered vaccination without charge.
Jane Eyre is the life story, told by Jane herself, of an orphan girl who grows into a governess and finally a wife, keeping her conscience and her self-respect through poverty, temptation and grief. At ten Jane lives at Gateshead Hall with her aunt by marriage, Mrs. Reed, who resents her, and her bullying cousin John.
Jewish Antiquities is Josephus' twenty-book retelling of Jewish history from creation to the outbreak of revolt against Rome in 66 CE. It is not simply a paraphrase of the Bible, though its first half follows Genesis through the monarchy, exile and restoration.
David McCullough's John Adams is a full narrative biography of the second president of the United States, built largely on the Adams family papers and especially on the letters between John and Abigail Adams. It follows Adams from his boyhood on a farm in Braintree, Massachusetts, where he was born in 1735, through Harvard College, schoolteaching in Worcester and the law, to his marriage in 1764 to Abigail Smith, whom McCullough presents as his closest adviser and equal partner.
Johnny Tremain follows a Boston apprentice from the summer of 1773 to the first day of the American Revolution in April 1775. Johnny, fourteen, is the most gifted of the three apprentices in the silversmith shop of old Ephraim Lapham, a pious man who warns him about pride by having him read Leviticus 26:19; the next two chapters take their titles from that verse.
Journey to the West is the great Ming-dynasty comic and religious novel about the monk Xuanzang's pilgrimage from Tang China to India to bring back Buddhist scriptures, guarded by a band of supernatural disciples. The library text is not a full translation.
Jude Fawley is an orphan boy raised by his great-aunt Drusilla in the downland village of Marygreen. When the schoolmaster Richard Phillotson leaves for the university city of Christminster, Jude fixes his hopes on following him.
Julius Caesar, Shakespeare's tragedy of the assassination of 44 BC, begins as Rome celebrates Caesar's triumph over the sons of Pompey. The tribunes rebuke the fickle crowd, a soothsayer warns Caesar to beware the Ides of March, and Caesar is offered a crown three times by Mark Antony and refuses it, then falls in a fit of the falling sickness.
Just So Stories is Rudyard Kipling's collection of comic tales that explain, in the voice of a father talking to a child he calls O Best Beloved, how things in the world came to be the way they are. Each story is followed by a poem.
The Kalevala is the national epic of Finland, compiled by the physician and folklorist Elias Lönnrot from oral songs he and others gathered in Finnish and Russian Karelia. Its fifty runes, or cantos, follow the deeds of the people of Kalevala, chiefly the old singer and sage Väinämöinen, the smith Ilmarinen and the reckless Lemminkäinen, and their long rivalry with Louhi, mistress of the cold northern land of Pohjola.
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie is a short easy-reader history book about Abbie Burgess, the teenage daughter of the lighthouse keeper on Matinicus Rock, a bare island far out in the sea off the coast of Maine. In January 1856 Abbie's mother is sick, the family is running low on food and on oil for the lamps, and Captain Burgess must sail his small boat to the mainland town of Rockland for supplies and medicine.
Kidnapped is narrated by David Balfour, a seventeen-year-old Lowland Scot who in June 1751, after his father's death, leaves the village of Essendean with a letter for the House of Shaws. The minister Mr. Campbell sends him off with a shilling, a Bible and a handwritten recipe for lily-of-the-valley water, and with the news that he is a Balfour of Shaws.
King Lear begins with a political and familial error: Lear divides Britain according to a public love test, accepts the fluent flattery of Goneril and Regan, rejects Cordelia's plain truth, and banishes Kent for trying to correct him. The abdication leaves Lear with the name of king but without the substance of rule, and the tragedy strips away retinue, shelter, authority, sanity, and finally family.
Kokoro, a word meaning heart, mind or the core of things, is in three parts. In the first, 'Sensei and I', a young university student in Tokyo meets an older man at the seaside resort of Kamakura and is drawn to him, calling him Sensei, 'teacher'.
Lassie Come-Home is the story of a tricolour collie who crosses hundreds of miles of Scottish and English country to return to the boy she loves. In the Yorkshire mining village of Greenall Bridge, Lassie belongs to Sam Carraclough, and every man in the village agrees she is the finest collie he has ever seen.
The Laws is Plato's last and longest dialogue, twelve books of conversation in which three elderly men design the constitution and legal code of a new city. On a midsummer day an unnamed Athenian Stranger walks from Knossos toward the cave and shrine of Zeus with Cleinias, a Cretan, and Megillus, a Spartan.
Le Morte d'Arthur is Thomas Malory's English prose gathering of the Arthurian legend, from the hero's conception to the death of the last knights of the Round Table. Uther Pendragon, with Merlin's help, begets Arthur on Igraine, and the child is raised secretly by Sir Ector.
Kraepelin's Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry introduces readers to psychiatric diagnosis through bedside cases and disease course. Rather than beginning with abstract definitions, the lectures proceed from patients: mood disturbance, excitement, confusion, delusions, hallucinations, deterioration, alcoholism, epilepsy, paralysis, dementia praecox, manic-depressive insanity, and other clinical groupings.
Lectures on Revivals of Religion is Finney's manual of revival as method. Where Edwards treats awakening as a surprising work to be interpreted cautiously, Finney argues that revivals are not miracles in the sense of being beyond means.
Charcot's lectures show clinical neurology becoming a public method: observe signs, localize lesions, correlate symptoms with anatomy, and teach by cases. The English volumes gather Salpetriere lectures on spinal cord disease, paralysis, tremor, sclerosis, locomotor ataxia, hysteria, epilepsy, and related nervous disorders.
Legends of Charlemagne, or Romance of the Middle Ages, is the third of Thomas Bulfinch's books of legend, published in 1863. It retells in English prose the romances that grew up around Charlemagne and his twelve peers, or paladins, chiefly as the Italian Renaissance poets Luigi Pulci, Matteo Maria Boiardo and Ludovico Ariosto shaped them.
Lepanto is G. K. Chesterton's ballad of the naval battle fought on 7 October 1571 in the Gulf of Patras, off western Greece, where the galleys of the Holy League, assembled by Pope Pius V and led by Don John of Austria, defeated the Ottoman fleet. Chesterton published it in The Eye-Witness in October 1911 and collected it in his Poems of 1915.
Les Misérables follows the convict Jean Valjean from his release in 1815 to his death in 1833, and through him a whole society of the poor, the lawful and the rebellious in Restoration and July Monarchy France. Valjean has served nineteen years in the galleys at Toulon, five for stealing a loaf of bread for his sister's hungry children and the rest for attempts to escape.
Letters and Papers from Prison was assembled after the war by Eberhard Bethge, Bonhoeffer's closest friend, former student and nephew by marriage, and published in 1951 as Widerstand und Ergebung ('Resistance and Submission'). It gathers what Bonhoeffer wrote during two years of imprisonment by the Nazi state, together with the essay 'After Ten Years', composed at Christmas 1942 as a stocktaking for fellow conspirators.
Letters from a Stoic selects from Seneca’s Moral Letters to Lucilius, a sequence of philosophical letters that turn daily life into training for freedom. Seneca writes as an older adviser to a younger friend, but the letters are also exercises for himself.
Napoleon dictated or wrote tens of thousands of letters, often several dozen a day, to generals, ministers, prefects, bishops, kings, his family and the women he loved. Napoleon III's government published a thirty-two-volume Correspondance de Napoléon Ier between 1858 and 1870, pruning letters that embarrassed the dynasty; the Fondation Napoléon's complete edition, begun in 2004, runs to more than forty thousand items.
Leviathan, or the Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil was published in London in 1651, two years after the execution of Charles I, and its famous frontispiece shows a giant crowned sovereign whose body is made of hundreds of tiny subjects, holding a sword and a bishop's crozier above a peaceful town. The Introduction states the governing analogy: as art can make automata with springs for hearts and strings for nerves, so human art creates the commonwealth, an artificial man whose soul is sovereignty.
Lex, Rex: The Law and the Prince is Samuel Rutherford's answer, printed in London in October 1644, to Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas, a defence of royal absolutism by John Maxwell, the deposed bishop of Ross whom the Glasgow Assembly of 1638 had excommunicated. Rutherford wrote while Scotland and the English Parliament were allied against Charles I under the Solemn League and Covenant, and his long subtitle presents the book as a justification of Scotland's defensive wars and of its army's march to help its brethren in England.
Sulpitius Severus's Life of St. Martin made Martin of Tours one of the defining saints of the Latin West. The narrative begins with Martin's birth in Pannonia, upbringing in Italy, and reluctant military service.
Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's book about the great river in two eras: the steamboat age of his youth and the changed river he revisited in 1882. It opens with three chapters of history and lore, from De Soto and La Salle to the keelboat and raft men, including a long raft episode with the boy Huck Finn borrowed from the novel Twain was then writing.
Charles O. Linder was a licensed physician in Spokane, Washington, registered under the Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914. In April 1922 he gave a woman named Ida Casey, whom he knew to be addicted to morphine and cocaine, one tablet of morphine and three of cocaine to take herself over a period of time.
Tintern Abbey, as the poem is usually called, is a meditation in blank verse spoken on the banks of the River Wye a few miles upstream of the ruined Cistercian abbey on the border of England and Wales. Its first title dates it to 13 July 1798, when Wordsworth was on a walking tour with his sister Dorothy, and it was printed that autumn as the last poem in Lyrical Ballads.
Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers is Ralph Moody's memoir of the four years, 1906 to 1910, that his family spent on a Colorado ranch, told from the point of view of the boy he was, eight years old when the story begins. His father, Charles, has a persistent cough from his work in a New Hampshire mill, and when a cousin, Phil, who sells gold stock in Denver, promises better prospects, the family leaves East Rochester for a run-down rented ranch near Fort Logan, southwest of Denver.
Little House in the Big Woods follows one year in the life of a pioneer family in a log house in the forests of Wisconsin, seen through the eyes of Laura, who is about five. She lives with Pa, who hunts, traps and farms; Ma, who keeps the house; her older sister Mary; baby Carrie; and Jack, the brindle bulldog.
Little House on the Prairie follows the Ingalls family through roughly a year in Kansas, on land the book calls Indian Territory, around 1869 and 1870. Pa sells the little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin because the woods are filling with people and the game is growing scarce.
Cedric Errol is a curly-haired American boy of seven, living with his widowed mother in a modest side street of New York. He calls her Dearest, as his father did, and his best friends are Mr. Hobbs, the corner grocer who rails against earls as grasping tyrants, and Dick Tipton, a bootblack.
Little Women follows the four March sisters growing up in a New England town during and after the American Civil War, while their father serves as an army chaplain. Meg, the eldest, is pretty and longs for fine things; Jo, a tomboyish aspiring writer with a quick temper, is the heart of the book; Beth is shy, gentle and musical; and Amy, the youngest, is artistic and vain.
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects is a collection of biographies of Italian artists from the late thirteenth century to Vasari's own day, arranged to tell the story of how the arts of design, after their decline in late antiquity, were reborn in Tuscany and brought to perfection in the age of Michelangelo. The library text is the first of the ten volumes of Gaston du C. de Vere's English translation of the 1568 edition, published 1912-1915.
Plutarch’s Parallel Lives set the life of a famous Greek beside that of a famous Roman, so that each could be measured by the other. Twenty-three pairs survive, most closed by a short Comparison in which Plutarch weighs the two men, together with four single Lives: Aratus, Artaxerxes, Galba, and Otho.
In 1895 New York passed the Bakeshop Act, which regulated the sanitation of bakeries and provided that no employee could be required or permitted to work in a bakery more than sixty hours a week or ten hours a day. The hours provision was carried into the state's Labor Law of 1897.
Leibniz's logical writings on binary arithmetic and universal character are scattered across essays, letters, drafts, and memoranda rather than gathered in a single finished book. Their unity lies in a dream: reasoning might be made clearer, more reliable, and more inventive by a symbolic language whose elements combine according to rules.
Long Walk to Freedom is Mandela's memoir of childhood, political awakening, resistance, imprisonment, negotiation, and democratic transition. It begins in rural Transkei, with family, Thembu traditions, mission schooling, and the gradual widening of Mandela's world through education and urban life.
Lord Jim begins with an omniscient narrator describing Jim, a young English parson's son who went to sea after reading light holiday literature and dreams of heroic deeds. Injured by a falling spar, he recovers in an Eastern port and takes a berth as chief mate of the Patna, a decrepit steamer carrying eight hundred Muslim pilgrims across the Arabian Sea.
Lord of the Flies follows a party of British schoolboys, aged roughly six to twelve, whose aeroplane is shot down over a tropical island during an unnamed atomic war. No adult survives.
This volume gathers comic pieces that Jane Austen wrote as a teenager at Steventon rectory, between about 1790 and 1793, and copied into the notebook she called Volume the Second. The title work, 'Love and Freindship', dated 13 June 1790 when she was fourteen, is a novel in fifteen letters parodying the sentimental fiction of the day.
This volume collects three of Aristophanes' comedies (contents vary by edition; a long-standing selection is The Acharnians, The Clouds and Lysistrata). The Acharnians (425 BCE), the earliest surviving comedy, is set in the sixth year of the Peloponnesian War.
Macbeth opens on a Scottish heath where three witches plan to meet Macbeth. Returning from victory over rebels and Norwegian invaders, Macbeth and his fellow general Banquo meet the witches, who hail Macbeth as Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor and future king, and tell Banquo that his descendants will be kings.
Man's Search for Meaning has two parts. The first, Experiences in a Concentration Camp, is not a chronicle of atrocities but a psychiatrist's account of how ordinary prisoners lived, suffered and either kept or lost their inner hold on life.
Mansfield Park follows Fanny Price, the timid daughter of a poor, overburdened family in Portsmouth, who at ten is taken in by her wealthy aunt and uncle, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, at Mansfield Park in Northamptonshire. Her other aunt, the officious and mean Mrs Norris, never lets her forget her dependent status, and her cousins Tom, Maria and Julia treat her with indifference.
Mark Antony's funeral oration, which opens Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears, is the turning point of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599). Caesar has been stabbed to death in the Capitol by Brutus, Cassius and the other conspirators.
Medea and Other Plays centers on Euripides’ art of making the socially powerless terrifyingly articulate. Medea begins after Jason has abandoned his foreign wife and children to marry the Corinthian princess.
Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind is often called the first American psychiatry textbook. Benjamin Rush gathers observations, classifications, causes, and treatments for mania, melancholy, hypochondria, derangement, moral faculties, memory, and related conditions.
The Meditations, which Marcus Aurelius may have titled simply 'To Himself', is a private notebook of philosophical reflections written in Greek, probably during his military campaigns on the Danube in the 170s CE. It was not intended for publication and consists of twelve books of entries ranging from single sentences to short essays, often repeated and varied as exercises to fix principles in the mind.
Meditationes de prima philosophia, published in Paris in 1641, compresses Descartes's metaphysics into six meditations, each imagined as a day's reflection by a solitary thinker seated by the fire in a dressing gown. The book was issued with six sets of Objections from learned readers (Caterus, Mersenne's circle, Hobbes, Arnauld, Gassendi and others) and Descartes's Replies, which are longer than the Meditations themselves; a second edition (Amsterdam, 1642) added the Jesuit Bourdin's Seventh Objections.
Sherman's Memoirs, published in two volumes in 1875 and revised in 1886, present themselves less as history than as testimony; in the preface to the second edition he says he writes as a witness before the tribunal of history, supplying material for some future historian. The first volume, the text stored in this library, runs from his Ohio boyhood to the Meridian campaign of February 1864.
Usama ibn Munqidh dictated these reminiscences, known in Arabic as the Kitab al-I'tibar (the Book of Learning by Example), when he was nearly ninety lunar years old and living in Damascus under Saladin's patronage. The book is not a continuous autobiography but a sequence of anecdotes, grouped loosely by subject and linked by association, meant to teach that the length of each life is fixed by God and that neither daring nor caution can change it.
Madison's Memorial and Remonstrance and Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention show him as both principled advocate and institutional anatomist. Memorial and Remonstrance, written in 1785 against a Virginia religious assessment bill, argues that religion must be free from state coercion because conscience is prior to civil society and cannot be surrendered to government.
Esquirol expands Pinelian alienism into a more elaborate clinical and institutional system. Mental Maladies surveys insanity as a family of disorders marked by disturbances of perception, judgment, passion, volition, and bodily function.
Griesinger gives nineteenth-century psychiatry a somatic and medical program. Mental Pathology and Therapeutics treats insanity as a disorder of the brain, even while admitting how little pathological anatomy could yet prove.
Mere Christianity is C. S. Lewis's case for, and plain explanation of, the beliefs held in common by Christians of most denominations. In the preface Lewis borrows the phrase "mere Christianity" from the Puritan writer Richard Baxter and compares the shared faith to a hall from which doors open into the rooms of the separate churches; he says he is describing the hall, not recommending a room, and that people must eventually live in a room rather than in the hall.
The Metamorphoses is a Latin poem in fifteen books of dactylic hexameter, about 12,000 lines, that strings together some 250 myths of transformation from the creation of the world to the deification of Julius Caesar and the reign of Augustus. Its unifying thread is change of form: gods, humans and nymphs become animals, plants, stones, stars and springs, usually at moments of extreme passion, violence or divine punishment.
Middlemarch, subtitled A Study of Provincial Life, follows several households in and around a Midlands market town from 1829 to 1832, the years leading to the first Reform Act. Its Prelude recalls Saint Teresa of Ávila and asks what becomes of women with a similar longing for a great life who are born into an age that gives it no outlet.
Moby-Dick is Herman Melville's novel of the whaling voyage of the Pequod and of her captain's pursuit of a great white sperm whale. School Launch points readers to parent-chosen selections, while the library provides the complete text of the Etymology, Extracts, one hundred thirty-five chapters and Epilogue for those who want the whole voyage.
Mother Courage and Her Children follows Anna Fierling, a canteen woman nicknamed Mother Courage, who hauls her covered wagon behind the armies of the Thirty Years' War selling food, drink, boots and belts to soldiers. The play covers twelve years, from 1624 to 1636, in twelve scenes, each introduced by a written caption that tells the audience in advance what will happen.
Mourning Becomes Electra is a trilogy of plays that moves Aeschylus's Oresteia to a New England seaport town in 1865-1866, at the end of the American Civil War. The Greek house of Atreus becomes the Mannons, a proud Puritan family of shipowners and judges whose white-columned mansion, built like a Greek temple, stands apart from the town.
Mr. Popper's Penguins is a comic novel in twenty short chapters about a house painter in the small town of Stillwater who dreams of the polar regions. Mr. Popper is a gentle, rather untidy man with a patient wife and two children, Bill and Janie.
Mrs. Dalloway follows a single day in the middle of June 1923 in London, from a bright morning to the small hours of a party. Clarissa Dalloway, fifty-one, wife of the Conservative Member of Parliament Richard Dalloway, walks from Westminster up to Bond Street to buy flowers for the party she is giving that evening.
Much Ado About Nothing is set in Messina, Sicily, where the governor Leonato welcomes Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, and his officers home from a victorious war. With the Prince come the young Florentine lord Claudio and the witty Paduan soldier Benedick, and also the Prince's sullen half-brother Don John, lately reconciled after a rebellion.
My Ántonia is presented as a memoir written by Jim Burden, a successful New York railroad lawyer, about a Bohemian girl he knew in his Nebraska childhood; a brief introduction by an unnamed friend frames his manuscript. Orphaned at ten, Jim travels from Virginia to live with his grandparents on the prairie near the town of Black Hawk.
My Father's Dragon is told by a narrator about the boyhood adventure of their father, Elmer Elevator. One cold rainy day Elmer brings home a drippy old alley cat; his mother hates cats, whips him when she finds the saucer in the cellar, and throws the cat out.
My Side of the Mountain is the first-person record of Sam Gribley, a boy of about twelve who leaves his family's crowded New York City apartment to live alone for a year in the Catskill Mountains. Sam had told his father he meant to go to the old Gribley farm, land his great-grandfather once worked near the town of Delhi, and his father laughed and let him try, sure he would be back by morning.
Napoleon's Maxims of War is not a book Napoleon wrote but a compilation made by a French officer, General Burnod, who in 1827 published Maximes de guerre de Napoléon, drawn from the emperor's memoirs dictated on St Helena and other sources. The British officer George Charles D'Aguilar translated it into English in 1831, adding explanatory notes with examples from the campaigns of Gustavus Adolphus, Turenne, Montecuccoli, Frederick the Great and Napoleon himself.
This Douglass entry pairs the 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass with the 1852 speech commonly known as What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? The Narrative tells Douglass's movement from enslaved childhood in Maryland through violence, literacy, skilled labor, resistance, escape, and public abolitionist identity.
In March 2010 Congress passed and President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Two provisions drew constitutional challenge.
Natural History: A Selection introduces one of antiquity’s great encyclopedic minds. Pliny wants to collect nature and human use together: stars, lands, peoples, animals, plants, metals, pigments, stones, medicines, marvels and technologies all belong to one vast inventory.
No Exit and Three Other Plays is an American collection of four of Jean-Paul Sartre's plays from the years of the German occupation and just after it, in which his philosophy of freedom and responsibility is worked out on the stage. Stuart Gilbert translated No Exit and The Flies, and Lionel Abel translated Dirty Hands and The Respectful Prostitute.
Northanger Abbey follows Catherine Morland, the unremarkable seventeen-year-old daughter of a country clergyman, whom the narrator teasingly insists no one would have supposed born to be a heroine. Catherine is a devoted reader of Gothic novels, especially Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho.
Notes from Underground is a short novel in two parts, presented as the private notes of an unnamed retired civil servant of forty who lives in a shabby room on the edge of St. Petersburg. A footnote signed by the author explains that the writer of the notes is imaginary but represents a type produced by Russian society of the time.
Ada Lovelace's Notes on Menabrea's Sketch of the Analytical Engine begin as an act of translation and become a theory of computation. Luigi Menabrea had published a French account of Charles Babbage's proposed Analytical Engine after hearing Babbage lecture in Turin.
Jefferson's selected writings show the range and tensions of the revolutionary Enlightenment in America. Notes on the State of Virginia began as answers to questions from a French diplomat, but it became Jefferson's most sustained book: a survey of Virginia's geography, natural history, laws, economy, population, slavery, Indigenous peoples, education, religion, and politics.
Novum Organon Renovatum ('The New Organon Renewed') was published in London in 1858 by William Whewell, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. It is the revised second part of his Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840; second edition 1847), which for its third edition he divided into three books: the History of Scientific Ideas (1858), this volume on method, and On the Philosophy of Discovery (1860).
The Novum Organum ('new instrument') is the second and only substantially completed part of Bacon's projected Instauratio Magna, a six-part plan to rebuild human knowledge from its foundations. Its title throws down a challenge to the Organon, the collection of Aristotle's logical works that had governed university teaching for centuries.
Number the Stars is set in Copenhagen and on the north coast of Zealand in September and October 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark. Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen race each other home from school and are stopped on the street by two German soldiers; Annemarie's little sister Kirsti, five, chatters at them fearlessly.
O Captain! My Captain!
In January 1957 Kenneth Donaldson was committed to the Florida State Hospital at Chattahoochee after his father sought a hearing before a Pinellas County judge, who found him mentally ill. He remained there against his will for nearly fifteen years.
In the Ode on a Grecian Urn Keats addresses an ancient vase carved with figures and asks what it can tell us that living speech cannot. The first stanza piles up names for the urn, a still unravished bride of quietness, a foster-child of silence and slow time, a sylvan historian, and then a rush of questions about the scene on its side: men or gods, reluctant maidens, mad pursuit, pipes and timbrels, wild ecstasy.
Of Mice and Men takes place over a few days on a ranch near Soledad in California's Salinas Valley during the Depression. George Milton, small and sharp, and Lennie Small, a huge, immensely strong man with an intellectual disability and the mind of a child, are itinerant ranch hands who travel together, unusual among solitary migrant workers.
Old Yeller is narrated by Travis Coates, who looks back on the year he was fourteen, in the late 1860s, on his family's homestead near the settlement of Salt Licks in the Texas Hill Country. After the Civil War cattle money is scarce, so Papa joins the other men of the settlement on a long drive to sell cattle in Kansas, leaving Travis as the man of the place with Mama and his little brother, Arliss.
Oliver Twist, subtitled The Parish Boy's Progress, follows an orphan from a workhouse cradle to a safe home, passing on the way through the criminal underworld of 1830s London. Oliver is born in a workhouse in an unnamed town; his mother dies within minutes, leaving only a locket and a ring that later prove who she was.
The two respondents, identified in the case as L. C. and E. W., were Georgia women with intellectual disabilities who also had psychiatric diagnoses, schizophrenia in one case and a personality disorder in the other. Both were voluntarily admitted to Georgia Regional Hospital in Atlanta.
This paired entry brings together Alan Turing's 1936 paper On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem and his 1950 essay Computing Machinery and Intelligence. The first paper attacks a precise mathematical problem: what does it mean for a number or function to be computable?
On Duties is Cicero's last philosophical work, written in the autumn of 44 BC, in the months after the murder of Julius Caesar, and addressed as a letter in three books to his son Marcus, then studying philosophy at Athens under the Peripatetic Cratippus. Cicero follows, with freedom, the Stoic Panaetius of Rhodes, whose treatise on duty (kathēkon, Latin officium) he adapts for a Roman reader, adding examples from Roman history and from his own career.
On Fairy-Stories is Tolkien's defense of fairy-story as a serious form of imaginative art. He begins by rejecting narrow definitions that identify fairy tales with children, small supernatural beings, dreams, or mere folklore collection.
On Formally Undecidable Propositions is one of the decisive works in the history of logic. Godel addresses the dream that mathematics might be placed on a complete and consistent formal foundation, a dream associated with Hilbert's program.
This small volume presents Montaigne's celebrated essay on friendship together with other essays from the Essais in M. A. Screech's translation. The title essay, 'Of Friendship' (Book I, Chapter 28 in modern numbering), was written as a memorial to Étienne de La Boétie, the young magistrate and humanist whom Montaigne met in Bordeaux around 1558 and who died in 1563.
Milton's sonnet on his blindness is a fourteen-line argument between a complaining heart and a corrective voice. It was written in the early 1650s, after Milton, then in his forties and serving the Commonwealth government, had lost his sight entirely.
On Liberty asks what limits there are on the power society may legitimately exercise over the individual. Mill opens by observing that the old struggle between subjects and rulers has been transformed by democracy.
On Medicine, or De Medicina, is the most important surviving Latin medical work before late antiquity. Celsus organizes medicine into diet, drugs and surgery, giving Roman readers a lucid account of Greek medical learning without the dense polemic of specialist schools.
De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (Seven Books on the Fabric of the Human Body) was printed at Basel by Johannes Oporinus in 1543, when its author, Andreas Vesalius, professor at Padua, was twenty-eight. Its seven books describe the bones and cartilages, the ligaments and muscles, the veins and arteries, the nerves, the organs of nutrition and generation, the heart and the organs of the chest, and the brain and the senses.
On the Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most sustained inquiry into the historical and psychological origins of moral values. In three treatises he asks where good and evil came from, how guilt and bad conscience developed, and what ascetic ideals do for priests, philosophers, artists, scientists, and sufferers.
De Magnete, magneticisque corporibus, et de magno magnete tellure (On the Magnet, Magnetick Bodies Also, and on the Great Magnet the Earth) was published in London in 1600 by William Gilbert, a Colchester-born physician who became president of the College of Physicians that year. It is the first large book devoted to experimental study of magnetism and one of the earliest works of natural philosophy built on systematic, repeated experiment.
On the Making of Man is Gregory of Nyssa's theological anthropology, written as an extended reflection on Genesis and the claim that human beings are made in the image of God. Gregory combines scriptural exegesis, Platonizing philosophy, and late antique physiology to ask why humanity is embodied, rational, sexual, mortal, and capable of divine likeness.
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals is the short Latin treatise, printed at Frankfurt in 1628, in which William Harvey argued that the blood moves continuously in a circuit, driven out by the heart through the arteries and returned to it by the veins. The library text is Robert Willis's English translation of 1847, as revised by Alexander Bowie and reprinted in 1910 in the Harvard Classics, with that series' introductory note on Harvey's life.
On the Nature of the Universe, better known as De Rerum Natura, is a philosophical poem that tries to cure fear by explaining the world. Lucretius addresses Memmius and invokes Venus, then argues that religion has driven human beings to cruelty, as in the sacrifice of Iphigenia.
On the Origin of Species argues that species are not fixed, separately created kinds but populations changed over time by variation, inheritance, struggle, natural selection, and descent with modification. Darwin begins with variation under domestication, using pigeons, livestock, and cultivated plants to show how small differences can be preserved and accumulated.
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (De revolutionibus orbium coelestium) is the Latin treatise in which Nicolaus Copernicus, a canon of the cathedral of Frombork in Warmia, set the sun near the centre of the universe and made the earth a planet that turns daily on its axis and travels yearly around the sun. It was printed at Nuremberg by Johannes Petreius in 1543.
On the Road is narrated by Sal Paradise, a young writer living with his aunt in New Jersey, and records a series of journeys back and forth across the United States and into Mexico between 1947 and 1950. The engine of the book is Dean Moriarty, a fast-talking, car-stealing, endlessly restless young man from Denver who seems to Sal the embodiment of a wild, joyous American energy.
On War (Vom Kriege) is an unfinished philosophical inquiry into the nature of war, written by a Prussian staff officer who had lived through the Napoleonic transformation of warfare. It is organised in eight books, but Clausewitz left a note in 1827 saying that only the first chapter of Book I satisfied him, and he was revising the whole when he died.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich follows a single winter day, from reveille at five in the morning to lights-out, in a Soviet special labour camp on the steppe of Kazakhstan in the early 1950s. Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a peasant from the village of Temgenyovo, was captured by the Germans in 1942, escaped back to his own lines, and was charged with treason as a supposed German spy; he signed a confession because refusing meant being shot.
Opticks, or a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light, is Isaac Newton's experimental account of light and colour, written in English and published in London in 1704. Newton opens by announcing that his design is not to explain the properties of light by hypotheses but to propose and prove them by reason and experiments, and the three books carry out that plan.
Orlando is a comic, fantastical biography of an English nobleman and poet who lives from the last years of Elizabeth I to the eleventh of October 1928, ageing only about twenty years and becoming a woman along the way. The book opens with the sixteen-year-old Orlando slashing at a Moor's head in the attic of his family's enormous house in the country.
Orthodoxy (1908) is G. K. Chesterton's account of how he came to believe the Christian creed. It answers a challenge from the critic G. S. Street, who, after Chesterton's Heretics (1905) had criticized the philosophies of his contemporaries, said he would begin to worry about his own philosophy when Chesterton had given his.
Othello is the tragedy of a Moorish general in the service of Venice who is brought, step by step, to murder the wife who loves him. The play opens at night in a Venetian street, where the ensign Iago, furious that Othello has promoted the Florentine Michael Cassio over him, rouses the senator Brabantio with crude news that his daughter Desdemona has eloped with the Moor.
Our Town presents Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, through three acts named Daily Life, Love and Marriage, and Death and Eternity. The Stage Manager introduces streets, families, dates, statistics, church steeples, milk deliveries, schoolbooks, and weather with almost no scenery, making the ordinary visible by stripping theater to gesture, voice, and memory.
Paradise Lost is John Milton's epic in twelve books of blank verse on the fall of man, written, as the opening invocation says, to assert Eternal Providence and justify the ways of God to men. It begins in the middle of things.
Passages from the Life of a Philosopher is Charles Babbage's late memoir of invention, public controversy, and scientific administration. It is not a continuous autobiography so much as a set of argued recollections.
Passing is a short novel in three parts, told in close third person through the consciousness of Irene Redfield, a light-skinned Black woman married to a Harlem physician. It opens with a letter that stirs Irene's memory of an encounter two years earlier.
The Pensées ('Thoughts') are the fragments of an unfinished apology for the Christian religion, found after Pascal's death in 1662 as nearly a thousand notes, many on slips of paper threaded together in bundles. Pascal had planned a work that would first unsettle the complacent unbeliever (the honnête homme of polite society) by showing the misery and contradiction of the human condition, then show that Christianity alone explains that condition and offers its remedy.
Pericles' Funeral Oration is the speech that the Athenian statesman Pericles delivered in the winter of 431/430 BC at the public burial of the citizens who had died in the first year of the Peloponnesian War against Sparta. It survives only in the History of Thucydides, who heard Pericles speak and who says of the speeches in his work that he kept as close as he could to the general sense of what was actually said.
Persian Letters is an epistolary novel made up of letters exchanged between two Persian noblemen travelling in Europe, Usbek and his younger companion Rica, and their friends, servants and wives back home in Isfahan. The letters run from 1711 to 1720, covering the last years of Louis XIV, the Regency and the collapse of John Law's financial system.
Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy was published in 1958 by Routledge and Kegan Paul in London and by the University of Chicago Press. Its author, Michael Polanyi, had been a physician and a distinguished physical chemist before turning to philosophy, and the book grew from his Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen in 1951–52.
The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant were written in a race against death. In the spring of 1884 the brokerage firm of Grant & Ward collapsed through his partner's fraud, leaving the former president living on borrowed money.
Persuasion is Austen's last completed novel, a story of second chances. Anne Elliot is the overlooked middle daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, a vain and extravagant baronet of Kellynch Hall in Somerset.
Peter and Wendy, the 1911 novel that grew out of J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan, opens in the London nursery of the Darling family: Mr. Darling, a clerk anxious about money and dignity; Mrs. Darling, who tidies her children's minds each night; Wendy, John and Michael; and Nana, a Newfoundland dog who serves as their nurse. Mrs. Darling finds the name Peter in her children's thoughts and later sees a strange boy at the nursery window; Nana snaps the window shut on his shadow.
This volume pairs one of Plato's most literary dialogues with two letters attributed to him. The Phaedrus takes place outside the walls of Athens, where Socrates, who rarely leaves the city, walks with the young Phaedrus along the river Ilissus and sits under a plane tree on a hot summer day.
Philosophical Investigations is the major work of Ludwig Wittgenstein's later philosophy, published in 1953, two years after his death, in a bilingual German and English edition with a translation by his student G. E. M. Anscombe. It consists of numbered remarks, from a single sentence to a page long, in which Wittgenstein questions, imagines examples, answers an imaginary interlocutor and frequently turns against views he himself had held in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
Philosophy of Natural Science is a short introductory textbook by the German-American philosopher Carl G. Hempel, published in 1966 by Prentice-Hall in its Foundations of Philosophy series. It is still under copyright, so the library holds no text; this record describes the book in its own words and quotes only two short sentences.
Hegel's Philosophy of Right (Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts) was written as a textbook for his Berlin lectures on law, ethics and the state. Its preface is dated June 1820, and the book appeared in Berlin late that year with 1821 on the title page.
Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science is Werner Heisenberg's account of what quantum theory means for our understanding of nature, knowledge and language, set within the history of Western thought from the Greek atomists to the twentieth century. It grew from the Gifford Lectures he gave at the University of St Andrews in the winter of 1955-56 and was published in New York in 1958 by Harper and Brothers in the World Perspectives series, with an introduction by the Yale philosopher F. S. C. Northrop; a German edition, Physik und Philosophie, followed in 1959.
Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poems, published after his death in 1918, bring together a Jesuit priest's experiments in sound, perception, praise, and spiritual desolation. Hopkins's key ideas of inscape and instress name the particular form of a created thing and the energy by which that form is apprehended.
This volume gathers the three books that first introduced Emily Dickinson's poetry to the public, all published in Boston in the decade after her death in 1886. Poems (1890) was edited by Mabel Loomis Todd, a young Amherst neighbor, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the man of letters with whom Dickinson had corresponded since 1862; Poems: Second Series followed in 1891 under the same two editors, and Poems: Third Series in 1896, edited by Todd alone.
The Poetics is Aristotle's short treatise on the art of poetry, chiefly tragedy and epic, and the oldest surviving work of literary theory in the West. It opens by defining all poetry, together with music and dance, as imitation (mimesis), and by distinguishing the arts according to the medium of imitation (rhythm, language, melody), the objects imitated (people better than us, worse, or like us), and the manner (narration or enactment).
Politics examines the polis as the community ordered toward living well. Aristotle begins with the household, including relations of master and slave, husband and wife, parent and child, and then argues that the city exists by nature because human beings possess speech about justice and advantage.
Pollyanna Whittier, eleven years old, is the orphaned daughter of a poor missionary minister in the American West. Her mother, Jennie, had long ago disappointed her proud New England family by marrying the young minister instead of a wealthy suitor.
Popular Scientific Lectures gathers fifteen lectures and addresses that the Austrian physicist Ernst Mach gave between the 1860s and 1897 to general audiences, learned societies and university gatherings. They were first collected in English, translated by Thomas J. McCormack for the Open Court Publishing Company of Chicago in 1894–95; the library text is the enlarged third edition of 1898, whose proofs Mach read himself.
This volume joins two treatises by Aristotle that together set out what scientific knowledge is and how the natural world is to be understood. The Posterior Analytics, in two books, belongs to the logical works later grouped as the Organon.
Pragmatism collects eight popular lectures that William James gave at the Lowell Institute in Boston in November and December 1906 and at Columbia University in January 1907. Published that year and dedicated to the memory of John Stuart Mill, the book presents pragmatism as both a method for settling disputes and a theory of what truth is.
Pride and Prejudice turns courtship into a discipline of moral interpretation. Elizabeth Bennet first judges Fitzwilliam Darcy by his proud refusal to dance and by Wickham's persuasive account of injury, while Darcy judges Elizabeth through the embarrassment of her family, the inferiority of her connections, and his own rank.
Prince Caspian begins a year after The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie are waiting on a railway platform on their way back to school when they are pulled out of England and set down on a wooded island beside a ruined castle.
Newton's Principia sets out the mathematical principles of natural philosophy and shows that the same laws can explain terrestrial motion and celestial order. The work begins with definitions of mass, quantity of motion, inertia, impressed force, centripetal force, absolute and relative space, and absolute and relative time.
Principles of Geology is Charles Lyell's argument that the earth's past can be explained by the same causes that are acting on it now, working at their present intensity over immense periods of time. The first edition appeared in three volumes in 1830, 1832 and 1833, under a subtitle describing it as an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface by reference to causes now in operation.
Psalm 23 is a six-verse song of trust, headed in the Hebrew Psalter as a psalm of David and placed in the first book of Psalms, between the anguished cry of Psalm 22 and the processional hymn of Psalm 24. Its speaker never asks for anything.
Psychopathia Sexualis is a medico-forensic taxonomy of sexual behavior written for physicians and lawyers. Krafft-Ebing organizes case histories under categories such as hyperaesthesia, anaesthesia, paraesthesia, sadism, masochism, fetishism, and contrary sexual feeling, using the language of degeneration, neuropathic heredity, and criminal responsibility.
Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, published in London in November 1790, is cast as a long letter to a young Frenchman, Charles-Jean-François Depont, who had asked Burke's opinion of events in Paris. Its immediate occasion was the sermon A Discourse on the Love of Our Country, preached by the Dissenting minister Richard Price on 4 November 1789 to the Revolution Society at the meeting-house in the Old Jewry, and the society's address of congratulation to the French National Assembly.
The Regensburg Lecture, delivered by Benedict XVI in 2006 at the University of Regensburg, argues that Christian faith is intrinsically bound to reason and that the modern narrowing of reason endangers both theology and culture. Benedict begins with a contested quotation from a dialogue between the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus and a Persian interlocutor, then uses the controversy over faith and violence to introduce his larger claim: acting against reason is contrary to the nature of God.
Rerum Novarum, issued by Pope Leo XIII on 15 May 1891 and addressed to the bishops of the Catholic world, takes its Latin title from its opening words about the spirit of revolutionary change. Its English title is On the Condition of the Working Classes.
In 1862 Congress passed the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act, making it a crime in the federal territories to marry a second spouse while the first was living. The law was aimed at plural marriage as taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah Territory, but was seldom enforced for a decade.
Richard III follows Richard, Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of the Yorkist King Edward IV, from his first soliloquy to his death at Bosworth Field in 1485. The Wars of the Roses are over and peace has come, but Richard, born misshapen and unfit for courtship, tells the audience he has determined to prove a villain and win the crown.
Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) follows a restless young Englishman who ignores his father’s counsel, goes to sea, and after storms and slavery is cast alone on an island where industry, improvisation, and providence remake his life. The novel invented a lasting modern myth of solitude: journal-keeping, goat pens, canoe failures, fear of footprints, and the arrival of Friday.
Section 11721 of California's Health and Safety Code made it a misdemeanor, punishable by at least ninety days in the county jail, for any person to use narcotics or to be addicted to their use. Lawrence Robinson was stopped on a Los Angeles street; two officers testified that they had seen marks on his arms and that he admitted occasional use.
Roe v. Wade came to the Court from Texas, where statutes dating in substance from 1857 made it a crime to procure an abortion except on medical advice to save the mother's life.
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy of two young lovers from feuding families in Verona, compressed by Shakespeare into about four days. A sonnet Prologue announces that a pair of star-crossed lovers will end their parents' strife by their deaths.
Ruth is Gaskell's novel about a 'fallen woman', written to challenge the Victorian assumption that an unmarried mother and her child were beyond redemption. Ruth Hilton is a beautiful, innocent orphan of fifteen, apprenticed to a dressmaker, Mrs Mason, in a country town, where she works long hours in a cold workroom.
Saint Joan is Shaw's chronicle play in six scenes and an epilogue about Joan of Arc, the peasant girl from Domrémy who led the French against the English in the Hundred Years' War. In Scene I, set in 1429 at the castle of Vaucouleurs, the blustering squire Robert de Baudricourt is talked by Joan, and by his own officer Poulengey, into giving her a horse and an escort to the Dauphin; when she leaves, the hens that had stopped laying begin again.
Sam the Minuteman is an easy-to-read story of the first battle of the American Revolution, told through a boy who lives through it. Sam Brown lives with his mother and father on a farm in Lexington, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1775.
Sanshirō follows Ogawa Sanshirō, a young graduate of the higher school in Kumamoto, through his first autumn and winter as a student at Tokyo Imperial University in the late Meiji period. The novel opens on the long train journey from Kyushu.
Sarah, Plain and Tall is a short chapter book narrated by Anna Witting, who lives on a prairie farm in the late nineteenth century with her father, Jacob, and her little brother, Caleb. Their mother died the day after Caleb was born, and since then Papa has stopped singing.
Science and Hypothesis (La Science et l'hypothèse, Paris, 1902) is the first of Henri Poincaré's three books on the foundations of science, written by one of the leading mathematicians of his age for a general educated public. It asks how much of science is fact, how much is reasoning, and how much is choice.
Abraham Lincoln took the oath for his second term on 4 March 1865 on the East Portico of the Capitol, under a newly finished dome, before a crowd standing in mud after a morning of rain. The war was nearly won: Sherman had marched through Georgia and the Carolinas, Grant held Lee at Petersburg, and Congress had sent the Thirteenth Amendment to the states five weeks earlier.
The Second Treatise, subtitled 'An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government', is the constructive half of Locke's Two Treatises. The First Treatise demolishes Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, which derived the absolute power of kings from Adam's fatherly dominion.
Latimer's Selected Sermons bring the English Reformation into a rough, vivid, public idiom. Unlike a systematic theologian, Latimer often sounds like a moral witness standing before court and commons at once.
Calvin's Selected Sermons present the Reformation as disciplined exposition rather than only protest. Preaching in Geneva, Calvin moved sequentially through biblical books, applying Scripture to doctrine, worship, civic life, household conduct, suffering, and church reform.
Whitefield's Selected Sermons preserve the voice of the eighteenth century's most famous evangelical itinerant. His preaching emphasized new birth, heartfelt conversion, human sin, Christ's mercy, and the immediate demand that hearers respond.
Spurgeon's Selected Sermons show Victorian evangelical preaching at industrial scale. Week by week, his sermons moved from pulpit to print, reaching readers far beyond the Metropolitan Tabernacle.
Moody's Selected Sermons represent revival preaching after the Civil War, in the age of railroads, urbanization, mass meetings, gospel hymnody, and organized evangelistic campaigns. Moody's style is famously plain.
Selected Sermons and Reformation Treatises gathers the Luther who speaks from pulpit, classroom, controversy, and pastoral desk. The center is not one genre but a reformatory voice: the Ninety-Five Theses against indulgence abuse, The Freedom of a Christian, sermons on faith and good works, catechetical teaching, and occasional writings shaped by conflict.
Maupassant's stories, written mostly between 1880 and 1890, are compact, ironic and often brutal studies of French life: Norman peasants, Parisian clerks, prostitutes, bourgeois families, soldiers and the provincial gentry. This selection gathers many of the best known, which typically include the following.
Sense and Sensibility follows two sisters whose temperaments represent the opposed values of its title. When Henry Dashwood dies, Norland Park in Sussex passes to John, his son by a first marriage, who promises to provide for his stepmother and half-sisters but is talked out of any real generosity by his grasping wife Fanny.
Donne's Sermons and Devotions upon Emergent Occasions bring the metaphysical imagination into pulpit and sickroom. The sermons, including Death's Duel, display a preacher fascinated by mortality, judgment, resurrection, the body, and the unstable boundary between private self and Christian community.
Sermons and Letter from Birmingham Jail brings together Martin Luther King Jr.'s public theology and civil-rights argument at their most concentrated. The sermon tradition behind King includes the Black church, biblical prophecy, social gospel, liberal theology, and the cadences of African American sacred speech.
Wesley's Sermons on Several Occasions and Primitive Physick make an unusually strong pairing for a medical classics library. The sermons define Methodist teaching on salvation, new birth, sanctification, practical holiness, the means of grace, Christian perfection, money, self-denial, and social responsibility.
Bernard's Sermons on the Song of Songs are among the central monuments of medieval monastic spirituality. They do not offer a continuous modern commentary on every verse.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom is Lawrence's account of his two years with the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire, from his first visit to the Hejaz in October 1916 to the entry into Damascus in October 1918. It opens with an introductory chapter that admits the book's political bad conscience: Lawrence knew that Britain and France had already divided the Arab lands in the Sykes–Picot agreement while he encouraged the Arabs to fight for independence.
Shane is a short Western novel in sixteen chapters, told years afterward by Bob Starrett, who was about eleven in the summer of 1889 when a stranger rode into his family's Wyoming valley. The rider, dressed in dark, fine clothes and calling himself only Shane, stops at the homestead of Joe Starrett, Bob's father, and Joe's wife, Marian.
Siddhartha is a short, lyrical novel set in India in the time of the Buddha, following the spiritual journey of a young man who seeks enlightenment through experience rather than doctrine. Siddhartha is the handsome, gifted son of a Brahmin, admired by all and loved by his friend Govinda.
Silas Marner is George Eliot's short novel of a lonely linen-weaver restored to human fellowship by a child. In his youth Silas belonged to a strict dissenting congregation at Lantern Yard in a northern manufacturing town, where he was respected for his piety and for the cataleptic fits the brethren took for spiritual visitations.
This paired entry sets Jonathan Edwards's most famous terror sermon beside his narrative of revival in Northampton and neighboring towns. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God is often remembered for its imagery of danger, wrath, and suspended judgment, but its structure is theological before it is theatrical.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight opens at Arthur's Christmas court, where a green stranger interrupts the feast with a beheading game. Gawain accepts the challenge, cuts off the Green Knight's head, and must seek the Green Chapel a year later to receive the return blow.
This volume, published in New York in 1922 as Three Plays, brought Pirandello's theatre to English readers. It contains Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) and Henry IV (1922), both translated by Edward Storer, and Right You Are!
Sixty Stories is Donald Barthelme's own selection of his short fiction from roughly two decades, drawn from collections such as Come Back, Dr. Caligari, Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts, City Life, Sadness, Amateurs and Great Days, together with some previously uncollected pieces. The stories are short, often only a few pages, and are among the defining works of American postmodern fiction.
In March 1869 the Louisiana legislature passed an act entitled "An act to protect the health of the city of New Orleans," which chartered the Crescent City Live-Stock Landing and Slaughter-House Company and gave it for twenty-five years the sole right to maintain stock landings and slaughterhouses in the parishes of Orleans, Jefferson and St. Bernard. Every butcher in that district of over a thousand square miles had to bring his animals to the company's slaughterhouse below the city and pay its fees.
Shakespeare's Sonnets is a sequence of 154 fourteen-line poems, nearly all in the form now named after him: three quatrains rhyming abab cdcd efef and a closing couplet gg, in iambic pentameter. The sequence has no plot in the ordinary sense, but readers since the eighteenth century have traced a loose story.
These three Senate speeches were the central statements in the long debate of 1850 over the lands won from Mexico, and the last great addresses of the three statesmen of their generation. The Mexican War had added California and the Southwest.
St. Dymphna and the Geel Colony is less a single book than a layered dossier: a thirteenth-century Latin Vita by Pierre of Cambrai, a medieval shrine in the Brabant town of Geel, and a centuries-long practice of boarding mentally ill people with local families. The legend tells of an Irish princess whose widowed father, deranged by grief and desire, attempts to marry his daughter because she resembles her dead mother.
Patrick's own writings are the narrow bridge between the global St. Patrick's Day figure and a real late Roman Christian voice. The Confessio begins with a self-portrait of abasement: Patrick calls himself a sinner, unlearned, rustic, and contemptible to many.
St. Thomas Becket and the Canterbury Miracles traces a murder into a medical archive. Becket's political story is familiar: the brilliant royal chancellor becomes archbishop of Canterbury, clashes with Henry II over ecclesiastical liberty and royal jurisdiction, goes into exile, returns under tense compromise, and is killed in the cathedral on 29 December 1170 by knights acting in the atmosphere of the king's fury.
St. Vitus and the Dancing Mania joins two histories that later language often confuses: the hagiographic cult of a youthful martyr and the medical naming of involuntary or epidemic movement. The saint layer is late antique and medieval.
The Statesman (Politikos) is one of Plato's late dialogues, usually dated to the 360s or 350s BC. It continues the conversation of the Sophist, held the day before: a visitor from Elea, a follower of Parmenides, has defined the sophist, and now, at Socrates' request, he undertakes to define the statesman or king.
Mr. Utterson, a reserved and loyal London lawyer, takes his Sunday walk with his kinsman Richard Enfield, who points out a shabby door in a by-street and tells how, at three one winter morning, he saw a small man trample a little girl and walk on. Caught and threatened, the man paid close to a hundred pounds in compensation with a cheque signed by a respected gentleman.
Structural Anthropology (Anthropologie structurale) is a collection of seventeen essays by the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, published by Plon in Paris in 1958 and translated into English by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf for Basic Books in 1963. In his preface Lévi-Strauss explains that he chose them from roughly a hundred papers written over some thirty years; most had appeared in journals between the mid-1940s and the mid-1950s, and two were printed for the first time in the book.
Sts. Cosmas and Damian are the physician saints par excellence: twin or paired martyrs, healers without payment, patrons of doctors and surgeons, and subjects of one of medieval art's strangest surgical miracles. The historical core is modest.
Sts. Roch and Sebastian became plague saints through two different imaginative routes. Sebastian is an older martyr of the Roman persecution tradition.
Studies on Hysteria is the classic collaborative text from which psychoanalysis narrates much of its beginning. It opens with the preliminary communication on hysterical symptoms, then presents case histories including Anna O., Emmy von N., Lucy R., Katharina, and Elisabeth von R., followed by theoretical and therapeutic reflections.
The Summa Theologiae, traditionally called the Summa Theologica, is Aquinas's unfinished synthesis of Christian theology, written, as its prologue says, for beginners who were confused by the disorder and repetition of existing textbooks. It contains some 512 questions divided into about 2,600 articles, each built on the same disciplined form inherited from university disputation.
Surprised by Joy is C. S. Lewis's account of his life from early childhood to his acceptance of Christianity in 1931. Lewis says in his preface that the book is not a full autobiography but the story of his conversion, and that it follows one thread: his experience of what he calls Joy, a sudden, piercing longing for something unnamed that is itself more desirable than any ordinary satisfaction.
Swann's Way (Du côté de chez Swann) is the first volume of Marcel Proust's seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time, which C. K. Scott Moncrieff translated under the title Remembrance of Things Past. Grasset issued it at Proust's expense in November 1913.
This selection gathers six of Edgar Allan Poe's best-known tales, two of them detective stories and four of them tales of terror, written between 1839 and 1846 and printed here from the Raven Edition of his works. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) opens with an essay on the analytical mind and introduces C. Auguste Dupin, a poor but brilliant Parisian gentleman who shares lodgings with the unnamed narrator.
Tales from Shakespeare retells twenty of Shakespeare's plays as prose stories for children. A short preface explains the method: the authors keep Shakespeare's own words wherever they can, avoid words that came into English after his time, and hope the tales will send young readers on to the plays themselves when they are older.
Tanglewood Tales is Nathaniel Hawthorne's second book of Greek myths retold for children, a sequel to A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. In a short introduction called The Wayside, Hawthorne pretends that the stories were written by his young friend Eustace Bright, a Williams College student who had told the first set to a group of children at Tanglewood in the Berkshires; Eustace visits Hawthorne's snowy Concord hillside with six new stories, and Hawthorne agrees to act as editor.
Testament of Youth is Vera Brittain's memoir of the years 1900 to 1925, centred on the First World War, written to show what the war meant to a generation of women. It begins with her provincial girlhood in Buxton, where she chafes against the expectations placed on a middle-class daughter, educates herself, and fights to be allowed to sit the entrance examination for Oxford.
That Hideous Strength, subtitled A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups, completes the trilogy that began with Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, though it moves the action from other planets to an English university town. Mark Studdock, a young sociologist and fellow of Bracton College in Edgestow, longs to belong to the inner circle of the college's Progressive Element.
The Abolition of Man is the text of three lectures C. S. Lewis gave as the Riddell Memorial Lectures at King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne, then part of the University of Durham, in February 1943, and published that year by Oxford University Press with the subtitle Reflections on Education with Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools. The first lecture, Men without Chests, begins with a small English textbook for schoolchildren, which Lewis calls The Green Book and whose authors he names Gaius and Titius out of courtesy.
In a Tuscan village the carpenter Mastro Cherry finds a log that cries out when he strikes it, and gladly hands it to his poor friend Geppetto, who carves it into a marionette and names him Pinocchio. The puppet runs off before his feet are finished, gets Geppetto taken to jail, and kills the Talking Cricket with a hammer when it warns him that disobedient boys come to grief.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes collects the first twelve short stories about the consulting detective of 221B Baker Street, each narrated by his friend Dr. John Watson. In A Scandal in Bohemia the King of Bohemia hires Holmes to recover a compromising photograph from the singer Irene Adler; Holmes, disguised first as a groom and then as a clergyman, tricks her into revealing its hiding place, but she sees through him and escapes with her new husband, leaving Holmes the admiring loser.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a comic and nostalgic novel of boyhood set in the 1840s in St. Petersburg, a small Missouri town on the Mississippi modelled on Twain's Hannibal. Tom is an orphan living with his kind, anxious Aunt Polly, his priggish half-brother Sid and his cousin Mary.
The Aeneid tells how Aeneas, a Trojan survivor, travels from ruined Troy to Italy to found the lineage that will become Rome. The poem opens with storm and displacement: Juno hates the Trojans, Aeolus releases winds, and Aeneas reaches Carthage.
The Age of Alexander is a collection of nine of Plutarch's Lives covering the Greek world in the fourth and early third centuries BCE, from the decline of Sparta and Thebes through the rise of Macedon and the conquests of Alexander to the struggles of his successors. Removed from their original Roman pairings, they read as a sequence of Greek history told through character.
The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes, is Thomas Bulfinch's prose retelling of Greek and Roman mythology, with shorter chapters on Egyptian, Eastern, Norse and Celtic belief, first published in Boston in 1855. Bulfinch, a bank clerk with a Harvard classical education, wrote it so that ordinary readers could understand the mythological allusions in English poetry and speech.
This volume contains Tacitus' two earliest works, both written in 98 CE, soon after the assassination of the emperor Domitian. The Agricola is a biography and eulogy of the author's father-in-law, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, who died in 93.
The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory (La Théorie physique: son objet et sa structure) was published in Paris in 1906 by Pierre Duhem, professor of theoretical physics at Bordeaux, after appearing as a series of articles in the Revue de philosophie. A second edition (1914) added two essays, 'The Physics of a Believer' and 'The Value of Physical Theory'.
The Alexiad is the life and reign of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos (ruled 1081–1118), written by his daughter Anna in fifteen books. In her preface Anna introduces herself as born in the purple and trained in Aristotle and Plato, explains that her husband, the Caesar Nikephoros Bryennios, had begun a history of her father but died of an illness brought home from campaign, and promises to praise or blame as the facts require.
The Anatomy of Melancholy presents itself as a medical treatise, laid out in the scholastic manner of partitions, sections, members and subsections, on 'what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptoms, prognostics, and several cures of it'. It is also an encyclopedia of Renaissance learning, a compendium of quotation from more than a thousand authors, a satire on human folly, and a consolation for its author and readers.
The Annals of Imperial Rome narrates the Julio-Claudian empire from the death of Augustus through Tiberius, Claudius and Nero, though parts are lost. Tacitus writes history as the psychology of autocracy.
The Anti-Federalist Papers are not a single coordinated book but a body of pamphlets, essays, speeches, and newspaper pieces opposing or demanding amendments to the proposed Constitution. Their writers differed among themselves, but they shared alarm about the scale and power of the new federal government.
The Antichrist is Nietzsche's most direct assault on Christianity as a moral and cultural force. It argues that Christianity reverses life-affirming values, sanctifies weakness, elevates pity, falsifies psychology, and turns resentment into virtue.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments is Andrew Lang's 1898 selection of the Thousand and One Nights for children, retold in English from Antoine Galland's early eighteenth-century French version. The frame story comes first.
The Argonautica is the one full Greek epic of the voyage of the Argo that survives from antiquity, composed in four books of dactylic hexameter by the Alexandrian scholar-poet Apollonius of Rhodes in the third century BC. King Pelias of Iolcus, warned by an oracle to beware a man wearing one sandal, sees Jason arrive having lost a sandal in the river Anaurus, and sends him to fetch the golden fleece from Colchis at the far end of the Black Sea.
The Art of the Commonplace gathers Wendell Berry's agrarian essays on land, household, work, food, technology, economy, conservation, and the moral scale of community. The collection's title points to Berry's method: he resists abstraction by returning arguments to farms, watersheds, kitchens, tools, soil, neighbors, and inherited obligations.
The Art of War is a short treatise of thirteen chapters, around six thousand Chinese characters, written as a sequence of terse sayings introduced by the formula 'Sun Tzu said'. It begins by declaring war a matter of life and death for the state, to be studied through five constant factors: the moral law that binds people to their ruler, heaven (weather and seasons), earth (terrain and distance), the commander's qualities, and method and discipline.
Dell'arte della guerra, printed in Florence in 1521, is the only one of Machiavelli's political works published in his lifetime. It is a dialogue in seven books, set in 1516 in the Orti Oricellari, the shaded garden of Cosimo Rucellai, where the humanist circle that Machiavelli frequented met to discuss Livy and republican government.
The Arthashastra, the 'science of material gain' or of statecraft, is a vast Sanskrit treatise on how a king should acquire, protect and govern territory. Written mostly in prose with occasional verses, it is divided into fifteen books and some 150 chapters, and covers almost every aspect of administration with remarkable detail and an unsentimental realism that has led to comparisons with Machiavelli.
The Athenian Constitution (Athenaion Politeia) is a short treatise in two parts on the government of Athens, written in the 330s or 320s BC by Aristotle or by a member of his school as one of the 158 constitutions the Lyceum is said to have collected. It was known only from quotations until a papyrus roll, copied on the back of farm accounts from Roman Egypt, was acquired by the British Museum and identified by Frederic G. Kenyon, who published the text and his translation in 1891.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini is the life story of a Florentine goldsmith and sculptor, dictated in his late fifties and carried from his birth on All Saints' night in 1500 to 1562. It opens with Cellini's claim that anyone who has done excellent work and is honest should write his own life after forty, and with his ancestry and childhood: his father Giovanni, a musician and maker of instruments, wants him to be a flute-player, and once boxes his ears so that he will remember the salamander they have seen in the fire.
The Bacchae and Other Plays presents Euripides at his most dangerous: gods are real, but that does not make them gentle. The Bacchae begins when Dionysus arrives at Thebes in disguise to punish the royal house for denying his divinity and slandering his mother Semele.
The Bhagavad Gita is a dialogue of seven hundred verses in eighteen chapters, forming part of the sixth book of the Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit epic of the war between two branches of a royal family, the Pandavas and the Kauravas. It is set on the battlefield of Kurukshetra at the moment before battle begins.
The Bible is the sacred scripture of Judaism and Christianity, and the reference edition presents the King James Version of 1611, the most influential translation in English. It is a library rather than a single book.
The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music, published in 1872 when Nietzsche was a twenty-seven-year-old professor at Basel, argues that Greek tragedy arose from the union of two opposed artistic drives, which he names after the gods Apollo and Dionysus. The Apollonian is the drive toward clear form, measure and individuation, whose physiological analogue is the dream, in which every person is a perfect artist of images.
The Black Arrow is set in England during the Wars of the Roses, when York and Lancaster fought for the crown and lesser lords changed sides as fortune moved. Richard Shelton, called Dick, is the young ward of Sir Daniel Brackley, a grasping knight who holds the Moat House at Tunstall and has grown rich by seizing other men's lands.
The Blue Fairy Book (1889), edited by Andrew Lang, gathers European fairy tales into one household volume that became the first of the famous colored fairy books. Lang and his collaborators retell stories from Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Madame d’Aulnoy, and other streams so that children meet Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin, and many less anthologized tales in a single readable English.
The Book of Enoch, usually called 1 Enoch, is a collection of five Jewish apocalyptic books gathered under the name of Enoch, the patriarch of Genesis 5 who walked with God and was not, for God took him. Written in stages during the Second Temple period, it presents Enoch as a righteous scribe who is shown the secrets of heaven, earth and the coming judgment and writes them down for his son Methuselah and for a remote generation.
The Borrowers is told within a frame. A girl called Kate, about ten, sits crocheting with old Mrs May, who lives in two rooms of Kate's parents' house.
The Boxcar Children follows four orphaned brothers and sisters: Henry, fourteen; Jessie, twelve; Violet, ten; and Benny, six. After their parents die, the children set out on their own rather than go to their grandfather, whom they have never met and believe to be a hard man who disliked their mother.
The Bronze Bow is set in Galilee in the years of Jesus' public ministry, under Roman rule. Its hero, Daniel bar Jamin, is eighteen and has lived for five years with an outlaw band in the hills above his village of Ketzah, near Capernaum.
The Brothers Karamazov centers on the murder of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a sensual, neglectful father whose sons embody conflicting responses to desire, faith, reason, and guilt. Dmitri is passionate, impulsive, indebted, and publicly at war with his father over inheritance and Grushenka.
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories is a selection of Lovecraft's tales, edited with notes by the Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi, tracing his development from early Poe-influenced pieces to the 'cosmic horror' for which he is known. Lovecraft's central idea is that humanity is an insignificant accident in a vast, indifferent universe, and that knowledge of this truth is enough to destroy sanity.
The Call of the Wild follows Buck, a huge St. Bernard and Scotch shepherd cross, through one terrible and transforming year of the Klondike gold rush. Buck lives as the lord of Judge Miller's estate in the Santa Clara Valley of California until Manuel, a gardener's helper who needs money for his lottery gambling, sells him to dog traders.
The Canon of Medicine (al-Qanun fi al-Tibb) is Ibn Sina's encyclopedia of medicine in five books, and Book I, the subject of this record, sets out the general principles on which the rest depends. It opens with a definition: medicine is the science of the states of the human body in health and when not in health, and of how health is lost and restored, with a theoretical part that gives knowledge and a practical part that guides the physician's judgment.
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories framed by a pilgrimage. One April, the narrator, who calls himself Chaucer, is lodging at the Tabard Inn in Southwark when a company of some twenty-nine pilgrims arrives on its way to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury.
The Chemical History of a Candle prints six lectures that Michael Faraday gave to a 'juvenile audience' at the Royal Institution in London over the Christmas season of 1860–61. Faraday opens by declaring that no door into natural philosophy is more open than the burning candle, and he keeps the whole course tied to that single object while it leads him through heat, chemistry, the air and the living body.
Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Civili, in three books, narrate the first two years of the war he fought against Pompey and the senatorial party, from January 49 BCE to the beginning of the Alexandrian war in late 48. The work is unfinished, breaking off in Alexandria, and it is the most openly political of his writings: its constant task is to show that Caesar was forced into war by a faction of personal enemies, that he repeatedly sought peace, and that he treated defeated fellow citizens with a mercy his opponents never showed.
The Collar is a 36-line lyric from George Herbert's The Temple, the book of religious poems published in 1633, a few months after his death. Its speaker, a man bound to God's service and often read as a priest like Herbert himself, rises in revolt against that service.
The Comedy of Errors takes place in a single day in the Greek city of Ephesus, where two sets of identical twins, separated as babies, are mistaken for each other until the whole town seems bewitched. Egeon, an old merchant of Syracuse, has been arrested because the two cities are at war and any Syracusan found in Ephesus must pay a thousand marks or die.
The Commonwealth of Oceana, published in London in 1656 during Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate, is a model constitution for a republic set in an island called Oceana, which is England under a thin disguise. Scotland is Marpesia, Ireland Panopea, London Emporium, and Cromwell himself appears as Olphaus Megaletor, the Lord Archon or sole legislator who founds the commonwealth and then gives up his power.
The Communist Manifesto presents modern history as the history of class struggle and casts the bourgeoisie as both revolutionary and exploitative. Marx and Engels argue that capitalism has dissolved feudal relations, expanded world markets, concentrated production, remade family and nation, and subjected older loyalties to cash exchange.
The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman gathers the evolving work of a poet who made the self expansive enough to contain a democracy. The center is Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855 and revised across multiple editions until Whitman's death.
The Conquest of Gaul is a common English title for Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico, seven books narrating his campaigns of 58 to 52 BCE, completed by an eighth book written after his death by his officer Aulus Hirtius. Each book covers one campaigning year, and Caesar speaks of himself throughout in the third person, a device that makes political self-advertisement read like a dispatch.
The Consolation of Philosophy is a prison dialogue between the condemned Boethius and Lady Philosophy, who appears at his bedside when he is sick with grief and self-pity. The work alternates prose and metre.
Published in Munich in 1937 under the one-word title Nachfolge (following, or discipleship), The Cost of Discipleship is Bonhoeffer's attempt to recover the plain command of Jesus to follow him from a Lutheran church that had, he believed, turned grace into a doctrine requiring nothing. Its first chapter sets the terms for the whole book with the contrast between cheap and costly grace.
The Count of Monte Cristo is a vast novel of injustice and revenge. In 1815 Edmond Dantès, a young sailor of Marseilles, returns from a voyage on which he carried a letter from Napoleon's island of Elba as a dying captain requested.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich begins at the end. In the law courts, colleagues of Ivan Ilyich Golovin read in the newspaper of his death, and each thinks first of the promotions and transfers it will bring.
The Descent of Man applies evolutionary theory to human beings and develops Darwin's account of sexual selection. Darwin argues that humans share ancestry with other animals and that differences between human and animal mental faculties are differences of degree rather than absolute kind.
The Divine Comedy begins with Dante lost in a dark wood midway through life, unable to climb the sunlit hill because beasts block his way. Virgil comes as guide and leads him through Inferno, where punishments reveal the inner logic of disordered love, violence, fraud, and treachery.
The Door in the Wall is set in England in the fourteenth century, in the reign of Edward III, during the years of the Black Death. Robin, the ten-year-old son of the knight Sir John de Bureford and his wife Lady Maud, has been raised to expect the life of a nobleman's son: he is to go as a page to the household of Sir Peter de Lindsay, learn the arts of chivalry and one day become a knight like his father.
Around AD 117 the Ninth Legion, the Hispana, marched north from Eboracum into Caledonia to put down a rising of the tribes and was never seen again; its bronze eagle standard was lost with it. Some years later Marcus Flavius Aquila, whose father commanded the legion's First Cohort and vanished with it, arrives as a young centurion to command a cohort of auxiliaries at the frontier fort of Isca Dumnoniorum in the far southwest of Britain.
The Early Christian Creeds gathers short doctrinal texts that became durable summaries of Christian identity: baptismal symbols, conciliar formulas and later Western confessions. The Old Roman Symbol and the Apostles' Creed preserve the shape of early baptismal confession: belief in God the Father, Jesus Christ his Son, the Spirit, the church, forgiveness, resurrection and life.
The Epic of Gilgamesh is the great poem of ancient Mesopotamia, known in its fullest form from the standard Babylonian version on clay tablets, many of them from the library of the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal at Nineveh. The library holds no text of it: the public-domain English versions, by Stephen Langdon (1917), Morris Jastrow and Albert T. Clay (1920) and R. Campbell Thompson (1928), are fragmentary scholarly editions of a poem still being recovered, so this record describes the epic without quoting it.
Darwin's Expression of the Emotions is one of the founding works of comparative psychology. It asks how humans and animals express fear, anger, joy, grief, shame, disgust, attention, and other states through face, posture, voice, tears, hair, muscles, and involuntary action.
Book I of The Faerie Queene, the Legend of the Knight of the Red Cross, or of Holiness, tells how a young, untried knight wins his spurs by freeing a kingdom from a dragon and, on the way, learns how easily a Christian soul is deceived. Gloriana, the Faerie Queene, has sent the Redcrosse Knight, who bears a bloody cross on breast and shield, to help the lady Una, whose royal parents are besieged in their brazen castle by a monstrous dragon.
The Fall is a short novel in six chapters made up entirely of the monologue of Jean-Baptiste Clamence, a Frenchman living in Amsterdam, who over five days talks to a stranger he meets at a sailors' bar called Mexico City. The listener never speaks in the text; his replies are implied by Clamence's answers.
The Fall of Constantinople, 1453 is Steven Runciman's narrative of the siege and capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II, published by Cambridge University Press in 1965 to mark more than five centuries since the event. In about 250 pages it sets the background, narrates the siege of spring 1453 day by day, and follows the consequences for the Greeks, the Turks and Europe.
This record surveys the eyewitness and near-contemporary narratives of the Ottoman siege and capture of Constantinople, from 6 April to 29 May 1453, and the perspectives each brings. The library does not include a full text: the accounts were written in Italian, Greek, Latin and Ottoman Turkish, and the standard English translations (Barbaro by J. R. Melville Jones, 1969; Sphrantzes by Marios Philippides, 1980; Doukas by Harry J. Magoulias, 1975) are under copyright, so no quotations are given.
The Fall of the Roman Republic is a selection of six of Plutarch's Roman Lives, arranged to tell the story of the Republic's collapse in the century before Augustus: Marius, Sulla, Crassus, Pompey, Caesar and Cicero. Read in sequence, they show how military glory, personal ambition and civil war destroyed Rome's traditional government.
The Fate of Rome is a history of the Roman Empire from its height in the second century AD to the crises of the seventh, written by the classicist Kyle Harper and published by Princeton University Press in 2017 in its series on the history of the ancient world. Its argument is that the empire's long story cannot be told only through emperors, armies and barbarian peoples: changes in climate and the arrival of new infectious diseases were active forces that repeatedly struck a society whose own success had made it vulnerable.
The Federalist Papers are eighty-five essays written to persuade New York voters to ratify the proposed United States Constitution. Published under the shared pseudonym Publius, they defend a stronger federal union against fears that centralized power would destroy liberty.
The Founding Documents gathers the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights as one civic anthology. The Declaration, adopted by the Continental Congress in July 1776, announces separation from Britain by appealing to the laws of nature and of nature’s God, to the self-evident truths that all men are created equal and endowed with unalienable rights, and to government deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed.
The Gay Science, also translated as The Joyful Wisdom, is Nietzsche's book of convalescence, experiment, and dangerous cheerfulness. Its aphorisms and songs range across knowledge, art, women, morality, religion, science, friendship, self-creation, health, and style.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, published by Macmillan in London in February 1936, is John Maynard Keynes's attempt to explain why an economy can remain for long periods with many people out of work. Written during the Great Depression, it argues that the classical economics Keynes had been taught describes only a special case, one of full employment, and that a more general theory is needed for the world as it is.
Jonas is eleven and lives with his father, a Nurturer who cares for newborns, his mother, who holds an important post in the Department of Justice, and his younger sister Lily in a tidy, enclosed Community where nearly everything is decided for its citizens. Families are assigned, each with one son and one daughter; babies are born to Birthmothers and given out at the yearly December Ceremony; children receive bicycles at Nine and jobs at Twelve; precise language is enforced with public apologies; everyone takes a daily pill once the Stirrings of adolescent desire begin; and those who break the rules three times, the old, and newborns who fail to thrive are "released" to a vague Elsewhere.
The Golden Ass is a comic, erotic, violent and religious novel about curiosity transformed into degradation and salvation. Lucius, a young man fascinated by magic, travels in Thessaly, a region famous for witches.
The Golden Bough sets out to explain one strange rule. In the sacred grove of Diana at Nemi, in the Alban Hills near Rome, the priest, called the King of the Wood, held office until a runaway slave broke a bough from a certain tree and killed him in single combat, becoming priest in turn.
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles is Padraic Colum's retelling for young readers of the voyage of the Argo, with many other Greek myths woven into it as stories told by the heroes on the way. It was published in New York by Macmillan in 1921, with illustrations by Willy Pogány, and was named a Newbery Honor book in 1922.
This entry gathers the Golden Legend chapters and adjacent medieval traditions behind saints whose images still move through calendars, holidays, icons, hospitals, medals, advertising, and folklore. Jacobus de Voragine did not write critical biography in the modern sense.
Hugh Kennedy's book narrates the conquests by which Muslim Arab armies, within about a century of the Prophet Muhammad's death in 632, came to rule lands from Spain and Morocco to Central Asia and the Indus valley. It opens with a chapter on the sources, chiefly Arabic histories such as those of al-Baladhuri and al-Tabari, written down some two centuries after the events, and on how to use their mix of genealogy, heroic tale and administrative memory.
The Great Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner and war veteran who comes East in the spring of 1922 to learn the bond business and rents a small house in West Egg, on Long Island, beside the vast mansion of the mysterious Jay Gatsby. Across the bay in fashionable East Egg live Nick's cousin Daisy Buchanan and her husband Tom, a rich former Yale football player, along with Daisy's friend Jordan Baker, a champion golfer.
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918–1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's history of the Soviet system of prisons, labour camps and exile, which he likened to an archipelago of islands scattered across the country, visible only to those taken there. Written in secret between 1958 and 1968, it draws on Solzhenitsyn's own eight years as a prisoner and on the testimony of some two hundred and twenty-seven other former prisoners, together with published Soviet sources.
The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children is Charles Kingsley's retelling of three Greek hero legends, Perseus, the Argonauts and Theseus, written for his children Rose, Maurice and Mary. The preface is signed from Farley Court in Advent 1855, and the book was published by Macmillan in 1856.
The Hiding Place is Corrie ten Boom's memoir, written with John and Elizabeth Sherrill, of her family's life in Haarlem, their work hiding Jews during the German occupation of the Netherlands, and her imprisonment with her sister Betsie in Nazi prisons and camps. It opens in January 1937 with the hundredth anniversary of the watch shop in the narrow old house called the Beje, where Corrie, then in her forties and unmarried, lives with her father Casper and her older sister Betsie.
The Histories is the first great work of prose history in the Western tradition, an inquiry (historia) into the causes and course of the wars between the Greeks and the Persian Empire. Herodotus states his purpose in the opening: to preserve the memory of great and marvellous deeds of Greeks and barbarians, and especially the reason why they fought one another.
The Histories is Tacitus's narrative of the Roman Empire from 1 January AD 69 onward. It originally ran to Domitian's death in 96, but only Books I-IV and the first part of Book V survive, covering about eighteen months.
Book VI of Polybius's Histories interrupts his narrative of the Second Punic War at its darkest moment for Rome, the defeat at Cannae in 216 BC, to explain how a city that had just lost an army could recover and, within fifty-three years, bring nearly the whole known world under its power. His answer is the Roman constitution.
Books I-V are the first pentad of Livy's vast history of Rome from its foundation, carrying the story from the arrival of Aeneas in Italy to the recovery of the city after the Gallic sack of about 390 BC. Livy opens with a preface that admits the earliest traditions are closer to poetry than to record, and then states his purpose: history sets before the reader examples of every kind of conduct, to be imitated or avoided, and Rome, he believes, was richer in good examples than any other state until luxury and avarice came late.
The History of the Church tells the story of Christianity from the apostles to Eusebius’ own fourth-century world, where persecution gives way to imperial favor. Eusebius organizes the past through succession: bishops, teachers, heresies, writings, persecutions and martyrs.
Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire runs in seventy-one chapters from the age of the Antonines in the second century to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the condition of the city of Rome in the fifteenth century. The library holds a selection from the Milman edition, with Gibbon's footnotes and the added notes of the editors: Chapters I to III, the General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West that close the third volume, and Chapter LXVIII on Mahomet the Second and the capture of Constantinople.
The History of the Peloponnesian War is Thucydides’ unfinished account of the war between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 411 BCE. Unlike Herodotus’ broad storytelling, Thucydides narrows his gaze to power, fear, interest, decision and the deterioration of civic language under pressure.
Tom Jones tells the story of a foundling raised by a good country gentleman, his expulsion from home, his adventures on the road and in London, and his final restoration and marriage. The eighteen books are each opened by an essay in which the narrator talks with the reader about the art of writing, critics, love, or human nature.
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again tells how Bilbo Baggins, a comfortable, respectable hobbit of Bag-End under the Hill, is drawn into an adventure he never wanted. The wizard Gandalf marks his door, and thirteen dwarves led by Thorin Oakenshield arrive for an unexpected party.
The Homeric Hymns are a collection of thirty-three anonymous Greek poems addressed to the gods, composed in the same dactylic hexameter and formulaic language as the Iliad and Odyssey. Ancient audiences treated many of them as Homer's own; most scholars now see them as the work of different singers over a long period, with the four great narrative hymns usually dated to the archaic age and some short pieces much later.
The Horse and His Boy takes place during the golden age of Narnia, while the four Pevensie children reign at Cair Paravel, and it happens mostly in Calormen, the hot, crowded empire far to the south. Shasta, a boy of about eleven, lives in a fishing village with Arsheesh, a hard man who works him like a servant.
The Hound of the Baskervilles brings Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to Dartmoor to investigate a family curse. It opens in Baker Street with a walking stick left by a visitor, from which Holmes deduces a young country doctor with a curly-haired spaniel.
The House at Pooh Corner (1928) is the second and last book of A. A. Milne's stories about Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Forest. It opens with a short verse dedication to Milne's wife and a mock-introduction called a Contradiction, in which the narrator explains that Christopher Robin and his friends, already introduced in the first book, are now going to say good-bye.
The Huxley-Wilberforce Debate is the name later given to an unscheduled exchange on Saturday, 30 June 1860, at the Oxford meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, seven months after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. It was not a formal debate with set speeches and a motion, and no transcript was taken.
The Idiot tells what happens when a man of complete goodness and simplicity enters the money-driven society of St. Petersburg in the late 1860s. Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, the last of an old noble family, returns to Russia after four years in a Swiss sanatorium, where Dr. Schneider treated him for the epileptic illness that left him so slow as a child that people called him an idiot.
The Iliad tells of a few weeks in the tenth year of the Greek siege of Troy, and its subject, announced in the first line, is the wrath of Achilles. A plague sent by Apollo ravages the Greek camp because Agamemnon, commander of the Achaeans, has refused to return the captive daughter of Apollo's priest Chryses.
The Innocence of Father Brown collects the first twelve stories about Father Brown, a short, round-faced Roman Catholic priest from Essex with a shabby umbrella and an armful of brown-paper parcels, who solves crimes by understanding the sinners who commit them. In "The Blue Cross" Aristide Valentin, head of the Paris police, lands at Harwich hunting the giant French thief Flambeau and follows a trail of absurdities across London: salt in a sugar bowl, soup thrown at a wall, a window broken and paid for in advance, price labels swapped on a fruit stall.
The Institutes of Justinian is a short official textbook of Roman law, issued at Constantinople on 21 November 533 and given the force of law, together with the Digest, from 30 December of that year. It was written for first-year law students: the preface, addressed to the youth desirous of studying the law, explains that the emperor, having reconquered Africa and set in order both the imperial constitutions and the writings of the old jurists, has commissioned Tribonian, Theophilus and Dorotheus to compose an elementary book so that beginners may learn the law as it is actually in force.
Die Traumdeutung appeared in November 1899 with the date 1900 on its title page, and Freud regarded it as his most important book. Its central claim is that dreams are meaningful psychic acts that can be interpreted, and that every dream, properly analysed, proves to be the fulfilment of a wish.
The Jewish War is Josephus' account of the revolt against Rome from its Hasmonean and Herodian prehistory to the destruction of Jerusalem and the last pockets of resistance. Written after Josephus had defected to the Romans, the work tries to explain a catastrophe to several audiences at once: Jews who had survived it, Romans who had conquered, and Greek-speaking readers who needed Judean politics translated into the language of civil war, faction and providence.
The Journal of John Woolman is the spiritual autobiography of a New Jersey Quaker tailor and minister, begun in his thirty-sixth year and continued until a few days before his death. He opens in Northampton, Burlington County, where as a child he reads the twenty-second chapter of Revelation by the roadside and, soon after, kills a mother robin with a stone and then her nestlings, an act whose horror teaches him that God has placed in every mind a principle of goodness toward all creatures.
The Journey of the Mind into God is Bonaventure's compact map of contemplative ascent, written after meditation on Francis of Assisi's vision of the six-winged seraph at La Verna. The work is structured around six stages, corresponding to the seraph's wings, by which the mind rises through creation, the self, and the names of God before passing beyond conceptual mastery into ecstatic union.
The Jungle Book is a collection of seven animal stories, each followed by a song or poem. The first three tell of Mowgli, a man's cub raised by wolves in the Seeonee hills of central India.
The Koran, or Quran ('recitation'), is the central scripture of Islam. It consists of 114 chapters called suras, of very unequal length, each made up of verses (ayat).
The Lais of Marie de France are twelve short narrative poems in octosyllabic rhyming couplets, preserved together in one manuscript (British Library, Harley 978) with a general prologue in which Marie dedicates them to a 'noble king', probably Henry II. She says she has heard Breton lais, songs commemorating adventures, and has put them into verse so they will not be forgotten.
The Last Battle tells of the end of Narnia, some two hundred years after the reign of Caspian X. Beside Caldron Pool, under the great waterfall in the far west, lives Shift, a clever, ugly old Ape, with his simple friend Puzzle the Donkey, whom he bullies. When a lion's skin washes down the falls, Shift sews it into a coat for Puzzle and, showing him by firelight in a stable on a hill, announces to the Narnians that Aslan has returned.
The Last Days of Socrates gathers four dialogues by Plato that together tell the story of Socrates' trial and death in Athens in 399 BCE: the Euthyphro, the Apology, the Crito and the Phaedo. In the Euthyphro, Socrates meets Euthyphro outside the court where Socrates must answer an indictment for impiety and corrupting the young.
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is set in the wilderness of northern New York during the French and Indian War. Colonel Munro, the Scottish commander of Fort William Henry on Lake George, which the scout calls the Horican, is threatened by the French general Montcalm and his Native allies.
The Library is the only complete handbook of Greek mythology to survive from antiquity. In plain, compressed prose it tells the traditional stories of the gods and heroes in order, from the beginning of the world to the death of Odysseus, organized chiefly by family lines.
Tristram Shandy promises to tell the life and opinions of its narrator, a Yorkshire gentleman, and spends most of its nine volumes failing to reach his life at all. Tristram begins with the moment of his conception in March 1718, when his mother interrupts his father at the critical instant to ask whether he has remembered to wind up the clock.
The Life of Samuel Johnson is James Boswell's account of the poet, essayist, critic and lexicographer Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), arranged year by year and built largely from conversations Boswell wrote down over twenty-one years of friendship. It opens with Johnson's birth in Lichfield, the son of a bookseller, his childhood scrofula, for which his mother took him to London to be touched by Queen Anne, and his schooling.
The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus is the spiritual autobiography that the Carmelite nun Teresa of Avila wrote at the command of her confessors, so that they could judge whether the extraordinary graces she reported came from God. It follows her from childhood in Avila to the founding of the convent of St. Joseph in 1562, and in its middle chapters becomes a treatise on prayer.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe opens during the Second World War, when Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie are sent away from London because of the air raids to stay in the great country house of an old Professor. On a rainy day of hide-and-seek, Lucy, the youngest, climbs into a wardrobe in an empty room and comes out in a snowy wood beside a lamp-post.
The Little Prince is told by a pilot who, as a boy of six, drew a boa constrictor digesting an elephant; every grown-up who saw Drawing Number One took it for a hat, and he gave up art for flying. Years later his engine fails in the Sahara, a thousand miles from anyone, with water for about a week.
Izaak Walton's Lives are short, affectionate biographies of English churchmen, written by a London tradesman and angler who loved the Church of England and the men who served it. The library text is the second volume of the Cassell's National Library edition of 1898, based on John Major's 1825 edition with Austin Dobson's notes, and contains three of the five lives: Richard Hooker (first published 1665), George Herbert (1670) and Robert Sanderson (1678); the lives of Donne and Wotton belong to the first volume and are not included.
The Logic of Scientific Discovery is Karl Popper's account of what makes a theory scientific and how scientific knowledge grows. It first appeared in Vienna in 1934, with the imprint date 1935, as Logik der Forschung, in a series edited by Moritz Schlick and Philipp Frank of the Vienna Circle.
The Lord of the Rings continues the story begun in The Hobbit. Sixty years after his adventure, Bilbo Baggins leaves the Shire on his eleventy-first birthday and, at Gandalf's urging, leaves his magic ring to his young cousin and heir Frodo.
The Mabinogion is the name given to eleven medieval Welsh prose tales, preserved mainly in the White Book of Rhydderch and the Red Book of Hergest, together with the Tale of Taliesin, which Lady Charlotte Guest added from a later source. The library text is Guest's translation in the one-volume form, with her introduction and a few of her notes; it follows her order, opening with the three Arthurian romances.
The Magician's Nephew is the story of how Narnia began and how a wardrobe came to lead into it. In London around 1900, Digory Kirke has been sent to live with his Uncle Andrew and Aunt Letty because his father is in India and his mother is gravely ill.
The Major Symptoms of Hysteria gathers Janet's Harvard lectures into a clear account of dissociation, narrowed consciousness, fixed ideas, amnesia, anesthesia, motor symptoms, crises, and suggestibility. Janet stands close to Charcot but less theatrical; he is interested in how psychological functions fall apart, become dissociated, or continue automatically outside ordinary awareness.
The Master and Margarita interweaves two stories: the visit of the Devil to Soviet Moscow in the 1930s and a novel about Pontius Pilate written by an unnamed author known as the Master. On a hot spring evening at Patriarch's Ponds, the literary bureaucrat Mikhail Berlioz and the young poet Ivan Bezdomny are discussing the non-existence of Jesus when a mysterious foreigner joins them.
The Mayflower Compact is a single paragraph of about two hundred words, signed on 11 November 1620 (Old Style; 21 November by the modern calendar) aboard the ship Mayflower as it lay at anchor in the hook of Cape Cod, in what is now Provincetown Harbor. The ship had left Plymouth, England, in September with about a hundred passengers.
The Meek One (Krotkaya), also translated as A Gentle Creature, is a long short story that Dostoevsky published in his one-man journal A Writer's Diary in November 1876, prompted by newspaper reports of suicides, including that of a young seamstress who leapt from a window holding an icon. In a short preface Dostoevsky calls it a 'fantastic' story, explaining that it is realistic in every respect except its form: it imagines the inner monologue of a man as though a stenographer could record his chaotic thoughts.
The Merchant of Venice joins two stories, a bond for a pound of flesh and a lottery of caskets, and moves between the commercial city of Venice and Belmont, the country estate of the heiress Portia. Antonio, a wealthy merchant, opens the play sad without knowing why.
Howard Pyle’s The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883) gathers the Sherwood outlaw tales into one continuous prose romance for young readers: archery contests, Lincoln green fellowship, clever rescues, and courtesy toward the poor in the days of King Henry. Pyle’s Robin is bold and playful rather than grim; Little John, Friar Tuck, and the merry men turn skill into loyalty.
The Metamorphosis is a novella in three parts about Gregor Samsa, a travelling salesman in cloth who supports his parents and his seventeen-year-old sister Grete, and who wakes one morning in his room to find that he has been changed into a monstrous insect. Kafka tells the story plainly, in the third person and almost entirely from Gregor's point of view, never explaining the transformation and never letting it become a dream.
The Metaphysical Poets is Helen Gardner's anthology of English poets of the seventeenth century who wrote in the style that Samuel Johnson, borrowing a phrase from Dryden, called 'metaphysical'. Johnson complained that in their verse the most heterogeneous ideas were yoked by violence together; T. S. Eliot, in his 1921 review of Herbert Grierson's earlier anthology, praised them for a unified sensibility in which thought and feeling were fused.
The Misanthrope and Other Plays collects several of Molière's comedies; the edition translated by John Wood and David Coward includes The Misanthrope, The Sicilian, Tartuffe, A Doctor in Spite of Himself and The Imaginary Invalid. Together they show the range of Molière's art, from the verse comedy of character to farce, and his satire of hypocrisy, pretension and medicine.
The Moffats follows a year in the life of a family with little money and a great deal of fun in the small Connecticut town of Cranbury, around the time of the First World War. Mama, a widow, earns their living as a dressmaker in the rented yellow house on New Dollar Street, where she lives with her four children: Sylvie, the eldest, gentle and grown-up; Joey, the steady older brother who does the heavy chores; Jane, the imaginative middle girl through whose eyes much of the book is seen; and Rufus, five and a half and always in the middle of something.
The Monroe Doctrine is the name later given to a few passages in President James Monroe's Seventh Annual Message to Congress, sent in writing on December 2, 1823, and read aloud to the new Eighteenth Congress. The library text gives the whole message, so readers can see the famous statements in their setting.
The Moonstone, subtitled A Romance, tells the story of a great yellow diamond taken from India and the year of suspicion that follows its disappearance from an English country house. A Prologue, drawn from a family paper, describes the storming of Seringapatam in 1799, when the officer John Herncastle seizes the jewel from Tipu Sultan's treasury, killing its guardians; one dying Indian warns that the Moonstone will have its vengeance.
The Muqaddimah (Introduction) is the opening part of Ibn Khaldun's universal history, the Kitab al-Ibar, and has long been read on its own as a treatise on the nature of human society and the method of history. Ibn Khaldun wrote it in 1377 during a retreat from court life at the castle of Qal'at Ibn Salama, in the hills of what is now western Algeria, and kept revising it for the rest of his life in Cairo.
The Murder on the Links is Agatha Christie's second Hercule Poirot novel, narrated like the first by Captain Arthur Hastings. Returning from Paris on the Calais boat-train, Hastings meets a pert young actress with black curls who calls herself Cinderella.
Captain Arthur Hastings, invalided home from the Western Front in 1916, meets his old friend John Cavendish and is invited to Styles Court, the Cavendish family's country house in Essex. The house belongs for her lifetime to John's stepmother, the generous and domineering Emily Inglethorp, who has recently married Alfred Inglethorp, a bearded man about twenty years younger whom the family suspect of wanting her money.
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket begins as a sea adventure told by a young Nantucketer whose craving for forbidden experience repeatedly overrides judgment. Pym and his friend Augustus Barnard first make a disastrous drunken voyage in the Ariel, a small boat nearly destroyed before rescue.
Mary Rowlandson's narrative tells of the eleven weeks and five days she spent as a captive during King Philip's War, the conflict of 1675-1676 between the New England colonies and an alliance of Wampanoag, Narragansett, Nipmuc and other Native peoples led in part by the Wampanoag sachem Metacom, whom the English called King Philip. It opens on 10 February 1675, by the Old Style calendar then used in English New England (20 February 1676 in modern reckoning), when a large war party attacks Lancaster, Massachusetts.
The Natural History of Selborne is a book of letters about one Hampshire parish, written by its curate over about twenty years to two learned correspondents: the zoologist Thomas Pennant and the lawyer and antiquary Daines Barrington. White opens with the place itself: its position among the chalk downs and sandy heaths of east Hampshire, its soils, springs and beech hanger, the deep hollow lanes worn into the rock, the forest of Wolmer and its decayed deer.
The Nature of the Physical World is Arthur Eddington's account, for general readers, of what relativity, thermodynamics and quantum theory had done to the picture of the physical world, and of what that picture leaves room for in human experience. It is substantially the Gifford Lectures he gave at the University of Edinburgh from January to March 1927, published in 1928 by Cambridge University Press and Macmillan.
The New Roman Empire is a one-volume narrative history of the eastern Roman Empire, the state modern writers call Byzantium, from the reforms of Diocletian in the late third century to the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. Its author, Anthony Kaldellis, is a historian at the University of Chicago, and the book was published by Oxford University Press at the end of 2023 (many catalogues date it 2024) in more than a thousand pages with maps, color plates and glossaries.
The New York Trilogy gathers three linked short novels: City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room. Each begins from the materials of detective fiction and then dissolves the detective plot into questions of identity, authorship, language and mental disintegration.
The Newburgh Address is the speech George Washington read to the officers of the Continental Army on 15 March 1783 in the Temple, a large log hall the soldiers had built at their winter cantonment near Newburgh, New York. The fighting had largely ended after Yorktown, and peace with Britain was close, but the officers had gone unpaid for months.
The Nibelungenlied is a medieval German epic of courtship, deception, insult and catastrophic revenge. Its first half centers on Siegfried, prince of Xanten, who comes to Worms hoping to win Kriemhild, sister of the Burgundian kings Gunther, Gernot and Giselher.
The Nicomachean Ethics asks what the human good is and how a life can be shaped toward it. Aristotle begins from the idea that every craft, inquiry and action aims at some good, and that the highest practical good is eudaimonia, often translated happiness or flourishing.
The Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus's long return from Troy to Ithaca and of the household that must survive his absence. The poem opens not with Odysseus but with disorder: his son Telemachus is growing up under the pressure of suitors who consume the estate and demand that Penelope choose a new husband.
The Old Man and the Sea follows Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who has gone eighty-four days without taking a fish, as he sails far into the Gulf Stream and hooks a marlin larger than his skiff. Hemingway narrows the plot until skill, endurance, hunger, memory, prayer, and pain are concentrated in one body at sea.
The Old Regime and the Revolution (L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution), published in Paris in June 1856, is Alexis de Tocqueville's study of France before 1789. Its argument is that the Revolution, which its makers believed had broken French history in two, in fact completed a work the monarchy had long been doing: the concentration of power in a central administration and the levelling of the French into similar, separated individuals.
The Oresteia follows the House of Atreus from inherited blood guilt to the foundation of civic justice. Agamemnon opens at Argos, where a watchman sees the beacon announcing Troy’s fall.
The Origins of Totalitarianism is Hannah Arendt's attempt to understand how the Nazi and Soviet regimes, which she treats as a new form of government without precedent, could arise out of European history. It was published in New York by Harcourt, Brace in 1951 (in Britain as The Burden of Our Time).
Les Passions de l'âme, published in Amsterdam and Paris in November 1649, was Descartes's last book and his fullest account of how mind and body interact in emotional life. It grew out of his correspondence with Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, who in 1643 had asked him how an immaterial thinking soul could move a body, and who later pressed him on the regulation of grief and the good life.
The Pearl is a short novella in six chapters, framed as a folk tale retold in the Gulf town of La Paz, on the coast of Baja California. Kino, a poor pearl diver, lives in a brush house by the shore with his wife, Juana, and their infant son, Coyotito.
The Persian Expedition, known in Greek as the Anabasis or 'march up-country', is Xenophon's account of the campaign of 401–399 BCE in which about ten thousand Greek mercenaries followed Cyrus the Younger into Mesopotamia and then fought their way home. Cyrus, younger son of Darius II, gathers an army in Sardis on the pretext of a war against Pisidian raiders, while his real aim is to unseat his brother, King Artaxerxes II.
The narrator, presenting himself as a researcher, announces that the Opera ghost really existed and that he has proved it from archives, the memories of old employees and the papers of a mysterious Persian. In the 1880s the ballet girls of the Paris Opera whisper about a ghost in evening dress with a death's head; the scene-shifter Joseph Buquet, who claims to have seen him, is found hanged in the third cellar.
The Phantom Tollbooth is a comic fantasy about Milo, a boy so bored that nothing seems worth doing, learning, or even noticing. One afternoon he finds a large package in his room containing a toy tollbooth, a map of unfamiliar lands, coins and a rule book.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's only novel, a moral fable told in the polished language of the London drawing room. In the studio of the painter Basil Hallward, the witty Lord Henry Wotton sees an unfinished portrait of an extraordinarily handsome young man and insists on meeting its subject.
John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) is the dream-allegory of Christian fleeing the City of Destruction with a burden on his back, seeking the Celestial City through Slough, Wicket Gate, Hill Difficulty, Vanity Fair, and Doubting Castle. Written by a tinker-preacher in prison, it became the English-speaking world’s most widely read religious narrative after Scripture.
The Plague is a chronicle of an epidemic of bubonic and then pneumonic plague in Oran, a commercial port on the Algerian coast, in an unspecified year of the 1940s. The narrator, who reveals himself only at the end as the physician Bernard Rieux, writes as an impartial witness, drawing also on the notebooks of his friend Jean Tarrou.
The Poetic Edda is the collection of anonymous Old Norse poems about the gods and heroes of the North, preserved chiefly in the Icelandic manuscript known as the Codex Regius, written about 1270. The library text is the complete translation by Henry Adams Bellows, published in 1923 by the American-Scandinavian Foundation, which renders thirty-five poems in alliterative verse and adds a general introduction, an introductory note to each poem and extensive notes.
The Popol Vuh, the Book of the Mat or Council Book, is the sacred and historical book of the K'iche' Maya of highland Guatemala, written in K'iche' by anonymous nobles in the 1550s and preserved in Francisco Ximénez's copy of about 1701. The library's text is not a full translation but Lewis Spence's 1908 English study, which retells and partly translates the first books from Brasseur de Bourbourg's French and Ximénez's Spanish and then comments on them.
The Portable Dorothy Parker collects poems, stories, sketches, reviews and occasional pieces that display Parker's distinctive mixture of speed, polish, cruelty and pain. The volume is not a single narrative but a portable career: the brittle lyrics of disappointed love, the dramatic monologues of women waiting for calls or managing humiliation, the social comedies of parties and hotel rooms, the criticism that makes taste sound conversational, and the political pieces that reveal moral seriousness beneath the pose of urban detachment.
The Portable Faulkner is not a single work in the usual sense but an edited map of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha fiction. Malcolm Cowley arranged stories, novel excerpts, genealogical material and commentary so that readers could see Faulkner's invented county as one continuous historical field.
The Portrait of a Lady follows Isabel Archer, a young American woman brought to Europe by her aunt, Mrs. Touchett, and admired for her intelligence, independence and hunger for experience. At Gardencourt, the English estate of her uncle, Isabel meets her invalid cousin Ralph Touchett, who loves her imaginatively and persuades his dying father to leave her a fortune so that she can live freely.
The Power and the Glory is set in an unnamed Mexican state during an anticlerical campaign that has outlawed or driven out Catholic priests. Its central figure is the last active priest in the region, a fugitive known as the whisky priest because of his alcoholism and moral failures.
The Practice of the Presence of God gathers four conversations with, and fifteen letters by, Brother Lawrence, a lay brother of the Discalced Carmelites in Paris who spent his days in the friary kitchen. The conversations were written down by a visitor, traditionally identified as Joseph de Beaufort, who first met him on 3 August 1666.
The Prince is a short treatise in twenty-six chapters that Machiavelli wrote in 1513, shortly after losing his post in the Florentine chancery, and dedicated, in its final form, to Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino. In the dedication he offers the Medici what he calls his knowledge of the actions of great men, gained from long experience of modern affairs and continual reading of ancient ones.
The Prince and the Pauper opens in London in October 1537, when two boys are born on the same day: Edward Tudor, longed-for son of Henry VIII, and Tom Canty, unwanted son of a thief in Offal Court, off Pudding Lane. Tom is beaten by his father John and his grandmother, but his gentle mother and sisters Nan and Bet love him, and the old priest Father Andrew teaches him reading, a little Latin, and tales of kings.
The Princess and Curdie is George MacDonald's sequel to The Princess and the Goblin, set about a year after the goblins were defeated. Curdie, the miner's son, now nearly thirteen, has grown dull and doubtful; he half believes that Princess Irene's great-great-grandmother was only a child's dream.
The Princess and the Goblin (1872) sends Princess Irene into a mysterious tower where her great-great-grandmother spins a thread of protection, while young miner Curdie discovers goblin plots in the mountain’s underworld. George MacDonald joins fairy-tale wonder to moral courage: Irene must trust what she cannot always see, and Curdie must act with grit when songs and stones are weapons against creatures who hate verse and running water.
The Principles of Psychology is a two-volume, 1,400-page textbook that William James spent twelve years writing for Henry Holt's American Science Series. It sets out to treat psychology as a natural science of mental life, studying feelings, desires, cognitions and decisions together with their bodily conditions, while refusing to reduce the mind to physiology or to dissolve it into atoms of sensation.
The Problems of Philosophy is a short introduction to philosophy, chiefly to the theory of knowledge, written for a general reader. Russell opens by asking whether there is any knowledge so certain that no reasonable person could doubt it, and the fifteen chapters work toward a qualified answer.
The Prose Edda is a handbook of Norse myth and of the art of skaldic poetry, written in Iceland around 1220 by the chieftain and historian Snorri Sturluson. It was meant to teach young poets the old stories and the poetic names (kennings) that the court verse of Scandinavia depended on, at a time when Iceland had been Christian for more than two centuries.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is a long essay in two parts asking why modern rational capitalism, with its disciplined, systematic pursuit of profit as a duty, arose first and most strongly in the Protestant lands of the West. Weber does not argue that Protestantism caused capitalism, and he says so explicitly; he argues that certain forms of Protestant belief helped produce an ethos, a moral attitude toward work and wealth, that fitted the needs of a new economic order.
The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, published by Duckworth in London in late 1914, is D. H. Lawrence's first collection of short fiction: twelve stories, most of them revised from magazine versions written between about 1907 and 1914. Two are set among German soldiers, the rest in the colliery villages and farms of the English Midlands where Lawrence grew up.
Jung's Psychology of Dementia Praecox attempts to make psychotic speech and behavior psychologically intelligible. Working from the Burgholzli clinic, word-association studies, Bleuler's dementia praecox, and Freud's ideas about complexes, Jung argues that seemingly senseless symptoms may express emotionally charged complexes.
The Quiet American is narrated by Thomas Fowler, a weary British journalist in French-controlled Vietnam during the First Indochina War. The novel begins after the death of Alden Pyle, a young American official whose innocence, confidence and political theories have made him dangerous.
The Railway Children tells how Roberta (Bobbie), Peter and Phyllis lose their comfortable London life and find friends, work and courage beside a country railway line. One evening, just after Peter's birthday, two men call, Father goes away with them, and Mother will say only that he has gone on business and that the children must not ask.
The Ramayana, the story of Rama's journey, is one of the two great Sanskrit epics of India, attributed to the sage Valmiki and composed in the sloka couplet. It opens with a frame: Valmiki asks the sage Narada whether any man on earth is perfectly virtuous, hears the life of Rama, and, moved to pity when a fowler shoots one of a pair of curlews, utters the first sloka; the god Brahma then bids him tell the whole tale.
The Raven is a narrative poem of eighteen six-line stanzas in which a grieving student, alone at midnight in December, is visited by a talking bird that can say only one word. It appeared in the New York Evening Mirror on 29 January 1845, ahead of its printing in The American Review, and made Poe famous almost overnight.
The Real Mother Goose (1916) gathers the nursery rhymes English-speaking children have sung for centuries—Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Old Mother Goose, Little Bo-Peep, and scores of others—into one illustrated volume by Blanche Fisher Wright. The rhymes themselves are traditional: short, strongly metered verses that stick in the ear and the memory.
The Red Badge of Courage follows Henry Fleming, a young private of the 304th New York, through two days of fighting in an unnamed Civil War battle that readers have long identified with Chancellorsville in May 1863. Crane calls him almost always simply the youth.
The Republic begins with a question that never stays small: what is justice, and is the just life happier than the unjust? Socrates meets Cephalus, Polemarchus, Thrasymachus, Glaucon and Adeimantus in the Piraeus.
Cicero wrote his two dialogues on the state in the troubled 50s BC, when the Roman Republic was strained by the private power of Pompey, Caesar and Crassus. On the Commonwealth (De re publica), published in 51 BC, imitates Plato's Republic but asks what the best constitution is for a real people, and answers with Rome itself.
The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan is the young Winston Churchill's history of the Anglo-Egyptian campaigns of 1896–1899 that destroyed the Mahdist state in the Sudan. Churchill begins with geography and the Nile, which he presents as the thread on which the whole story hangs, and then with the rebellion of Muhammad Ahmad, a Dongolawi boat-builder's son and Sufi ascetic who proclaimed himself the Mahdi in 1881.
The Road to Serfdom is a short book by the Austrian-born economist F. A. Hayek, written in London during the Second World War and published by Routledge in March 1944 and by the University of Chicago Press that September. Hayek dedicated it to the socialists of all parties.
Ammianus Marcellinus wrote his history in thirty-one books, beginning with the accession of Nerva in AD 96, where Tacitus had stopped, and ending with the Gothic victory at Adrianople in 378. The first thirteen books are lost.
The Rule of St Benedict is a concise manual for forming a stable monastic community. It opens by calling the monastery a school for the Lord’s service and asks what kind of person desires life.
The Satires of Horace and Persius brings together two Roman satiric voices separated by style, temperament and political world. Horace's Sermones, written after the civil wars and during the rise of Augustus, are conversational poems about greed, ambition, social climbing, sexual folly, legacy-hunting, literary quarrels, dinner parties and the art of living within limits.
The Scarlet Letter is set in seventeenth-century Puritan Boston but begins with a nineteenth-century frame, The Custom-House, in which a narrator claims to discover an embroidered letter A and the story of Hester Prynne. Hester appears on the scaffold with her infant Pearl, condemned to wear the scarlet letter for adultery while refusing to name the child's father.
The Scarlet Pimpernel opens in Paris in September 1792, at the height of the Revolution's Terror, where crowds gather at the city gates to watch aristocrats caught trying to flee. Sergeant Bibot boasts that no one will slip past him, yet the hideous old woman whose cart he waves through, after she hints that her grandson inside has smallpox, is the mysterious Englishman known as the Scarlet Pimpernel, and the Comtesse de Tournay and her children are hidden beneath the load.
The Sceptical Chymist is a philosophical dialogue in which Robert Boyle tests the two reigning theories of what bodies are made of: the four elements of the Aristotelians (earth, water, air and fire) and the three principles, or tria prima, of the Paracelsian chemists (salt, sulphur and mercury). Both schools appealed to the same evidence, the analysis of mixed bodies by fire.
The Screwtape Letters is a book of thirty-one letters written by Screwtape, a senior devil in the bureaucracy of Hell, to his nephew Wormwood, a junior tempter on his first assignment. Wormwood's charge is a young Englishman, never named and called only the patient, who lives with his mother at the outbreak of the Second World War.
The Secret Garden begins in imperial India, where Mary Lennox is a sickly, spoiled and emotionally neglected child. A cholera outbreak kills her parents and household, and Mary is sent to Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire to live with her reclusive uncle Archibald Craven.
The Secret History, in Greek the Anekdota or unpublished things, is a short work in thirty chapters in which Procopius sets out to tell what he says he could not safely write in his Wars while its subjects were alive: the hidden causes of events and the private conduct of the emperor Justinian, the empress Theodora, the general Belisarius and his wife Antonina. It is usually dated to about 550, though some scholars place it later in the 550s, and it was not circulated in Procopius's lifetime.
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening was published in Copenhagen on 30 July 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, with Kierkegaard named as editor. Its title comes from Jesus' words about Lazarus in John 11:4, 'This sickness is not unto death.' The introduction argues that for the Christian even death is not the sickness unto death, since there is hope beyond it; the true sickness unto death is despair, a condition in which one cannot die and cannot live, a perpetual dying without end.
The Sign of the Beaver takes place in the Maine woods in 1768. Matt Hallowell, twelve years old and about to turn thirteen, has helped his father clear land and build a log cabin on a new claim.
The Silver Chair begins behind the gym at Experiment House, a muddled modern boarding school where bullies rule. Jill Pole is crying there when Eustace Scrubb, much changed since his voyage on the Dawn Treader, tells her about Narnia.
The Sketch Book is a miscellany of essays, travel sketches and tales presented as the notebook of Geoffrey Crayon, a genial American bachelor who crosses the Atlantic to look at the England he has known from books. Crayon opens by explaining that he wanders to see the shifting scenes of life, then describes the voyage itself, a visit to the Liverpool historian William Roscoe, and a portrait of a wife who sustains her ruined husband.
Of the Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right is a compact treatise in four books, the only finished part of a larger work on political institutions that Rousseau abandoned. It opens with its most famous sentence, that man is born free and everywhere in chains, and with a promise not to explain how this happened but to say what could make it legitimate.
The Song of Hiawatha is a book-length poem in twenty-two cantos with an Introduction, retelling legends of the Ojibway and neighbouring peoples around a single hero on the south shore of Lake Superior, which the poem calls Gitche Gumee, the shining Big-Sea-Water. The Introduction presents the songs as gathered by the singer Nawadaha from the forest, the birds and the rivers, and addresses readers who believe every human heart is human.
The Song of Roland transforms a historical rearguard action in Charlemagne's Spanish campaign into a sacred and feudal epic of loyalty, betrayal, martyrdom, and judgment. The plot turns on Ganelon's resentment.
The Souls of Black Folk is a book of fourteen chapters framed by a short Forethought and Afterthought, in which W. E. B. Du Bois sets out to show readers what it meant to be Black in the United States at the opening of the twentieth century. He announces his subject at once: the great problem of the new century is the color line.
Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws (De l'esprit des lois), published anonymously at Geneva in 1748 after many years of reading and travel, asks why the laws of different peoples differ and what makes them fit or unfit for those who live under them. His answer is that laws are relations: they must suit the form of government and also the climate and soil, the religion, commerce, manners and size of a nation.
The St Crispin's Day speech is King Henry's address to his nobles in Act 4, Scene 3 of Shakespeare's Henry V, first performed in 1599. It is set on the morning of 25 October 1415 at Agincourt in northern France, where a small English army, worn down by sickness and a long march, faces a much larger French host.
The Story of a Soul is the autobiography of Thérèse Martin, a young Carmelite nun of Lisieux in Normandy, written at the request of her superiors in the last years of her short life and published a year after her death. In the library text, Thomas N. Taylor's 1912 translation, it is arranged in eleven chapters addressed to her sister Pauline, by then Mother Agnes of Jesus, and framed by a prologue on her parents and birth and an epilogue on her final illness.
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights is the first of Howard Pyle's four Arthurian volumes, drawn chiefly from Malory and told in a deliberately antique English with Pyle's own illustrations. It has two books.
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth is John Muir's account of his first twenty-five years, from a Scottish seaside town to the edge of what he calls the University of the Wilderness. In the first chapter he remembers Dunbar on the stormy North Sea coast: rambles with his grandfather David Gilrye, who taught him his letters from shop signs, scrambles over the ruins of Dunbar Castle, fights and dares with schoolmates, the servant girls' terrifying tales of the Dandy Doctors who were said to steal children for the Edinburgh dissecting rooms, and a school where Mr. Lyon and his father together drilled grammar and Bible verses into him by memory and the rod.
The Story of My Life is Helen Keller's account of her first twenty-two years, written while she was a student at Radcliffe College. She begins at Ivy Green, the family home in Tuscumbia, Alabama, where she was born on June 27, 1880.
The Story of the Volsungs is a thirteenth-century Icelandic prose saga that tells, from beginning to end, the legend of the Volsung kindred, the dragon-slayer Sigurd and the fall of the Niflungs. The library text is the translation by Eiríkr Magnússon and William Morris, first published in 1870, in the 1888 edition, with an introduction, the translators' preface, notes, and an appendix of Morris and Magnússon's versions of related Eddic lays, from the Second Lay of Helgi Hundings-bane to the Lament of Oddrun.
The Stranger is a short novel in two parts narrated by Meursault, a young shipping clerk in Algiers in French Algeria, who reports what he sees and feels in plain, flat sentences and seldom explains himself. Part One, in six chapters, covers about eighteen days.
Thomas Kuhn's essay argues that the sciences do not grow by steady accumulation of facts but pass through long periods of settled work broken by revolutions in which the framework of a field is replaced. It was first published in 1962 by the University of Chicago Press as a monograph in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science, and a second edition of 1970 added a Postscript answering critics.
The Subjection of Women is John Stuart Mill's extended argument that the legal subordination of women to men in mid-Victorian Britain was wrong in principle and an obstacle to human improvement, and that it should give way to perfect equality before the law. Mill drafted it in 1860–1861, after the death of his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, and published it with Longmans in 1869.
The Swiss Family Robinson is told by a Swiss pastor who, with his wife and four sons, emigrates by sea toward a new settlement and is shipwrecked after a week-long storm. The crew abandons the ship in the boats, leaving the family alone on a wreck lodged among rocks near an unknown tropical coast.
The Sword in the Stone is T. H. White's comic and affectionate account of the boyhood of King Arthur, set in a merry, anachronistic Middle Ages. Arthur, called the Wart, is an orphan of unknown birth raised by the kindly Sir Ector at the Castle of the Forest Sauvage alongside Ector's son Kay, an older, proud and often unhappy boy who will one day be a knight while the Wart expects to be his squire.
The Symposium is a framed dialogue about eros, memory and ascent. Apollodorus repeats what Aristodemus told him about a banquet at Agathon’s house after the poet’s tragic victory.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) is Beatrix Potters short picture-story of a disobedient young rabbit who squeezes under Mr. McGregors gate after his mother has warned him away—his father, she reminds them, was put in a pie. Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail gather blackberries; Peter eats lettuces, beans, and radishes until he meets Mr. McGregor, loses his shoes and blue jacket, hides in a watering can, and at last slips home frightened and unwell.
The Taming of the Shrew is a play within a play. In the Induction, the drunken tinker Christopher Sly is thrown out of an alehouse and falls asleep on the heath.
The Tempest opens with a ship breaking apart in a storm off a remote island. On shore, the magician Prospero tells his fifteen-year-old daughter Miranda that he was once Duke of Milan.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë's second novel, is told in letters written in 1847 by the farmer Gilbert Markham to his friend and brother-in-law Jack Halford, enclosing a long diary. In the autumn of 1827 a young widow calling herself Mrs. Graham takes rooms in the half-ruined Elizabethan mansion of Wildfell Hall with her small son Arthur and an old servant, Rachel.
The Theban Plays collects Sophocles’ tragedies about Oedipus and his children: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone. They were not written as a trilogy, but together they form the most influential family disaster in Western drama.
The Theory of the Leisure Class, published by Macmillan in New York in 1899, is Thorstein Veblen's study of how wealth, status and consumption shape economic life and taste. Written while he taught at the University of Chicago, during the Gilded Age of American fortunes, it treats the habits of the rich not as personal vices but as institutions with a long evolutionary history, and it describes them in a dry, ironic scientific vocabulary that made the book famous.
Richard Hannay, a thirty-seven-year-old Scottish-born mining engineer who has made his money in Rhodesia, has come home to London in the spring of 1914 and finds himself bored almost to despair. One May evening a neighbor from the top floor of his building, an American named Franklin P. Scudder, begs to be taken in.
This is the first of three volumes of Edward William Lane's translation of The Thousand and One Nights, made directly from the Arabic of the Cairo (Bulaq) printed edition and published in parts from 1838. The library text is the 1859 revision edited by his nephew Edward Stanley Poole, in the 1912 Chatto & Windus reissue with a preface by Stanley Lane-Poole.
The Three Musketeers follows a poor young gentleman from Gascony through three years of duels, court intrigue and war under Louis XIII, from 1625 to the fall of La Rochelle in 1628. D'Artagnan, eighteen years old, rides to Paris on a comic yellow pony with fifteen crowns, his father's advice and a letter of introduction to M. de Tréville, captain of the King's Musketeers.
The Travels of Ibn Battuta is the account of a Moroccan legal scholar who left Tangier in June 1325, aged twenty-one, to make the pilgrimage to Mecca and did not settle at home again until 1349. Its Arabic title, given by its editor Ibn Juzayy, means A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling; it is usually called simply the Rihla, the Journey.
The book, known in Italy as Il Milione and in early French manuscripts as the Devisement du Monde (Description of the World), is less a diary than a geography of Asia as the Polos knew it, organized by route and region and told in the voice of Rustichello, who often addresses the reader directly. The Prologue tells how the Venetian brothers Niccolò and Maffeo Polo, trading in the Crimea and on the Volga in the 1260s, were carried by war farther and farther east until envoys brought them to Kublai, the Great Kaan of the Tartars, who questioned them about the Pope and the Christian faith and sent them back to Rome asking for a hundred learned Christians and oil from the lamp of the Holy Sepulchre.
The Trial follows Josef K., a respected chief clerk at a large bank in an unnamed city, from the morning of his thirtieth birthday, when two warders appear in his lodgings and tell him he is under arrest, to the eve of his thirty-first, when two men in frock coats lead him to a quarry and kill him. Neither K. nor the reader ever learns what he is accused of or what law he has broken.
The trial records of Joan of Arc are not a saint's life in the ordinary devotional sense. They are hostile legal documents that accidentally preserve one of the most vivid medieval voices.
Olivia Coolidge's The Trojan War retells the whole legend of Troy, from its cause in heaven to the homecomings of the Greek kings, in 33 short chapters that can each be read as a story on its own. It begins with the golden apple thrown among the goddesses, the judgment of Paris, and the beauty of Helen, whom Paris carries off from her husband Menelaus of Sparta.
This volume gathers three Euripides plays about what the Trojan War left behind: The Trojan Women and Iphigenia in Tauris in Gilbert Murray's rhyming verse, and Hecuba in Michael Wodhull's blank verse of 1782. The Trojan Women opens on the smoking ruins of Troy.
The True Story of My Life is the autobiographical sketch Hans Christian Andersen wrote in 1846, at forty-one, for a collected edition of his works. He opens by calling his life a lovely story, happy and full of incident, and says it shows that a loving God directs all things for the best.
On a camping trip in the Canadian woods, eleven-year-old Sam Beaver, a Montana rancher's son who loves wild things and keeps a journal that ends each night with a question, discovers a pair of trumpeter swans nesting on a hidden pond. He keeps their secret, and when a fox creeps up on the sitting pen he drives it off with a stick.
This volume pairs two of Henry James's most intense short fictions about possession, interpretation and moral trespass. The Turn of the Screw is framed as a manuscript read aloud during a country-house gathering.
The Twelve Caesars offers biographies of Julius Caesar and the first eleven Roman emperors from Augustus through Domitian. Suetonius does not write history as Tacitus does, with sustained analysis of institutions and causation.
The Underdogs follows Demetrio Macias, a peasant from Juchipila who joins the Mexican Revolution after conflict with federal soldiers makes ordinary life impossible. At first Demetrio's rebellion is local and personal: he flees with a band of men into the hills, fights effectively and becomes a leader because of courage, terrain knowledge and charisma.
The Vampyre is a brief but enormously influential Gothic tale that turns the vampire from folkloric corpse into a fashionable aristocratic predator. Aubrey, a young gentleman of imagination and moral seriousness, enters London society and becomes fascinated by Lord Ruthven, a mysterious nobleman whose charm is inseparable from coldness.
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature collects the twenty Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion that William James delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1901 and 1902. Instead of studying churches, creeds or theology, James studies personal religious experience as a psychologist, drawing on a large collection of first-person documents: diaries, autobiographies, letters and replies to questionnaires.
The Velveteen Rabbit, or How Toys Become Real (1922), is Margery Williamss tender story of a stuffed rabbit who longs to become Real. At first he is unused in the nursery; the wise Skin Horse explains that Real is not how you are made but what happens when a child loves you for a long time.
The Voyage of the Beagle is Darwin's account of his five-year journey around South America, the Pacific, Australia, and the Atlantic aboard HMS Beagle. It is a travel book before it is an evolutionary treatise: Darwin describes landscapes, fossils, earthquakes, volcanoes, coral reefs, animals, plants, Indigenous peoples, imperial violence, slavery, disease, and the practical hardships of field observation.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is the third Chronicle of Narnia to be published. Edmund and Lucy Pevensie are spending the summer holidays with their aunt and uncle in Cambridge, where their cousin Eustace Clarence Scrubb, a priggish, bullying boy raised on modern notions, makes them miserable.
The Waning of the Middle Ages is a study of the forms of life, thought and art in France and the Burgundian Netherlands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Huizinga, a Dutch professor of history, published it in 1919 as Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen, literally the autumn-tide of the Middle Ages.
The War of the Worlds is told by an unnamed writer on philosophical subjects who lives on Maybury Hill near Woking in Surrey, looking back some years after the events. Book One, The Coming of the Martians, opens with astronomers seeing jets of gas leap from the surface of Mars.
The Warden is a quiet institutional novel about conscience, reform and the human cost of public righteousness. Septimus Harding is the gentle precentor of Barchester Cathedral and warden of Hiram's Hospital, a charitable almshouse for twelve elderly men.
The Waste Land is a poem of 433 lines in five parts, dedicated to Ezra Pound and prefaced by a Latin and Greek epigraph from Petronius in which the Sibyl of Cumae, shrivelled in a jar, says she wants to die. Part I, The Burial of the Dead, opens with April as the cruellest month, stirring memory and desire in a dead land.
The Waves follows six speaking consciousnesses from childhood to old age: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis. A seventh figure, Percival, never speaks directly but becomes the focus of admiration, desire and grief.
Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, published in London by Strahan and Cadell on 9 March 1776, asks what makes a nation rich and what policies help or hinder that growth. Smith's answer is that wealth is not a store of gold and silver but the annual produce of a nation's labour, and that it grows chiefly through the division of labour, the accumulation of capital and the freedom to trade.
The Wind in the Willows (1908) follows Mole’s break into the sunlight, Rat’s river manners, Badger’s solid hospitality, and Toad’s reckless motorcar mania among the English riverbank and Wild Wood. Kenneth Grahame writes animal characters who keep human foibles without losing the feel of water, willow, and snow.
The Wise Woman is George MacDonald's fairy-tale parable of two spoiled little girls in an odd country where everyone wants what he has not got. Princess Rosamond, whose name means Rose of the World, has been given everything she cried for, including a silver disc to stand in for the moon, and has grown into a raging, greedy child who beats her pets and has nearly killed her nurse.
The Witch of Blackbird Pond is a historical novel in twenty-one chapters set in Connecticut Colony in 1687 and 1688. Katherine Tyler, called Kit, is sixteen and has grown up in freedom and comfort on her grandfather's plantation in Barbados.
Walter Hartright, a young London drawing-master, is engaged through his Italian friend Professor Pesca to teach watercolour at Limmeridge House in Cumberland. Walking home across Hampstead Heath late on the night before he leaves, he is touched on the shoulder by a woman dressed entirely in white who asks the way to London and speaks fondly of Limmeridge; soon after, two men in a chaise ask a policeman whether he has seen a woman escaped from an asylum.
Dorothy lives on the grey Kansas prairie with her Uncle Henry, her Aunt Em and her little black dog Toto. When a cyclone strikes, Aunt Em and Uncle Henry reach the cellar, but Dorothy runs back for Toto, and the house is carried away with the two of them inside.
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, translated by Haldane and Kemp as The World as Will and Idea, is Arthur Schopenhauer's single, systematic statement of a philosophy that he claimed expressed one thought from four sides. It appeared in December 1818 (dated 1819) in four books with an appendix criticising Kant, and in 1844 he added a second volume of fifty supplementary chapters keyed to the first.
Theodore Roosevelt's Autobiography, written at Sagamore Hill in 1913, is less a full life than a series of chapters on the work and convictions of a public man. A foreword dated 1 October 1913 calls for joining practical efficiency with lofty idealism.
Hesiod's two complete poems are the oldest Greek attempts to explain, in verse, where the gods came from and how a man ought to live under them. Both are in dactylic hexameter, the meter of Homer, and both begin with the Muses.
Amory Blaine, the only son of the wealthy, eccentric Beatrice Blaine and her ineffectual husband Stephen, is raised in luxury, travels with his mother, and grows up handsome, clever and sure of his own superiority. After two years in Minneapolis and a spell at a New England boarding school, where he is unpopular and then a football hero, he goes to Princeton, drawn by its glamour.
John Adams's Thoughts on Government and selected letters present a founder preoccupied with constitutional balance, civic virtue, law, ambition, and the fragility of republics. Thoughts on Government, written in 1776, argues that new American states should avoid simple unicameral democracy and instead build mixed, balanced institutions with separated powers and independent courts.
Through Gates of Splendor is Elisabeth Elliot's account of five young American missionaries who were killed in January 1956 while trying to make friendly contact with the Waorani, an isolated people of the Ecuadorian rainforest then known to outsiders as the Aucas. Elliot, the widow of one of the men, tells the story largely through the men's own letters, diaries and the recollections of their wives.
Through the Looking-Glass is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. On a snowy afternoon, the day before a bonfire she hopes to see, Alice sits by the fire scolding her black kitten, wonders what the room behind the drawing-room mirror is like, climbs onto the mantelpiece and passes through the glass.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None is a philosophical prose-poem in four parts, written in the cadences of Luther's Bible. Its hero borrows the name of the ancient Persian prophet Zoroaster, whom Nietzsche chose because the first moralist should be the one to overturn morality.
Till We Have Faces, subtitled A Myth Retold, rewrites the story of Cupid and Psyche from Apuleius's Golden Ass, told by one of Psyche's elder sisters. Orual, now an old queen of Glome, a small barbarian kingdom on the edge of the Greek world, writes her book as a formal accusation against the gods.
Timaeus offers Plato's most elaborate cosmological account, framed by Socrates' wish to see the ideal city in motion and Critias's story of ancient Athens and Atlantis. Timaeus then delivers a likely story about the cosmos, not a demonstration with mathematical certainty.
To Kill a Mockingbird is narrated by Jean Louise Finch, called Scout, looking back as an adult on three years of her childhood, from the summer she was nearly six, in Maycomb, a small, poor county seat in Alabama during the Depression of the 1930s. She lives with her older brother Jem, their widowed father Atticus, a lawyer and state legislator, and Calpurnia, the Black cook who helps raise them.
To the Lighthouse, published by the Hogarth Press in May 1927, follows the Ramsay family and their guests at a holiday house on the Isle of Skye in the Hebrides, across one evening before the First World War and one morning ten years later. Virginia Woolf tells it almost entirely through the passing thoughts of her characters, so that small events, a remark about the weather, a dinner, a brushstroke, carry the weight of a lifetime.
Travels with My Aunt begins with retired bank manager Henry Pulling attending his mother's funeral. There he meets his formidable Aunt Augusta, who disrupts his suburban routine and suggests that his family history is less settled than he believed.
Treasure Island is narrated mainly by Jim Hawkins, the son of an innkeeper whose ordinary life is transformed when the old pirate Billy Bones comes to the Admiral Benbow inn. Bones brings a sea chest, a map and danger in the form of former shipmates, including Black Dog and the blind beggar Pew.
Christiaan Huygens read the substance of this treatise to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris in 1678 and published it in French at Leiden in 1690 as Traité de la lumière, with a short discourse on the cause of gravity. The library text is Silvanus P. Thompson's literal English translation of 1912, complete, with the author's preface, Thompson's note and a table of matters; the many geometrical figures are marked but not reproduced.
Troilus and Criseyde retells a story from the Trojan War tradition, but its real subject is erotic psychology under the pressure of fortune, language and time. Troilus, a Trojan prince and son of Priam, initially mocks lovers until he sees Criseyde in the temple and is struck by desire.
Twelfth Night begins with shipwreck, loss, and disguise. Viola believes her brother Sebastian drowned, enters Illyria as Cesario, and serves Duke Orsino, who sends her to woo Olivia.
Twelve Angry Men takes place almost entirely in a jury room after a murder trial. Twelve male jurors must decide whether a young defendant is guilty of killing his father; a guilty verdict will mean death.
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair is a lyric sequence of erotic longing, memory, landscape and loss. The poems do not tell a plot, but they trace an emotional arc from sensual address to abandonment and despair.
In 1866 ships in several oceans report a huge, swift, glowing creature, and some are holed by it. Pierre Aronnax, a professor at the Museum of Natural History in Paris who happens to be in New York, publishes the opinion that it is a gigantic narwhal and is invited to join the American frigate Abraham Lincoln, under Commander Farragut, which sails to hunt it.
Twenty Years at Hull-House is Jane Addams's account of her early life and of the settlement house she founded on Chicago's West Side in 1889. The first four chapters are autobiographical.
Twilight of the Idols is Nietzsche in compressed diagnostic form. Subtitled How to Philosophize with a Hammer, it tests inherited idols by sounding them for hollowness.
Two Lives of Charlemagne pairs Einhard's Life of Charlemagne with Notker the Stammerer's later anecdotes about the emperor. Einhard writes as a court insider shaped by classical biography, especially Suetonius.
Ulysses is a seventy-line dramatic monologue in blank verse that Tennyson wrote in October 1833, within weeks of learning that his closest friend, Arthur Henry Hallam, had died suddenly in Vienna. He published it in his two-volume Poems of 1842.
Unbroken is Laura Hillenbrand's biography of Louis Zamperini, an American runner and Army Air Forces bombardier who survived a plane crash, weeks adrift in the Pacific and more than two years as a prisoner of war in Japan. The book begins with Louie as the restless, thieving son of Italian immigrants in Torrance, California, in the 1920s.
Uncle Tom's Cabin follows two lines of story that begin on the Kentucky farm of Arthur Shelby, a kindly but indebted master who agrees to sell two slaves to the trader Haley: Uncle Tom, his faithful and devout manager, and Harry, the small son of Eliza, Mrs. Shelby's maid. Overhearing the bargain, Eliza flees north with Harry that night, and with the slave-catchers close behind she crosses the Ohio River by leaping from one floating cake of ice to another.
Uncle Vanya, subtitled Scenes from Country Life, takes place over a few months on a provincial Russian estate. For twenty-five years Ivan Petrovich Voitski, Uncle Vanya, has managed the property with his niece Sonia, sending its income to her father, Professor Alexander Serebrakoff, the widower of Vanya's sister, whom Vanya once revered as a great scholar.
Understood Betsy follows nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann, an orphan raised in a medium-sized Midwestern city by her Great-aunt Harriet and Aunt Frances, a piano teacher who has studied child-rearing books and correspondence courses and is determined that her niece shall be thoroughly understood. Elizabeth Ann is thin, pale and frightened of dogs, thunder and examinations, and Aunt Frances shares and rehearses every fear with her.
Up from Slavery is Booker T. Washington's account of his rise from a slave cabin in Virginia to the leadership of Tuskegee Institute. He begins with what he does not know: the exact date of his birth, about 1858 or 1859 as he gives it, and the name of his white father.
Utilitarianism is a short defence of the ethical theory Mill inherited from Jeremy Bentham and his own father. It was first published in three instalments of Fraser's Magazine in 1861 and as a book in 1863.
Utopia is a dialogue in two books, written in Latin and presented as a true report. In Book I More, writing in his own person, recalls his embassy to Flanders in 1515 with Cuthbert Tunstall.
Lucy Snowe tells her own story, years after the events, in a reserved voice that often withholds what she feels and sometimes what she knows. As a girl she stays with her godmother Mrs. Bretton in the old town of Bretton, where she watches the tiny, intense Paulina Home attach herself to Mrs. Bretton's teenage son Graham.
Waiting for Godot is a play in two acts by Samuel Beckett, written in French as En attendant Godot between late 1948 and early 1949, published by Les Éditions de Minuit in 1952, and first staged at the small Théâtre de Babylone in Paris on 5 January 1953, directed by Roger Blin. Beckett's own English translation, subtitled a tragicomedy in two acts, was published by Grove Press in New York in 1954.
Walden; or, Life in the Woods is Henry David Thoreau's account of the two years and two months, from July 4, 1845, to September 1847, that he spent living alone in a one-room house he built himself beside Walden Pond, about a mile and a half south of the village of Concord, Massachusetts. He compresses the experiment into the cycle of a single year, moving from summer through winter to the thaw of spring, in eighteen chapters.
War and Peace follows several Russian noble families from 1805 to 1820, through the wars against Napoleon and the French invasion of 1812. It opens at a St. Petersburg soirée given by Anna Pávlovna Schérer in July 1805, where talk of Bonaparte mixes with gossip about inheritances.
Washington Square is a compact novel about an heiress, a suitor and a father whose intelligence becomes a weapon. Catherine Sloper is the plain, shy and dutiful daughter of Dr. Austin Sloper, a wealthy New York physician still grieving his brilliant dead wife and disappointed that Catherine lacks her mother's beauty and charm.
Washington had made it a crime to aid a suicide since its first territorial legislature acted in 1854. In January 1994 four physicians who treat terminally ill patients, led by Dr. Harold Glucksberg, joined three gravely ill patients (who died while the case was pending) and the nonprofit group Compassion in Dying in a suit in federal court.
Washington: A Life is Ron Chernow's single-volume biography of George Washington, published in October 2010 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2011. Chernow's central aim is to replace the remote, marble figure of patriotic legend with a man of strong passions, ambition and a fierce temper, held in check by a lifelong discipline of self-command.
Watership Down is the epic of a small band of rabbits who leave their home to found a new one. In the Sandleford warren in Berkshire, a small, nervous rabbit named Fiver, who has visions, sees the field covered in blood and begs his brother Hazel to warn the Chief Rabbit, the Threarah, who dismisses them.
We is presented as the diary or record of D-503, mathematician and builder of the spaceship Integral in the OneState, a glass-walled totalitarian society ruled by the Benefactor. Citizens, called Numbers, live by tables of hours, regulated labor, monitored sex, prescribed walks and transparent architecture.
We Hold These Truths collects John Courtney Murray's essays on the American constitutional experiment, natural law, religious liberty, pluralism, and the conditions of civil conversation. Murray argues that the American order depends on moral truths that public argument must continue to articulate, not merely procedural agreement or private preference.
The Harrison Narcotic Act, signed on 17 December 1914, was written as a revenue law. Anyone who imported, manufactured, sold or dispensed opium, coca leaves or their derivatives had to register with the collector of internal revenue and pay a special tax, and sales had to be made on official order forms.
Washington State's 1913 Minimum Wages for Women act declared that inadequate wages and unsanitary conditions harmed the health and morals of women and minors, and it created an Industrial Welfare Commission to fix wages sufficient for their decent maintenance. Elsie Parrish worked as a chambermaid at the Cascadian Hotel in Wenatchee, owned by the West Coast Hotel Company.
What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell is a short book based on public lectures that Erwin Schrödinger gave at Trinity College Dublin in February 1943, under the auspices of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
Hugh Kennedy's When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World is a narrative history of the Abbasid caliphate at the height of its power, from the revolution that brought the dynasty to the throne in 750 to the anarchy of the later ninth century at Samarra, after which effective power slipped away from the caliphs. It was first published in Britain in 2004 as The Court of the Caliphs and in the United States in 2005 under its present title.
Where the Red Fern Grows is narrated by Billy Colman, now a grown man in a town far from the Ozarks. Walking home from work one evening, he rescues an old redbone hound from a pack of town dogs, feeds it and lets it go home, and the encounter brings back the story of his boyhood.
White Fang follows a wolf-dog from his birth in a cave in the frozen North to a sunny estate in California. The novel opens with two men, Bill and Henry, hauling a coffin across the Yukon wilderness while a starving wolf pack trails them.
White Nights is narrated by an unnamed young dreamer in St. Petersburg, a lonely man who lives more intensely in imagination than in social life. During the luminous northern nights, he wanders the city and feels intimate with streets, houses and imagined lives while remaining isolated from actual human companionship.
Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) opens in the Hundred Acre Wood, where a Bear of Very Little Brain lives under the name of Sanders and Christopher Robin asks for stories about him. A. A. Milne builds the book from short chapters of honey, balloons, floods, Heffalumps, Expositions to the North Pole, and birthday muddles.
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands is the lively autobiography of a Jamaican doctress, nurse and businesswoman. Mary Seacole begins in Kingston, where she was born to a Scottish soldier and a Creole mother who kept a boarding house and was famous for her cures; she declines to give the year, saying only that she and the century were young together.
Wuthering Heights is a violent family romance told through layered narration. Mr. Lockwood, a tenant at Thrushcross Grange, becomes curious about his landlord Heathcliff and the strange household at Wuthering Heights.
Nicholas Romeo, a man with a profound intellectual disability who could not speak and needed help with the most basic tasks, lived with his parents in Philadelphia until his father died in May 1974. His mother, unable to care for him or to manage his outbursts, asked a county court to admit him to a state facility, and in June 1974 he was committed to the Pennsylvania institution known as Pennhurst State School and Hospital.
Passages
- 12 Years a Slave, Ch. 2-3
Northup is drugged, imprisoned and beaten when he asserts that he is free.
- 12 Years a Slave, Tibeats episode
Northup is nearly hanged and left in prolonged bodily torment after resisting Tibeats.
- 12 Years a Slave, Epps plantation chapters
Cotton labor, quotas, whippings, hunger and surveillance show slavery as chronic bodily extraction.
- 12 Years a Slave, Patsey chapters
Patsey's sexual exploitation and whipping expose gendered torture and reproductive vulnerability under slavery.
- A Burnt-Out Case, Early chapters (Part 1)
Dr Colin explains to Querry the meaning of a burnt-out case and describes the mutilations left after the disease has run its course.
- A Burnt-Out Case, Throughout
Querry describes his loss of desire, pleasure and belief, a condition he likens to the leper's loss of sensation.
- A Burnt-Out Case, Middle chapters
Colin's routine at the leproserie: dispensing drugs, examining patients, and planning facilities with Querry.
- A Child's Garden of Verses, Bed in Summer
Daylight bedtime suggests regulated rest for a delicate child.
- A Christmas Carol, Stave I
Scrooge attributes Marley's ghost to a disordered stomach, a period theory of apparitions and nightmares.
- A Christmas Carol, Stave III
The Cratchit dinner and Tiny Tim's crutch and frail health; the spirit foresees his death if things remain unaltered.
- A Christmas Carol, Stave III
The allegorical starving children Ignorance and Want under the spirit's robe.
- A Christmas Carol, Stave IV
An unattended corpse stripped of its bed-curtains and shirt; the Cratchits mourn Tiny Tim.
- A Doll's House and Other Plays, A Doll's House, Act 1
Nora reveals that Torvald's life was saved by a year in Italy prescribed by doctors, paid for with the secret loan.
- A Doll's House and Other Plays, A Doll's House, Act 2
Dr Rank speaks of the inherited disease destroying his spine and of the final examination he is making on himself.
- A Doll's House and Other Plays, A Doll's House, Act 3
Rank leaves his visiting card marked with a black cross to announce his approaching death.
- A Doll's House and Other Plays, Ghosts, Act 2
Osvald recounts the Paris doctor's verdict that he was born with a worm-eaten constitution, and reveals he carries morphine powders.
- A Doll's House and Other Plays, Ghosts, Act 3
Osvald's mental collapse at sunrise; his mother stands with the morphine he made her promise to give him.
- A Doll's House and Other Plays, An Enemy of the People, Acts 1–4
Dr Stockmann's laboratory analysis of the spa water, suppression of his report, and the public meeting that brands him an enemy of the people.
- A Farewell to Arms, Book I, Chapters IX-X
The trench-mortar shell in the dugout, Passini's mortal wound, the dressing station and the haemorrhaging soldier on the stretcher above Frederic.
- A Farewell to Arms, Book II, Chapters XIV-XVI
The Milan hospital: X-rays, the three doctors who advise waiting six months, and Dr. Valentini's decision to operate on the knee at once.
- A Farewell to Arms, Book II, Chapter XXII
Frederic's jaundice; Miss Van Campen finds the empty bottles and accuses him of bringing it on with alcohol to avoid the front.
- A Farewell to Arms, Book III, Chapter XXV
Rinaldi, worn out by the summer's operations, drinks heavily and fears he has syphilis.
- A Farewell to Arms, Book V, Chapter XLI
Catherine's long labour with gas, the doctor's advice to perform a Caesarean, the stillborn son, the repeated haemorrhages and her death.
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, Grotesque households
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens includes disability, chronic illness, trauma, violence, family care, and the charged symbolism of bodily affliction
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, Violent interruption
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens includes disability, chronic illness, trauma, violence, family care, and the charged symbolism of bodily affliction
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, Grace without softness
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens includes disability, chronic illness, trauma, violence, family care, and the charged symbolism of bodily affliction
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, Grace without softness
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens includes disability, chronic illness, trauma, violence, family care, and the charged symbolism of bodily affliction
- A Letter Concerning Toleration, Letter, definition of the commonwealth
Health and indolency of body listed among the civil interests the magistrate protects.
- A Letter Concerning Toleration, Letter, on the magistrate's care of souls
The analogy of a prince compelling subjects to consult only Roman physicians and take remedies from the Vatican or a Geneva shop; no one forced to be rich or healthful.
- A Little Princess, Chapter 7, The Diamond Mines Again
Mr. Barrow tells Miss Minchin that Captain Crewe died of jungle fever combined with the strain of his business losses.
- A Little Princess, Chapter 12, The Other Side of the Wall
Carrisford and Carmichael recall Carrisford's flight, sleeplessness, delirium and hospital confinement with brain fever.
- A Little Princess, Chapters 8 and 13
Sara and Becky go to bed cold and hungry; the bun-shop scene shows Sara faint with hunger beside a starving beggar child.
- A Little Princess, Chapters 15–16, The Magic and The Visitor
Ram Dass's fire, food and blankets restore the two girls, and Carrisford's own health improves as he takes an interest in the child next door.
- A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity, Opening model of neurons
The idealized all-or-none neuron creates a formal bridge between neurophysiology and logic.
- A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity, Network examples
The construction of logical functions from neural arrangements anticipates models of cognitive processing.
- A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity, Discussion of circular networks
Recurrent circuits provide a formal way to think about memory and persistence of state.
- A Mathematical Theory of Communication, 1938 thesis, relay circuit analysis
Boolean logic becomes an electrical design method, a key step toward machines that later model cognitive processes.
- A Mathematical Theory of Communication, 1948 paper, communication system model
The source-channel-receiver model supplies language later borrowed by neuroscience, psychology, and clinical communication theory.
- A Mathematical Theory of Communication, 1948 paper, treatment of noise and redundancy
The formal handling of uncertainty and error has clear implications for diagnostic systems and medical decision support.
- A Mathematician's Apology, Sections 1-5
Hardy treats writing about mathematics as a sign of exhausted creative power and argues that mathematics is a young man's game.
- A Mathematician's Apology, Section 29
Hardy's final self-assessment, including what he tells himself when depressed and his sense of steady deterioration since his forties.
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Athens and constraint
A Midsummer Night's Dream gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens is early modern psychology: love-melancholy, altered perception, sleep, dreams, and the boundary between enchantment and madness
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, The enchanted wood
A Midsummer Night's Dream gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens is early modern psychology: love-melancholy, altered perception, sleep, dreams, and the boundary between enchantment and madness
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, The wedding play
A Midsummer Night's Dream gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens is early modern psychology: love-melancholy, altered perception, sleep, dreams, and the boundary between enchantment and madness
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, The wedding play
A Midsummer Night's Dream gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens is early modern psychology: love-melancholy, altered perception, sleep, dreams, and the boundary between enchantment and madness
- A Modest Proposal, The statistical mask
A Modest Proposal gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens includes starvation, infant mortality, public health, reproductive exploitation, and the dehumanizing language of population management
- A Modest Proposal, The cannibal policy
A Modest Proposal gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens includes starvation, infant mortality, public health, reproductive exploitation, and the dehumanizing language of population management
- A Modest Proposal, Rejected remedies
A Modest Proposal gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens includes starvation, infant mortality, public health, reproductive exploitation, and the dehumanizing language of population management
- A Modest Proposal, Rejected remedies
A Modest Proposal gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens includes starvation, infant mortality, public health, reproductive exploitation, and the dehumanizing language of population management
- A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia, Defense of Black caregivers
Allen and Jones describe dangerous care work performed by Black residents during the epidemic.
- A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia, Response to accusations and immunity assumptions
The pamphlet exposes how false medical claims about race shaped risk and blame.
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chapter I
Stephen's fever after the ditch, the infirmary with Brother Michael, and his imagined death and the news of Parnell's death.
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chapter III
The retreat sermons on death and hell and Stephen's physical terror and remorse afterwards.
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Chapter IV
Stephen's systematic mortification of the senses and his anxious accounting of prayers and temptations.
- A System of Logic, Book III: Of Induction, Book III, Ch. X, §§ 6–8
The extended example of testing mercury as a remedy, comparing the deductive, experimental and observational methods, and the remark on specifics such as quinine.
- A System of Logic, Book III: Of Induction, Book III, Ch. IX, § 1
Liebig's account of how arsenious acid and salts of lead, copper and mercury destroy life by combining with animal tissue, used to illustrate the first two methods.
- A System of Logic, Book III: Of Induction, Book III, Ch. VII, § 4
The poison urali, known from the arrows of Guiana, as an example of discovering an effect by experiment or a cause by observation.
- A System of Logic, Book III: Of Induction, Book III, Ch. V, § 3
The man who takes mercury, goes out of doors and catches cold, used to show that the cause is the whole set of conditions.
- A System of Logic, Book III: Of Induction, Book III, Ch. V
Discussion of volition, nerves and muscles in the production of bodily motion, and of the continuance of effects such as brain-fever after sunstroke.
- A Tale of Two Cities, Book I, Chapter 6
Manette at his shoemaker's bench in Defarge's garret, answering to his cell number and slowly recognizing Lucie's hair.
- A Tale of Two Cities, Book II, Chapters 18-19
Manette's nine-day relapse after the wedding; his clinical conversation with Lorry about the case and the destruction of the bench.
- A Tale of Two Cities, Book III, Chapter 10
Manette's letter describes attending the Evremonde brothers' victim in a high fever of the brain, using narcotic medicines from their case, and the dying brother's wound, and records his fear that his reason will not remain unimpaired.
- A Tale of Two Cities, Book II, Chapter 14
Jerry Cruncher goes fishing by night in a churchyard; his son learns that he is a resurrection-man.
- A Tale of Two Cities, Book III, Chapters 9 and 13
Carton buys powders from a chemist and later uses a drug to render Darnay insensible before the exchange in the prison.
- A Tale of Two Cities, Book II, Chapter 5
Carton works through the night for Stryver with wet towels on his head and a bowl of punch.
- A Tale of Two Cities, Book I, Chapter 5
The starving people of Saint Antoine scoop spilled wine from the street; Hunger is described as a presence in every house.
- A Theologico-Political Treatise, Preface
Fear and hope as the sources of superstition, and the exploitation of fearful minds by those in power.
- A Theologico-Political Treatise, Chapter II, Of Prophets
Revelation varying with each prophet's imagination and temperament, cheerful or melancholy.
- A Theologico-Political Treatise, Chapter I, Of Prophecy
Discussion of the phrase "spirit of the Lord" in Hebrew usage, including the melancholy of Saul, relieved by a musician, which Spinoza reads as a natural deep melancholy rather than something supernatural.
- A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Part I, sections 18-20
Berkeley argues that no one can explain how body could act on spirit to produce an idea, so material causes explain nothing about perception.
- A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, Part I, sections 43-44
Summary of the New Theory of Vision: distance is not seen directly but suggested by ideas of sight that have been joined with ideas of touch.
- A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part III, Sect. 9–10
Repetition, education and lying give ideas the vivacity of belief; a lively imagination can degenerate into madness when a ferment of the blood and spirits makes fictions indistinguishable from memories.
- A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part IV, Sect. 6
Introspective search for the self finds only perceptions; the mind compared to a theatre with no fixed stage; sleep and death as the absence of a perceiving self.
- A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part IV, Sect. 7
Hume's despair, dread of error, sense of monstrous isolation and 'heated' brain, followed by recovery through dining, backgammon and conversation; he names his mood a splenetic humour.
- A Treatise of Human Nature, Book II, Part I, Sect. 11; Part II, Sect. 5
Sympathy as the communication of passions between people, including how the opinions of others sustain pride and how feelings reverberate between minds.
- A Treatise of Human Nature, Book II, Part III, Sect. 3–4
Reason as servant of the passions; calm versus violent passions; why strong emotion can override clear knowledge of one's interest.
- A Treatise on Insanity, Introduction and Ch. 1
Pinel frames mental alienation as a medical subject requiring observation, classification, and reform of custodial habits.
- A Treatise on Insanity, Nosology chapters
The divisions of mania, melancholia, dementia, and idiotism show early nineteenth-century diagnostic language before modern mood and psychotic categories.
- A Treatise on Insanity, Treatment chapters
The discussion of regimen, baths, restraint, and moral management captures the therapeutic hopes and limits of asylum reform.
- A Treatise on the Smallpox and Measles, Chapter I, §§5–8
The must-and-wine theory of smallpox as fermentation of children's blood, and why young and old are rarely attacked except in putrid air.
- A Treatise on the Smallpox and Measles, Chapter II
Constitutions, diets and seasons that dispose to smallpox and to measles.
- A Treatise on the Smallpox and Measles, Chapter III
Prodromal symptoms and the differential diagnosis of smallpox and measles.
- A Treatise on the Smallpox and Measles, Chapter V
Preventive bloodletting for those over fourteen, cupping for younger children, cool rooms and a cooling diet.
- A Treatise on the Smallpox and Measles, Chapter VII
Protection of the eyes, throat, joints, soles and palms; eye-drops of rose-water, sumach and pomegranate; opening of large pustules.
- A Treatise on the Smallpox and Measles, Chapter XIV
Prognostic signs: color, size and spacing of pustules, timing of eruption, fever after eruption, delirium and swooning as fatal signs; scarification of a threatened limb.
- A View from the Bridge, Act 1 (two-act version)
Eddie's consultation with Alfieri, in which he insists Rodolpho is 'not right' and Alfieri hints at what Eddie feels.
- A View from the Bridge, Act 2 (two-act version), opening
Eddie comes home drunk and kisses both Catherine and Rodolpho.
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Ch. 2-3
Bodily weakness and sickly delicacy cultivated as feminine charms, contrasted with exercise and the healthy tone of nerves and muscles.
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Ch. 9
Women as physicians, nurses and midwives, and the replacement of the midwife by the accoucheur.
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Ch. 12
Ignorant child-rearing blamed for infant deaths, and women mocked for following physicians' advice on the care of infants.
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Ch. 13, sect. 1
Fortune-tellers and magnetisers, with Wollstonecraft's account of regimen, air, exercise and medicine as the only sound means of restoring health.
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Ch. 13, sect. 5
The rearing of children as laying a foundation of sound health of body and mind, and the cost of ignorance in nurseries.
- A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, The Golden Touch
Midas's breakfast of trout, cakes and coffee turns to gold in his mouth, and he realizes he faces starvation in the midst of riches.
- A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, The Gorgon's Head
The Three Gray Women pass a single eye from hand to hand and are helpless while Perseus holds it.
- A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, The Miraculous Pitcher
Baucis and Philemon share their last bread, honey and milk, and are later given renewed age as an oak and a linden.
- A Wrinkle in Time, Chapters 8–9
Charles Wallace lets IT into his mind and speaks with its voice; Meg feels IT's rhythm pressing on her own thoughts.
- A Wrinkle in Time, Chapters 10–11
Meg, half frozen after passing through the Black Thing, is carried and nursed back to health by Aunt Beast on Ixchel.
- Across Five Aprils, Early chapters, 1861
Matt suffers a heart attack and cannot work; Jethro and Jenny take over the farm.
- Across Five Aprils, 1862
The family learns that Tom has been killed at Shiloh.
- Across Five Aprils, 1863
Shad is badly wounded at Gettysburg and Jenny travels east to nurse him.
- Adam of the Road, Winchester and Master Walter's house
Adam's fall while watching a play at St. Giles's Fair and his convalescence under the care of Master Walter and Dame Prudence.
- Addington v. Texas, Opinion of the Court, Part III-A, paragraph beginning: At one time or another every person exhibits some abnormal behavior
The Court distinguishes ordinary unusual conduct from mental illness warranting confinement and warns against commitment based on isolated episodes.
- Addington v. Texas, Opinion of the Court, Part III-B, paragraph beginning: The subtleties and nuances of psychiatric diagnosis render certainties virtually beyond reach in most situations.
Burger describes psychiatric diagnosis as based on medical impressions filtered through the diagnostician's experience, explaining why certainty about dangerousness is rarely attainable.
- Addington v. Texas, Opinion of the Court, Part III-A, sentence beginning: Moreover, it is indisputable that involuntary commitment to a mental hospital
The Court recognizes the adverse social consequences, whether called stigma or otherwise, that follow involuntary hospitalization.
- Address to the Nation on the Challenger Disaster, Paragraph 4
Reagan's words to the schoolchildren who watched the launch, explaining that painful things happen as part of exploration.
- Address to the Nation on the Challenger Disaster, Paragraph 3
The address to the families, acknowledging that others cannot bear the full impact of their loss.
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter V
Pap swears off drink before the new judge, who weeps over his reform; that night he gets drunk, rolls off the porch roof and breaks his arm.
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VI
Pap's delirium tremens in the cabin: visions of snakes, terror of the dead, and his chase of Huck with a clasp-knife.
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter X
Jim is bitten by a rattlesnake, drinks Pap's whiskey as a remedy and ties the snake's rattles to his wrist; Huck blames handling the snakeskin.
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter XVI
Huck lets slave hunters believe his father on the raft has smallpox, and they keep their distance and give him money.
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter XVII
Huck describes the dead Emmeline Grangerford's mourning pictures and obituary poems.
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter XIX
The duke and the king list their trades, including patent medicines, mesmerism, phrenology and faith healing.
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters XXV-XXIX
Dr. Robinson denounces the king as a fraud at the Wilks house and later helps test the claimants.
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters XL-XLII
Tom is shot in the calf during the escape; the doctor treats him and testifies that Jim stayed to help nurse him at the risk of his freedom.
- Aesop's Fables, The Wolf And The Lamb
The wolf’s hunger drives the invented charges against the lamb.
- Against Method, Closing chapters (science in a free society)
The state-sponsored revival of traditional Chinese medicine offered as an example of a non-scientific tradition with valuable results.
- Against Method, Closing chapters (science in a free society)
Argument that laymen, not experts alone, should decide which traditions are taught and supported, including in matters of health.
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter I
Alice checks whether the DRINK ME bottle is marked poison before tasting it, then shrinks to ten inches high.
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter II
Alice grows to over nine feet, weeps a pool, and doubts her own identity, testing her memory with multiplication and geography.
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter V
The Caterpillar with his hookah gives Alice the mushroom whose two sides make her grow or shrink; her neck stretches above the trees.
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapters VI–VII
The Cheshire Cat's argument that everyone in Wonderland is mad, and the Mad Tea-Party with the Hatter, March Hare and ever-sleeping Dormouse.
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter XII
Alice wakes on the bank and her sister half-dreams the same scenes, explaining the adventures as a dream.
- All Quiet on the Western Front, Chapters I-II
Kemmerich in the field hospital after the amputation of his leg; the orderly refuses morphia; Kemmerich's death and the passing on of his boots.
- All Quiet on the Western Front, Chapter IV
The gas attack in the graveyard, the struggle to get a mask onto a recruit, and the recruit with the smashed hip whom the veterans think it would be kinder to shoot.
- All Quiet on the Western Front, Chapter VI
Under days of bombardment a recruit is seized by a panic of suffocation and tries to rush out of the dugout; the men hold him down.
- All Quiet on the Western Front, Chapter IX
Paul tends the French soldier he has wounded, bandaging him and giving him water through hours of dying.
- All Quiet on the Western Front, Chapter X
The surgeons' table, Paul's fear of chloroform and amputation, the nuns' ward, the Dying Room, tetanus deaths, traction, X-rays, and Albert's amputation.
- All Quiet on the Western Front, Chapter XI
Staff surgeons pass half-recovered men as fit; hunger and dysentery in 1918; Kat's shin wound and death from a splinter in the head.
- Alone in Berlin, Part I, opening
Anna's collapse on hearing of her son's death and Otto's silent, hardening grief.
- Alone in Berlin, Part I
Frau Rosenthal, hounded and robbed, falls to her death from a window.
- Alone in Berlin, Part IV
Interrogation and imprisonment of the Quangels; cyanide capsules offered as a means of choosing death.
- Alone in Berlin, Part IV
Inspector Escherich, broken by what he has done, shoots himself.
- Amos Fortune, Free Man, Woburn, 1740-1779
Amos buys the sick Lily's freedom, marries her and nurses her until her death.
- Amos Fortune, Free Man, Auctioned for Freedom
Polly Burdoo is taken into the Fortune home after the vendue and dies there.
- Amos Fortune, Free Man, Evergreen Years, 1794-1801
Amos's old age and death at about ninety-one.
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section I
Nature warns that excessive abstract study will be punished by pensive melancholy, uncertainty and cold reception, and recommends a mixed life of thought, action and society.
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section II
Ideas can approach the vividness of sensations only when the mind is disordered by disease or madness.
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section VI
Irregular causes such as rhubarb as a purge and opium as a soporific, used to explain how probability arises from mixed experience.
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section VII, Part I
The will's command over body and mind is known only by experience; self-command varies with health, sickness, time of day and fasting; a paralysed limb illustrates our ignorance of the mechanism.
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section VIII, Part I
Physicians are not surprised when medicines fail, because they assume hidden causes in the animal economy; Hume uses this to argue for regularity in human conduct.
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part II and notes
Reported miraculous cures at the tomb of the Abbé Pâris, with physicians and witnesses for and against, including the case of Mademoiselle Thibaut.
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Ch. IX, §8
Molyneux's problem: whether a man born blind, newly given sight, could distinguish a globe from a cube without touching them; Locke and Molyneux answer no.
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Ch. XI, §12–13
Difference between 'naturals' (intellectual disability) and madmen; delusions such as believing oneself a king or made of glass; partial madness in otherwise sober people.
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Ch. XXI
The will determined by present uneasiness; the drunkard who sees his health and estate decaying yet returns to drink.
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Ch. XXIII
Opium's colour, taste and soporific or anodyne virtues as powers grounded in hidden primary qualities.
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Ch. XXVII
Personal identity through consciousness; cases of forgetting, drunkenness, sleepwalking and alternating consciousness, and their bearing on punishment.
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Ch. XXXIII, §7–16
Associations producing antipathies (surfeit of honey), fear of the dark, rumination on injury, aversion to places of illness, unending grief, aversion to a surgeon who cured madness, and context-bound dancing.
- An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, Part One, Chapter I
Bernard notes that the insane, having lost reason, no longer learn from experience, which he calls the prerogative of reason.
- An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, Part Two, Chapter I
The internal environment of warm-blooded animals and its protective mechanisms are described as the condition of their apparent independence from the outer world.
- An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, Part Two, Chapter I
Death by carbon monoxide is explained by its firmer union with haemoglobin than oxygen, as an example of how far physiology can answer the question how.
- An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, Part Two, Chapter II
Bernard sets out which experiments on human beings are forbidden, permitted or obligatory, and defends vivisection while discussing the pain of animals and the objections of its critics.
- An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, Part Two, Chapter II, section on averages and statistics
Bernard argues that averaging urine or blood analyses, or pulse rates, produces a state that does not exist in any real animal.
- An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, Part Three, Chapter I
Bernard recounts poisoning frogs with curare and performing a physiological autopsy, which showed that the poison abolishes the action of motor nerves while muscles remain excitable; he follows it with his experiments on death by carbon monoxide.
- An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, Part Three, Chapter I
Bernard narrates how an unexpected finding of sugar in the blood led to his discovery of the glycogenic function of the liver.
- An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, Part Three, Chapter IV
Empirical physicians who know that a remedy works but not how are contrasted with experimenting physicians who seek the mechanism of drug action.
- An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, Opening chapters on the laws of thought
Boole frames symbolic logic as an inquiry into the operations of the mind, relevant to later computational models of cognition.
- An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, Chapters on probability
The treatment of uncertain inference offers a prehistory for formal approaches to judgment, risk, and decision-making.
- Animal Farm, Chapter 1
Major tells the animals that Man will send the old horses to the knacker and that he himself has lived long only by luck.
- Animal Farm, Chapter 7
The winter of famine, the concealed shortage, and the hens' resistance ended by stopping their rations until nine hens die.
- Animal Farm, Chapter 8
The pigs find a case of whisky; Napoleon's hangover is announced as a dying illness, and the commandment against alcohol is quietly amended.
- Animal Farm, Chapter 9
Boxer's split hoof and failing lungs, his collapse at the windmill, and his removal in the horse slaughterer's van while Squealer describes a hospital.
- Anne of Green Gables, Chapter II and V
Anne's account of the orphan asylum and her years as unpaid help in two households caring for children.
- Anne of Green Gables, Chapter XVI
Diana drinks three tumblers of what she takes for raspberry cordial but is Marilla's currant wine and goes home intoxicated.
- Anne of Green Gables, Chapter XVIII
With the doctor away, Anne treats Minnie May's croup with ipecac through the night; the doctor later says she saved the child's life.
- Anne of Green Gables, Chapter XXIII
Anne falls from the ridgepole of the Barrys' kitchen roof and breaks her ankle, which the doctor sets.
- Anne of Green Gables, Chapter XXXVII
Matthew, who has had heart trouble, collapses and dies after reading of the Abbey Bank's failure.
- Anne of Green Gables, Chapter XXXVIII
Marilla's headaches and failing eyes lead an oculist to warn of blindness unless she gives up reading and sewing.
- Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Part III
Fever at Leonforte in Sicily in 1833, his servant's nursing, and his recovery with a sense of mission.
- Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Part III
Exhaustion on the journey home and several days laid up at Lyons.
- Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Part VII
Mention of the Irish fever that cut off emigrants between Liverpool and Leeds, in a passage on Catholic clergy.
- Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Ullathorne letter (end of volume)
Newman and Ambrose St. John go to Bilston to minister during a cholera outbreak in place of other priests.
- Areopagitica, Part one, on the nature of books
Books compared to a vial holding the distilled efficacy and extraction of a living intellect.
- Areopagitica, Part two, on reading
Wholesome and unwholesome meats, the vitiated stomach and healthy concoction, and God's leaving the diet of body and mind to temperance.
- As We May Think, Memex description
The proposed desk extends memory by preserving linked trails through documents and records.
- As We May Think, Discussion of associative indexing
Bush's claim about mental association connects technology design to a theory of cognition.
- As We May Think, Opening postwar frame
The redirection of wartime research toward peaceful knowledge raises questions about scientific responsibility.
- As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1 and Act 2, Scene 5
Jaques weeps over a wounded stag and asks Amiens for more song to feed his melancholy.
- As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 3 and Act 2, Scene 6
Adam attributes his healthy old age to avoiding hot liquors in youth, then collapses from hunger in the forest.
- As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7
The seven ages of man, ending in second childishness and the loss of the senses.
- As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 2
Rosalind calls love a madness deserving the dark house and whip, and claims to have cured a lover by counsel.
- As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 1
Jaques's catalogue of the kinds of melancholy and Rosalind's reply.
- As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 3
Oliver tells how the lioness tore Orlando's arm, how he bled and fainted and had the wound bound; Rosalind swoons at the bloody napkin.
- Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., Opinion of the Court, Part I–B, at the sentence beginning The average American woman has a 12- to 13-percent risk
Thomas gives the Court's figures for the lifetime cancer risk associated with BRCA mutations, the medical stakes that made Myriad's test valuable.
- Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., Opinion of the Court, Part I–C, at the sentence beginning After learning of GDL
The opinion recounts how Myriad's letters led the University of Pennsylvania laboratory to stop testing and to refuse a physician's patient samples, the factual basis for the challengers' claim that patents restricted clinical access.
- Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., Opinion of the Court, Part III, at the sentence beginning First, there are no method claims
Thomas notes that patents on methods of testing and on new applications of BRCA knowledge were not before the Court, leaving room for diagnostic innovation to be patented in other forms.
- Autobiography and Poor Richard's Almanack, Autobiography, moral improvement plan
Franklin's charted virtues resemble an early behavioral self-monitoring program.
- Autobiography and Poor Richard's Almanack, Civic institution passages
Franklin's public projects belong to the history of urban improvement and health infrastructure.
- Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, Chapter VIII
A sunstroke on the railway line in Virginia and a breakdown from overwork after his Washington service.
- Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, Chapter XV
His typhoid fever of 1886 and the deaths of his mother and brother within a few days while he was ill.
- Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, Preface (Louise Whitfield Carnegie)
Influenza and pneumonia after 1914 and the patience with which he bore old age.
- Because I could not stop for Death, Stanza 2 (Lines 5-8)
The speaker lays aside labor and leisure as Death drives slowly, an image of letting go of ordinary life at the end.
- Because I could not stop for Death, Stanza 4 (Lines 13-16)
The grave pictured as a low house half sunk in the ground, the body's resting place seen from the dead speaker's side.
- Bedtime for Frances, Bedtime requests
Frances's chain of requests for milk, piggyback, kisses, bear and doll before she will lie down.
- Bedtime for Frances, Tiger, giant, crack and curtains
Successive night fears, each answered by Father, ending in his explanation that everyone has a job.
- Beowulf, Heorot under terror
Beowulf gives this tag concrete force through the medical interest lies in battle wounds, grief, aging kingship, and the social care owed to bodies that have been broken in public violence
- Beowulf, The mere and the second fight
Beowulf gives this tag concrete force through the medical interest lies in battle wounds, grief, aging kingship, and the social care owed to bodies that have been broken in public violence
- Beowulf, The dragon and the barrow
Beowulf gives this tag concrete force through the medical interest lies in battle wounds, grief, aging kingship, and the social care owed to bodies that have been broken in public violence
- Beowulf, The dragon and the barrow
Beowulf gives this tag concrete force through the medical interest lies in battle wounds, grief, aging kingship, and the social care owed to bodies that have been broken in public violence
- Beyond Good and Evil, Part One, §§3, 6, 17, 19
Conscious thought steered by instinct and physiology; philosophy as involuntary autobiography; thoughts arriving unbidden; willing as a complex of feelings and commands.
- Beyond Good and Evil, Part Three, §47
The 'religious neurosis' linked to solitude, fasting and sexual abstinence, with speculation about disguised epilepsy and mention of alienists studying the Salvation Army.
- Beyond Good and Evil, Part Three, §62
Religions as protectors of the 'defective, diseased, degenerating'; the passage expresses selectionist views that later eugenic readers exploited.
- Beyond Good and Evil, Part Four, §§68, 154, 156, 157
Memory yielding to pride; health versus pathology of thought; collective insanity; the thought of suicide as consolation through bad nights.
- Beyond Good and Evil, Part Six, §208
Scepticism diagnosed as 'nervous debility' produced by mixing of classes and races, an example of degeneration theory applied to culture.
- Beyond Good and Evil, Part Seven, §225; Part Nine, §270
Defence of great suffering as a discipline; the knowledge and pride of those who have suffered deeply.
- Billy Budd and Other Stories, Bartleby, middle and end
Bartleby's escalating refusals, his living in the office, removal to the Tombs, refusal to eat and death against the prison wall.
- Billy Budd and Other Stories, Billy Budd, early chapters
Billy's 'organic hesitancy', a stutter that seizes him under strong emotion.
- Billy Budd and Other Stories, Billy Budd, after Claggart's death
The surgeon examines Claggart and silently questions Vere's sanity as Vere moves toward a drumhead court.
- Billy Budd and Other Stories, Billy Budd, after the execution
The purser and the surgeon debate why Billy's body showed no spasm at hanging.
- Billy Budd and Other Stories, Billy Budd, early chapters on Claggart
The narrator's discussion of Claggart's 'natural depravity', a quasi-clinical portrait of envy and malice.
- Billy Budd and Other Stories, Benito Cereno, closing pages
Don Benito withdraws to a monastery and dies within months, unable to recover from his ordeal.
- Black Beauty, Part I (Birtwick chapters)
Beauty and John ride through the night to fetch Dr White for the gravely ill mistress.
- Black Beauty, Part I (Birtwick chapters)
Joe Green gives the overheated Beauty cold water and no blanket; Beauty falls seriously ill and is treated by the horse doctor and nursed by John.
- Black Beauty, Part II (Earlshall)
The bearing rein's effect on Beauty and Ginger: pain in mouth, neck and windpipe.
- Black Beauty, Part II
Reuben Smith rides drunk, Beauty falls and breaks his knees, Smith is killed; Beauty is left scarred and devalued.
- Black Beauty, Part IV (London)
Jerry Barker falls ill with bronchitis from exposure and must give up cab work.
- Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad, Chapter 3, Quarrel with the High King
Apollo sends plague on the Greek camp until Agamemnon returns Chryseis to her father, the priest Chryses.
- Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad, Chapters 11-12
Achilles's grief for Patroclus, the mourning in the camp and the funeral pyre.
- Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad, Chapter 17, Poisoned Arrow
Philoctetes, left on Lemnos with a wound that would not heal, is brought to Troy with the bow of Heracles; Paris dies of a poisoned arrow.
- Bleak House, Chapters X-XI
Nemo found dead in his room at Krook's; the surgeon's opinion of an opium overdose; the inquest at the Sol's Arms.
- Bleak House, Chapters XVI and XLVI
Descriptions of Tom-all-Alone's as a source of fever that spreads to every class of society.
- Bleak House, Chapters XXXI and XXXV
Esther nurses Charley through the fever, falls ill herself, loses her sight for a time, and recovers with a changed face.
- Bleak House, Chapter XXXII, The Appointed Time; Preface
Guppy and Weevle discover the greasy soot and remains of Krook; Dickens's prefatory defence of spontaneous combustion.
- Bleak House, Chapter XLVII, Jo's Will
Woodcourt attends the dying Jo in George's shooting gallery.
- Bleak House, Chapters XIV, XXXV and LX
Miss Flite's daily attendance at court, Gridley's collapse, and Richard's wasting under the strain of the suit.
- Bliss and Other Stories, The Man without a Temperament
Robert Salesby's routine of shawls, medicines and walks for his invalid wife Jinnie, and his silent memories of England.
- Bliss and Other Stories, Revelations
Monica Tyrell's morning crisis of nerves, her flight to the hairdresser, and the news of the death of George's little daughter.
- Body and Mind, Lecture I
Maudsley argues that mind must be studied through bodily organization and nervous function.
- Body and Mind, Heredity sections
The discussion of inherited predisposition shows Victorian psychiatry moving toward degeneration theory.
- Body and Mind, Responsibility chapters
The legal and moral reflections ask how disease, habit, and brain function alter blame.
- Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, Early chapters on the Bonhoeffer family
Karl Bonhoeffer's career as a psychiatrist and neurologist and his influence on his children.
- Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, Chapters on 1933
Bonhoeffer's stay at Bethel, its care of people with epilepsy and disabilities, and the drafting of the Bethel Confession.
- Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, Chapters on the war years
The Nazi euthanasia program and Bonhoeffer's ethical writing on the protection of innocent life.
- Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, Final chapters
Buchenwald, Flossenbürg and the execution of April 1945.
- Botchan, Chapter I
The boyhood jump from the second floor, which lays him up for a week, and his father's scorn at bones dislocated by so short a fall.
- Botchan, Chapter XI
Kiyo's death from pneumonia in February and her deathbed request about her grave.
- Buck v. Bell, Opinion of the Court, the statute's preamble: that experience has shown that heredity plays an important part in the transmission of insanity, imbecility, etc.
Holmes summarizes the legislative findings on heredity and the discharge of institutionalized patients, the hereditarian premises on which the statute rested.
- Buck v. Bell, Opinion of the Court, review of procedure: The superintendent first presents a petition to the special board of directors of his hospital or colony
The procedure by which an institution's superintendent initiated the operation and the board, courts and guardian reviewed it, a window on the authority of asylum administrators in the 1920s.
- Buck v. Bell, Opinion of the Court, closing paragraph: so far as the operations enable those who otherwise must be kept confined to be returned to the world, and thus open the asylum to others
Holmes links sterilization to the discharge of patients and the freeing of institutional beds, reflecting the period's view of the asylum's custodial role.
- BUtterfield 8, Throughout
Speakeasy drinking, hangovers and the role of alcohol in every social encounter.
- BUtterfield 8, Middle section (flashback)
Account of Gloria's sexual abuse as a girl and its aftermath.
- BUtterfield 8, Final chapters
Gloria's fall from the steamboat and the public reaction to her death.
- Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, Chapter 15, Eunuchs
Eunuchs as court officials, churchmen and guardians, and how castration shaped their status.
- Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire, Chapter 20, Basil II
The reported mass blinding of Bulgarian captives and the political use of mutilation.
- Candide: Or Optimism, Ch. 4
Candide finds Pangloss disfigured by syphilis; Pangloss explains the genealogy of the disease and its 'necessity'.
- Candide: Or Optimism, Ch. 5–6
The Lisbon earthquake, the injured Candide, and the auto-da-fé held to prevent further quakes.
- Candide: Or Optimism, Ch. 3
Battle between Bulgars and Abares; heaps of dead and dying, mutilated villagers.
- Candide: Or Optimism, Ch. 22
In Paris Candide falls ill; doctors and others descend on him and his health worsens under their care.
- Candide: Or Optimism, Ch. 19
The enslaved man in Surinam missing a hand and a leg as punishment.
- Cannery Row, Interchapter on the epidemic
Influenza hits the Row; Dora's girls and Doc care for sick families.
- Cannery Row, Chapters on Frankie
Frankie's devotion to Doc, his theft of a clock as a gift and his commitment to an institution.
- Cannery Row, Early chapter (Palace Flophouse)
Horace Abbeville settles his debt with Lee Chong and shoots himself in the building that becomes the Palace Flophouse.
- Cannery Row, La Jolla chapter
Doc finds the body of a drowned girl in the rocks while collecting specimens.
- Cannery Row, First and second parties
Drink fuels both parties, destructively and joyfully.
- Captains Courageous, Chapter I
Harvey, seasick from a cigar, falls overboard; Disko suspects his wild talk comes from striking his head and recalls a skipper who went mad after a blow to the head.
- Captains Courageous, Chapter III
Salters tells Harvey that Penn was a Moravian preacher who lost his family in the Johnstown flood and his memory with them.
- Captains Courageous, Chapter VII
The sight of the Jennie Cushman's dead briefly restores Penn's memory; afterward Disko explains how the shock lifted him out of forgetfulness and how he slid back.
- Captains Courageous, Chapter X
Gloucester's memorial service reads the names of the fishermen lost that year.
- Carmilla, Chapter I, An Early Fright
The six-year-old Laura wakes with a sensation as of two needles piercing her breast; the household searches the room and a doctor and priest attend her.
- Carmilla, Chapter IV, Her Habits—A Saunter
Laura reports the deaths of peasant women after dreams of being seized by the throat; her father attributes such fancies to fever; Carmilla suffers a convulsive fit at the funeral hymn.
- Carmilla, Chapter VII, Descending
Laura describes weeks of lassitude, languor, melancholy and pallor, and a gentle, not unwelcome sense of slowly sinking toward death.
- Carmilla, Chapter IX, The Doctor
Doctor Spielsberg questions Laura about the needle-like sensation and the feeling of strangulation, finds a small blue spot below her throat, and orders that she never be left alone.
- Carmilla, Chapter XIV, The Meeting
The General's first physician ridicules the doctor from Gratz, who declares that no natural disease exhibits Bertha's symptoms and sends a sealed letter to be read before a clergyman.
- Carmilla, Chapters XV-XVI
Two medical men attest to breathing and heartbeat in the exhumed body; Vordenburg explains that a suicide may become a vampire and that the vampire's strength sustains itself on living blood.
- Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Later chapters (between voyages)
News reaches Nat that Elizabeth Boardman has died of consumption.
- Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Early chapters
Deaths in the Bowditch household during Nat's boyhood and indenture.
- Catiline's War and The Jugurthine War, Catiline's War, ch. XV
Catiline's guilty conscience: no rest waking or sleeping, pale complexion, haggard eyes, irregular gait.
- Catiline's War and The Jugurthine War, Catiline's War, ch. V
Catiline's bodily endurance of hunger, cold and want of sleep beyond belief.
- Catiline's War and The Jugurthine War, Catiline's War, ch. XXXI
Gloom and alarm spread through the city; citizens feel safe nowhere and with no one.
- Catiline's War and The Jugurthine War, Catiline's War, ch. LIX and Watson's note 298
Antonius absent from the battle through lameness of the feet; the translator weighs whether it was gout or a pretext.
- Centesimus Annus, Looking back to Rerum Novarum
Centesimus Annus gives this tag concrete force through its medical lens is social: work, poverty, family wages, consumerism, and solidarity all shape health before clinical care begins
- Centesimus Annus, 1989 and freedom
Centesimus Annus gives this tag concrete force through its medical lens is social: work, poverty, family wages, consumerism, and solidarity all shape health before clinical care begins
- Centesimus Annus, Market, culture, person
Centesimus Annus gives this tag concrete force through its medical lens is social: work, poverty, family wages, consumerism, and solidarity all shape health before clinical care begins
- Ceremony, Opening section
Tayo's sleeplessness, nausea and flood of memories; his recollection of the VA hospital ward where he felt himself invisible.
- Ceremony, Flashbacks to the Philippines
The Bataan march, Rocky's wounds and death, and the execution of Japanese prisoners.
- Ceremony, Bar scenes with Harley, Leroy and Emo
Veterans' drinking, boasting and the outbreak of violence; Tayo's attack on Emo.
- Ceremony, Ku'oosh's visit
The elder's traditional ceremony and his recognition that some war sicknesses are beyond it.
- Ceremony, Betonie's hogan, Gallup
Betonie's ceremony, sand painting and teaching that ceremonies must change.
- Characters, The Chatterer
Compulsive, poorly bounded speech becomes a recognizable social burden.
- Characters, The Superstitious Man
Ritual fear and omen-reading govern daily behavior in ways that resemble anxiety without being clinical diagnosis.
- Characters, The Coward
Everyday danger is exaggerated into avoidance, excuses and panic.
- Characters, The Late Learner and related sketches
Socially awkward self-fashioning shows personality as public performance.
- Charlotte's Web, Chapter XIV
Mrs. Arable consults Dr. Dorian about Fern's absorption in the barn animals; he reassures her and reflects on the web as something no one fully understands.
- Charlotte's Web, Chapter XXI
Charlotte tells Wilbur she will not return to the barn and dies alone at the fairground after the crowds leave.
- Charlotte's Web, Chapter XXII
Wilbur guards the egg sac through the winter and welcomes Charlotte's daughters in spring, keeping her memory.
- Chess, Dr B.'s narrative (isolation)
Months of solitary confinement in a hotel room with no books, no activity and no human contact beyond interrogation.
- Chess, Dr B.'s narrative (chess against himself)
He splits into a white self and a black self and is consumed by compulsive play, losing sleep and appetite.
- Chess, Dr B.'s narrative (breakdown and release)
He attacks a guard and wakes in hospital; a doctor's diagnosis secures his release from Gestapo custody.
- Chess, Final scene
During the second game against Czentovic, Dr B.'s agitation and confusion return until the narrator stops him.
- Christ Legends, The Wise Men's Well
The three wise men of Gebas, one old, one leprous and one scorned as a foreigner, are healed and renewed by the Child.
- Christ Legends, Saint Veronica's Kerchief, sections III–IV and IX
The Emperor's disfiguring illness, the despair of his physicians and court, and his healing on seeing the kerchief.
- Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople, The Doge and a Number of Venetians Take the Cross
Description of Dandolo's sight lost through a wound in the head; translator's note on the uncertainty.
- Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople, Message of Alexius, the Son of Isaac
The blinding of Emperor Isaac by his brother.
- Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople, Retreat of the Crusaders
The host leaves Adrianople by night, taking all its wounded with it.
- Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople, Boniface Is Killed in a Battle Against the Bulgarians
Boniface's arrow wound beneath the shoulder and his death from loss of blood.
- Chronographia, Reign of Michael IV
The emperor's seizures, the efforts to conceal them, and his final illness with dropsy.
- Chronographia, Reign of Michael V
The blinding of the deposed emperor and his uncle after the rising of 1042.
- Chronographia, Reign of Constantine IX Monomachos
The emperor's gout and the pain that crippled his hands and feet.
- Chronographia, Reign of Isaac I Komnenos
Psellos at the bedside of the ailing emperor, judging his condition by the pulse before his abdication.
- City of God, Book 1
Augustine consoles Christians after Rome’s sack and discusses captivity, rape, shame and suicide.
- City of God, Book 1
He argues that bodily violation does not morally stain a person without consent of the will.
- City of God, Books 13–14
Death, flesh, will and disordered desire are traced to the fall.
- City of God, Book 19
Earthly peace is real but fragile, framed against the final peace of God’s city.
- City of God, Book 22
Resurrection raises questions of bodily restoration, wounds, disabilities and identity.
- Civilization and Its Discontents, Ch. I
Romain Rolland's oceanic feeling explained as an infantile ego-feeling persisting alongside the adult ego; pathological states in which the boundary between ego and world becomes uncertain.
- Civilization and Its Discontents, Ch. II
Survey of methods of avoiding suffering: intoxication as the crudest and most effective chemical method, with the danger that it wastes energy; killing the drives as in yoga; sublimation; fantasy; flight into neurosis or psychosis; love; beauty.
- Civilization and Its Discontents, Ch. III
Civilization's protections against disease and nature, including hygiene and cleanliness; technology as prosthetic organs; the footnoted speculation about the control of fire.
- Civilization and Its Discontents, Ch. IV and notes
Restriction of sexual life by civilization; speculation that upright posture and the devaluation of smell led to 'organic repression'.
- Civilization and Its Discontents, Ch. VII–VIII
The super-ego, unconscious guilt, and the 'need for punishment'; melancholia as the clinical picture of a harsh super-ego; the possibility of diagnosing 'communal neuroses'.
- Cold Comfort Farm, Early chapters and passim
Aunt Ada keeps to her room and controls her family through the memory of the woodshed.
- Cold Comfort Farm, Later chapters
Flora arranges for Judith to see a psychoanalyst to cure her fixation on her son.
- Cold Comfort Farm, Mr Mybug's walks with Flora
Mybug reads sexual symbolism into nature, parodying Freudian criticism.
- Cold Comfort Farm, Penultimate chapters
Flora's long conversation with Ada, which ends her self-imposed confinement.
- Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book I, ch. 1
Personal security defined to include health; life protected from the time an infant can stir in the womb; harms to health and limbs as injuries to the person.
- Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book I, ch. 8 (eighteenth branch of the king's ordinary revenue)
Idiots and natural fools distinguished from lunatics; the writ de idiota inquirendo and the jury test of a person's understanding.
- Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book I, ch. 8
Non compos mentis caused by disease, grief or accident; lucid intervals; persons under frenzies or losing intellect by disease; the crown as trustee for their recovery.
- Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book I, ch. 8
The Lord Chancellor's commission of lunacy and the rule that the next heir may not be committee of the person.
- Common Sense, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, and The American Crisis, Rights of Man, social welfare proposals
Paine proposes public measures for poverty and old age, anticipating later welfare and public-health arguments.
- Complete Poems, 'Résumé' (Enough Rope)
A catalogue of methods of suicide and their disadvantages, ending in reluctant survival.
- Complete Poems, 'Symptom Recital' (Sunset Gun or Death and Taxes)
A list of complaints of mood, sleep and temper presented as symptoms, revealed as signs of falling in love.
- Complete Poems, Various poems across the collections
Drinking, hangovers and night-time wakefulness as part of the speaker's romantic misery.
- Confessions, Book I.11
As a boy Augustine falls ill with a fever and stomach pains and begs for baptism, which is postponed when he recovers.
- Confessions, Book IV.3
The physician Vindicianus, who crowned Augustine in a poetry contest, warns him against astrology.
- Confessions, Book IV.4–9
Grief at the death of a friend: weeping, hatred of familiar places, weariness of life and fear of death.
- Confessions, Book VI.8
Alypius, dragged to the amphitheatre, opens his eyes and becomes intoxicated by the bloodshed, returning compulsively.
- Confessions, Book VIII.5, 8–12
The chain of habit, the divided will, physical agitation in the garden, and the conversion.
- Confessions, Book IX.2, 4
Chest pain and difficulty breathing support his resignation from teaching; a severe toothache relieved after prayer.
- Confessions, Book IX.8
Monica as a girl falls into a habit of sipping wine from the cellar until rebuked by a servant.
- Confessions, Book IX.10–13
Monica's fever and death at Ostia and Augustine's struggle to restrain his tears.
- Confessions, Book X.8–19
Inquiry into the structure of memory, forgetting and recollection.
- Confessions, Book I
Born 'in a very weakly and infirm state'; his mother's death after childbirth; his aunt's care; the spanking at Bossey and its lasting effect on his sexuality.
- Confessions, Book II
The stolen ribbon and the accusation of Marion, analysed as the work of overwhelming shame.
- Confessions, Book VI
The attack of pounding arteries and tinnitus with permanent partial deafness; insomnia; 'the vapors'; reading anatomy and imagining a polyp of the heart; the journey to the physicians of Montpellier and their waters and whey.
- Confessions, Book VII
Thérèse's confinements with the midwife and the deposit of the children at the Foundling Hospital.
- Confessions, Book VIII
The Vincennes illumination 'approaching a delirium'; congenital bladder defect, nephritic colic, treatment by Morand and Daran, Morand's prognosis of six months to live, and the decision to abandon physicians.
- Confessions, Book XI
The young heir of the Montmorency-Luxembourg family dies of inanition under a physician's severe regimen, against Rousseau's advice.
- Confessions, Books IX–XII
The growing conviction of a plot by Diderot, Grimm, d'Épinay and others, culminating in the narrative of flight and persecution.
- Cranford, Ch. II
Mr Hoggins says Miss Brown cannot live many days; her sister nurses her through her last illness after their father's death.
- Cranford, Ch. XI
The injured conjuror is moved to lodgings and nursed under Mr Hoggins, whose verdict Cranford treats as infallible.
- Cranford, Ch. XI
Mrs Brown tells how her children died in India and how she carried her last baby to safety.
- Crime and Punishment, The theory and the murder
Crime and Punishment gives this tag concrete force through this is a major psychiatric novel: fever, delirium, obsession, dissociation, alcoholism, suicide, trauma, and moral injury drive the action
- Crime and Punishment, Fever and pursuit
Crime and Punishment gives this tag concrete force through this is a major psychiatric novel: fever, delirium, obsession, dissociation, alcoholism, suicide, trauma, and moral injury drive the action
- Crime and Punishment, Confession and exile
Crime and Punishment gives this tag concrete force through this is a major psychiatric novel: fever, delirium, obsession, dissociation, alcoholism, suicide, trauma, and moral injury drive the action
- Crime and Punishment, Confession and exile
Crime and Punishment gives this tag concrete force through this is a major psychiatric novel: fever, delirium, obsession, dissociation, alcoholism, suicide, trauma, and moral injury drive the action
- Crime and Punishment, Confession and exile
Crime and Punishment gives this tag concrete force through this is a major psychiatric novel: fever, delirium, obsession, dissociation, alcoholism, suicide, trauma, and moral injury drive the action
- Crime and Punishment, Confession and exile
Crime and Punishment gives this tag concrete force through this is a major psychiatric novel: fever, delirium, obsession, dissociation, alcoholism, suicide, trauma, and moral injury drive the action
- Critique of Practical Reason, Book I, Chapter I, section 1 and Remark
Kant defines practical principles and contrasts a will pathologically affected by desire with one determined by reason alone.
- Critique of Practical Reason, Book I, Chapter III
The analysis of respect as a feeling produced by the moral law, which strikes down self-conceit and limits self-love.
- Critique of Pure Reason, Transcendental Deduction (A 98–130; B 129–169)
Synthesis of apprehension, reproduction and recognition; the unity of apperception as the condition of any coherent experience.
- Critique of Pure Reason, Refutation of Idealism (B 274–279)
Inner experience requires outer objects; representations in dreams and madness are acknowledged but said to derive from earlier real perceptions.
- Critique of Pure Reason, Paralogisms of Pure Reason (A 341–405; B 399–432)
Critique of rational psychology's claims that the soul is a simple, persisting, immaterial substance, including a response to Mendelssohn on the soul's gradual extinction.
- Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, Opinion of the Court, paragraph beginning The logical corollary of the doctrine of informed consent
Traces how the right to refuse treatment grew out of informed consent and how Quinlan in 1976 began the line of state end-of-life decisions.
- Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, Concurrence of Justice O'Connor, paragraph beginning The State's artificial provision of nutrition and hydration
Relies on statements of the American Medical Association and the Hastings Center to treat artificial feeding as medical treatment rather than ordinary care.
- Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, Dissent of Justice Brennan, section A, paragraph opening with a quotation on the timing of death
Cites a federal technology-assessment report on how often deaths in hospitals and long-term care follow a decision to forgo treatment.
- Cuchulain of Muirthemne, The Dream of Angus Og
Angus pines and refuses food for a year after a dream-woman stops visiting him; Fergne, physician of Conn, judges the sickness to be of the mind and identifies love as its cause.
- Cuchulain of Muirthemne, The War for the Bull of Cuailgne (Macha's curse)
Macha, forced to race while pregnant, gives birth at the goal and lays on the men of Ulster a weakness like that of childbirth in their hour of need.
- Cuchulain of Muirthemne, The War for the Bull of Cuailgne (Lugh's watch at the Lerga)
Exhausted after fighting since Samhain with only brief rests on his spear, Cuchulain sleeps three days and nights while Lugh heals his wounds with Druid herbs.
- Cuchulain of Muirthemne, The Awakening of Ulster (Fingan and Cethern)
Fingan examines each of Cethern's wounds in turn and names the warriors who dealt them from the wounds alone.
- Cuchulain of Muirthemne, Death of Cuchulain (Emer's lament)
Emer asks Conall to make the grave wide, lies down beside Cuchulain and dies of grief; the two are buried under one stone.
- Cybernetics, Chapters on feedback and servomechanisms
Wiener's account of circular control gives a framework for reflexes, motor coordination, tremor, and homeostasis.
- Cybernetics, Discussions of communication and noise
Signal degradation becomes a model for miscommunication within machines, nerves, and social systems.
- Cybernetics, Wartime prediction background
The anti-aircraft context ties theories of cognition and control to the injuries and decisions of modern war.
- Cyrano de Bergerac, Act 1, Scenes 4-5
The nose tirade answers Valvert's insult; afterwards Cyrano tells Le Bret how his profile on a wall shames him and why he will not weep.
- Cyrano de Bergerac, Act 4, Scenes 1-3
The starving cadets at Arras complain of hunger; Cyrano has the fifer play the airs of Gascony.
- Cyrano de Bergerac, Act 4, final scenes
Christian is brought back mortally wounded and dies in Roxane's arms as the Spanish attack.
- Cyrano de Bergerac, Act 5, Scene 3
Ragueneau tells Le Bret of the falling wood, the head wound, the loss of consciousness and the doctor's words about fever and meningitis.
- Cyrano de Bergerac, Act 5, Scene 6
The bandaged Cyrano grows faint, wanders in speech, stands against a tree and dies sword in hand.
- Daisy Miller, Part I
Mrs Miller's dyspepsia and her faith in her doctor at home in Schenectady.
- Daisy Miller, Part II (Colosseum scene)
Winterbourne warns Daisy of the danger of the Roman fever from the night air.
- Daisy Miller, Part II (closing pages)
Daisy's illness, the doctor's attendance, her death and burial in the Protestant cemetery.
- David Copperfield, Ch. 1
David's birth attended by the mild Mr Chillip; Aunt Betsey's interrogation of the doctor.
- David Copperfield, Ch. 9
David learns of his mother's death and that of her newborn baby.
- David Copperfield, Ch. 11–12
Ten-year-old David's labour at the warehouse and his sense of shame and abandonment.
- David Copperfield, Ch. 13
David's starving, penniless walk from London to Dover.
- David Copperfield, Ch. 14
Betsey explains that she rescued Mr Dick from an asylum his brother intended for him, and defends his sanity.
- David Copperfield, Ch. 15–16, 25, 39
Mr Wickfield's increasing reliance on port wine and Heep's exploitation of it.
- David Copperfield, Ch. 47
David and Mr Peggotty find Martha by the river, on the brink of drowning herself.
- David Copperfield, Ch. 48–53
Dora's illness and death, and David's grief.
- De Anima, Earlier theories
De Anima gives this tag concrete force through the work matters to medicine because perception, touch, appetite, and bodily organization become the basis for thinking about life and mind
- De Anima, Powers of life
De Anima gives this tag concrete force through the work matters to medicine because perception, touch, appetite, and bodily organization become the basis for thinking about life and mind
- De Anima, Mind and perception
De Anima gives this tag concrete force through the work matters to medicine because perception, touch, appetite, and bodily organization become the basis for thinking about life and mind
- De Materia Medica, Book 4, poppy/opium entries
Poppy juice and opium preparations are described as powerful pain-relieving and sleep-inducing substances with lethal risk.
- De Materia Medica, Book 4, mandrake
Mandrake is presented as a narcotic and surgical/anodyne aid, later surrounded by magical lore.
- De Materia Medica, Book 4, hellebore
Black and white hellebore are purgative drugs associated in ancient medicine with melancholia and madness.
- De Materia Medica, Book 4, henbane and hemlock
Dangerous plants illustrate the thin margin between medicinal sedation and poisoning.
- De Materia Medica, Books 1–5, wine and oils
Medicated wines, oils and resins show drug delivery through everyday substances.
- De Materia Medica, Antidote and poison entries
Descriptions of toxic substances and countermeasures form an early practical toxicology.
- De Regno, Why rule is needed
De Regno gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens is analogical: tyranny appears as a disorder of the body politic, and prudent rule resembles care ordered toward communal health
- De Regno, Kingship and tyranny
De Regno gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens is analogical: tyranny appears as a disorder of the body politic, and prudent rule resembles care ordered toward communal health
- Death Comes for the Archbishop, Appointment and arrival
Death Comes for the Archbishop gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens includes travel hardship, hunger, fever, aging, deathbed care, and the bodily cost of missionary life in an arid landscape
- Death Comes for the Archbishop, Mission and encounter
Death Comes for the Archbishop gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens includes travel hardship, hunger, fever, aging, deathbed care, and the bodily cost of missionary life in an arid landscape
- Death Comes for the Archbishop, Memory and death
Death Comes for the Archbishop gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens includes travel hardship, hunger, fever, aging, deathbed care, and the bodily cost of missionary life in an arid landscape
- Death Comes for the Archbishop, Memory and death
Death Comes for the Archbishop gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens includes travel hardship, hunger, fever, aging, deathbed care, and the bodily cost of missionary life in an arid landscape
- Death in Venice, Chapter I
Aschenbach, unable to rest after a morning's work and missing his midday sleep, walks out and experiences a hallucination-like vision of a tropical swamp.
- Death in Venice, Chapter III
The sirocco leaves Aschenbach feverish and short of breath, prompting his failed attempt to leave Venice.
- Death in Venice, Chapter V
The English clerk's account of cholera's spread, its symptoms, mortality, the pesthouse, and the city's concealment of the epidemic.
- Death in Venice, Chapter V
The dream of the Dionysian rite, described as a bodily and mental experience that crushes Aschenbach's resistance.
- Death in Venice, Chapter V
The barber dyes Aschenbach's hair and paints his face, echoing the painted old man on the ship.
- Death in Venice, Chapter V
Thirsty and feverish, Aschenbach eats overripe strawberries in the city; his collapse on the beach follows days later.
- Death of a Salesman, Act One, opening
Willy returns home unable to drive, describing how his mind drifted and he nearly went off the road.
- Death of a Salesman, Act One, memory scenes
Willy talks aloud to people from the past, including his dead brother Ben, while others watch.
- Death of a Salesman, Act One, Linda's speech to her sons
Linda reveals Willy's deliberate car crashes and the rubber hose she found by the gas pipe.
- Death of a Salesman, Act Two, the firing and Charley's office
Willy is fired after decades and remarks that he is worth more dead than alive.
- Death of a Salesman, Act Two, final scenes and Requiem
Willy plans his death for the insurance; the funeral and Linda's inability to cry.
- Deliverance from Error (The Confessions of al-Ghazali), The Subterfuges of the Sophists
The dream argument and two months of doubt described as a malady healed by God.
- Deliverance from Error (The Confessions of al-Ghazali), Sufism (the crisis at Baghdad)
Loss of speech, appetite and the ability to swallow; the physicians' verdict that the cause lies in the heart and in sadness.
- Deliverance from Error (The Confessions of al-Ghazali), Divisions of the Philosophic Sciences (Physics; Moral Philosophy)
Medicine as the study of the body's organs and their changes; the honey in the surgeon's cupping glass.
- Deliverance from Error (The Confessions of al-Ghazali), Sufism (opening) and The Reality of Inspiration
Drunkenness and the doctor's knowledge of it; ecstasy and dreams as states beyond ordinary perception.
- Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias, Opening conceptual chapters
Bleuler revises dementia praecox and introduces schizophrenia as a group concept.
- Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias, Fundamental symptoms
Association, affect, ambivalence, and autism become organizing signs for the diagnosis.
- Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias, Course and prognosis
Bleuler resists the idea that all cases end in inevitable dementia.
- Democracy in America, Volume II, individualism and restlessness
Democratic equality is linked to anxiety, ambition, isolation, and private withdrawal.
- Democracy in America, Prison-study background and institutional observations
The journey began with penal reform, connecting democracy to institutions of discipline and moral management.
- Description of the Retreat, Chs. 2-3
The institutional description makes architecture, air, garden access, and household order central to care.
- Description of the Retreat, Treatment chapters
Moral treatment is presented as calm authority, respect, occupation, and minimized restraint.
- Description of the Retreat, Case statements
The case material records mania, melancholy, relapse, recovery, and chronic illness in early asylum language.
- Destruction and Creation and the OODA Loop Briefings, Destruction and Creation
The argument about breaking and rebuilding concepts is relevant to cognitive flexibility under uncertainty.
- Destruction and Creation and the OODA Loop Briefings, OODA loop briefings
Observation, orientation, decision, and action model adaptive response under pressure and conflict.
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 1
Cleanthes says the sceptic's 'philosophical melancholy' dissipates on contact with external objects and passions.
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 10
Demea quotes Milton's lazar-house (stone, ulcer, colic, frenzy, melancholy, madness, atrophy, marasmus, pestilence) and catalogues disorders of the mind; a hospital full of diseases as a specimen of the world's ills.
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 10
Philo on why the miserable remain alive: terrified, not bribed, to continue existing; the man of delicate temper as more sensitive and therefore more unhappy.
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 10
Gratuitous pains of gout, gravel, migraine, toothache and rheumatism, and spleen, melancholy and superstition as pains of the mind.
- Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 11
Four circumstances behind natural evil: pain as motive, general laws, frugal endowment of animals, inaccurate workmanship of nature (including excess or deficiency of humours and disease).
- Diamond v. Chakrabarty, Opinion of the Court, Part IV-B, paragraph beginning To buttress his argument, the petitioner
Summarizes warnings by scientists, including Nobel laureates, that genetic research might threaten human health or diversity, and the Court's view that patent law would not determine whether such research continued.
- Diamond v. Chakrabarty, Note appended to the opinion, paragraph beginning We are not to be understood as suggesting that the political branches have been laggard
Points to the National Institutes of Health guidelines of 1976 as an example of the political branches already regulating recombinant DNA research.
- Diamond v. Chakrabarty, Note appended to the opinion, paragraph beginning In 1873, the Patent Office granted Louis Pasteur a patent
Records that Pasteur received a patent on purified yeast in 1873 and that the Patent Office issued patents claiming micro-organisms in the late 1960s.
- Dignitatis Humanae, Human dignity
Dignitatis Humanae gives this tag concrete force through its medical relevance is bioethical and institutional: conscience, coercion, dignity, and religious liberty matter in hospitals and public health policy
- Dignitatis Humanae, Civil order
Dignitatis Humanae gives this tag concrete force through its medical relevance is bioethical and institutional: conscience, coercion, dignity, and religious liberty matter in hospitals and public health policy
- Discourse on Method, Part IV
Methodical doubt including the possibility that waking experience is a dream; the conclusion that the thinking self is distinct from the body.
- Discourse on Method, Part V
Detailed mechanical account of cardiac motion, valves and auricles, explained by heat rarefying the blood, with an invitation to dissect the heart of a large animal.
- Discourse on Method, Part V
Harvey credited with circulation; evidence from surgeons who tie the arm above the vein they open in bloodletting.
- Discourse on Method, Part V
Animal spirits, nerves, muscles and the brain explained mechanically; animals as automata; speech and reason as signs of a rational soul, with remarks on deaf people's sign language.
- Discourse on Method, Part VI
Health as the first good; the mind's dependence on bodily organs; hope that medicine could cure diseases of body and mind and the debility of age.
- Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, First Part, on sickness
Rousseau lists the diseases produced by inequalities of labour, diet and passion and argues that most of our ills are of our own making.
- Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, First Part, on medicine
He questions whether medicine lengthens life, describes wild animals healed without surgeons or drugs, and concedes that medicine well administered helps social man.
- Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, First Part, on perfectibility
Rousseau asks why man alone is subject to dotage and answers that old age strips away the acquisitions of perfectibility.
- Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, Of Voluntary Servitude, the address to the peoples (end)
La Boétie says physicians wisely leave incurable wounds alone and compares his own advice to a people long used to servitude.
- Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, Of Voluntary Servitude, on custom
Custom teaches people to swallow servitude unawares, as Mithridates accustomed himself to poison.
- Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, Of Voluntary Servitude, on cowardice; translator's endnotes 5 and 7
Hippocrates is cited on the cowardice of peoples under despots and praised for refusing to treat the army of Artaxerxes.
- Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, Of Voluntary Servitude, the chain of dependents
The ambitious flock to a new tyrant as, physicians say, matter flows toward a gangrenous part of the body.
- Discourses (selection) and Encheiridion, Discourses, "In What Manner We Ought to Bear Sickness" (III.10)
How a student should bear fever, thirst and hunger, and how he should regard the physician's good or bad report.
- Discourses (selection) and Encheiridion, Discourses, "On Anxiety (Solicitude)" (II.13)
Epictetus diagnoses the anxious man, pale before an audience, as wanting something not in his power.
- Discourses (selection) and Encheiridion, Encheiridion, ch. V
Disturbance arises from opinions about things; the stages of blaming others, oneself and no one.
- Discourses (selection) and Encheiridion, Encheiridion, chs. IX and XI
Disease and lameness as impediments to the body but not the will; the discipline of saying of the dead that they have been restored.
- Discourses (selection) and Encheiridion, Long's biographical note
Long weighs the story that Epictetus was lamed by his master against Simplicius's report that he was weak and lame from early life.
- Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book I, Preface
The healing art described as the recorded experience of the old physicians, set as a model for imitating ancient political practice.
- Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book III, ch. I
The physicians' maxim that the body daily gathers something needing treatment, applied to the decay and renewal of republics.
- Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book II, ch. V
Plague, famine and flood as heaven-sent causes that destroy populations and the memory of the past.
- Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book I, ch. XXXVIII
A pestilence at Rome tempts the Aequians and Volscians to attack, and the Senate's response is examined.
- Don Quixote, Part I, Ch. 1
Little sleep and much reading dry Alonso Quixano's brain until he loses his wits.
- Don Quixote, Part I, Ch. 8
The windmills taken for giants, the most famous image of delusion in literature.
- Don Quixote, Part I, Ch. 17
Don Quixote brews and drinks the balsam of Fierabras; he and Sancho are violently sick.
- Don Quixote, Part II, Ch. 22–23
Descent into the Cave of Montesinos and Quixote's report of dream-like visions.
- Don Quixote, Part II, Ch. 47
As governor of Barataria, Sancho is denied his meals by the physician Pedro Recio de Agüero.
- Don Quixote, Part II, Ch. 74
Don Quixote falls into a fever, sleeps, wakes sane, renounces chivalry and dies.
- Dracula, Ch. 5–6, 8–9 (Seward's diary)
Seward's observations of Renfield: flies, spiders, sparrows, and his classification as a zoophagous maniac; Renfield's escape attempts toward Carfax.
- Dracula, Ch. 8 (Seward's diary)
Sleepless and dejected, Seward considers taking chloral hydrate and resolves not to let it become a habit.
- Dracula, Ch. 6–8 (Mina's journal)
Lucy's sleepwalking in Whitby and the night Mina finds her on the churchyard bench.
- Dracula, Ch. 8–9
Sister Agatha writes from Budapest that Jonathan has been suffering from a violent brain fever.
- Dracula, Ch. 10–12
Van Helsing performs successive blood transfusions on Lucy from Arthur, Seward, himself and Quincey, and treats her with garlic and opiates.
- Dracula, Ch. 14
Van Helsing invokes Charcot and hypnotism to persuade Seward to open his mind to the inexplicable.
- Dracula, Ch. 21
Renfield is found with a broken back and depressed skull fracture; Van Helsing operates (trephining) to relieve pressure so that he can speak before he dies.
- Dracula, Ch. 23–26
Van Helsing hypnotises Mina at sunrise and sunset to track Dracula through her psychic link.
- Dracula, Ch. 25
Mina and Van Helsing describe Dracula as a criminal type in the terms of Nordau and Lombroso.
- Early Black Church Sermons and Addresses, Abolition and emancipation sermons
Preachers interpret slavery and racial violence as wounds requiring public repentance, endurance, and liberation.
- Early Black Church Sermons and Addresses, Addresses on education, temperance, and mutual aid
Institutional care appears as a response to excluded and endangered bodies.
- Early Christian Lives, Life of Antony, early renunciation
Antony sells possessions and begins bodily discipline through solitude, fasting and prayer.
- Early Christian Lives, Life of Antony, tomb and fortress episodes
Demonic assaults, terrifying visions and endurance under attack structure ascetic combat.
- Early Christian Lives, Life of Antony, visitors and healings
Antony counsels, consoles and participates in healing while resisting fame.
- Early Christian Lives, Jerome, Life of Hilarion
Fasting, travel, miracles and demonic confrontations define the holy man’s authority.
- Early Christian Lives, Jerome, Life of Malchus
Sexual danger, chastity and captivity are narrated as tests of ascetic identity.
- Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers, Didache 1–8
The Two Ways, fasting and baptism show bodily practice as moral formation.
- Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers, Ignatius, Letter to the Romans
Ignatius frames his coming death in bodily and sacrificial language.
- Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers, Martyrdom of Polycarp
Polycarp’s death is narrated as witness, endurance and communal memory.
- Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers, Shepherd of Hermas, Visions
Visionary encounters call the church to repentance and moral repair.
- Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers, 1 Clement
Conflict in Corinth is treated through humility, order and restoration of communal health.
- Early Franciscan Sources, Life of St. Francis, Ch. XVII
The stigmata at La Verna are the major medieval case of sanctity written onto the body.
- Early Franciscan Sources, Life of St. Francis, Ch. XIX
Doctors use cautery for Francis's eye disease, providing a vivid premodern treatment scene.
- Early Franciscan Sources, Canticle of the Sun
Praise of bodily death gives end-of-life suffering a devotional vocabulary.
- Early Franciscan Sources, Death narratives
Francis's final weakness, song, and ritual gestures make dying a communal and liturgical event.
- Early Poems: A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, North of Boston, A Servant to Servants
The farm wife describes her exhaustion, her doctor's prescription of rest, her stay in the State Asylum, and her family's earlier practice of keeping a mad uncle caged in the house.
- Early Poems: A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, Mountain Interval, "Out, Out--"
A boy's hand is cut by the buzz-saw; he begs that the doctor not amputate, is put under ether, and his pulse fades while watchers listen at his heart.
- Early Poems: A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, North of Boston, Home Burial
A mother's grief for her firstborn turns against her husband, who dug the grave himself; the poem stages two incompatible ways of mourning.
- Early Poems: A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval, North of Boston, The Death of the Hired Man
Mary notices how changed and worn the old hired man Silas is; Warren later finds him dead.
- East of Eden, Part One (Cathy's early chapters)
The narrator's reflections on Cathy as a 'monster' born without conscience, and her killing of her parents.
- East of Eden, Part Two
Samuel Hamilton and Lee deliver Cathy's twins; Cathy shoots Adam and leaves.
- East of Eden, Part Two
Kate poisons the brothel-keeper Faye gradually with medicines.
- East of Eden, Parts Two–Three
Adam's prolonged numbness and neglect of his sons until Samuel confronts him.
- East of Eden, Part Four
Kate, suffering from arthritis and fearing exposure, takes poison.
- East of Eden, Part Four (final chapters)
News of Aron's death in France; Adam's stroke and deathbed blessing.
- Ecce Homo, Wise and clever chapters
Nietzsche links diet, climate, illness, recovery, and intellectual style.
- Ecce Homo, Book retrospectives
Earlier works are recast as stages in a self-therapy and transvaluation.
- Ecce Homo, Final chapter
The performance of destiny invites but also resists retrospective psychiatric diagnosis.
- Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Book III, Chapters XXIII, XXVII and XXX
Cedd and his companions die at Lastingham; the pestilence of 664 spreads through southern England, Northumbria and Ireland; the East Saxons lapse into idolatry during the plague.
- Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Book IV, Chapter XIV
A pestilence in a South Saxon monastery ends after a boy's vision of Saints Peter and Paul and the intercession of King Oswald.
- Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Book IV, Chapter XIX
The physician Cynifrid recounts opening Ethelthryth's tumour beneath the jaw, her death, and the healed wound seen at her translation.
- Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Book V, Chapter II
Bishop John teaches a mute youth to speak and has a physician treat his scalp.
- Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Book V, Chapter XII
Drythelm, who seemed to have died, revives and describes a vision of the places of the dead, then lives as a penitent monk.
- Effi Briest, Kessin chapters (Ch. 8–20)
Effi's night fears of the Chinese ghost and Innstetten's ambiguous refusal to reassure her.
- Effi Briest, Kessin chapters
Friendship with the hunchbacked apothecary Gieshübler.
- Effi Briest, Berlin chapters (c. Ch. 23–24)
Effi feigns illness and Dr Rummschüttel, seeing through it, prescribes accordingly.
- Effi Briest, Final chapters (c. Ch. 33–36)
Effi's decline after Annie's visit, Rummschüttel's letter to her parents, and her death at Hohen-Cremmen.
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Stanzas 26-27
The hoary-headed swain describes the youth stretching listlessly by the brook at noon and roving the wood drooping, wan and crazed with care or hopeless love.
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Stanzas 22-23
Reflection on the dying: no one leaves life without a lingering look behind, and the parting soul relies on a loving breast and the tears of those at the bedside.
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, The Epitaph, lines 117-120
The epitaph names Melancholy as the defining mark of the young man's character, alongside his learning and humble birth.
- Elements of Chemistry, Part I, Chs. III–IV
Air is separated into a part that supports respiration and combustion and a part that kills animals forced to breathe it; the names oxygen and azote are given.
- Elements of Chemistry, Part II, Sect. III
Light is necessary to the health of plants and of people, who decline in sedentary manufactures and crowded houses and improve in open-air labour.
- Elements of Chemistry, Part II, tables of neutral salts
Tables give the new systematic names for the salts used in pharmacy and medicine, with the old names beside them.
- Elements of Chemistry, Part III, Ch. III
The calorimeter measures the caloric released in combustion and in the respiration of animals; guinea pigs are recommended as subjects.
- Emma, Vol. I, Ch. I-III
Mr. Woodhouse's dislike of change and marriage, his gruel and fears about wedding cake, and his reliance on Mr. Perry are introduced at Hartfield's evening parties.
- Emma, Vol. I, Ch. XII-XIII
Isabella and her father compare their medical men, Mr. Wingfield and Mr. Perry, and the merits of South End and Cromer for sea-bathing; Harriet's feverish sore throat makes Mr. Elton fear a putrid infection.
- Emma, Vol. III, Ch. IX
Mrs. Churchill dies suddenly at Richmond; the narrator observes that her death justified her long complaints, and Jane Fairfax's illness worsens.
- Enneads, Porphyry's arrangement
Enneads gives this tag concrete force through its medical relevance is indirect but real: passions, embodiment, purification, attention, and the divided self make philosophy a therapy of perception
- Enneads, Soul and embodiment
Enneads gives this tag concrete force through its medical relevance is indirect but real: passions, embodiment, purification, attention, and the divided self make philosophy a therapy of perception
- Enneads, Return and contemplation
Enneads gives this tag concrete force through its medical relevance is indirect but real: passions, embodiment, purification, attention, and the divided self make philosophy a therapy of perception
- Essays, Consolation to his Wife
Plutarch's letter on the death of their two-year-old daughter, urging moderated mourning and describing his wife's composure.
- Essays, On Superstition (Moralia)
Superstition analysed as fear that gives no rest, intruding into sleep and dreams, worse than atheism.
- Essays, On Tranquillity of Mind
Techniques for contentment: reframing misfortune, comparing oneself with others, and cultivating gratitude for past goods.
- Essays, Advice about Keeping Well (Moralia; may not be in this selection)
A dialogue of health advice on diet, exercise and moderation, especially for intellectual workers.
- Essays, On Socrates' Personal Deity
Speculation on how Socrates' inner divine sign communicated with him, a classical discussion of voices and inner signs.
- Essays, Book I, Ch. XIX (Cotton), 'That to study philosophy is to learn to die'
Stoic and Epicurean arguments for habitual meditation on death as a cure for fear of it.
- Essays, Book I, Ch. XX, 'Of the Force of Imagination'
Sympathetic coughs and fevers, impotence induced and cured by belief, the merchant who responds to a mimed clyster, and other cases of suggestion acting on the body.
- Essays, Book I, Ch. XXVII, 'Of Friendship'
Memorial to La Boétie, whose death leaves Montaigne describing himself as only half a person.
- Essays, Book II, Ch. III, 'A Custom of the Isle of Cea'
Survey of classical and biblical cases of voluntary death and the arguments for and against it, including unbearable pain as a justification.
- Essays, Book II, Ch. XII, 'Apology for Raymond Sebond'
Sceptical attack on the reliability of the senses and of reason, with frequent appeal to illness, fever and madness as states that alter perception.
- Essays, Book II, Ch. XXXVII, 'Of the Resemblance of Children to Their Fathers'
First-person account of kidney stone attacks, speculation on hereditary transmission from his father, and a long critique of physicians' contradictions and fees.
- Essays, Book III, Ch. V, 'Upon Some Verses of Virgil'
Candid reflection on ageing, waning sexual vigour and the body's decline.
- Essays, Book III, Ch. XII, 'Of Physiognomy'
Montaigne and his household flee plague and civil war; he admires how ordinary people meet death without philosophy.
- Essays, Book III, Ch. XIII, 'Of Experience'
Detailed personal regimen (sleep, diet, habits) and colic attacks, with the argument that long experience of one's own body outranks medical rules.
- Essays, Essay I, Of Truth
Illusions and flattering hopes as supports of morale; without them minds would be 'full of melancholy and indisposition'.
- Essays, Essay II, Of Death
Fear of death compared to children's fear of the dark; the deathbed's groans and convulsions; passions that overcome the fear of dying; death as natural as birth.
- Essays, Essay XXVII, Of Friendship
Friendship as the remedy for 'stoppings and suffocations' of the heart; contemporary remedies for liver, spleen, lungs and brain; those without friends as cannibals of their own hearts; a physician unacquainted with the patient's body may cure the disease and kill the patient.
- Essays, Essay XXX, Of Regiment of Health
Self-observation as physic, gradual change, Celsus's alternation of fasting and full eating, waking and sleep; passions to avoid; choosing a physician of middle temper.
- Essays, Essay XXXI, Of Suspicion
Suspicions as defects 'not in the heart, but in the brain' that dispose wise men to irresolution and melancholy, remedied by learning more.
- Essays, Essays XLII–XLIV, Of Youth and Age, Of Beauty, Of Deformity
Stages of life and bodily appearance as influences on character; deformity as a spur to boldness and ambition.
- Essays, Essay L, Of Studies
Exercises for bodily ills (bowling for the stone, walking for the stomach) as a model for studies prescribed for defects of the mind.
- Essays and Aphorisms, Parerga II, 'On Suicide' (in the Hollingdale selection)
Rejection of religious and legal condemnation of suicide, mockery of clerical arguments, and the metaphysical claim that suicide fails to deny the will.
- Essays and Aphorisms, Parerga II, 'On the Suffering of the World' and 'On the Vanity of Existence' (in the Hollingdale selection)
Pain as positive and pleasure as negative; boredom; life as a debt repaid at death.
- Essays and Aphorisms, Parerga II, 'On Noise' (in the Hollingdale selection)
Schopenhauer's complaint that noise, especially the cracking of whips, interrupts and destroys thought.
- Essays and Aphorisms, On Human Nature, 'Human Nature' (stored text)
Egoism, malice and the pleasure of anger and hatred; cruelty as the embittered will's attempt to relieve its own torment; Schadenfreude and envy as opposites of pity.
- Essays and Aphorisms, On Human Nature, 'Government', 'Free-will and Fatalism' and 'Character' (stored text)
Character inherited from the father, innate and unalterable; intellectual differences grounded in brain and nervous system.
- Essays and Aphorisms, On Human Nature, 'Ethical Reflections' (stored text)
Two moods toward misery: suffering felt in oneself, which intensifies the will until resignation, and suffering seen in others, which produces sympathy.
- Essays on Education in a Republic, Of the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic
Physical discipline for students: diet, abstinence from spirits, manual labour, sleep, silence, solitude and cleanliness, and the claim that these physical causes act on intellect and morals.
- Essays on Education in a Republic, Thoughts upon the Amusements and Punishments Proper for Schools, on gunning and on school rooms
Gunning exposes boys to fevers and accidents; long sitting deforms the body; crowding children into one room breeds fevers from morbid effluvia, which Rush says he has seen in many hundred cases.
- Essays on Education in a Republic, Thoughts upon the Amusements and Punishments Proper for Schools, reasons 4, 9 and 10 against corporal punishment
Injuries to body and intellect from beating, a schoolmate's reported death after a whipping, fear debilitating the mind, and the analogy between dosing a remedy to a patient's excitability and fitting discipline to a child's temper.
- Essays on Education in a Republic, Thoughts upon Female Education, branch V (vocal music)
Singing as protection for the lungs against consumption, with the example of the Pennsylvania Germans and cases reported by the academy's music master.
- Essays on Education in a Republic, A Defence of the Use of the Bible as a School Book, argument VIII
The memory of old age recovering early learning, and Sir John Pringle's turn to Scripture at the close of his life.
- Essays, Moral and Political (selection), Of Superstition and Enthusiasm
Superstition traced to weakness, fear and melancholy; enthusiasm to presumption, luxuriant health and strong spirits.
- Essays, Moral and Political (selection), Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion
An excessive sensibility to fortune, with its piercing griefs, and the cultivation of taste as its remedy.
- Essays, Moral and Political (selection), Whether the British Government Inclines More to Absolute Monarchy or to a Republic
Absolute monarchy called the easiest death, the euthanasia, of the British constitution.
- Essays, Moral and Political (selection), Whether the British Government Inclines More to Absolute Monarchy or to a Republic
A physician will not venture to predict a patient's condition a month ahead; still less can a politician foretell public affairs, as Harrington's failed prophecy shows.
- Essays: First Series (Self-Reliance and Other Essays), II. Self-Reliance, early paragraphs on nonconformity
Emerson says he wants his life to be sound and sweet and not to need diet and bleeding, using the period's standard remedies as a figure for a life propped up from outside.
- Essays: First Series (Self-Reliance and Other Essays), II. Self-Reliance, section on travel
The traveller arrives in Naples and finds the sad self he fled; restlessness is called a symptom of a deeper unsoundness.
- Essays: First Series (Self-Reliance and Other Essays), II. Self-Reliance, closing paragraphs
Emerson warns against letting a rise of rents or the recovery of the sick raise one's spirits and locates peace in principle.
- Essays: First Series (Self-Reliance and Other Essays), VII. Prudence
Counsel on health, diet, sleep and the body as the lower but necessary art of living.
- Ethics, Part I, Appendix
Critique of teleology, including the observation that people marvel at the structure of the human body and attribute it to divine art because they do not know its causes.
- Ethics, Part II, Props. XI–XIII and Note
The mind as idea of the body; the more a body is capable of many actions, the more its mind is capable of many perceptions.
- Ethics, Part III, Preface and Props. VI–XI
Programme of studying emotions naturalistically; conatus and the primary affects of desire, pleasure and pain.
- Ethics, Part III, Prop. XXVI, Note
Pride described as a species of madness in which a man dreams with his eyes open, imagining he can accomplish all things.
- Ethics, Part IV, Prop. XX, Note
No one refuses food or kills himself from the necessity of his own nature; Seneca's forced suicide and hidden external causes are discussed.
- Ethics, Part IV, Prop. XXXIX, Note
Death defined as a change in the body's proportion of motion and rest; the Spanish poet who after illness forgot his own works.
- Ethics, Part IV, Props. XLI–XLIV and Notes
Pleasure and pain evaluated by their bodily effects; mirth always good, melancholy always bad, localized stimulation and love capable of excess; fixed ideas as madness.
- Ethics, Part V, Props. I–XX
Remedies for the passions: clear ideas, recognition of necessity, arrangement of mental images, and directing the mind to many causes at once.
- Evangelium Vitae, Threats to life
Evangelium Vitae gives this tag concrete force through this is one of the batch's most explicit medical-ethics texts, addressing abortion, euthanasia, suffering, conscience, and care for the vulnerable
- Evangelium Vitae, Gospel and dignity
Evangelium Vitae gives this tag concrete force through this is one of the batch's most explicit medical-ethics texts, addressing abortion, euthanasia, suffering, conscience, and care for the vulnerable
- Evangelium Vitae, Medicine and law
Evangelium Vitae gives this tag concrete force through this is one of the batch's most explicit medical-ethics texts, addressing abortion, euthanasia, suffering, conscience, and care for the vulnerable
- Evangelium Vitae, Medicine and law
Evangelium Vitae gives this tag concrete force through this is one of the batch's most explicit medical-ethics texts, addressing abortion, euthanasia, suffering, conscience, and care for the vulnerable
- Evangelium Vitae, Medicine and law
Evangelium Vitae gives this tag concrete force through this is one of the batch's most explicit medical-ethics texts, addressing abortion, euthanasia, suffering, conscience, and care for the vulnerable
- Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1, Third Series, paragraphs 279, 332 and 347
Physiological effects of voltaic, common and magneto-electricity: shocks, convulsions of a frog, sensations on the tongue and flashes before the eyes.
- Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1, Third Series, Section V (paragraphs 351-359)
Animal electricity from the torpedo and gymnotus compared with other kinds and found identical in nature.
- Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1, First Series, paragraphs 6-33
The interwound coils and the welded iron ring (paragraph 27) whose interrupted secondary current later became the basis of medical faradization.
- Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity), Bateson, Introduction, opening and section on the law of ancestral heredity
Bateson's forecast that the laws of heredity will change man's outlook and power, and his comparison of Galton's ancestral law, drawn partly from human stature, with Mendel's principle.
- Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (in Bateson's Mendel's Principles of Heredity), Mendel, The Reproductive Cells of the Hybrids
The hypothesis that hybrids form equal numbers of germ cells of each parental type, the basis of later recessive and dominant patterns of inherited disease.
- Fahrenheit 451, Part One, the night Montag meets Clarisse
Montag finds Mildred unconscious beside an empty bottle of sleeping tablets; the technicians pump her stomach and replace her blood by machine.
- Fahrenheit 451, Part One, the next morning
Mildred, hungry and cheerful, remembers nothing and denies she would have taken so many pills.
- Fahrenheit 451, Part One, Clarisse's conversations
Clarisse explains that she has been sent to a psychiatrist because she is considered antisocial.
- Fahrenheit 451, Part One, the old woman's house
The woman refuses to leave her books and dies in the fire she lights herself.
- Fahrenheit 451, Part Two, the evening with Mildred's friends
Mrs. Bowles describes having her children by Caesarean section and leaving them to the parlor walls; Mrs. Phelps weeps at Dover Beach.
- Fahrenheit 451, Part Three, "Burning Bright"
The Mechanical Hound injects an anesthetic into Montag's leg, leaving it numb as he flees.
- Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, Changelings, introduction
Yeats explains the belief that fairies carry off healthy children and leave sickly substitutes that pine away, and the folk tests used to detect them.
- Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, Witches, Fairy Doctors, introduction
The fairy doctor's knowledge of herbs and spells, and the fairy blast or stroke that causes swellings or paralysis.
- Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, The Trooping Fairies, The Legend of Knockgrafton
The hunchback Lusmore, shunned by neighbors, is freed of his hump by the fairies; the greedy Jack Madden is given a second.
- Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, T'yeer-na-n-oge, Loughleagh (Lake of Healing)
A lake whose black mud is said to cure scurvy and sores, and a traveler who arrives on crutches and leaves sound.
- Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, The Solitary Fairies, The Banshee note and tales
The banshee's wail before a death in the old families, the funeral keen said to imitate her cry, and the death-coach.
- Fairy Tales (Selection), The Little Sea Maid
The sea witch warns that every step on human feet will feel like treading on sharp knives; the sea maid bears it gladly at the prince's side.
- Fairy Tales (Selection), The Nightingale
When the mechanical bird breaks, the body physician is called in vain; later the sick emperor sees Death on his chest and is revived by the real nightingale's song.
- Fairy Tales (Selection), The Hardy Tin Soldier
A soldier cast with one leg for lack of tin stands as firmly as the others and endures every danger.
- Fairy Tales (Selection), The Red Shoes
At Karen's own plea the executioner removes her dancing feet and makes her wooden feet and crutches; she lives on in service and repentance.
- Fairy Tales (Selection), The Little Match Girl
A barefoot, hungry child dies of cold in a corner on New Year's Eve, seeing visions of a warm stove, a roast goose, a Christmas tree and her dead grandmother.
- Far from the Madding Crowd, Vol. I, Ch. XXI
Gabriel relieves the bloated sheep by puncturing their rumen with a trocar, saving most of Bathsheba's flock.
- Far from the Madding Crowd, Vol. II, Chs. IX–XI
Fanny's struggle along the Casterbridge highway to the Union-house, and the report of her death there.
- Far from the Madding Crowd, Vol. II, Ch. XIII
Bathsheba opens the coffin and finds Fanny with her dead child beside her.
- Far from the Madding Crowd, Vol. II, Ch. XXV
Discovery of Boldwood's locked closet of gifts, the petition on his mental state, and the reprieve to confinement during Her Majesty's pleasure.
- Far from the Madding Crowd, Vol. II, Ch. VI
Troy plies the workers with brandy and water at the harvest supper while the storm gathers.
- Farewell Address and Selected Letters, Revolutionary War letters on army health
Camp disease, supply shortages, and inoculation decisions show public health as military necessity.
- Farewell Address and Selected Letters, Final illness correspondence and accounts
Washington's death after severe throat illness and bloodletting reflects eighteenth-century medical practice.
- Farewell to Baseball ("The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth"), Opening
Gehrig refers to the bad news the fans have been reading about and answers it with his claim of good fortune.
- Farewell to Baseball ("The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth"), Family section
He thanks his wife for strength and courage, an early public tribute to a caregiver of a patient with a progressive neurological disease.
- Farewell to Baseball ("The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth"), Closing
He concludes that despite a bad break he has much to live for.
- Farmer Boy, Chapter 6, "Filling the Ice-house"
Ice is sawed from the pond and packed in sawdust to keep milk, butter and ice cream cold through the summer.
- Farmer Boy, Chapter 26, "Christmas"
The family's holiday dinner, one of the book's long catalogs of farm food.
- Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), Dinner after the daughters' quarrel
Bianchon reads the signs of serous apoplexy in Goriot's face and eyes and gives a poor prognosis.
- Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), Goriot's last illness
Mustard poultices, moxas from the Hospice Cochin, a medical consultation, and laudanum rubbed on the diaphragm.
- Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), Vautrin's arrest
The police agent's drug, slipped into Vautrin's drink at table, produces a sham apoplexy so that Vautrin's brand can be found; earlier Vautrin drugs the wine of Rastignac and Goriot.
- Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), Account of Goriot's history
The narrator traces how Goriot's fatherhood, after his wife's death, developed almost into a mania.
- Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), Goriot's death
Delirium, calls for the absent daughters, Anastasie's arrival when he can no longer hear, and the death announced by Bianchon.
- Fathers and Sons, Ch. 3–5
Bazarov collects and dissects frogs at Maryino to study physiology.
- Fathers and Sons, Ch. 20–21
Vassily Ivanovich's old-fashioned country practice and his pride in his son's modern medical training.
- Fathers and Sons, Ch. 24
After the duel, Bazarov examines and bandages Pavel's leg wound.
- Fathers and Sons, Ch. 27
Bazarov cuts himself during a post-mortem on a typhus victim; he describes his symptoms clinically, accepts his death and sends for Odintsova.
- Fathers and Sons, Ch. 28
Bazarov's old parents visit his grave.
- Faust, Part One, Scene I, Night
Faust despairs of his learning and lifts a cup of poison to drink at dawn before the Easter bells stop him.
- Faust, Part One, Scene II, Before the City-Gate
Peasants thank Faust for his service during a plague; he tells Wagner how his father's alchemical medicine killed more than it cured.
- Faust, Part One, Scene IV, The Study
Mephistopheles, in Faust's gown, advises the Student on the faculties, including a cynical account of medical practice.
- Faust, Part One, Scenes V-VI, Auerbach's Cellar and Witches' Kitchen
Conjured wine for Leipzig drinkers, and the witch's potion that takes thirty years from Faust's body.
- Faust, Part One, Scene XVI, Martha's Garden
Faust gives Gretchen a phial to put her mother to sleep; the later scenes reveal that the mother died of it.
- Faust, Part One, Scene XXV, Dungeon
Gretchen, awaiting execution, speaks in broken, wandering verse of her drowned infant and dead mother and does not at first know Faust.
- Fear and Trembling, Tuning Up (Exordium/Attunement)
Four retellings of the journey to Moriah, each followed by an image of a mother weaning her child by blackening her breast.
- Fear and Trembling, Speech in Praise of Abraham
Abraham's long waiting for a child in old age and the three-day ride to Moriah described as an ordeal of expectation and dread.
- Fear and Trembling, Preamble from the Heart
The lad who renounces the princess and transforms lost love into eternal remembrance, a model of resignation set beside grief.
- Fear and Trembling, Problema III
Studies of concealment, the demonic, and the relief or impossibility of disclosure, including the merman's repentance and Sarah of Tobit's dread on her wedding night.
- Fides et Ratio, The two wings
Fides et Ratio gives this tag concrete force through the medical relevance is in bioethics and anthropology: a reduced account of reason weakens the defense of dignity, conscience, and persons
- Fides et Ratio, Modern fragmentation
Fides et Ratio gives this tag concrete force through the medical relevance is in bioethics and anthropology: a reduced account of reason weakens the defense of dignity, conscience, and persons
- First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, Opening functional description
The comparison of machine parts to organs provides a historically important bridge between engineering and bodily metaphor.
- First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, Memory and control sections
The treatment of memory and orders anticipates later clinical and cognitive uses of computational language.
- First Inaugural Address ("The only thing we have to fear"), Paragraph 1
Fear itself described as nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror that paralyzes the effort to convert retreat into advance.
- First Oration Against Catiline, Section 30
Cicero calls the conspiracy a disease of the republic that execution would check but not eradicate, and hopes Catiline's departure will remove its root and seed.
- First Oration Against Catiline, Section 31
The simile of fever patients who drink cold water, seem relieved, and then grow worse, applied to the danger hidden in the veins and bowels of the republic.
- Five Children and It, Chapter 3
When the Lamb gets sand and then ginger-beer in his eyes, Jane cleans them with her tongue, which the narrator calls the only safe way.
- Five Children and It, Chapter 6
Inside the wished-for castle, Martha's dinner is invisible and cannot even be felt, and the four children share out a few broken biscuits from Cyril's pocket.
- Fragments, DK 117–118
The drunk man with a moist soul led by a boy; the dry soul as wisest.
- Fragments, DK 58
Physicians who cut and burn the sick and demand a fee, given as an example of good and ill being one.
- Fragments, DK 111
Sickness makes health pleasant and good, hunger satiety, weariness rest.
- Fragments, DK 21, 26, 75, 89
Fragments on sleep, death and waking; sleepers each turn into a private world.
- Fragments, Diogenes Laertius, Lives IX.3–4 (ancient testimony)
Account of Heraclitus's dropsy, his riddle to the physicians and his attempt to cure himself with dung.
- Frankenstein, Vol. I, Ch. I–II (1818) / Ch. 2–3 (1831)
Victor's youthful reading of Agrippa, Paracelsus and Albertus Magnus; his mother dies of scarlet fever caught while nursing Elizabeth.
- Frankenstein, Vol. I, Ch. III (1818) / Ch. 4 (1831)
Studies in anatomy and decay; gathering materials from charnel houses, dissecting rooms and slaughterhouses; secretive, sleepless labour that damages his health.
- Frankenstein, Vol. I, Ch. IV (1818) / Ch. 5 (1831)
Animation of the creature, Victor's nightmare of Elizabeth turning into his mother's corpse, flight, and months-long nervous fever nursed by Clerval.
- Frankenstein, Vol. II, Ch. I (1818) / Ch. 9 (1831)
After Justine's execution, Victor's despondency, sleeplessness and thoughts of drowning himself in the lake.
- Frankenstein, Vol. III, Ch. IV (1818) / Ch. 21 (1831)
Imprisoned in Ireland after Clerval's death, Victor suffers prolonged fever and delirium; on the voyage home he relies on laudanum to sleep.
- Frankenstein, Vol. III, Ch. VII (1818) / Ch. 23–24 (1831)
Alphonse Frankenstein dies of grief; Victor is confined for months as a madman before beginning his pursuit.
- Frog and Toad Are Friends, "The Story"
Frog, feeling unwell, is put to bed by Toad, who exhausts himself trying to think of a story; Frog then cares for Toad.
- Galen: Selected Works, On the Natural Faculties, Book 1
Galen argues that organs possess faculties such as attraction, retention and expulsion, grounding physiology in active powers.
- Galen: Selected Works, On the Natural Faculties, Books 2–3
Digestion, nutrition and bodily transformation are explained as ordered natural processes rather than chance.
- Galen: Selected Works, On the Passions and Errors of the Soul
Galen treats anger, error, self-knowledge and moral training as matters with therapeutic significance.
- Galen: Selected Works, Anatomical Procedure traditions
Animal dissection and vivisection traditions support claims about nerves, organs and bodily function.
- Galen: Selected Works, Therapeutic and pharmacological works
Compound remedies, theriac and poppy/opium preparations belong to Galen’s drug tradition.
- Galen: Selected Works, Commentaries on Hippocratic aphorisms
Galen’s discussions of melancholia, mania and phrenitis transmit Hippocratic categories through humoral explanation.
- Galileo: The Starry Messenger, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, and Two New Sciences (First Day), Two New Sciences, First Day, on fall through water and air
Salviati times the descent of bodies through air and water in pulse-beats, using the pulse as a unit of time.
- Galileo: The Starry Messenger, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, and Two New Sciences (First Day), Two New Sciences, First Day, closing discussion of consonance
Musical intervals are explained by the number of air pulses striking the eardrum in a given time.
- Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I, Chapters IV-VI
Gargamelle's feast of tripe, the labour, the attentions of the midwives and Gargantua's comic birth through her left ear.
- Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I, Chapter XXIII
Ponocrates purges Gargantua with Anticyrian hellebore to make him forget the sophisters' teaching, then sets a regimen of study, meals, exercise and sleep.
- Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II, Chapters II-III
Badebec dies in giving birth to Pantagruel, and Gargantua is torn between grief for his wife and joy at his son.
- Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II, Chapter VIII
Gargantua's letter recommends the ancient physicians and frequent anatomies as part of a complete education.
- Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III, Chapters XXXI-XXXIV
The physician Rondibilis advises Panurge on the cooling of desire, on marriage and on cuckoldry, and accepts his fee with a show of reluctance.
- Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III, Chapters XLIX-LII
The mock-encyclopedic praise of Pantagruelion (hemp), its preparation and its many uses, parodying the herbals of the period.
- Germ Theory Papers (Pasteur and Lister), Lister, On the Antiseptic Principle, opening
Lister links Pasteur's work on putrefaction to suppuration in wounds and introduces carbolic acid.
- Germ Theory Papers (Pasteur and Lister), Lister, On the Antiseptic Principle, compound fractures and abscesses
Cases at the Glasgow Infirmary, including a boy treated eight and a half hours after injury, and the method of opening abscesses without admitting germs.
- Germ Theory Papers (Pasteur and Lister), Lister, On the Antiseptic Principle, closing
Ward health before and after antiseptic treatment: nine months without pyaemia, hospital gangrene or erysipelas.
- Germ Theory Papers (Pasteur and Lister), The Germ Theory and Its Applications (1878)
Serial culture of anthrax, the anaerobic septic vibrio, septic dust, and combined infections with the microbe of pus.
- Germ Theory Papers (Pasteur and Lister), On the Extension of the Germ Theory (1880), sections I–II
Cultures from recurrent furuncles and from the trephined tibia of a twelve-year-old girl with osteomyelitis.
- Germ Theory Papers (Pasteur and Lister), On the Extension of the Germ Theory (1880), section III
Observations of women with puerperal fever at the Lariboisière and recommendations for boric acid compresses after confinement.
- Gonzales v. Raich, Opinion of the Court, Part II, paragraph beginning Shortly after taking office in 1969
Surveys the history of federal drug regulation and explains how the five schedules of the Controlled Substances Act sort drugs by potential for abuse, dependence and accepted medical use.
- Gonzales v. Raich, Opinion of the Court, Part I, paragraph beginning Respondents Angel Raich and Diane Monson are California residents
Describes the patients' physicians' conclusion, after trying conventional medicines, that marijuana was the only effective treatment available to them.
- Gonzales v. Raich, Opinion of the Court, Part V, at the sentence beginning As the Solicitor General confirmed during oral argument
Points to the statutory procedure for reclassifying a Schedule I drug as an avenue for those who believe it has medical value.
- Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, §§5-8
Childhood dreams and visions of devils and hell-fire at nine or ten years old, and their eventual fading.
- Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, §§33-34
His fear, while watching the bell-ringers, that a bell or the steeple itself would fall and kill him.
- Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, §§132-141
The repeated inner voice urging him to sell Christ, his bodily efforts to resist it, and the moment he believes he consented.
- Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, §§142-228
The long period of despair under the example of Esau, with physical sensations he attributes to guilt.
- Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, §§255-262
A spring illness he thought was consumption, his spiritual darkness during it, and his recovery in body and mind together.
- Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, §§327-328
The grief of separation from his wife and children in prison and his fear for his blind daughter.
- Grasshopper on the Road, The Sweeper
The housefly sweeps outward from his house to the road and resolves to go on until the entire world is free of dust.
- Great Expectations, Chapter XVI
Mrs Joe's condition after the blow from the leg-iron: impaired senses and memory, and the signs she traces on a slate.
- Great Expectations, Chapter VIII
Satis House and Miss Havisham's stopped clocks and withered bridal dress.
- Great Expectations, Chapter XLIX
Miss Havisham's dress catches fire; the surgeon dresses her burns and Pip's.
- Great Expectations, Chapter LVI
Magwitch's decline and death in the prison infirmary.
- Great Expectations, Chapter LVII
Pip's fever and delirium, and Joe's nursing.
- Griswold v. Connecticut, Opinion of the Court, standing: We think that appellants have standing to raise the constitutional rights of the married people with whom they had a professional relationship.
Douglas holds that a convicted physician and clinic director may assert the rights of the patients they served, an important link between the doctor-patient relationship and constitutional litigation.
- Griswold v. Connecticut, Dissent of Justice Black, paragraph beginning: Had the doctor defendant here, or even the nondoctor defendant, been convicted for doing nothing more than expressing opinions
Black distinguishes a physician's protected advice from the clinic's examinations and supply of materials, which he treats as conduct the state may punish.
- Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, First Section (examples of acting from duty)
The person who preserves life without loving it after hopeless sorrow, and the philanthropist whose own grief has extinguished sympathy.
- Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, First Section (happiness as indirect duty)
The gouty patient who prefers present pleasure to doubtful future health, showing how indefinite the concept of happiness is.
- Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Second Section (imperatives of skill)
The physician's precepts for healing and the poisoner's for killing are equally valid as technical rules; morality must come from elsewhere.
- Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Second Section (first example under the universal law of nature)
A man wearied of life asks whether suicide from self-love could be a universal law and concludes it could not.
- Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Second Section (formula of humanity, duties to oneself)
One may not mutilate, damage or kill oneself; Kant defers the question of amputating limbs to preserve life to a future ethics.
- Gulliver's Travels, Part I, Ch. 1
Gulliver's training as a surgeon and apprenticeship under a London surgeon before going to sea.
- Gulliver's Travels, Part II, Ch. 1 and 4
Magnified bodies: the nurse's breast, and beggars with a breast cancer, a monstrous wen and lice.
- Gulliver's Travels, Part III, Ch. 5
A Lagado physician treats colic by inflating the patient with bellows.
- Gulliver's Travels, Part III, Ch. 6
Political projectors propose physicians to diagnose senators and a surgical swap of half-brains between party leaders.
- Gulliver's Travels, Part III, Ch. 10
The Struldbrugs: immortal, decrepit, forgetful and legally dead at eighty.
- Gulliver's Travels, Part IV, Ch. 6
Gulliver explains European physicians, purges, clysters and the habit of foretelling death to save reputation.
- Gulliver's Travels, Part IV, Ch. 11–12
Gulliver's return home, his revulsion at his family and his daily conversations with his horses.
- Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2
Hamlet's first soliloquy wishes his flesh would melt and regrets the divine law against self-slaughter.
- Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5
The Ghost describes the juice of hebenon poured in his ear, curdling his blood and covering his body with a leprous crust.
- Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
Hamlet describes the loss of mirth and pleasure in exercise, and Polonius diagnoses love-madness.
- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1
The 'To be, or not to be' soliloquy weighs death, sleep and the dreams that may come after.
- Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5
Ophelia's madness after her father's death: songs, flowers and broken speech.
- Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 7 and Act 5, Scene 1
Gertrude reports Ophelia's drowning; the gravediggers and the priest dispute whether she died by her own act and deserves Christian burial.
- Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 2
The poisoned rapier and cup kill Gertrude, Laertes, Claudius and Hamlet.
- Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, Chapter 5, Shadows in the Home
Dame Brinker tells how Raff was brought home from the flooded dike with his head bruised and cut, and how the fever passed but the dullness grew.
- Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, Chapter 14, Hans
Hans tells Peter how his father held his mother to the fire and afterward slept in a fever with his hands pressed to his head.
- Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, Chapter 32, The Crisis
Dr. Boekman discusses the case with his assistant Vollenhoven, explains the risk to Hans, obtains the mother's consent and begins the operation.
- Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, Chapter 34, The Awakening
Raff wakes believing he is still on the dike in the flood, recognizes his wife, and asks after the baby.
- Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, Chapter 43, A Discovery
Dr. Boekman explains that his son prepared the wrong medicine, a deadly poison, which was never given.
- Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates, Chapter 47, Broad Sunshine
Hans praises surgery as the grandest thing on earth and Dr. Boekman offers to train him as his successor.
- Hard Times, Book the First, Chapter XIII
Rachael nurses Stephen's drunken wife through the night; Stephen watches in a half-dream as his wife reaches toward the bottle marked poison, and Rachael wakes and takes it from her.
- Hard Times, Book the First, Chapter V
Description of Coketown's smoke, black canal, and river running purple with dye.
- Hard Times, Book the Second, Chapter IX
The death of Mrs. Gradgrind, too vague to say whether she is in pain.
- Hard Times, Book the Second, Chapter XII
Louisa's confession to her father of an empty inner life and her collapse at his feet.
- Hard Times, Book the Third, Chapter VI
Stephen is drawn up from the Old Hell Shaft, badly injured, and dies after speaking of the many lives the old pits have taken.
- Heart of Darkness, Part I (the Company office)
The doctor measures Marlow's cranium, asks whether there is madness in his family and notes that he never sees those who go out return.
- Heart of Darkness, Part I (Outer Station)
The grove of death where sick, starving African labourers lie dying in the shade.
- Heart of Darkness, Part I (Central Station)
The manager's only qualification: he is never ill, in a place where Europeans die of fever.
- Heart of Darkness, Part II (the attack)
The helmsman is speared and dies on the deck, his blood filling Marlow's shoes.
- Heart of Darkness, Part III
Kurtz's emaciation and illness, his midnight crawl toward the forest, and his death.
- Heart of Darkness, Part III (the return)
Marlow wrestles with death in a long fever and returns to Europe irritable and estranged.
- Heidi, Frankfurt chapters
Heidi declines emotionally and bodily with longing.
- Henry IV, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 3
Lady Percy describes Hotspur's lost appetite and sleep, his starting, sweating and murmuring of battles in his dreams.
- Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 3
Hotspur mocks the perfumed lord who told him the sovereign remedy for an inward bruise was parmacety and that guns alone kept him from soldiering.
- Henry IV, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 4 and Act 3, Scene 3
Falstaff's tavern bill, his age and girth, and his jokes on Bardolph's burning face.
- Henry IV, Part 1, Act 4, Scene 2
Falstaff's ragged pressed men, whom he calls food for powder fit to fill a pit.
- Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5, Scenes 1, 3 and 4
The catechism on honour and surgery, Blunt's death, Falstaff's ragged men peppered, and Hal wounded but refusing to leave the field.
- Henry V, Act 2, Scene 1 and Scene 3
Falstaff falls sick; Nym says the king has run bad humours on him, and the Hostess describes his death.
- Henry V, Act 3, Scene 6
Fluellen describes Bardolph's face as all bubukles and whelks just before he is hanged; Henry admits his people are much enfeebled with sickness.
- Henry V, Act 4, Scenes 6 and 7
The deaths of York and Suffolk, the slaughter of the boys with the baggage, and the order to kill the prisoners.
- Henry V, Act 5, Scene 2
Burgundy describes the vineyards, fields and children of France gone wild through war.
- Heroides, Letter V (Oenone to Paris)
Oenone recalls that Apollo taught her healing and every useful herb, yet she cannot cure her own love.
- Heroides, Letter XXI (Cydippe to Acontius)
Cydippe describes her wasting, pallor and a fever that returns as her wedding approaches; the nurse guards her door and physicians cannot help.
- Heroides, Letter VII (Dido to Aeneas)
Dido, sleepless and consumed by love, prepares the pyre and writes her own epitaph.
- Heroides, Letter VI (Hypsipyle to Jason)
Hypsipyle accuses Medea of winning Jason by spells, baneful herbs and a waxen image pierced with a needle.
- Heroides, Letter XV (Sappho to Phaon)
Sappho describes weeping, sleeplessness and dreams of Phaon, and is told of the leap from the Leucadian rock as a cure for love.
- Hippocratic Writings, On the Sacred Disease 1–2
The writer rejects divine special status for epilepsy and argues that it has a natural cause like other diseases.
- Hippocratic Writings, On the Sacred Disease 14–17
The brain is presented as the organ through which people think, perceive, rejoice, grieve, become mad and suffer terrors.
- Hippocratic Writings, Epidemics, Books 1 and 3
Case notes track fever, delirium, sleep, stools, urine, crisis days and death or recovery across seasons.
- Hippocratic Writings, Aphorisms, Book 6
Aphoristic remarks classify melancholic and phrenitic states within bodily illness and prognosis.
- Hippocratic Writings, On Fractures and On Joints
Manuals give practical instructions for traction, splints and bandages in injuries and dislocations.
- Hippocratic Writings, The Oath
The physician promises restraint with deadly drugs, confidentiality and disciplined conduct in the houses of patients.
- History of the Wars, Books I-II (The Persian War), Book II, ch. 22
Origin at Pelusium, spread along coasts, apparitions and dreams before onset, the mild fever and the appearance of swellings.
- History of the Wars, Books I-II (The Persian War), Book II, ch. 22
Coma and delirium, the exhaustion of attendants, observation that carers and buriers did not catch the disease by contact.
- History of the Wars, Books I-II (The Persian War), Book II, ch. 22
Physicians open the swellings of the dead; failed prognoses; mixed results of bathing and treatment; death of pregnant women; suppuration as a sign of recovery; sequelae in survivors.
- History of the Wars, Books I-II (The Persian War), Book II, ch. 23
Four months of epidemic in Constantinople, daily deaths in thousands, burial organised by Theodorus, bodies placed in the towers of Sycae, cessation of trade, and Justinian's own swelling of the groin.
- History of the Wars, Books I-II (The Persian War), Book I, ch. 11
Persian custom barring a man with a bodily defect, such as the one-eyed Zames, from the throne.
- Holy Sonnet X: "Death, be not proud", Lines 5-6
Rest and sleep are called death's pictures, the classical analogy of sleep and death on which the argument turns.
- Holy Sonnet X: "Death, be not proud", Lines 9-12
Death keeps company with poison, war and sickness, and poppy or charms are said to bring sleep as well as death's blow.
- Homilies on the Gospel of John, Homilies on the man born blind
Blindness becomes a layered figure for perception, ignorance, healing, and confession.
- Homilies on the Gospel of John, Homilies on Lazarus
Death and resurrection supply Augustine with a pastoral language for grief, sin, and renewed life.
- Homilies on the Statues, Opening homilies after the riot
The citywide dread of imperial punishment offers a case study in mass anxiety and pastoral containment.
- Homilies on the Statues, Homilies against oaths and blasphemy
Chrysostom describes habitual sins as diseases to be treated through practice and discipline.
- Household Stories (Grimm's Fairy Tales), Hansel and Grethel, opening
A great dearth leaves the woodcutter unable to earn daily bread, and his wife persuades him to abandon the children in the forest.
- Household Stories (Grimm's Fairy Tales), Rapunzel
The expectant mother pines and grows pale with longing for rampion; later the prince loses his sight among thorns and recovers it when Rapunzel's tears touch his eyes.
- Household Stories (Grimm's Fairy Tales), Snow-white
The queen dies when Snow-white is born; the stepmother tries poisoned laces, a poisoned comb and a half-poisoned apple.
- Household Stories (Grimm's Fairy Tales), Aschenputtel, opening
The dying mother blesses her daughter, who weeps daily at the grave where the hazel tree grows.
- Humboldt's Gift, Early sections (Charlie's memories)
Humboldt's torrential talk, grand plans and sleepless energy in the 1940s and 1950s.
- Humboldt's Gift, Middle sections
Humboldt's paranoid accusations, violence toward his wife, use of drink and pills, and commitment to Bellevue.
- Humboldt's Gift, Middle sections
Humboldt's death alone in a Times Square hotel, and Charlie's memory of avoiding him shortly before.
- Humboldt's Gift, Final section
Reburial of Humboldt and his mother.
- I Am Prepared to Die, Dock statement, autobiographical and strategic sections
Mandela frames resistance under conditions of surveillance, repression, and danger.
- I Am Prepared to Die, Closing democratic ideal
The willingness to face death is presented as disciplined commitment rather than despair.
- I Will Fight No More Forever, Harper's Weekly text, sentences 8-10
Joseph describes cold, lack of blankets and food, and children freezing in the camp and in the hills.
- I Will Fight No More Forever, Harper's Weekly text, sentence 14
Joseph speaks of his own exhaustion and sorrow as he decides to surrender.
- Illustrations of the Logic of Science, The Fixation of Belief, III
Doubt is likened to the irritation of a nerve and reflex action, and belief to a nervous habit.
- Illustrations of the Logic of Science, How to Make Our Ideas Clear, I
An unclear idea in a young man's head is compared to an obstruction in an artery starving the brain.
- Illustrations of the Logic of Science, Deduction, Induction, and Hypothesis, V
Hypothesis is linked to emotion, induction to habit and deduction to attention and nervous discharge.
- In Flanders Fields, Lines 1-5
The graves and guns of the field near the dressing station, written in the midst of the battle the poet was treating casualties from.
- In Flanders Fields, Lines 6-9
The dead recall their lives and their sudden end, a few days after living and loving.
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Chapter XXI, The Loophole of Retreat
Dimensions of the garret, the absence of light and air, and the frostbite of her shoulders and feet in the first winter.
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Chapter XXIII, Still in Prison
The second winter: cramps, cold in the head, stiffening of face and tongue, loss of speech and consciousness, and revival by her brother.
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Chapter XXVIII, Aunt Nancy
Her aunt's broken health from night nursing on the floor of the entry, and the deaths of her infants.
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Chapter XXXIII, A Home Found
Swelling of her limbs after escape and the physician Mrs. Bruce engages for her.
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Chapter XLI, Free at Last
Her constant watch of the newspaper lists of arrivals and the fear of recapture.
- Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book I, ch. 5, secs. 2-3
Medicine and astronomy as sciences that disclose God's wisdom; Galen's anatomy of the human body; man called a microcosm.
- Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book I, ch. 17, secs. 10-11
The many diseases and dangers that threaten life, and providence offered as the remedy for anxious fear.
- Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book I, ch. 17, sec. 4
Providence does not excuse neglect: believers must still take precautions and use the remedies God provides.
- Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book III, chs. 8-9
Bearing the cross and meditating on the future life as a discipline for sickness, loss and mortality.
- Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book IV, ch. 19, secs. 18-21
Calvin's argument that the apostolic anointing with oil and the gift of healing were temporary, set against the Roman rite of extreme unction.
- Instructions for His Generals, Opening articles on the Prussian troops
Measures to prevent desertion, revealing the coercive conditions and low morale of many soldiers.
- Instructions for His Generals, Articles on subsistence and sutlers
Bread supply, field bakeries and the regulated sale of beer and brandy to troops.
- Instructions for His Generals, Articles on camps
Choice of camp sites for water, wood and defensibility, and arrangements that also bear on sanitation and the health of an army at rest.
- Instructions for His Generals, Articles on battle and on winter campaigns
Losses in attack, the case for short wars, and the strain of winter operations on men and horses.
- Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, Heracles, Iris and Madness scene and messenger speech
Madness is sent into Heracles; the messenger describes his eyes, foaming and delusions as he kills his sons and wife.
- Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, Heracles, final scene
Heracles wakes bound to a pillar, learns what he has done, contemplates suicide, and is persuaded by Theseus to live.
- Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, Orestes, opening scenes
Electra describes her brother's six days without food or bathing, tends him in sleep, and watches a fit in which he sees the Furies.
- Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, Orestes, Menelaus scene
Orestes names his conscience as his sickness and describes his grief and the visions of the avenging goddesses.
- Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, Ion, servant's report
Creusa's poisoned cup is spilled; a dove drinks from it, convulses and dies, exposing the plot.
- Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, The Suppliants, Evadne scene
Evadne throws herself onto the pyre of Capaneus before her father Iphis.
- Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, The Cyclops
Odysseus makes Polyphemus drunk on Maron's wine before blinding him.
- Island of the Blue Dolphins, Chapters 13-14
Karana carries the wounded leader of the wild dogs home and tends the arrow wound until he recovers.
- Island of the Blue Dolphins, Chapter 7-8
Ramo is killed by the wild dogs and Karana is left alone with her grief.
- Island of the Blue Dolphins, Middle chapters (sea elephant hunt)
Karana is injured in her attack on a sea elephant and must recover alone in her shelter.
- Ivanhoe, Chapter XXVIII
Scott's account of Jewish physicians in medieval England, Rebecca's training under Miriam, her balsam for Ivanhoe's wound and her sedative draught.
- Ivanhoe, Chapter XXII
Front-de-Bœuf shows Isaac the iron bars over glowing charcoal in his dungeon to extort a ransom.
- Ivanhoe, Chapter XXX
The wounded Front-de-Bœuf lies dying in remorse while Ulrica taunts him and sets his castle ablaze.
- Ivanhoe, Chapter XXXVII
At Rebecca's trial a Saxon peasant she treated for palsy is dragged forward, and her cures and balms are offered as proof of witchcraft.
- Ivanhoe, Chapter XLIII
Bois-Guilbert falls in the lists and dies with no wound, flushed and then pallid, victim of his own passions.
- Jacobson v. Massachusetts, Opinion of the Court, on the board of health: Upon the principle of self-defense, of paramount necessity, a community has the right to protect itself against an epidemic of disease which threatens the safety of its members.
Harlan grounds the authority of a local board of health in a community's right of self-protection during an epidemic, the core public-health principle of the case.
- Jacobson v. Massachusetts, Opinion of the Court, on medical evidence: Since, then, vaccination, as a means of protecting a community against smallpox, finds strong support in the experience of this and other countries
The Court rests on the accumulated experience of vaccination programs abroad and at home rather than on trial testimony, illustrating how law treated medical consensus in 1905.
- Jacobson v. Massachusetts, Opinion of the Court, on exemptions: making an exception in favor of children certified by a registered physician to be unfit subjects for vaccination
The statute's medical exemption for children, and the Court's discussion of whether adults in like condition must also be excused, show early legal treatment of physician certification in public-health law.
- Jane Eyre, Chapters II-III
Jane faints from terror in the red-room and is examined by the apothecary Mr. Lloyd, who recommends a change of scene and school.
- Jane Eyre, Chapters V and IX
Lowood's scant, spoiled food and damp situation; the spring typhus epidemic; Helen Burns's death from consumption; the public inquiry and reform that follow.
- Jane Eyre, Chapter XX
Rochester and the surgeon Carter dress Mason's knife and bite wounds; Mason says his attacker sucked his blood.
- Jane Eyre, Chapters XXVI-XXVII
Bertha is shown in her attic room with Grace Poole; Rochester recounts her family history of madness, his reasons for keeping her at Thornfield, and the hiring of her keeper from the Grimsby Retreat.
- Jane Eyre, Chapters XXVIII and XXXVI-XXXVII
Jane's starvation on the moors; the account of the fire, Bertha's death, the amputation of Rochester's hand and his blindness, and his partial recovery of sight.
- Jewish Antiquities, Books 3-4, Mosaic legislation
Josephus summarizes laws about purity, childbirth, skin disease, bodily emissions and priestly inspection, translating ritual categories for Greek readers.
- Jewish Antiquities, Book 7, famine traditions
Famine in biblical history is treated as social crisis and divine judgment, linking hunger, public order and survival.
- Jewish Antiquities, Book 15, Herodian family violence
Herod's household murders and suspicions are narrated as political pathology, a non-clinical portrait of fear, rage and moral disorder.
- Jewish Antiquities, Book 17, Herod's final illness
Herod's last disease includes severe pain, feverish decline, abdominal and genital symptoms, physicians and desperate therapies before death.
- Jewish Antiquities, Book 19, Agrippa I's death
The sudden illness and death of Agrippa I are framed as divine judgment, showing how acute disease becomes political theology.
- Jewish Antiquities, Book 20, late provincial unrest
Crowding, executions, famine relief and social disorder in the later books reveal the bodily cost of unstable governance.
- John Adams, Part I
Adams's smallpox inoculation of 1764 and Abigail's inoculation of the children in Boston in 1776.
- John Adams, Part II
Adams's grave fever in Amsterdam during the negotiations with the Dutch Republic in 1781.
- John Adams, Part III
Charles Adams's decline and death in 1800 during his father's last months as president.
- John Adams, Part III
Nabby's mastectomy in 1811, her death in 1813, and Abigail's death in 1818.
- John Adams, Part III
Adams's infirmities in old age and his death at Quincy on 4 July 1826.
- Johnny Tremain, Chapter 2
The cracked crucible, the burn, and Gran' Hopper's treatment, after which the thumb heals fused to the palm.
- Johnny Tremain, Chapter 3
Johnny's shame at his hand, his rejection by employers and his hidden despair.
- Johnny Tremain, Chapter 8
James Otis appears at the Observers' meeting, feared as unbalanced yet lucid in his speech.
- Johnny Tremain, Chapter 12
Rab dies of his Lexington wound; Dr. Warren examines Johnny's hand and offers to cut the scar.
- Journey to the West (A Mission to Heaven), Chapters V–VII
The immortal peaches, the elixir pills in Laozi's gourds, and the forty-nine days in the eight-trigram crucible, from which the Monkey emerges with smoke-reddened eyes.
- Journey to the West (A Mission to Heaven), Chapter LXIX
Sun diagnoses a king's illness at a distance by a string attached to his wrist; the illness proves to be grief for an abducted wife.
- Journey to the West (A Mission to Heaven), Chapter LXXIII
The pilgrims are poisoned with tea at a Daoist temple and saved by antidote pills from a bodhisattva; the chapter heading links hatred to illness.
- Journey to the West (A Mission to Heaven), Chapters XXXVII–XXXIX
The body of a murdered king, preserved in a well, is carried to the Master and restored to life.
- Jude the Obscure, Part First, Ch. IV
Physician Vilbert, the road-physician, is introduced selling remedies to cottagers and fails to bring Jude the grammars he promised.
- Jude the Obscure, Part Second, Ch. VII
After the college master's rebuff Jude drinks in a Christminster tavern and recites the Creed in Latin to the company.
- Jude the Obscure, Part Sixth, Ch. II
The deaths of the three children at the Christminster lodgings, the boy's note, and the Doctor's theory of children who wish not to live.
- Jude the Obscure, Part Sixth, Ch. II–IV
The premature birth and death of Sue's baby, her conviction of divine judgment, and her penitential return to Phillotson.
- Jude the Obscure, Part Sixth, Ch. X–XI
Jude's final illness after the rainy journey to Marygreen, Vilbert's return at his bedside, and his death alone during the college festivities.
- Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2
Casca reports that Caesar fell down in the market-place and foamed at the mouth; Brutus says he has the falling sickness. Caesar also tells Antony he is deaf in one ear.
- Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 1
Brutus has not slept since Cassius first stirred him and compares the interval before the deed to a hideous dream; Portia notes his sickness of mind.
- Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 2
Calphurnia's dream of Caesar's statue running blood, and Decius's flattering reinterpretation.
- Julius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 3
Brutus reports that Portia, distracted by grief and fear, swallowed fire; Caesar's ghost then appears to him at night.
- Julius Caesar, Act 5, Scenes 3 and 5
Cassius has Pindarus kill him, Titinius kills himself, and Brutus runs on his sword.
- Just So Stories, The Elephant's Child
Kolokolo Bird's refrain about the Limpopo River set about with fever-trees; the Crocodile stretches the young elephant's nose, which he wraps in cool banana leaves.
- Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made
Tegumai draws the signs for yo, bad black swamp-water that gives fever, so that Taffy will know not to drink from a marked pool.
- Just So Stories, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
Stale crumbs inside his skin make the Rhinoceros itch, roll and rub until his skin folds.
- Kalevala, Runes VIII-IX
Väinämöinen's axe slips and gashes his knee; an old man stops the bleeding by singing the origin of iron and then applies salve and bandages.
- Kalevala, Rune XV
Lemminkäinen's mother rakes his body from the river of Tuonela, joins it together and revives him with salves, the last fetched by a bee from heaven.
- Kalevala, Rune XLV
Loviatar bears the nine diseases, which Louhi sends upon Kalevala; Väinämöinen heals the people with the sauna, ointments and prayers.
- Kalevala, Runes IV and XXXV-XXXVI
Aino drowns herself and her mother laments; Kullervo's sister drowns herself and Kullervo falls on his sword.
- Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie, Opening pages
Abbie's mother is sick, and her father sets out for the mainland partly to bring back medicine.
- Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie, Middle of the book, during the storm
Abbie nurses her mother and cares for her sisters while also tending the lamps through the night.
- Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie, Late in the storm
Food runs low and Abbie grows worn out from weeks of broken sleep and hard work.
- Kidnapped, Chapter VII
David lies fevered in the dark hold until Mr. Riach, who calls himself more than half a doctor, insists he be moved to the forecastle.
- Kidnapped, Chapter VIII
The drunken mate Mr. Shuan beats the cabin boy Ransome to death, and the officers' later behavior shows the drink and guilt aboard.
- Kidnapped, Chapter I
Mr. Campbell's third gift is a handwritten recipe for lily-of-the-valley water, distilled in sack, said to restore speech in palsy, ease gout and comfort the heart: a glimpse of household remedies of the period, from a plant now known to contain heart-active compounds.
- Kidnapped, Chapter XIV
On Earraid, David lives on raw shellfish and suffers cold, wet and despair.
- Kidnapped, Chapter XXIV-XXV
Exhausted and ill, David collapses after the quarrel; a doctor is fetched in Balquhidder and he is bedridden for a week.
- King Lear, The love test
King Lear gives this tag concrete force through lear is central for psychiatry and aging: cognitive vulnerability, rage, delirium, homelessness, trauma, blindness, caregiving, and unbearable grief
- King Lear, The heath
King Lear gives this tag concrete force through lear is central for psychiatry and aging: cognitive vulnerability, rage, delirium, homelessness, trauma, blindness, caregiving, and unbearable grief
- King Lear, Recognition and loss
King Lear gives this tag concrete force through lear is central for psychiatry and aging: cognitive vulnerability, rage, delirium, homelessness, trauma, blindness, caregiving, and unbearable grief
- King Lear, Recognition and loss
King Lear gives this tag concrete force through lear is central for psychiatry and aging: cognitive vulnerability, rage, delirium, homelessness, trauma, blindness, caregiving, and unbearable grief
- King Lear, Recognition and loss
King Lear gives this tag concrete force through lear is central for psychiatry and aging: cognitive vulnerability, rage, delirium, homelessness, trauma, blindness, caregiving, and unbearable grief
- Kokoro, Part One
Sensei's monthly visits to K's grave and his gloomy reflections on human nature.
- Kokoro, Part Two
The father's slow decline from kidney disease, the doctor's visits and the family's vigil.
- Kokoro, Part Two
News of the Meiji emperor's death and General Nogi's suicide reaches the household.
- Kokoro, Part Three
K's suicide in his room and Sensei's discovery of the body and the note.
- Kokoro, Part Three (end)
Sensei's account of his long guilt and his resolve to die.
- Lassie Come-Home, Journey chapters
Lassie swims a cold river and afterward falls sick and weak with fever.
- Lassie Come-Home, Journey chapters
Dan'l and Dally Fadden take the starved, sick collie into their cottage and nurse her until she is strong enough to go on.
- Lassie Come-Home, Final chapters
Lassie reaches Greenall Bridge thin, lame and nearly spent, and the Carracloughs nurse her back.
- Laws, Book IV
The slave doctor and the free doctor compared, introducing the persuasive preambles to the laws.
- Laws, Book VII
Infants rocked to sleep and the Corybantic cure of frenzy by music and dance, explained as outer motion calming inner agitation.
- Laws, Book II
Age limits on wine, and wine as Dionysus' gift for softening the sourness of old age.
- Laws, Book IX
Offences committed in madness, disease or extreme old age, and the mocking doctor who says the gentle physician only educates his patient.
- Laws, Book XI
The law that the mad must be kept at home by their relatives, the kinds of madness, the sale of a slave with epilepsy, and the law on poisoning and sorcery.
- Le Morte d'Arthur, Book VIII, Chs. VIII-IX
Marhaus dies of a sword fragment no surgeon can remove; Tristram's poisoned spear wound is healed by Isoud, a noble surgeon, in Ireland.
- Le Morte d'Arthur, Book IX, Ch. XXXVI
Malory's reflection on sickness as the greatest pain a prisoner may have, as Tristram nearly kills himself in despair.
- Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XI, Ch. X - Book XII, Ch. IV
Launcelot, out of his mind, wanders the forest and is finally recognized by Elaine and healed by the Sangreal.
- Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XIX, Chs. X-XII
Sir Urre's enchanted wounds are searched by a hundred and ten knights in vain and healed when Launcelot prays over them, after which Launcelot weeps like a beaten child.
- Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XXI, Ch. V
The mortally wounded Arthur is borne away by barge, saying he goes to Avilion to heal him of his grievous wound.
- Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry, Clinical demonstrations
Kraepelin models diagnosis as observation of patient presentation joined to disease course and prognosis.
- Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry, Manic-depressive lectures
Recurring excitement and depression are grouped by course rather than isolated symptoms.
- Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry, Dementia praecox lectures
Psychotic symptoms are interpreted through deterioration, age of onset, and expected outcome.
- Lectures on Revivals of Religion, Lectures on means and measures
Finney's claim that revival follows proper means frames conversion as something structured environments can promote.
- Lectures on Revivals of Religion, Lectures on anxious sinners
The handling of conviction and distress illustrates the deliberate intensification of spiritual anxiety.
- Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System, Neurological lectures
The lectures use clinical signs, lesion localization, and pathology to classify disorders of movement and sensation.
- Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System, Hysteria material
Charcot treats hysteria as a neurological and clinical problem, not simply a moral failing or fraud.
- Lectures on the Diseases of the Nervous System, Seizure and convulsion discussions
The comparison of hysterical attack, epilepsy, and other convulsive states shows nineteenth-century diagnostic sorting.
- Legends of Charlemagne, Orlando Mad
Orlando reads Angelica and Medoro's names in the grotto, wanders all night, lies insensible three days and nights, then strips off his armour and rages through the countryside uprooting trees and attacking shepherds and flocks.
- Legends of Charlemagne, Astolpho in Abyssinia
St. John explains Orlando's madness as a punishment of fixed duration and leads Astolpho to the moon, where lost wits are kept as liquor in sealed, labelled vials.
- Legends of Charlemagne, The War in Africa
Orlando is seized, washed and bound; Astolpho stops his mouth so that he must breathe through his nose and holds the vial beneath his nostrils, and Orlando wakes as if from a terrible dream.
- Legends of Charlemagne, Death of Rinaldo
The besieged garrison of Montalban eats its horses; later a pestilence near Cologne is stayed by Rinaldo's prayers.
- Legends of Charlemagne, The Battle of Roncesvalles
Orlando, spent with toil and fever, rides to a fountain where his dying horse kneels and falls; he strikes the rock with Durindana, receives Turpin's absolution and dies, and Charlemagne grieves over the field of slain.
- Lepanto, Stanza 7
King Philip in his black-velvet closet touches a moon-colored crystal phial, his face pale and fungus-like, while the narrator says death is in the phial.
- Lepanto, Stanza 8
Christian captives below the Ottoman decks, sick and sunless, some grown witless in their cells, before Don John breaks the line and frees them.
- Les Misérables, Volume I, Book 5
Fantine's dry cough, sweats and wasting as she sells her hair and teeth to pay the Thénardiers.
- Les Misérables, Volume I, Books 6-8
Fantine in the infirmary under Sister Simplice, waiting for Cosette, and her death when Javert arrests Madeleine.
- Les Misérables, Volume V, Book 2, The Intestine of the Leviathan
Hugo's history of the Paris sewers, the engineer Bruneseau's survey, the cholera of 1832, and the argument for using sewage as fertilizer.
- Les Misérables, Volume V, Book 5
Marius's wounds, fever and months of recovery at his grandfather's house.
- Les Misérables, Volume V, Book 9, Chapter II
The doctor's judgment that Valjean is dying of the loss of someone dear to him.
- Letters and Papers from Prison, Early letters to parents, April–May 1943
The first days of isolation in Tegel, physical conditions of the cell, and his deliberate adoption of routine.
- Letters and Papers from Prison, Letters to Bethge, late November 1943
Heavy air raids on Berlin; prisoners screaming in locked cells, Bonhoeffer assisting in the sick bay, and his reflections on fear.
- Letters and Papers from Prison, Letters on time, waiting and longing (winter 1943–1944)
Reflections on the experience of time in prison, homesickness, and the danger of letting longing become despair.
- Letters and Papers from Prison, Poem 'Who Am I?' (summer 1944)
Contrast between the composed figure others see and the restless, sick, caged inner self.
- Letters and Papers from Prison, Letters of 30 April, 8 June and 16 July 1944
Critique of religion as a deus ex machina at the limits of human knowledge and strength, with implications for faith at the sickbed.
- Letters and Papers from Prison, 'Stations on the Way to Freedom' (after 20 July 1944) and 'By Gracious Powers' (December 1944)
Death imagined as the last station of freedom; a poem of trust written for his family at Christmas in the Gestapo prison.
- Letters from a Stoic, Letter 1
Time is treated as the one possession that must be reclaimed before life slips away.
- Letters from a Stoic, Letters 24 and 26
Death should be contemplated in advance so it loses its power to terrify.
- Letters from a Stoic, Letter 54
Seneca describes severe breathing attacks and his mental response to bodily crisis.
- Letters from a Stoic, Letter 63
Grief for a friend is acknowledged but disciplined within Stoic limits.
- Letters from a Stoic, Letters 70 and 77
Suicide and voluntary death are discussed as questions of freedom, endurance and circumstance.
- Letters of Napoleon, Letters to Joséphine, Italian campaign (spring–autumn 1796)
Repeated complaints of sleeplessness, fevered longing and jealousy as he campaigns; Joséphine's illness and delay in joining him.
- Letters of Napoleon, Letters and orders from Egypt and Syria (1798–1799)
Plague in the Army of the Orient, quarantine measures, and the siege of Acre; context for the disputed Jaffa opium episode.
- Letters of Napoleon, Imperial correspondence on conscription and supply (1805–1809)
Orders on bread, boots, hospitals and conscripts that treat the army's health as a matter of administration.
- Letters of Napoleon, Russian campaign letters and bulletins (1812)
Reports from Moscow and the retreat that understate losses to cold, hunger and disease.
- Letters of Napoleon, St Helena correspondence and will (1815–1821)
Complaints about climate and confinement, failing health, and the will's request that his body be examined after death.
- Leviathan, Introduction
The body as clockwork (heart as spring, nerves as strings, joints as wheels) and the state as an artificial man.
- Leviathan, Part I, Ch. II, 'Of Imagination'
Imagination as decaying sense; dreams caused by internal bodily motions; apparitions and belief in ghosts explained as misread dreams.
- Leviathan, Part I, Ch. VI, 'Of the Interiour Beginnings of Voluntary Motions'
Definitions of the passions as forms of appetite and aversion, including fear, grief, anxiety and the 'Panique Terror' of crowds.
- Leviathan, Part I, Ch. VIII
Madness as excessive passion; rage and melancholy; the man in Bedlam who claims to be God the Father; drunkenness; the Abdera fever epidemic and the hanging maidens of a Greek city.
- Leviathan, Part I, Ch. XIII
Life in the natural condition dominated by continual fear and danger of violent death.
- Leviathan, Part II, Ch. XXIV, 'Of the Nutrition, and Procreation of a Common-wealth'
Money compared to blood circulating through the veins and arteries of the commonwealth, an explicit use of Harvey's discovery.
- Leviathan, Part II, Ch. XXIX
Diseases of the commonwealth compared to epilepsy, hydrophobia, ague, pleurisy, intestinal worms (ascarides) and bulimia.
- Leviathan, Part II, Ch. XXX
The sovereign's duty to provide for those unable to work through public charity rather than private uncertain alms.
- Leviathan, Part IV, Ch. XLV, 'Of Daemonology'
Critique of belief in demons and possession, reinterpreting biblical demoniacs as madmen and lunatics.
- Lex, Rex, Question XIX
The analogy of taking a sword from a madman's hand is used to justify withdrawing fiduciary power from a ruler who abuses it.
- Lex, Rex, Question XIX
Rutherford likens swearing to give up self-preservation to swearing to self-murder, citing natural law's command to preserve one's own life.
- Life of St. Martin, Life, Ch. 3: cloak at Amiens
Martin responds to exposure and cold by sharing clothing, an act of basic bodily care before formal office.
- Life of St. Martin, Life, Ch. 6: hellebore
The poisonous plant episode links ascetic foraging to ancient pharmacology and the dangers of diet.
- Life of St. Martin, Life, Ch. 7: fever and apparent death
The catechumen's fever and death become the first major healing miracle, blending sickroom detail with resurrection narrative.
- Life of St. Martin, Dialogue tradition: leper at Paris
Martin's kiss of a leper reverses stigma through touch, making the leper's isolation and bodily revulsion part of the healing scene.
- Life of St. Martin, Life and Dialogues: demons and possession
Demonic encounters frame mental and behavioral disturbance through spiritual agency and episcopal authority rather than modern psychiatric categories.
- Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 9
Twain says that since learning to read the river he has pitied doctors, who may see in a lovely flush only the sign of hidden disease.
- Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 20
The Pennsylvania's boilers explode; scalded passengers and crew wait on a wood-flat in the sun without food or help until carried to Memphis.
- Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 20
The Memphis hall used as a hospital: wounded wrapped in raw cotton and linseed oil, physicians and medical students on watch, women of the city as nurses, and the death-room for the dying.
- Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 20
The delirious chief mate refuses morphine, which he blames for his wife's death, and survives three trips to the death-room.
- Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 20
Henry Clemens's last six days under Dr. Peyton's care, ending with his wandering mind and fingers picking at the coverlet.
- Life on the Mississippi, Chapter 29
Memphis's sewer system as the lesson of the yellow-fever epidemic, with Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg's description of the deserted, dying city.
- Life on the Mississippi, Chapters 42-43
New Orleans cemeteries, a report on burial and epidemic mortality, and an undertaker's frank view that epidemics are good for trade.
- Linder v. United States, Opinion of the Court, paragraph beginning: Obviously, direct control of medical practice in the states is beyond the power of the federal government.
Justice McReynolds holds that the act does not prescribe methods of treating addicts, calls them diseased and proper subjects for treatment, and declines to treat four small tablets as improper medicine.
- Linder v. United States, Opinion of the Court, discussion of Behrman: The opinion cannot be accepted as authority for holding that a physician
The Court confines the 1922 Behrman decision so that physicians acting by fair medical standards may give moderate amounts for self-administration to relieve conditions incident to addiction.
- Linder v. United States, Opinion of the Court, the trial judge's charge beginning: If you are satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant knew that this woman was addicted
The jury instruction distinguishes catering to an addicted person's craving from relieving pain the physician believed in good faith arose from another illness, showing how the line was drawn at trial.
- Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, Verse paragraph 2
Remembered landscape gives sensations felt in the blood and heart and tranquil restoration, then a trance-like mood in which bodily motion seems suspended.
- Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, Verse paragraph 3
The speaker turns in spirit to the Wye amid the fretful stir and fever of the world.
- Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, Verse paragraph 5
He hopes his sister will have healing thoughts in solitude, fear, pain or grief, and speaks of his own genial spirits.
- Little Britches, Opening chapters
Father's persistent mill cough and the family's hope that ranch life in Colorado will restore his health.
- Little Britches, Middle chapters
Ralph breaks nine toes when he loses control of the horses Bill and Nig.
- Little Britches, Final chapter
Father is thrown from Babe, his cough returns, a doctor diagnoses pneumonia and orders bed rest, and he dies; the family mourns.
- Little House in the Big Woods, Chapter 11, "Harvest"
Charley, stung all over by yellow jackets, is packed in mud and sheets and given herb tea for his fever by Ma and Aunt Polly.
- Little House in the Big Woods, Chapter 3, "The Long Rifle"
The girls burn their fingers touching the bright bullets Pa has just cast.
- Little House on the Prairie, Chapter 15, "Fever 'n' Ague"
The whole family falls ill with chills and fever; Dr. Tan arrives, gives medicine, and Mrs. Scott nurses them; the watermelon and night-air theories of the illness are debated.
- Little House on the Prairie, Chapter 12, "Fresh Water to Drink"
Mr. Scott is overcome by bad air in the well and hauled out; Pa tests the air with a candle before resuming the digging.
- Little House on the Prairie, Chapter 5, "The House on the Prairie"
Ma's foot is crushed when a wall log slips, and she treats the sprain with bandages and rest while Pa finishes the walls.
- Little Lord Fauntleroy, Chapter V
The Earl sits with his gouty foot on a stool through his first evening with Cedric, and the boy offers his shoulder for the walk to dinner.
- Little Lord Fauntleroy, Chapter VI
Mr. Mordaunt reports that Higgins's children have had scarlet fever and the doctor has ordered wine and nourishing food the family cannot afford.
- Little Lord Fauntleroy, Chapter VIII
Cedric gives up his pony to the lame boy Hartle and later brings him a pair of crutches in the Earl's name.
- Little Lord Fauntleroy, Chapter IX
Cedric describes Earl's Court, where houses are falling down, the rain comes in, and children die of fever; the narrator lists bad drainage, damp walls and leaking roofs.
- Little Lord Fauntleroy, Chapter IX
The Earl's doctor finds his patient's health improving as the old man's interest in his grandson grows.
- Little Women, Part One, Ch. 15
A telegram reports Mr March seriously ill in Washington; Marmee leaves to nurse him and Jo sells her hair.
- Little Women, Part One, Ch. 16–18
Beth nurses the poor Hummel family's sick baby, who dies of scarlet fever; Beth catches it; Amy is sent away; Dr Bangs attends.
- Little Women, Part One, Ch. 19–20
The crisis of Beth's fever passes; Marmee returns.
- Little Women, Part Two, Ch. 28
Meg's twins and her struggle with new motherhood.
- Little Women, Part Two, Ch. 36 and 40
Beth's slow decline at the seaside and at home; her death nursed by Jo.
- Little Women, Part Two, Ch. 42
Jo's grief after Beth's death and her turn to writing from life.
- Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (Volume 1), Life of Andrea di Cione Orcagna
The physician Dino del Garbo portrayed among the blessed in physician's dress.
- Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (Volume 1), Life of Andrea di Cione Orcagna
The Company of Orsanmichele builds a shrine with the gifts given to its Madonna during the mortality of 1348.
- Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (Volume 1), Lives of Taddeo Gaddi and Agnolo Gaddi
Brief notices of painters carried off by violent or malignant fevers.
- Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Life of Pericles
Pericles, sick in the plague years, shows a friend an amulet the women had hung on him, as a sign of how far illness had worn him down.
- Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Life of Marcus Cato
Cato keeps a book of household remedies for his family and expresses his suspicion of Greek physicians.
- Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Life of Alexander, last chapters
The account of Alexander’s final illness from the royal diaries, day by day, with Plutarch’s doubts about the rumors of poison.
- Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Life of Antony
Cleopatra tests poisons on condemned prisoners and studies the bite of venomous creatures before her death.
- Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Life of Cato the Younger, end
Cato’s death at Utica, including his tearing open the wound the physician had dressed.
- Logical Writings on Binary Arithmetic and Universal Character, Plans for a universal character
The dream of exact symbolic representation resembles a philosophical treatment for intellectual disorder.
- Logical Writings on Binary Arithmetic and Universal Character, Binary arithmetic essays
The two-state symbolic system later invites comparison with digital models of neural and cognitive activity.
- Long Walk to Freedom, Robben Island chapters
Hard labor, surveillance, diet, study, discipline, and solidarity shape the health and identity of prisoners.
- Long Walk to Freedom, Later imprisonment and illness passages
Mandela's aging and health problems, including tuberculosis history, become part of the political story of captivity.
- Lord Jim, Ch. 2
Jim is disabled by a falling spar and recovers in a hospital in an Eastern port.
- Lord Jim, Ch. 5
Marlow visits the Patna's chief engineer in hospital, raving in delirium tremens about pink toads under the bed; the hospital doctor comments on the case.
- Lord Jim, Ch. 6
Captain Brierly, an assessor at the inquiry, jumps overboard soon after it ends, leaving careful arrangements.
- Lord Jim, Ch. 7–11
Jim's account of his paralysis on the Patna deck and the moment he jumped.
- Lord of the Flies, Chapter 1
Piggy explains his asthma and need for glasses; Simon faints during the choir's march across the hot sand.
- Lord of the Flies, Chapter 4
The littluns live on fruit and suffer from stomach-aches and chronic diarrhoea.
- Lord of the Flies, Chapter 5
At the night assembly the littluns' nightmares and fears of the beast are aired.
- Lord of the Flies, Chapter 8
Simon's waking vision before the pig's head ends in a faint.
- Lord of the Flies, Chapter 9
The ritual dance in the thunderstorm becomes a group frenzy in which Simon is killed.
- Love and Freindship and Other Early Works, Love and Freindship, Letter the 13th
Finding their husbands dying by the overturned phaeton, Sophia faints and Laura runs mad, alternately, for over an hour.
- Love and Freindship and Other Early Works, Love and Freindship, Letter the 14th
Sophia's fatal illness from fainting in the night air and her deathbed warning against swoons.
- Lysistrata and Other Plays, The Acharnians, finale
Lamachus returns wounded and calls for the doctor Pittalus while Dicaeopolis revels.
- Lysistrata and Other Plays, Lysistrata, middle scenes
Women's excuses to leave the Acropolis, including a feigned imminent childbirth.
- Lysistrata and Other Plays, Lysistrata, Myrrhine and Kinesias; envoys' scene
Sexual frustration presented as an ailment afflicting men across Greece.
- Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 1–2
The hallucinated dagger; the voice crying 'Sleep no more'; the drugged possets given to the grooms.
- Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 3
The drunken Porter on the three things drink provokes.
- Macbeth, Act 3, Scene 4
Banquo's ghost at the banquet, seen only by Macbeth.
- Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 3
An English doctor describes King Edward curing 'the evil' (scrofula) by touch.
- Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 1
Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking and hand-washing observed by the Doctor and Gentlewoman.
- Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 3
Macbeth asks the Doctor to minister to a mind diseased; 'Throw physic to the dogs'.
- Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5 and 5, Scene 9 (Folio 5.7)
Lady Macbeth's death, later said to be by her own hand.
- Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 8
Macduff reveals he was untimely ripped from his mother's womb.
- Man's Search for Meaning, Part One, first phase
Admission to Auschwitz: the selection, shaving and disinfection, the delusion of reprieve, and the first emotional reactions, including grim humour and curiosity.
- Man's Search for Meaning, Part One, second phase
Apathy as emotional protection; hunger, edema and cold; prisoners' fantasies about food; the provisional existence with no foreseeable end.
- Man's Search for Meaning, Part One, second phase
Frankl works as a doctor in a typhus camp, falls ill with fever, and keeps himself awake at night reconstructing his lost manuscript.
- Man's Search for Meaning, Part One, second phase
A fellow prisoner's dream foretells liberation on 30 March; when the date approaches without rescue he falls ill and dies, which Frankl links to the loss of hope.
- Man's Search for Meaning, Part One, second phase
Frankl's talk to his hut on the fasting day, and his work with two men who had spoken of suicide, each reminded of a child or a scientific work waiting for him.
- Man's Search for Meaning, Part One, third phase
Depersonalization, the inability to feel pleasure after liberation, and bitterness and disillusionment on finding loved ones dead.
- Man's Search for Meaning, Part Two
Clinical cases of paradoxical intention and dereflection, and the elderly physician whose grief for his wife is reframed as a sacrifice that spared her.
- Mansfield Park, Vol. I, Ch. 7
Fanny's headache after being sent out to cut roses and walk in the heat.
- Mansfield Park, Vol. III, Ch. 13–14 (Ch. 44–45)
News that Tom has fallen dangerously ill with fever after a drinking bout and a fall; his return home and nursing.
- Mansfield Park, Vol. III, Ch. 7–8 (Ch. 38–39)
The noise, dirt and close air of the Price household in Portsmouth affect Fanny's health and spirits.
- Mansfield Park, Vol. III, Ch. 17 (Ch. 48)
Dr Grant dies of apoplexy after three great institutionary dinners in one week.
- Mark Antony's Funeral Oration ("Friends, Romans, countrymen"), Act 3, Scene 2 (at Caesar's body)
Antony points to the rents in Caesar's mantle made by Cassius, Casca and Brutus, then uncovers the wounded body before the crowd.
- Mark Antony's Funeral Oration ("Friends, Romans, countrymen"), Act 3, Scene 2 (close of the first speech)
Antony breaks off, saying his heart is in the coffin with Caesar, a display of grief that moves the citizens.
- Medea and Other Plays, Medea, opening
The Nurse describes Medea refusing food, weeping and turning from her children after Jason’s betrayal.
- Medea and Other Plays, Medea, first monody and speeches
Medea speaks of women’s risks in marriage, childbirth and dependence on husbands.
- Medea and Other Plays, Medea, poisoned gifts
A robe and crown destroy Jason’s bride and Creon through concealed toxic power.
- Medea and Other Plays, Medea, deliberation before killing the children
Medea debates with herself before committing child-murder, showing conflict rather than simple frenzy.
- Medea and Other Plays, Heracles, madness episode
In a related Euripidean tragedy, Heracles kills his family under divinely imposed madness and awakens to horror.
- Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind, Opening chapters on causes and seats of mental disease
Rush links mental disorder to bodily and brain processes, marking a medicalizing account of mind.
- Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind, Treatment sections
Recommended bleeding, purging, restraint, and moral management raise major ethical issues.
- Meditations, Book 1.17
Marcus thanks the gods for remedies given in dreams, including for spitting of blood and giddiness.
- Meditations, Book 3.3; 4.48
Catalogues of the dead, including Hippocrates and physicians who frowned over the sick.
- Meditations, Book 5.1
Argument with himself about getting out of bed in the morning.
- Meditations, Book 7.33, 7.64
On pain: if intolerable it ends life, if lasting it is bearable; in every pain remember there is no dishonour.
- Meditations, Book 9.2
Corruption of the mind is a worse pestilence than any plague of the air.
- Meditations, Book 9.3; 12.36
Death as a natural process like birth and growing old; departing serenely.
- Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditation I
The meditator considers madmen whose brains are disturbed by black bile, who believe they are kings, or that their heads are earthenware or their bodies glass.
- Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditation I
The dream argument: no certain marks distinguish waking from sleeping.
- Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditation II
Identification of the self as a thinking thing whose existence is certain independent of any knowledge of the body.
- Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditation VI
Argument for the real distinction of mind and body, followed by the claim that the mind is not in the body as a pilot in a ship, as hunger, thirst and pain show.
- Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditation VI
Phantom pain felt by those whose arm or leg has been amputated, used to show that the senses can mislead about the location of pain.
- Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditation VI
Nerves compared to a cord whose pull at any point produces the same motion in the brain; the dropsical patient's thirst as a natural signal that harms the sick body.
- Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. IX (Kentucky, autumn 1861)
Cameron's memorandum, newspaper reports that Sherman was insane, his relief from command and his sense that his position was unbearable.
- Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. IX (Bull Run report)
Close-range fire breaks the brigade; wounded stream toward buildings used as hospitals and the retreat becomes a spontaneous rout.
- Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. X (Pittsburg Landing, March–April 1862)
Sick soldiers shipped to Savannah for want of any building for a hospital; Sherman's postscript rejects floating hospitals in favour of regimental surgeons; his Shiloh report praises surgeons who treated wounded of both armies.
- Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XI
Sherman describes Shiloh as having given him new life after being cast down by the 'crazy' label, and counsels a demoralised Grant.
- Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XII (Memphis)
Letters on regimental and general hospitals, the use of freed people as hospital attendants and nurses, and requisition of buildings for patients.
- Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XIV (October 1863)
Willie's typhoid on the steamer Atlantic, the attending army surgeon's warning, death at the Gayoso Hotel, and Sherman's self-reproach and midnight letter.
- Memoirs of Usama ibn Munqidh, Section I, ch. 8, 'Their curious medication'
Thabit's poultice and diet; the Frankish amputation by axe and the scalp incision of a woman judged possessed; both patients die.
- Memoirs of Usama ibn Munqidh, Section I, ch. 8, following cases
A Frankish physician heals a leg with washings of strong vinegar; a Frank's remedy for scrofula cures a boy, and Usama uses it on others.
- Memoirs of Usama ibn Munqidh, Section I, ch. 9
A man faints at gushing blood, another at bloodletting; a man saws his own leg; a dropsy case relieved by a wound to the abdomen.
- Memoirs of Usama ibn Munqidh, Section I, ch. 9, reflections on old age
Usama on the feebleness of extreme old age and his withdrawal from service.
- Memoirs of Usama ibn Munqidh, Section II, ch. 2 (Noteworthy Cures)
Cures by ibn-Butlan and others: dropsy, a dust-clogged throat, a feared leprosy, a cold in the head, a chill and a colic cured after a dream.
- Memorial and Remonstrance and Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention, Memorial and Remonstrance
The priority of conscience becomes relevant to later medical conflicts over professional duty and state compulsion.
- Memorial and Remonstrance and Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention, Convention Notes on federal powers
Debates over national and state authority shape later public-health law and emergency governance.
- Mental Maladies, Hallucinations and illusions
Esquirol distinguishes false perception from false judgment and makes hallucination a key psychiatric sign.
- Mental Maladies, Lypemania and monomania
The diagnostic chapters track partial delusions, fixed ideas, fear, sorrow, and suicidal danger under now-historical labels.
- Mental Maladies, Asylum chapters
The institutional material treats space, classification, attendants, and medical authority as therapeutic instruments.
- Mental Pathology and Therapeutics, Book I
Griesinger argues that mental diseases must be understood as diseases of the brain, while admitting the limits of pathology.
- Mental Pathology and Therapeutics, Clinical books
The syndrome descriptions of melancholia, exaltation, monomania, and dementia show German psychiatry before Kraepelin.
- Mental Pathology and Therapeutics, Therapeutics
The treatment chapters combine physical care, moral treatment, prognosis, and asylum organization.
- Mere Christianity, Book III, Ch. 4, "Morality and Psychoanalysis"
Lewis separates psychoanalytic treatment of abnormal fears and impulses from the moral choices a patient makes, and says the treatment of the raw material is a medical matter.
- Mere Christianity, Book II, Ch. 3, "The Shocking Alternative"
The trilemma offers lunacy as one explanation for Jesus' claims, using the image of a man who thinks he is a poached egg.
- Mere Christianity, Book IV, Ch. 10, "Nice People or New Men"
Lewis contrasts inherited temperament and upbringing with moral effort, arguing that a person with a difficult nervous constitution may be further along than an easy-tempered one.
- Metamorphoses, Book III
Narcissus falls in love with his reflection and wastes away; Echo fades to a voice; Tiresias's change of sex.
- Metamorphoses, Book IV
Salmacis and Hermaphroditus merge into one body.
- Metamorphoses, Book VI
Niobe, grieving her slaughtered children, turns to weeping stone.
- Metamorphoses, Book VII
Medea drains Aeson's blood and refills his veins with a magic brew, restoring his youth; the daughters of Pelias are tricked into killing their father.
- Metamorphoses, Book VII
Aeacus describes the plague at Aegina: fever, thirst, corpses and the failure of medicine.
- Metamorphoses, Book VIII
Erysichthon, cursed with Hunger by Ceres, eats everything and finally devours his own body.
- Metamorphoses, Book XIV
The Sibyl of Cumae, granted years but not youth, will shrink until only her voice remains.
- Metamorphoses, Book XV
Aesculapius comes from Epidaurus to Rome as a serpent to end a pestilence.
- Middlemarch, Book II, Chapter XV
Lydgate's history: his first reading of anatomy as a boy, his studies in London, Edinburgh and Paris, and his ambition to continue Bichat's work on tissues.
- Middlemarch, Book III, Chapters XXVI-XXVII
Lydgate diagnoses Fred Vincy's typhoid fever against the prior opinion of Mr. Wrench and supervises his nursing.
- Middlemarch, Book III, Chapter XXX; Book IV, Chapter XLII
Lydgate examines Casaubon with the stethoscope and later tells him he has a disease of the heart that may prove sudden.
- Middlemarch, Book VII, Chapter LXVI
Lydgate's trial of opium as an escape from debt and domestic misery, set against his indifference to drink.
- Middlemarch, Book VII, Chapters LXIX-LXX
Raffles's illness at Stone Court, Lydgate's instructions on opium dosage and no alcohol, and Bulstrode's fatal omissions.
- Middlemarch, Book VII, Chapter LXXI
The town debates Lydgate's certificate of delirium tremens; the public meeting on sanitary measures against cholera where Bulstrode is accused.
- Moby-Dick, Chapter 1
Ishmael's hypos and his going to sea as a substitute for pistol and ball.
- Moby-Dick, Chapter 41
The history of Ahab's injury and the growth of his monomania during the long voyage home.
- Moby-Dick, Chapter 93
Pip is left alone in the sea and goes about the deck thereafter so changed that his shipmates call him mad, though his speech holds strange wisdom.
- Moby-Dick, Chapter 100
The Samuel Enderby's Captain Boomer and Dr Bunger describe the loss of his arm to Moby Dick.
- Moby-Dick, Chapter 106
Ahab's ivory leg is splintered and its injury to him described.
- Moby-Dick, Chapter 110
Queequeg wastes with fever, orders his coffin and recovers.
- Mother Courage and Her Children, Scene 3
Courage must not show recognition when Swiss Cheese's body is brought before her.
- Mother Courage and Her Children, Scene 5
After a battle the chaplain demands linen for bandaging wounded peasants.
- Mother Courage and Her Children, Scene 6
Kattrin returns with a wound over the eye that will leave her disfigured.
- Mother Courage and Her Children, Scenes 9 and 12
Hunger in the war-ruined countryside; Courage's lullaby over her dead daughter.
- Mourning Becomes Electra, Homecoming, Act Four
During a heart attack Christine gives Ezra a pellet in place of his medicine; he accuses her before dying, and Lavinia finds the box.
- Mourning Becomes Electra, The Hunted, Act One
Doctor Blake's view that Ezra died of angina, and gossip at the funeral about the general's heart.
- Mourning Becomes Electra, The Hunted, Acts Two and Three
Orin, bandaged from a head wound, tells of being out of his head and of the killing and charge at Petersburg.
- Mourning Becomes Electra, The Hunted, Act Five
Christine shoots herself in Ezra's study after learning of Brant's death.
- Mourning Becomes Electra, The Haunted, Acts Two and Three
Orin's guilt-ridden manuscript, his obsessive possessiveness toward Lavinia and his suicide.
- Mr. Popper's Penguins, Middle chapters (Captain Cook's illness and Greta's arrival)
Captain Cook declines, the aquarium curator suggests loneliness, and the penguins recover once Greta comes.
- Mrs. Dalloway, Morning, Regent's Park
Septimus sees Evans behind the railings, hears the sparrows sing in Greek and believes he must not cut down trees, while Rezia tries to follow Dr. Holmes's advice to make him notice real things.
- Mrs. Dalloway, Midday, Septimus's history
Evans's death in Italy, Septimus's pride at feeling nothing, the panic in Milan that drives him to propose to Lucrezia, and the later discovery that he cannot feel or taste.
- Mrs. Dalloway, Midday, Dr. Holmes's visits
Holmes's cheerful prescriptions and his refusal to see illness, and Septimus's growing dread of him as the agent of human nature.
- Mrs. Dalloway, Noon, Harley Street
Sir William Bradshaw's consultation, the decision to send Septimus to a country home, and the narrator's long passage on proportion and conversion.
- Mrs. Dalloway, Late afternoon, the Bloomsbury lodging
A calm hour over Mrs. Peters's hat, then Holmes on the stairs and Septimus's leap from the window; the ambulance that Peter hears in the street.
- Mrs. Dalloway, Evening, the party
Clarissa's meditation in the little room on the young man's death, on defiance and communication, and her return to her guests.
- Much Ado About Nothing, Act 1, Scene 3
Don John rejects Conrade's counsel of patient sufferance, which he calls a moral medicine, and insists on showing his sadness.
- Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3, Scene 4
Margaret recommends distilled Carduus benedictus for Beatrice's cold, with a pun on Benedick.
- Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4, Scene 1
Hero swoons after the accusation; the Friar proposes reporting her dead.
- Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5, Scene 1
Leonato rejects Antonio's counsel of patience, saying no philosopher has borne the toothache patiently.
- My Ántonia, Book I (Russian Peter and Pavel chapters)
Pavel, ill and coughing blood, tells the story of the bride thrown to the wolves before dying.
- My Ántonia, Book I (first winter)
The Shimerdas' hunger and hardship in the dugout; Mr Shimerda's homesickness and withdrawal.
- My Ántonia, Book I (c. Ch. 14–16)
Mr Shimerda shoots himself in the barn; the inquest, the debate over burial and the crossroads grave.
- My Ántonia, Book II
Ántonia tells of a tramp who jumped into a threshing machine.
- My Ántonia, Book II
The blind Black pianist Samson d'Arnault performs at the hotel.
- My Ántonia, Book IV
Ántonia, abandoned by Larry Donovan, gives birth alone at home.
- My Father's Dragon, Chapter Two, My Father Runs Away
The cat explains that the baby dragon fell from a cloud with a bruised wing, was tied up while it healed, and is now beaten and overloaded.
- My Father's Dragon, Chapter Six, My Father Meets a Rhinoceros
The rhinoceros weeps constantly and cannot sleep over his yellowed tusk until Elmer shows him how to brush it.
- My Side of the Mountain, Winter chapters
Sam grows drowsy and nearly passes out from the fire's smoke in the sealed hemlock, then cuts a vent.
- My Side of the Mountain, Early and autumn chapters
Sam's foraging, fishing and food storage, from his hungry first night to the stores he lays up for winter.
- Napoleon's Maxims of War, Maxim XII, Note
Montecuccoli quoted on the need for secure magazines, hospitals, arms depots and supply places along the line of communication.
- Napoleon's Maxims of War, Maxim XIX, Note
The starving, ill-clothed Army of Italy in 1796, its draught horses dead from want, before Napoleon's offensive.
- Napoleon's Maxims of War, Maxim XXI
Convoys of sick and wounded require the shortest possible line to depots.
- Napoleon's Maxims of War, Maxims LVIII–LIX and Notes
Fortitude under fatigue and privation as the soldier's first quality; the four days' provisions and other necessities he must always carry.
- Napoleon's Maxims of War, Maxim LXXIII and Note
The commander's cool head and the unsuitability of excitable temperaments; Montecuccoli's advice never to be anxious or change countenance.
- Narrative of the Life and What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?, Narrative, childhood and plantation violence
Family separation, whipping, hunger, and terror show slavery as chronic bodily and psychological injury.
- Narrative of the Life and What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?, Narrative, literacy and Covey episodes
Reading and bodily resistance become mechanisms of self-recovery under domination.
- National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, Opinion of Chief Justice Roberts, Part I, paragraph beginning The second provision of the Affordable Care Act directly challenged here is the Medicaid expansion
Describes Medicaid's origins in 1965, its universal adoption by the states by 1982, and the expansion's extension of coverage to adults up to 133 percent of the poverty level.
- National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, Opinion of Justice Ginsburg, Part I-A and I-B, paragraphs beginning In 2009, approximately 50 million people were uninsured
Sets out national health-expenditure figures, the scale of uncompensated care, and how the costs of treating the uninsured are passed on to insured patients and providers.
- Natural History: A Selection, Books 20–27
Medicinal plants are cataloged with uses for pain, sleep, wounds, digestion and mental disturbance.
- Natural History: A Selection, Book 20, poppy traditions
Poppy preparations appear among sleep- and pain-related remedies, with danger implicit in potency.
- Natural History: A Selection, Book 25, hellebore traditions
Hellebore appears in the ancient therapeutic world of purging and treatment of mental disturbance.
- Natural History: A Selection, Book 25, mandrake traditions
Mandrake lore connects narcotic, magical and surgical uses.
- Natural History: A Selection, Books 28–32
Animal-derived remedies and charms blur medicine, magic and credulity.
- No Exit and Three Other Plays, No Exit
Estelle's confession of the birth of her child in Switzerland, its drowning from a balcony, and her lover's suicide.
- No Exit and Three Other Plays, No Exit
Inez's account of how her cousin's wife turned on the gas in their room at night.
- No Exit and Three Other Plays, No Exit
Estelle mentions dying of pneumonia; each character describes the manner of death.
- Northanger Abbey, Vol. II, Ch. 8–9
Catherine's suspicions about Mrs Tilney's death and Henry's account of her illness and the physicians who attended her.
- Notes from Underground, Part I, Chapter I
The narrator calls himself sick, suspects his liver, and declares that he will not consult a doctor out of spite.
- Notes from Underground, Part I, Chapter IV
The argument about toothache: the educated man moans not from pain alone but to make his suffering felt by everyone in the house.
- Notes from Underground, Part II, Chapters I–II
The young narrator's fevers, delirium and hysterical rages during his campaign against the officer.
- Notes from Underground, Part II, Chapters VI–VII
The narrator describes to Liza the abandonment and death of a sick woman in a damp cellar and the careless burial in the wet snow.
- Notes from Underground, Part II, Chapter IX
The narrator collapses on the sofa in sobbing hysterics while Liza comforts him.
- Notes on Menabrea's Sketch of the Analytical Engine, Note A
Lovelace explains the distinction between the Difference Engine's numerical table-making and the Analytical Engine's broader command of operations.
- Notes on Menabrea's Sketch of the Analytical Engine, Note G
The Bernoulli-number procedure converts reasoning into executable steps, a key precursor for computational models of cognition.
- Notes on Menabrea's Sketch of the Analytical Engine, Concluding reflections on the Engine
The statement that the machine cannot originate anything frames the ethical boundary around claims made for artificial minds.
- Notes on the State of Virginia, Selected Letters, and The Jefferson Bible, Notes on Virginia, queries on population and race
Jefferson's racial claims show Enlightenment classification entering political arguments about slavery, bodily difference, and human equality.
- Notes on the State of Virginia, Selected Letters, and The Jefferson Bible, Notes on climate and natural history
Environmental observation links health, geography, and early American science.
- Novum Organon Renovatum, Book I, Aphorisms CI-CIII
Life as a system of vital forces, irreducible to mechanical or chemical forces; digestion and the motion of the blood as examples.
- Novum Organon Renovatum, Book I, Aphorism CIV
Distinction between voluntary, reflex and instinctive motions in terms of sensations, ideas and actions.
- Novum Organon Renovatum, Book I, Aphorisms CV-CVI
Final causes in organized bodies, and disease as a state in which the vital forces do not attain their proper ends.
- Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorisms XLI–XLIX
Idols of the tribe and den: the distorting mirror of human perception, the pull of first conclusions, neglect of negative instances, and belief tinctured by will and passion.
- Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism LXVI
Bacon criticises the doctrines of elementary qualities and occult specific powers while commending physicians' attention to attraction, astringency, maturation and other secondary qualities of medicines.
- Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism LXXIII
Citing Celsus, Bacon observes that medical experiments came first and philosophical causes were assigned afterward, using medicine as evidence against speculative systems.
- Novum Organum, Book I, Aphorism LXXXVII
Impostors who promise prolongation of life, retarding of old age, relief of pain and the exaltation of the intellect discredit honest natural philosophy.
- Novum Organum, Book II, Aphorism L
Medicines that condense the flesh or the spirits: mild soporifics (violet, dried roses, lettuce), rose-water for fainting fits, and opiates that expel the spirits from the brain's ventricles yet in moderation may aid cure and longevity.
- Number the Stars, Chapter 10
Mama tells the officer that the doctor warned of typhus and the casket should stay closed, then offers to open it herself.
- Number the Stars, Chapter 11
Peter gives the baby drops from a small bottle so it will not cry during the crossing.
- Number the Stars, Chapters 15-16; Afterword
The soldiers' dogs sniff the handkerchief; Henrik explains what it did, and the afterword describes the blood-and-cocaine powder.
- Number the Stars, Chapters 2 and 17
Lise's unopened trunk of wedding things, and the parents' final account of her death.
- O Captain! My Captain!, Stanza 2, lines 13-16
The speaker cradles the captain's head and tries to treat the death as a dream.
- O Captain! My Captain!, Stanza 3, lines 17-18
Death is confirmed by pale, still lips and the absence of a pulse.
- O'Connor v. Donaldson, Opinion of the Court, Part I, paragraph beginning: The evidence showed that Donaldson's confinement was a simple regime of enforced custodial care
The trial evidence on custodial care, the term milieu therapy as staff used it, and a ward of sixty patients, a record of state-hospital conditions in the 1950s and 1960s.
- O'Connor v. Donaldson, Opinion of the Court, Part II, paragraph beginning: A finding of "mental illness" alone cannot justify a State's locking a person up against his will
The Court's holding that a diagnosis by itself does not justify confinement of the harmless, with a caution about whether the term mentally ill can be given reasonably precise content.
- O'Connor v. Donaldson, Concurrence of Chief Justice Burger, Part II-A, paragraph beginning: That proposition is surely not descriptive of the power traditionally exercised by the States
Burger's history of the care of the mentally ill from poorhouses and jails through the rise of state institutions, citing Albert Deutsch's The Mentally Ill in America.
- Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 3, lines 28-30
Human passion is set against the urn's carved love and described through bodily signs of satiety and fever.
- Of Mice and Men, Section 1
George describes the incident at Weed and Lennie's compulsion to stroke soft things; he rehearses what Lennie must do if in trouble.
- Of Mice and Men, Section 3
Carlson shoots Candy's old dog; Candy later wishes he had done it himself.
- Of Mice and Men, Section 3
Lennie crushes Curley's hand; the injury is covered up as a machine accident and Curley is taken to the doctor.
- Of Mice and Men, Section 4
Crooks rubs liniment into his crooked back in his solitary room.
- Of Mice and Men, Section 6
George kills Lennie to spare him the lynch mob.
- Old Yeller, The hog fight
Travis is gashed by wild hogs and Old Yeller is ripped open; Mama stitches the dog and tends Travis through weeks of recovery.
- Old Yeller, Burn Sanderson's visit
Sanderson warns the family that hydrophobia is loose in the country and describes how it spreads among animals.
- Old Yeller, The wolf at the fire
A rabid wolf attacks Mama and Lisbeth at night; Old Yeller kills it and is bitten, and Mama and Travis decide he must be shot.
- Old Yeller, Final chapter
Travis's grief after the shooting and Papa's words to him on his return.
- Oliver Twist, Chapter I
Oliver's birth in the workhouse, attended by a contract parish surgeon and a pauper nurse; his unnamed mother dies soon after holding him.
- Oliver Twist, Chapter II
The workhouse diet of thin gruel and the boys' hunger before Oliver asks for more.
- Oliver Twist, Chapters XXVIII-XXX
Oliver, shot in the arm during the burglary, lies feverish at the Maylies' house; Mr. Losberne treats him and protects him from the Bow Street officers.
- Oliver Twist, Chapter XXXIII
Rose Maylie's sudden, dangerous fever and the anxious watch kept by Mrs. Maylie and Oliver until she recovers.
- Oliver Twist, Chapters XXXVIII and XLVI
Monks has a fit during a thunderstorm before the Bumbles; Nancy later describes his desperate fits and the marks of teeth on his lips and hands.
- Olmstead v. L. C., Opinion of the Court, Part II, paragraph beginning With the key legislative provisions in full view
Recounts the two women's voluntary admissions to a psychiatric unit and the years between their clinicians' recommendations and their placement in community programs.
- Olmstead v. L. C., Opinion of Justice Kennedy, paragraph beginning Beginning in the 1950's, many victims of severe mental illness
Summarizes the history and consequences of deinstitutionalization, relying on an American Psychiatric Association brief and a psychiatrist's critical assessment.
- Olmstead v. L. C., Opinion of the Court, Part III-A, paragraph beginning Consistent with these provisions, the State generally may rely
Holds that states may rely on the reasonable assessments of their own professionals in deciding who is qualified for community-based care.
- On Computable Numbers and Computing Machinery, 1936 paper, definition of computing machines
The reduction of calculation to symbolic operations offers a formal ancestor for computational models of cognition.
- On Computable Numbers and Computing Machinery, 1950 essay, imitation game
The replacement of the thinking question by a behavioral test matters for psychiatric interviews and modern AI evaluation.
- On Computable Numbers and Computing Machinery, 1950 essay, objections about nervous systems and disability
Turing's survey of objections shows how embodiment and impairment enter debates about intelligence.
- On Duties (De Officiis), Book I, ch. XXIV
The prudent man in danger is compared to physicians who use gentle medicines for gentle illnesses and stronger, riskier cures for dangerous diseases.
- On Duties (De Officiis), Book I, ch. XLII
Medicine, architecture and the liberal arts listed as honourable professions for those whose station they suit.
- On Duties (De Officiis), Book II, end
Antipater of Tyre's addition of the care of health: self-knowledge of the body, temperance, and the help of the medical art.
- On Fairy-Stories, Defining fairy-story
On Fairy-Stories gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens is oblique: tolkien treats imagination as recovery from dulled perception and as consolation amid suffering rather than as pathology
- On Fairy-Stories, Fantasy and sub-creation
On Fairy-Stories gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens is oblique: tolkien treats imagination as recovery from dulled perception and as consolation amid suffering rather than as pathology
- On Fairy-Stories, Recovery and consolation
On Fairy-Stories gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens is oblique: tolkien treats imagination as recovery from dulled perception and as consolation amid suffering rather than as pathology
- On Formally Undecidable Propositions, Main incompleteness construction
The undecidable proposition offers a rigorous analogy for the limits of formal systems used to classify complex realities.
- On Formally Undecidable Propositions, Consistency theorem
The inability of a system to certify itself invites ethical caution about self-validating technical institutions.
- On Friendship, 'Of Friendship', closing pages
Montaigne's description of the dull, half-life he has led since his friend's death.
- On His Blindness (Sonnet XIX), Lines 1-8
The speaker's anxiety that loss of sight has made his gift useless and exposed him to rebuke.
- On Liberty, Ch. I, Introductory
The harm principle, sovereignty over one's own body and mind, and the explicit exclusion of children and those needing care from the doctrine.
- On Liberty, Ch. III, Of Individuality (with footnote 13)
Eccentric people risk a commission de lunatico; the footnote condemns trials in which ordinary peculiarities are paraded before juries as proof of insanity and imagines atheists placed in madhouses as a 'humane' persecution.
- On Liberty, Ch. IV, Of the Limits to the Authority of Society
The United Kingdom Alliance's case for prohibition and its doctrine of 'social rights' against the drink trade, which Mill rejects.
- On Liberty, Ch. V, Applications
Sale of poisons: labelling, a register of buyers, Bentham's 'preappointed evidence', and rejection of a universal prescription requirement; the unsafe-bridge example and its exceptions for the delirious or overexcited.
- On Liberty, Ch. V, Applications
Drunkenness as self-regarding unless tied to violence; taxation of stimulants; the opium import ban in China and the Maine Law listed as interferences with buyers.
- On Medicine, Book 1, Preface
The history of medical schools frames medicine as a debate between reason, experience and practical method.
- On Medicine, Book 2
Fever, crisis, prognosis and evacuations structure the management of acute illness.
- On Medicine, Book 3
Inflammation is described through redness, swelling, heat and pain, a durable clinical formula.
- On Medicine, Books 5–6
Drug preparations include purges, plasters, narcotic applications and substances that can heal or poison.
- On Medicine, Book 7
Operations for cataract, fistula, bladder stone and damaged body parts show technical Roman surgery.
- On Medicine, Book 8
Fractures, dislocations and bone injuries require traction, setting, splints and careful aftercare.
- On the Fabric of the Human Body (Preface), Preface to Charles V
The division of medicine among physicians, apothecaries and barbers, and its consequences for knowledge of the body.
- On the Fabric of the Human Body (Preface), Preface to Charles V
Satire of lecture-room anatomy, with the professor reading Galen from a chair while an unlearned barber dissects.
- On the Fabric of the Human Body (Preface), Preface to Charles V
Argument that Galen dissected apes and other animals, so that many of his anatomical claims do not hold for humans.
- On the Fabric of the Human Body (Preface), Fabrica, Book VI
Description of the heart and doubt that blood sweats through the septum between the ventricles, sharpened in the 1555 edition.
- On the Fabric of the Human Body (Preface), Fabrica, Book VII
The brain, its ventricles and the sense organs, including the absence in humans of the rete mirabile described by Galen.
- On the Genealogy of Morality, Essay I
Ressentiment becomes a psychological and historical engine of moral valuation.
- On the Genealogy of Morality, Essay II
Guilt and bad conscience are traced through pain, debt, punishment, and internalized instinct.
- On the Genealogy of Morality, Essay III
The ascetic ideal is interpreted as a technique for giving suffering a meaning.
- On the Magnet (De Magnete), Book I, Ch. XIV
Survey and criticism of medicinal claims for the loadstone: purging humours, causing melancholy, curing headaches, extracting arrowheads, and its use in wound plasters.
- On the Magnet (De Magnete), Book I, Ch. XV
Preparation and use of iron and steel as remedies for disorders of the liver and spleen, with warnings against their misuse and a discussion of whether iron is warm or cold.
- On the Magnet (De Magnete), Book II, Ch. II
Galen's three kinds of attraction and the analogy of the cupping-glass, which Gilbert rejects as explanations of amber's attraction.
- On the Magnet (De Magnete), Edward Wright's preface
Wright's praise of Gilbert as a distinguished doctor of medicine who gave his intellect to magnetism as well as medicine.
- On the Making of Man, Creation and dignity
On the Making of Man gives this tag concrete force through its medical lens includes anatomy, generation, bodily organs, sex difference, mortality, resurrection, and the porous border between medicine and theology
- On the Making of Man, Body, senses, and mind
On the Making of Man gives this tag concrete force through its medical lens includes anatomy, generation, bodily organs, sex difference, mortality, resurrection, and the porous border between medicine and theology
- On the Making of Man, Sex, death, and resurrection
On the Making of Man gives this tag concrete force through its medical lens includes anatomy, generation, bodily organs, sex difference, mortality, resurrection, and the porous border between medicine and theology
- On the Making of Man, Sex, death, and resurrection
On the Making of Man gives this tag concrete force through its medical lens includes anatomy, generation, bodily organs, sex difference, mortality, resurrection, and the porous border between medicine and theology
- On the Making of Man, Sex, death, and resurrection
On the Making of Man gives this tag concrete force through its medical lens includes anatomy, generation, bodily organs, sex difference, mortality, resurrection, and the porous border between medicine and theology
- On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (De Motu Cordis), Introduction
Harvey sets out and examines the Galenic teaching on arteries, spirits, pores in the septum and the uses of the pulse.
- On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (De Motu Cordis), Chs. II–V
Observations from vivisection of cold-blooded and warm-blooded animals establish that the heart's active phase is contraction.
- On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (De Motu Cordis), Ch. IX
The calculation of blood expelled per beat and per half hour, which makes a circulation necessary.
- On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (De Motu Cordis), Chs. XI–XII
Tight and medium ligatures on the arm, as used in bloodletting, show arterial inflow and venous return; the fainting patient whose blood only drips is explained.
- On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (De Motu Cordis), Ch. XIII
The valves of the veins, figured by Fabricius, are shown to permit flow only toward the heart.
- On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals (De Motu Cordis), Ch. XVI
Contagion, poisoned wounds, rabies, the lues venerea, tertian fever and externally applied medicines are explained by the returning current of blood.
- On the Nature of the Universe, Book 1, Iphigenia
Religious fear leads to sacrificial violence, establishing superstition as a psychic and social disease.
- On the Nature of the Universe, Book 3
Arguments for the mortality of the soul aim to cure fear of death and afterlife punishment.
- On the Nature of the Universe, Book 4
Dream images, sexual arousal and erotic fixation are explained through bodily images and habit.
- On the Nature of the Universe, Book 6, plague of Athens
The poem ends with fever, thirst, sores, despair, contagion-like care and burial breakdown.
- On the Origin of Species, Variation under domestication
On the Origin of Species gives this tag concrete force through darwin matters to medicine through heredity, variation, adaptation, population thinking, and later debates over degeneration, eugenics, and disease ecology
- On the Origin of Species, Natural selection
On the Origin of Species gives this tag concrete force through darwin matters to medicine through heredity, variation, adaptation, population thinking, and later debates over degeneration, eugenics, and disease ecology
- On the Origin of Species, Difficulties and consequences
On the Origin of Species gives this tag concrete force through darwin matters to medicine through heredity, variation, adaptation, population thinking, and later debates over degeneration, eugenics, and disease ecology
- On the Road, Part Two
Visit to Old Bull Lee's household near New Orleans, where drug use (including Benzedrine and opiates) is part of daily life.
- On the Road, Part Three
Dean's injured thumb becomes infected and is treated, a recurring image of his self-inflicted damage.
- On the Road, Part Four
Driving into Mexico, the companions smoke marijuana with a local youth and experience the landscape in an altered state.
- On the Road, Part Four (Mexico City)
Sal falls ill with fever and dysentery and is left behind by Dean.
- On the Road, Throughout
Marathon drives, all-night jazz clubs and continuous drinking, with sleep deprivation treated as a kind of ecstasy.
- On War, Book I, Ch. 4, Of Danger in War
A guided walk from the staff to the firing line: shells, the fall of an acquaintance, pity for the maimed, and the loss of the power of instantaneous decision in the novice.
- On War, Book I, Ch. 5, Of Bodily Exertion in War
Frost, heat, thirst, hunger and fatigue as influences on judgment, and the commander's art of demanding extreme effort from troops.
- On War, Book I, Ch. 7–8, Friction and Concluding Remarks
Friction as the sum of danger, exertion and uncertainty; habituation compared to the pupil of the eye adapting to a dark room.
- On War, Book V, Ch. 12, Marches (continued)
Sickness in crowded quarters versus on the road; soldiers drinking cold water after heat exhaustion; Napoleon's losses of 95,000 to sickness and straggling on the march to Smolensk in 1812.
- On War, Book V, Ch. 14, Subsistence
Feeding mass armies by requisition or magazines and the human cost when supply fails.
- On War, Introductory memoir (Graham/Maude edition)
Clausewitz's death from cholera at Breslau in November 1831, apparently contracted with the army of observation on the Polish frontier.
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Morning, the infirmary
Shukhov, feverish, asks to be excused from work; Vdovushkin takes his temperature, finds it too low, and sends him out.
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Morning, breakfast
Shukhov eats his skilly and fish bones with careful ritual and hides part of his bread ration for later.
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Midday, the canteen at the work site
Shukhov obtains two extra bowls of porridge, and the narration dwells on the value of each mouthful.
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Evening, the return search
Buynovsky is sent to the punishment cells, where the narration notes that ten days of strict regime can ruin a man's health for life.
- Opticks, Book I, Part I, Axiom VII
The eye as an optical instrument; images on the retina conveyed by the optic nerves; presbyopia and convex spectacles; myopia; jaundice tinting vision.
- Opticks, Book I, Part II, Prop. VII
Colours seen in dreams and by a madman, or by pressing or striking the eye, set aside as arising from causes other than light.
- Opticks, Book III, Query 15
Proposal that fibres of the optic nerves partly cross where the nerves meet, so that half of each eye's picture goes to each side of the brain.
- Opticks, Book III, Queries 16 and 23–24
Pressure phosphenes and persistence of vision; vision and animal motion speculatively explained by vibrations in the nerves excited by the will.
- Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 1
Orlando's sudden falls from joy into melancholy on the frozen Thames, and the narrator's reflection on happiness, melancholy and madness.
- Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 2 (opening)
The seven-day trance after Sasha's flight, the failed folk remedies, and Orlando's altered memory on waking.
- Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 3
The second trance in Constantinople, a doctor's useless remedies, and the waking change of sex announced by the trumpets of Truth.
- Orlando: A Biography, Chapter 6
The midwife Mrs Banting announces the safe delivery of Orlando's son, in a passage the narrator hurries past.
- Orthodoxy, Chapter II, The Maniac (opening)
Conversation with a publisher about self-confidence, prompted by an omnibus marked Hanwell; belief in oneself as a sign of insanity.
- Orthodoxy, Chapter II, The Maniac
The madman's argument described as a perfect but narrow circle that cannot be broken by reasoning, with examples of the man who thinks himself Christ or the target of a conspiracy.
- Orthodoxy, Chapter II, The Maniac
Remarks on doctors and psychologists who must treat a madman's system intolerantly, and the comparison of cure to casting out a devil.
- Orthodoxy, Chapter V, The Flag of the World
Suicide contrasted with martyrdom as the refusal of loyalty to existence.
- Othello, Act 1, Scenes 2 and 3
Brabantio charges that Othello bewitched Desdemona with drugs, minerals and medicines bought of mountebanks; Othello answers that his only witchcraft was his story.
- Othello, Act 2, Scene 3
Cassio, who says he has a poor brain for drinking, is pressed to drink on watch, brawls with Montano, and afterwards laments the loss of his reputation.
- Othello, Act 3, Scene 3
Othello complains of a pain upon his forehead and Desdemona offers to bind it with the handkerchief; later Iago calls jealous fancies poisons and says no poppy or mandragora will bring Othello sleep again.
- Othello, Act 4, Scene 1
Othello falls into a trance or fit after Iago's broken words about Cassio; Iago calls it an epilepsy and tells Cassio the lethargy must have its quiet course.
- Othello, Act 5, Scene 2
Desdemona is smothered and briefly revives; Gratiano reports that grief killed Brabantio; Othello stabs himself.
- Our Town, Daily Life
Our Town gives this tag concrete force through the medical material is quiet but important: doc gibbs, childbirth, mortality statistics, grief, and the care rituals surrounding death
- Our Town, Love and Marriage
Our Town gives this tag concrete force through the medical material is quiet but important: doc gibbs, childbirth, mortality statistics, grief, and the care rituals surrounding death
- Our Town, Death and Attention
Our Town gives this tag concrete force through the medical material is quiet but important: doc gibbs, childbirth, mortality statistics, grief, and the care rituals surrounding death
- Our Town, Death and Attention
Our Town gives this tag concrete force through the medical material is quiet but important: doc gibbs, childbirth, mortality statistics, grief, and the care rituals surrounding death
- Paradise Lost, Book III
The invocation to holy Light laments the poet's blindness and asks for inward sight.
- Paradise Lost, Book IV
Satan's soliloquy on Mount Niphates: the self-made hell of envy and despair.
- Paradise Lost, Book X
Sin and Death come to the world to prey on all created things after the Fall.
- Paradise Lost, Book XI
Michael's vision of the lazar-house lists the diseases, madness and melancholy that will afflict Adam's descendants.
- Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, Chapters on street nuisances
Babbage's intense campaign against organ-grinders and urban noise shows the bodily strain of attention in a city environment.
- Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, Chapters on the Analytical Engine
The explanation of mechanical memory and operation offers a nineteenth-century source for later analogies between mechanism and thought.
- Passing, Part One
Irene, feeling faint in the Chicago heat, takes refuge on the hotel roof and is unnerved by a stranger's stare, with physical symptoms of acute anxiety.
- Passing, Part Two
Disagreements between Irene and Brian over what to tell their sons about sex and lynching; Brian's dissatisfaction with medicine and his wish to go to Brazil.
- Passing, Part Two–Three
Irene's growing suspicion of an affair, accompanied by sleeplessness, headaches and intrusive thoughts.
- Passing, Part Three (ending)
Clare's fall from the window and Irene's collapse, followed by her blurred, possibly repressed recollection of the moment.
- Pensees, Fragment 82, Section II
Imagination as the 'mistress of error', able to make men healthy or sick; the philosopher sweating on a plank above a precipice; cats, rats and a crushed coal that 'unhinge the reason'; physicians in cassocks and mules; diseases that spoil judgment.
- Pensees, Fragment 109, Section II
Health and sickness each produce their own desires; we take medicine cheerfully when ill; our fears come from imagining a state we are not in.
- Pensees, Fragment 131, Section II
Weariness: at rest without occupation, man feels his nothingness and from his heart rise gloom, sadness, fretfulness and despair.
- Pensees, Fragments 139–143, 164–171, Section II
Diversion: gambling, hunting, war and court office as flight from thought; the king without diversion is wretched; death is easier to bear than the thought of it.
- Pensees, Fragment 233, Section III
The wager, ending with the counsel to act as if believing, taking holy water and having masses said, to abate the passions and 'deaden your acuteness'.
- Pensees, Fragment 552, Section VII
The Mystery of Jesus: Christ's self-inflicted agony in Gethsemane, the sleeping disciples, and the voice that says physicians will not heal.
- Pericles' Funeral Oration, Book II.34
Thucydides describes the Athenian rites for the war dead: the laying out of the bones, tribal coffins, the empty bier for the missing, and the public burial.
- Pericles' Funeral Oration, Book II.44
Pericles consoles the parents of the fallen and reflects on why grief is sharpest for blessings long possessed.
- Persian Letters, Letter 76 (numbering varies by edition)
Usbek argues that laws against suicide are unjust, since a man oppressed by misery should be free to leave a society that no longer benefits him.
- Persian Letters, Early seraglio letters (c. Letters 9 and following)
The Chief Eunuch describes his castration and his resentment of the women he guards.
- Persian Letters, Final letter (Letter 161 in the 1758 numbering)
Roxane writes to Usbek after taking poison, declaring her deception and her inner freedom.
- Personal Knowledge, Part One, ch. 4 (Skills), section on connoisseurship
Medical diagnosis as connoisseurship learned by apprenticeship; the example of recognizing an accentuated pulmonary second heart sound.
- Personal Knowledge, Part Two, ch. 5 (Articulation)
A medical student in a course on X-ray diagnosis of pulmonary disease gradually learns to see what the radiologist describes.
- Personal Memoirs, Preface
Grant notes he was 'reduced almost to the point of death' while writing and that his son F. D. Grant helped with the work.
- Personal Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. II
A wasting cough before graduation and the family history of consumption, which later killed his younger brother and sister.
- Personal Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XIV
Cholera at Cruces and Panama in 1852; hospital hulk and tents; roughly a third of Grant's party dead and a seventh of the regiment lost overall.
- Personal Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XVI
A year-long attack of fever and ague in 1858 that undermines his farming.
- Personal Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XXIV
Shiloh: bruised and sleepless after his horse falls, Grant takes refuge in a log-house used as a hospital, where amputations go on all night, and returns to the rain.
- Personal Memoirs, Vol. I, Ch. XXXII
The flooded winter before Vicksburg: malarial fevers, measles and smallpox among troops, hospital arrangements Grant credits with limiting deaths, and orders establishing general hospitals between Duckport and Milliken's Bend.
- Personal Memoirs, Vol. II, Ch. LXVII
Sick headache treated with hot mustard footbaths and plasters, cured on reading Lee's note; Grant's 'sad and depressed' feelings at the surrender.
- Persuasion, Vol. I, Ch. 6–7
Mary's complaints of illness at Uppercross; her son's dislocated collarbone after a fall and the household's response.
- Persuasion, Vol. I, Ch. 11
Captain Benwick's mourning for his dead fiancée; Anne advises him to read more prose and less poetry.
- Persuasion, Vol. I, Ch. 12
Louisa's fall from the Cobb; Anne directs restoratives and calls for a surgeon while others panic.
- Persuasion, Vol. II, Ch. 5
Anne visits Mrs Smith, disabled by illness and attended by Nurse Rooke, a sick-nurse of the Bath lodging-house world.
- Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy), Chapter I
The narrator compares a child's mind to the maps doctors draw of other parts of the body, introducing the Neverland as a map of the mind.
- Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy), Chapter II
Mr. Darling's medicine trick: he dodges his own dose by pouring it into Nana's bowl, and the quarrel ends with Nana chained outside.
- Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy), Chapter VI
After Wendy is shot, Slightly is sent for a doctor and returns in John's hat pretending to be one, taking her temperature with a glass thing.
- Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy), Chapter XIII
Hook poisons the medicine cup by Peter's bed; Tinker Bell drinks it, her light fades, and the children's clapping restores her.
- Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII, Phaedrus 244a–245c
The four kinds of divine madness, contrasted with madness arising from human disease.
- Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII, Phaedrus 246a–254e
The charioteer and two horses as a model of the soul's internal conflict.
- Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII, Phaedrus 251a–252b
The lover's symptoms: shuddering, sweating, fever, sleeplessness and obsessive longing as the wings regrow.
- Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII, Phaedrus 268a–c
Socrates imagines a man claiming to be a physician because he knows how to induce vomiting and purging, without knowing when or for whom.
- Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII, Phaedrus 270c–d
Appeal to Hippocrates: understanding the body, like the soul, requires understanding the nature of the whole.
- Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII, Phaedrus 274c–275b
The myth of Theuth: writing as a pharmakon for memory that weakens memory.
- Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII, Seventh Letter, c. 330c–331a
The counsellor compared to a physician advising a patient whose way of life must change before treatment can help.
- Philosophical Investigations, Part I, §§243-246
How words for sensations are learned, with the example of a child who has hurt himself, and the question whether pain is private.
- Philosophical Investigations, Part I, §§258 and 293
The diary of a recurring sensation and the beetle in the box.
- Philosophical Investigations, Part I, §§109 and 133
Philosophy as a struggle against the bewitchment of the intellect by language, and its methods compared to therapies.
- Philosophical Investigations, Second part, section on seeing aspects
The duck-rabbit and the experience of an aspect suddenly changing, discussed with reference to psychology.
- Philosophy of Natural Science, Ch. 2
Semmelweis rejects epidemic influences, overcrowding, rough examination, the priest's bell and delivery position as causes of the excess mortality in the First Division.
- Philosophy of Natural Science, Ch. 2
Kolletschka's fatal scalpel wound during an autopsy suggests that students coming from dissections carry cadaveric matter; handwashing in chlorinated lime follows.
- Philosophy of Natural Science, Ch. 8
Mechanism and vitalism in biology and the question whether life processes can be reduced to physics and chemistry.
- Philosophy of Right, §§47–48 and notes
The body as the outward existence of the free person, which others may not treat as a mere thing or beast of burden.
- Philosophy of Right, §70 and Addition
Hegel denies a right to suicide and discusses the cases of Hercules and Brutus.
- Philosophy of Right, §§236–241 and Additions
Public authority's care for streets, markets, health and the poor in the civic community.
- Physics and Philosophy, Chapter on the relation of quantum theory to other parts of natural science
Heisenberg discusses whether physics and chemistry suffice to explain living organisms.
- Physics and Philosophy, Chapter on philosophical ideas since Descartes
The Cartesian split between thinking and extended substance reconsidered after quantum observation.
- Poems, Inscape and praise
Poems gives this tag concrete force through hopkins is important for melancholia, scruple, exhaustion, vocation stress, and the language of inward suffering before modern diagnostic categories
- Poems, The Wreck and suffering
Poems gives this tag concrete force through hopkins is important for melancholia, scruple, exhaustion, vocation stress, and the language of inward suffering before modern diagnostic categories
- Poems, The terrible sonnets
Poems gives this tag concrete force through hopkins is important for melancholia, scruple, exhaustion, vocation stress, and the language of inward suffering before modern diagnostic categories
- Poems, The terrible sonnets
Poems gives this tag concrete force through hopkins is important for melancholia, scruple, exhaustion, vocation stress, and the language of inward suffering before modern diagnostic categories
- Poems: First, Second and Third Series, First Series, Life IX
The heart asks first for pleasure, then for excuse from pain, then for anodynes that deaden suffering, then sleep, and last the liberty to die.
- Poems: First, Second and Third Series, First Series, Nature XXXI
A winter afternoon light gives a heavenly hurt with no scar, called the seal of despair and an imperial affliction.
- Poems: First, Second and Third Series, Third Series, Time and Eternity XXX
Mourners tread and a service beats like a drum inside the speaker's brain until her mind goes numb and she is left wrecked and solitary in a silence where all the heavens toll like a bell; the 1896 printing ends there, without the manuscript's final stanza.
- Poems: First, Second and Third Series, Third Series, Time and Eternity XLVI (Dying)
A dying speaker describes the hushed room, the watchers' dry eyes and the signing away of keepsakes, interrupted by a buzzing fly as sight fails.
- Poems: First, Second and Third Series, Third Series, Life XLIII (The Brain)
The brain is measured against sky, sea and God, an imaginative statement of the mind's capacity.
- Poetics, Chapter VI
The definition of tragedy ends with pity and fear accomplishing catharsis of such emotions, the phrase behind the medical and psychological readings.
- Poetics, Chapter IV
Aristotle explains why people delight in exact likenesses of things painful to see, such as the lowest animals and dead bodies: learning gives pleasure.
- Poetics, Chapter XIV
Pity and fear should come from the plot itself, so that merely hearing the story of Oedipus makes the listener shudder and pity; spectacle that produces only the monstrous is rejected.
- Politics, Household and city
Politics gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens appears by analogy: aristotle often treats constitutions as healthy or diseased orders, requiring diagnosis, regimen, and proportion
- Politics, Constitutions and citizens
Politics gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens appears by analogy: aristotle often treats constitutions as healthy or diseased orders, requiring diagnosis, regimen, and proportion
- Pollyanna, Chapters VIII and X
Pollyanna's visits to the bedridden Mrs. Snow, who wants whatever she has not been brought, until Pollyanna arranges her hair and shows her a mirror.
- Pollyanna, Chapter XV
Dr. Chilton says the child is better than any tonic and wishes he could prescribe her for his patients.
- Pollyanna, Chapters XXIII-XXVI
The motor-car accident, Miss Polly's account to Pendleton of an injury to the spine with paralysis from the hips down, and the specialist Dr. Mead's consultation.
- Pollyanna, Chapters XXXI-XXXII
Pollyanna is sent to a sanitarium run by a friend of Dr. Chilton and, after nearly ten months, writes that she has walked.
- Popular Scientific Lectures, The Fibres of Corti
Helmholtz's account of the cochlea as a set of resonators analysing sound, with the illustration of a deaf person 'hearing' through a piano.
- Popular Scientific Lectures, On Sensations of Orientation
Self-experiments on a rotating apparatus, a disc model of the semicircular canals, and credit to Goltz, Breuer and Crum Brown for the theory of the sense of balance.
- Popular Scientific Lectures, The Part Played by Accident in Invention and Discovery, near the end
Mach declines Lombroso's view that genius is a disease while noting that sensitive constitutions succumb readily to illness.
- Popular Scientific Lectures, On Some Phenomena Attending the Flight of Projectiles, opening
Ironic opening on the duty both to inflict bullet wounds and to make and stop them as small as possible, before the physics of supersonic flight.
- Posterior Analytics and Physics, Posterior Analytics I.13 (79a)
The physician knows that circular wounds heal more slowly; the geometer knows the reason why, an example of one science taking its reasons from another.
- Posterior Analytics and Physics, Posterior Analytics I.18 (81a–b)
Loss of any sense entails loss of a corresponding portion of knowledge, since universals are grasped by induction from perception.
- Posterior Analytics and Physics, Physics II.3 (194b–195a)
Health as the final cause of walking; reducing flesh, purging, drugs and surgical instruments as means for the sake of health.
- Posterior Analytics and Physics, Physics II.8 (199a–b)
The doctor who pours out the wrong dose and the malformations of early creatures as failures of purposive effort; nature compared to a doctor doctoring himself.
- Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, Lecture VI
Truth compared with health, wealth and strength as names for processes that are made in the course of experience.
- Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, Lecture VIII
The healthy and the morbid responses to an offered world whose salvation is possible but not guaranteed.
- Pride and Prejudice, First impressions
Pride and Prejudice gives this tag concrete force through its medical angle is modest but present in nerves, hypochondriacal comedy, domestic stress, and the social management of women's bodies and futures
- Pride and Prejudice, Letters and reversals
Pride and Prejudice gives this tag concrete force through its medical angle is modest but present in nerves, hypochondriacal comedy, domestic stress, and the social management of women's bodies and futures
- Pride and Prejudice, Crisis and consent
Pride and Prejudice gives this tag concrete force through its medical angle is modest but present in nerves, hypochondriacal comedy, domestic stress, and the social management of women's bodies and futures
- Prince Caspian, Chapter 14
Aslan finds Caspian's old nurse on her deathbed and restores her with a cup of water turned to wine.
- Prince Caspian, Chapter 15
Lucy's cordial heals Reepicheep's wounds, but his lost tail is restored only by Aslan.
- Principia, Definitions and laws
Principia gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens is indirect: mechanics reshaped physiology, nerves, circulation, and later models of body and mind by making force and motion newly authoritative
- Principles of Geology, Book II, Ch. XXVIII
Deaths after the Calabrian earthquake of 1783 from epidemics attributed to insufficient food, exposure and malaria from new stagnant lakes.
- Principles of Geology, Book II, Ch. XXIX
The Serapis cult's healing role and the practice of sleeping in the temple to receive cures in dreams.
- Principles of Geology, Book III, Ch. XL–XLI
Epidemic disease and famine from locust swarms discussed as causes of population loss and extinction.
- Psalm 23, Psalm 23:4
The valley of the shadow of death verse, the part of the psalm most often spoken at deathbeds and in bereavement.
- Psychopathia Sexualis, Medico-forensic introduction
Krafft-Ebing presents sexuality as an object of psychiatric and legal expertise.
- Psychopathia Sexualis, Case-history sections
The cases show the power and danger of translating desire into degenerative pathology.
- Psychopathia Sexualis, Forensic conclusions
The work links diagnosis to responsibility, punishment, and expert testimony.
- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Opening pages, on congratulating France
Burke asks whether he should felicitate a madman escaped from the protecting restraint of his cell on his restoration to light and liberty.
- Reflections on the Revolution in France, On the real rights of men
Abstract rights compared with a right to food or medicine; Burke would call in the farmer and the physician rather than the professor of metaphysics.
- Reflections on the Revolution in France, On the Assembly's new constitution
The physician of the state who, not content to cure distempers, undertakes to regenerate constitutions; the Assembly's members likened to empirics.
- Regensburg Lecture, A contested citation
Regensburg Lecture gives this tag concrete force through the medical relevance is indirect: the lecture resists narrowed technical reason and thereby speaks to bioethics, human dignity, and clinical judgment
- Regensburg Lecture, Logos and theology
Regensburg Lecture gives this tag concrete force through the medical relevance is indirect: the lecture resists narrowed technical reason and thereby speaks to bioethics, human dignity, and clinical judgment
- Rerum Novarum, The duties of the State, on hours of labor
Hours to be fitted to the worker's strength, the nature of the work and the season; shorter hours for those in mines and quarries.
- Rerum Novarum, The duties of the State, on children and women
Children not to be put to factory work before their bodies and minds are developed; work to be suited to sex and age.
- Rerum Novarum, The duties of the State, on wages
Wages must be enough for the worker's support; the duty of preserving life makes labor necessary as well as personal.
- Richard III, Act 1, Scene 1
Richard's opening soliloquy describes his deformity and premature birth; Hastings reports that the king is sickly and his physicians fear for him.
- Richard III, Act 1, Scene 4
Clarence's dream of drowning and of judgment by the souls of Warwick and Prince Edward, followed by his murder and drowning in a malmsey butt.
- Richard III, Act 3, Scene 4
Richard bares his arm before the council and claims it was withered by witchcraft, condemning Hastings.
- Richard III, Act 4, Scene 1; Act 4, Scene 4
Anne says Richard's timorous dreams kept waking her; the Duchess of York recalls his birth and infancy as a grievous burden.
- Richard III, Act 5, Scene 3
The ghosts of Richard's victims visit his tent; he wakes in a sweat to the trembling and terror of conscience.
- Richard III, Act 5, Scenes 4-5
Richard fights on foot after his horse is killed and dies in single combat with Richmond.
- Robinson v. California, Opinion of the Court, paragraph beginning: It is unlikely that any State at this moment in history would attempt to make it a criminal offense for a person to be mentally ill
Stewart groups addiction with mental illness and infectious disease, contrasting compulsory treatment with criminal punishment.
- Robinson v. California, Concurrence of Justice Douglas, sentence: While afflicted people may be confined either for treatment or for the protection of society, they are not branded as criminals.
Douglas surveys the punishment of the insane in earlier centuries and medical and legislative views of addiction in the 1950s, including whether it is a disease or a symptom of a psychiatric disorder.
- Robinson v. California, Dissent of Justice Clark, sentence: Properly construed, the statute provides a treatment, rather than a punishment.
Clark describes California's two-tier approach, distinguishing incipient volitional addicts from those who had lost self-control and were subject to civil hospital commitment.
- Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 1
Montague describes Romeo's sleeplessness, tears and darkened room, calling it a black and portentous humour; Benvolio prescribes looking at other beauties.
- Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 3
Friar Lawrence gathers herbs and reflects that a single flower contains poison and medicine.
- Romeo and Juliet, Act 4, Scenes 1 and 3
The Friar describes the potion's effects; Juliet, alone with the vial, fears poison, suffocation in the vault and madness among the bones.
- Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Scene 1
Romeo seeks out the starving apothecary and buys a fast-acting poison against Mantua's law.
- Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Scene 2
Friar John explains that the searchers sealed him in a house where pestilence was suspected, so the letter never reached Romeo.
- Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Scene 3
Romeo poisons himself and Juliet stabs herself; Montague reports that his wife has died of grief.
- Ruth, Ch. 5–7
Bellingham's fever in Wales; his mother takes over the sickroom and excludes Ruth.
- Ruth, Ch. 8
Abandoned, Ruth runs toward a pool to drown herself and is stopped by Benson.
- Ruth, Ch. 14–15
Ruth's confinement and the birth of Leonard in the Bensons' house.
- Ruth, Ch. 32–33
Typhus epidemic in Eccleston; Ruth volunteers as matron-nurse in the fever ward of the hospital.
- Ruth, Ch. 34–35
Ruth nurses Donne through the fever, falls ill herself and dies in delirium.
- Ruth, Ch. 35–36
Mr Davis the surgeon offers Leonard an apprenticeship, revealing his own illegitimate birth.
- Saint Joan, Preface, Joan's Voices and Visions; Joan a Galtonic Visualizer
Shaw argues that Joan's voices were the form her own reasoning took and distinguishes her from patients who act on commanding voices.
- Saint Joan, Preface, Was Joan Suicidal?
The Beaurevoir leap and the charge of a suicidal tendency, answered by comparison with soldiers' daring.
- Saint Joan, Scene I
Robert says her voices come from her imagination; Joan replies that this is how God's messages come.
- Saint Joan, Scene IV
De Stogumber tells how at Orleans an English arrow pierced Joan's throat and she wept with the pain yet fought on all day.
- Saint Joan, Scene VI (close)
De Stogumber returns from the burning in a state of breakdown and the executioner reports that her heart would not burn.
- Sam the Minuteman, The battle on Lexington green
Eight minutemen are killed and Sam's friend John is wounded in the leg.
- Sanshirō, Early chapters (night at Nonomiya's house)
Sanshirō hears a voice near the railway line and then sees the body of a young woman struck by a train.
- Sanshirō, Later chapters (Hirota's dream)
Hirota tells Sanshirō of dreaming that he met a girl from his youth who had not aged.
- Sanshirō, Final chapters
Sanshirō takes to his bed with influenza after returning Mineko's money.
- Sarah, Plain and Tall, Chapter 1
Anna recalls her mother's death the morning after Caleb was born and the quiet that followed; Caleb asks whether Mama sang.
- Sarah, Plain and Tall, Chapters 5-9
Papa begins to sing again as Sarah settles in, a sign of the household slowly coming out of mourning.
- Science and Hypothesis, Part I, Ch. II, The Physical Continuum
Sensory thresholds in Fechner's experiments: weights of 10 and 11 grams, or 11 and 12, felt as equal though 10 and 12 are distinguished, and what this implies for the idea of magnitude.
- Science and Hypothesis, Part II, Ch. IV, Visual Space; Tactile and Motor Space
How retinal images, the muscular sensations of convergence and accommodation, and the body's movements together give rise to representative space.
- Second Inaugural Address, Paragraph 4
The charge to bind up the nation's wounds and care for the wounded soldier, his widow, and his orphan, later the motto of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
- Second Treatise of Government, Ch. II, §6
The law of nature forbids harming anyone in life, health, liberty or possessions; no one has liberty to destroy himself.
- Second Treatise of Government, Ch. IV, §23
No one can consent to absolute power over his own life, so self-enslavement is void.
- Second Treatise of Government, Ch. VI, §§57–61
Freedom tied to the age of reason; guardians must 'understand for' those without understanding; lunatics, 'ideots' and madmen remain under others' government.
- Selected Sermons, Sermon of the Plough
The preacher's labor is imagined as cultivation of resistant hearts, an agricultural therapy of conscience.
- Selected Sermons, Court sermons on negligent officials
Social disorder is treated as a public disease requiring correction by rulers and clergy.
- Selected Sermons, Sermons on affliction and providence
Calvin frames suffering as a field for trust, correction, endurance, and communal support.
- Selected Sermons, Sermons addressing fear and persecution
The pulpit offers anxious refugees and citizens a theological structure for danger.
- Selected Sermons, Conversion sermons
The direct address to unconverted hearers aims to produce conviction, fear, and emotional crisis.
- Selected Sermons, Reports around outdoor preaching
Crowd tears, trembling, and silence became contested evidence for revival or enthusiasm.
- Selected Sermons, Sermons addressed to the downcast
Spurgeon repeatedly offers consolation to hearers experiencing despair, guilt, grief, and spiritual darkness.
- Selected Sermons, Autobiographical allusions to illness and pain
His own suffering informs pastoral speech about endurance and weakness.
- Selected Sermons, Sermons on assurance and love
Moody's repeated invitation to trust functions as consolation for anxious and grieving hearers.
- Selected Sermons, Campaign inquiry practices
The after-meeting system shows organized handling of religious distress and decision pressure.
- Selected Sermons and Reformation Treatises, Sermons and treatises on temptation and conscience
Luther addresses terrified conscience as a condition requiring gospel consolation rather than moral bookkeeping.
- Selected Sermons and Reformation Treatises, Plague counsel
His advice about remaining, fleeing, and caring for neighbors during epidemic disease combines prudence with vocation.
- Selected Short Stories, 'The Horla', early diary entries
Fever-like malaise, insomnia and nightmares of being strangled and drained in sleep.
- Selected Short Stories, 'The Horla', middle entries
A doctor's demonstration of hypnotic suggestion on the narrator's cousin in Paris.
- Selected Short Stories, 'The Horla', later entries
Water and milk vanish from the carafe; the narrator's reflection fails to appear in the mirror; he reads of an epidemic of madness in São Paulo.
- Selected Short Stories, 'The Horla', final entries
He sets fire to his house to destroy the Horla and resolves that he must kill himself.
- Selected Short Stories, 'A Piece of String'
Hauchecorne's fixation on clearing his name ends in delirium and death.
- Sense and Sensibility, Vol. I, Ch. 8
Marianne mocks Colonel Brandon's complaint of rheumatism and his flannel waistcoat as signs of decrepitude.
- Sense and Sensibility, Vol. II, Ch. 7–9
Marianne's grief after Willoughby's letter: refusal of food, sleeplessness and hysterical weeping, while Elinor attends her.
- Sense and Sensibility, Vol. II, Ch. 9
Brandon's account of the first Eliza, whom he found dying of consumption in a sponging-house.
- Sense and Sensibility, Vol. III, Ch. 6–7
Marianne's fever at Cleveland after walks in the wet; Mr Harris the apothecary attends, fears of infection send the Palmers' baby away, and Elinor nurses her through the crisis.
- Sermons and Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Devotions, opening meditations
Donne observes the onset of illness and turns bodily vulnerability into spiritual inquiry.
- Sermons and Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Devotions, bells and physicians
The sickroom is linked to doctors, neighbors, death bells, and the social meaning of mortality.
- Sermons and Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Death's Duel
The sermon stages dying as theological confrontation and preparation.
- Sermons and Letter from Birmingham Jail, Letter from Birmingham Jail, discussion of waiting
King describes the psychic and bodily burden imposed by delayed justice and segregation.
- Sermons and Letter from Birmingham Jail, Sermons on love and beloved community
Love is framed as a social discipline capable of healing public hatred without denying danger.
- Sermons on Several Occasions and Primitive Physick, Primitive Physick, preface and remedy lists
Wesley promotes simple remedies and access for the poor, revealing eighteenth-century lay medicine and its hazards.
- Sermons on Several Occasions and Primitive Physick, Sermons on works of mercy
Visiting the sick and caring for bodies become duties within Methodist holiness.
- Sermons on the Song of Songs, Early sermons on the kiss
The language of bodily intimacy becomes an account of spiritual desire and affective transformation.
- Sermons on the Song of Songs, Sermons on wounds and languishing
Bernard's love-sickness imagery shows medieval overlaps between emotion, body, and religious cure.
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Book III (Wadi Ais, March 1917)
Ill with dysentery and fever and covered in boils, Lawrence lies in a tent for some ten days and thinks out the theory of guerrilla war.
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Book IV (the march to Aqaba)
The crossing of waterless country in summer; heat, thirst and the search for a lost man in the desert; the near-fatal effects of exhaustion on men and camels.
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Book VI (Deraa, November 1917)
Lawrence's account of his capture, flogging and sexual assault and of the lasting damage to his sense of self. Handle with care: the account is contested as fact and should be cited as his testimony.
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Books VII–VIII (winter 1917–18)
Daud's death from cold; Farraj wounded and killed by Lawrence to spare him capture and torture; Lawrence's growing exhaustion and despair before asking to be relieved.
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Book X (Tafas, September 1918)
A village massacred by retreating Turkish troops, followed by the order to take no prisoners; a key passage on reprisal and moral injury.
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Book X (Damascus, October 1918)
Lawrence finds a Turkish military hospital full of dead and dying men and organises its cleaning and burials amid the chaos of the city's first days.
- Shane, Chapters 6-8
Shane breaks Chris's arm; the brawl in Grafton's with Morgan's men, and Marian dressing Joe's and Shane's injuries afterward.
- Shane, Chapters 9-11
Stark Wilson goads Ernie Wright into drawing and kills him.
- Shane, Chapters 15-16
The gunfight at Grafton's; Shane, wounded, rides away.
- Siddhartha: An Indian Tale, Part One, 'With the Samanas'
Years of fasting, self-mortification and meditative self-loss, which Siddhartha comes to see as temporary escape like intoxication.
- Siddhartha: An Indian Tale, Part Two, 'Samsara'
Siddhartha's gradual decline into gambling, wine and satiety, ending in self-disgust.
- Siddhartha: An Indian Tale, Part Two, 'By the River'
Contemplating drowning, Siddhartha hears Om, falls into a long sleep and wakes renewed.
- Siddhartha: An Indian Tale, Part Two, 'Om'
Kamala dies of a snakebite; later, Siddhartha's grief over his son is healed by listening to the river.
- Silas Marner, Chapter I
Silas's cataleptic trance at the dying deacon's bedside and the brethren's reading of his fits as visitations.
- Silas Marner, Chapter II
Silas prepares foxglove for Sally Oates's heart disease and dropsy and is then besieged by neighbors seeking charms and cures.
- Silas Marner, Chapter XII
Molly's opium habit and her collapse and death in the snow.
- Silas Marner, Chapter XIII
Doctor Kimble is called from the dance to the dead woman at Silas's cottage.
- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and A Faithful Narrative, Sinners, central warning sequence
The sermon intensifies fear to produce urgent self-examination and conversion anxiety.
- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God and A Faithful Narrative, Faithful Narrative, descriptions of awakenings
Reports of distress, tears, joy, and communal spread show revival emotion as an interpretive challenge.
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Christmas challenge
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight gives this tag concrete force through medical interest gathers around bodily vulnerability: decapitation, fear, dream, the nick on the neck, confession, and shame felt as an embodied wound
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The castle exchanges
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight gives this tag concrete force through medical interest gathers around bodily vulnerability: decapitation, fear, dream, the nick on the neck, confession, and shame felt as an embodied wound
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Green Chapel
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight gives this tag concrete force through medical interest gathers around bodily vulnerability: decapitation, fear, dream, the nick on the neck, confession, and shame felt as an embodied wound
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Green Chapel
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight gives this tag concrete force through medical interest gathers around bodily vulnerability: decapitation, fear, dream, the nick on the neck, confession, and shame felt as an embodied wound
- Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays, Henry IV, Act I
Belcredi and Matilda recall the cavalcade, the rearing horse and the blow to the head after which the young man believed himself the emperor.
- Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays, Henry IV, Act II
Dr. Genoni explains his plan to shock the patient back into time by means of the portrait.
- Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays, Henry IV, Act III
Henry recounts waking after about twelve years, choosing to keep the role, and describes madness as a condition others live without knowing it.
- Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays, Right You Are!, Act I
Signora Frola and Ponza each explain the household arrangement by attributing a fixed delusion to the other.
- Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Act III
The Child's drowning in the garden fountain and the Boy's death by a revolver shot.
- Sixty Stories, 'Game'
Two officers confined in a missile bunker, each watching the other, deteriorate psychologically under rigid protocol.
- Sixty Stories, 'The School'
A teacher recounts the cascade of deaths affecting his class and the children's questions about death.
- Sixty Stories, 'Views of My Father Weeping'
A son investigates his father's death in a carriage accident while visions of the weeping father intrude.
- Sixty Stories, 'Florence Green is 81'
Portrait of an elderly rich woman and the hangers-on gathered around her.
- Sonnets, Sonnets 44-45
The four elements divided between the heavy body (earth, water) and swift thought and desire (air, fire); when the lighter two are absent, the speaker sinks into melancholy.
- Sonnets, Sonnet 118
Purging to prevent unseen maladies used as a figure for the speaker's turning to worse company; the couplet says the drugs poison him.
- Sonnets, Sonnet 147
Love as a fever that feeds the disease; Reason the physician leaves in anger because his prescriptions are ignored, and the patient is frantic-mad.
- Sonnets, Sonnets 153-154
Cupid's torch heats a cool well into a healing bath for sick men; the speaker goes there for cure and finds none.
- Speeches on the Compromise of 1850, Calhoun's speech of March 4, 1850, opening
The address was read by James Mason because Calhoun was too ill to speak; it is the last formal speech of a dying man.
- Speeches on the Compromise of 1850, Clay's speech, February 5-6, 1850, final sentence
Clay prays not to survive the dissolution of the Union, a reference to his age and health two years before his death.
- St. Dymphna and the Geel Colony, Vita tradition: flight from the father
The legendary incestuous threat and flight invite trauma-informed reading, while remaining a folktale-shaped hagiographic motif rather than secure biography.
- St. Dymphna and the Geel Colony, Geel shrine and colony
Mentally afflicted pilgrims and boarders are lodged first near the shrine and later in family homes, creating a premodern alternative to confinement.
- St. Dymphna and the Geel Colony, Nineteenth-century psychiatric visits to Geel
Alienists and reformers used Geel as evidence in debates over asylum limits, moral treatment, and whether chronic mental illness required institutional segregation.
- St. Patrick's Writings, Confessio I
Patrick's capture at roughly sixteen provides a rare late antique first-person account of adolescent enslavement.
- St. Patrick's Writings, Confessio X
The voice from Ireland is a central religious experience that later psychology might compare with conversion and vocation narratives.
- St. Patrick's Writings, Letter to Coroticus
Patrick's denunciation of killing and trafficking baptized captives preserves a moral response to slave-raiding and communal trauma.
- St. Thomas Becket and the Canterbury Miracles, Edward Grim murder account
The violent wounds of martyrdom generate relic matter and connect political violence to later healing devotion.
- St. Thomas Becket and the Canterbury Miracles, Water of St. Thomas
Blood mixed with water becomes a portable contact relic used externally and internally in healing stories.
- St. Thomas Becket and the Canterbury Miracles, Benedict and William miracle collections
The collections record claims involving fever, blindness, paralysis, seizures, madness, leprosy, wounds, and accidents with unusually concrete social detail.
- St. Vitus and the Dancing Mania, Vitus cult notice
Vitus is invoked against epilepsy and becomes a Holy Helper, creating the devotional link between saint and convulsive illness.
- St. Vitus and the Dancing Mania, Hecker, Strasbourg dancing plague
Crowd dancing is routed toward chapels, masses, musicians, and civic management, a setting relevant to mass psychogenic illness and social stress.
- St. Vitus and the Dancing Mania, Hecker on Paracelsus
Paracelsus divides the disorder into kinds and treats some patients by coercive regimen, showing medicalization without modern therapeutic softness.
- Statesman, 267e–268b
Rivals of the royal herdsman include physicians and trainers, while the true herdsman is himself the physician and midwife of his flock.
- Statesman, 293a–c
The physician who heals with or against the patient's will, by cutting or burning, as the model of rule by knowledge.
- Statesman, 295b–296c
A physician or trainer going into a far country leaves written notes for his patients, and on his return should be free to change them if circumstances have changed.
- Statesman, 298a–299e
The thought experiment of an assembly of laymen legislating rules for medicine and navigation, with annual audits and penalties for inquiry beyond the written code.
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Search for Mr. Hyde
Lanyon tells Utterson that Jekyll began to go wrong in mind more than ten years ago and dismisses his work as unscientific.
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Last Night
Poole reports the repeated notes sent to wholesale chemists demanding a purer sample of a drug, and the men find Hyde dead amid the smell of kernels.
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dr. Lanyon's Narrative
Lanyon inventories the drawer of white salt, the blood-red liquid and the notebook of experiments, then watches the visitor drink and transform.
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case
Jekyll describes his first dose, its physical agonies, and the sense of lightness, recklessness and freedom from conscience that followed.
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case
Jekyll wakes with Hyde's hand on the sheet, needs double doses to return, abstains for two months, then relapses into the Carew murder.
- Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case
Jekyll explains that his original supply of salt was impure, that fresh supplies fail, and that he expects his last transformation.
- Structural Anthropology, Magic and Religion, The Sorcerer and His Magic
The career of Quesalid, the Zuni boy accused of sorcery who confesses and is spared, and the argument that magic is effective within a shared system of belief.
- Structural Anthropology, Magic and Religion, The Effectiveness of Symbols
The Cuna song for a difficult childbirth and its comparison with psychoanalytic cure.
- Structural Anthropology, Magic and Religion, The Structural Study of Myth
The treatment of Freud's Oedipus complex as a modern version of the Oedipus myth.
- Sts. Cosmas and Damian: Physician Saints, Anargyroi title
The saints are remembered as healers who do not take payment, making fees and charity central to the moral image of medicine.
- Sts. Cosmas and Damian: Physician Saints, Byzantine shrine incubation
Patients sleep at or near shrines, receive dream instructions, and report cures, blending ritual, expectation, and therapeutic authority.
- Sts. Cosmas and Damian: Physician Saints, Miracle of the black leg
The saints perform a miraculous limb replacement, making medieval viewers imagine diseased tissue, surgical instruments, donor bodies, and postoperative identity.
- Sts. Roch and Sebastian: Plague Saints, Roch at Aquapendente and Piacenza
Roch tends plague victims and then contracts plague himself, making the healer's exposure central to the legend.
- Sts. Roch and Sebastian: Plague Saints, Sebastian's arrows
Arrow wounds become a plague symbol, translating invisible epidemic danger into an image a viewer can recognize and pray before.
- Sts. Roch and Sebastian: Plague Saints, Council of Constance plague procession
The Roch tradition links public prayers and processions to epidemic cessation, showing ritual as civic plague response.
- Studies on Hysteria, Preliminary communication
The opening essay links symptoms to memory, affect, trauma, and altered states of consciousness.
- Studies on Hysteria, Anna O. case
Breuer's case history centers on catharsis, speech, dissociation, and the making of a therapeutic legend.
- Studies on Hysteria, Freud case histories
Freud turns symptom description into a search for hidden memories and conflicts.
- Summa Theologica, I, Q. 76, Art. 1
The intellectual soul as the form of the body and the single principle of nourishment, sensation, movement and understanding.
- Summa Theologica, I, QQ. 78–79
The powers of the soul: vegetative, external and internal senses (common sense, imagination, estimative power, memory) and intellect.
- Summa Theologica, I, Q. 84, Arts. 7–8
Understanding depends on phantasms; lesions in frenzy and lethargy impair it; sleep, vapours, fever-dreams and partly lucid dreams explained physiologically.
- Summa Theologica, I, Q. 91, Art. 3
The fitness of the human body: equable temperament, the largest brain relative to body size, upright posture, and the trade-off with smell and speed.
- Summa Theologica, I, Q. 111, Arts. 3–4
How angels or demons can move the imagination and senses, set against natural causes of dream-visions and hallucinations in disturbed humours.
- Summa Theologica, I-II, Q. 38 (not in stored text)
Remedies of sorrow: pleasure, weeping, the sympathy of friends, contemplation of truth, and sleep and baths, which restore the body's natural movement.
- Summa Theologica, II-II, Q. 64, Art. 5 (not in stored text)
Whether it is lawful to kill oneself: Aquinas's three arguments from natural self-love, the community and God's dominion over life.
- Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, Chapter I
His mother's cancer, the operation at home, her death, and the change in the family.
- Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, Chapter XII
Trench fever and hospital at Le Tréport, and the wound received at Mount Bernenchon in April 1918.
- Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, Chapter XII
Lewis's brief, deliberately restrained memories of the front and his statement that the war is cut off from the rest of his experience.
- Swann's Way, Overture, opening pages
The narrator's states between sleep and waking, in which he loses track of time and place and reconstructs the room around him.
- Swann's Way, Overture, bedtime scenes
The child's anguish when his mother cannot come up to kiss him, and his father's decision to let her stay the night.
- Swann's Way, Overture, the madeleine
The taste of madeleine in lime-flower tea brings back Combray after intellectual effort fails.
- Swann's Way, Combray, Aunt Léonie
Léonie's sickroom regimen, her pepsin and Vichy water, and her conversations with Françoise and Eulalie about her health.
- Swann's Way, Swann in Love
Swann's jealousy described as a malady so bound up with his life that surgeons would call it past operation; Dr Cottard among the Verdurins.
- Swann's Way, Place-Names: The Name
Excitement at the planned spring journey to Florence and Venice brings on a persistent fever, and the doctor forbids travel for a year and anything liable to excite the boy.
- Tales (Selection), The Fall of the House of Usher, the narrator's first interview
Roderick describes his constitutional and family evil: food, clothing, flowers, light and sound all oppress his senses, and he fears the effect of fear itself.
- Tales (Selection), The Fall of the House of Usher, Madeline's illness and entombment
Madeline's settled apathy, gradual wasting and cataleptic affections baffle her physicians; her body, with a faint blush and lingering smile, is placed in a vault for a fortnight.
- Tales (Selection), The Masque of the Red Death, opening paragraph
The Red Death is described by its symptoms, sharp pains, sudden dizziness, profuse bleeding at the pores and death within half an hour, and by the abandonment of the sufferers.
- Tales (Selection), The Tell-Tale Heart, opening and conclusion
The narrator offers his acute hearing and careful planning as proof that he is not mad, and finally hears a beating he attributes to the dead man's heart.
- Tales (Selection), The Cask of Amontillado, the descent into the vaults
Montresor plies Fortunato, who already has a cough from the damp, with Medoc and De Grâve as they pass through nitre-encrusted catacombs.
- Tales from Shakespeare, King Lear, after the storm
Cordelia's physicians put off her meeting with her father until sleep and herbal medicine restore some composure to his mind.
- Tales from Shakespeare, King Lear, Kent's banishment
The narrator likens Lear to a frantic patient who kills his physician and loves his mortal disease.
- Tales from Shakespeare, Macbeth, after Duncan's murder
Macbeth hears a voice crying that he has murdered sleep and shall sleep no more.
- Tales from Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, opening
Helena, the physician Gerard de Narbon's daughter, offers his prescription to the king whose doctors have called his malady incurable.
- Tales from Shakespeare, Cymbeline, middle
The queen's physician, distrusting her, gives her a sleeping drug instead of the poison she asked for, and Imogen takes it.
- Tales from Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Cerimon, a skilful physician of Ephesus, revives Thaisa, who had been buried at sea in a chest.
- Tanglewood Tales, The Wayside (introduction)
Hawthorne reports which Tanglewood children have had scarlet fever, whooping cough, a measles-like eruption, and troublesome second teeth.
- Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur
Medea prepares a poison so strong that a fly sipping from the goblet drops dead; later Aegeus, seeing the black sails, falls from the cliff.
- Tanglewood Tales, The Dragon's Teeth
Strangers think Telephassa is out of her mind with grief; she grows feeble and dies asking for a good long rest.
- Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds
Ceres in her grief withholds the harvest so that fields and cattle starve, while Proserpina refuses all food for six months in Pluto's palace.
- Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece
Chiron teaches harp, war and the curing of diseases; at the end Medea drugs the dragon with a sleeping potion.
- Testament of Youth, Part II (Camberwell)
First experiences as a VAD at the First London General Hospital, learning to dress wounds and confronting the realities of injury.
- Testament of Youth, Part II (Roland's death)
Brittain learns that Roland has died of wounds, and later receives his returned kit, still muddy and bloodstained.
- Testament of Youth, Part II (Malta)
Nursing in Malta, including her own illness during service there.
- Testament of Youth, Part II (Étaples)
Nursing German prisoners and, in spring 1918, gassed and badly wounded British soldiers in overwhelmed wards.
- Testament of Youth, Part II (Victor Richardson)
Victor, blinded by a wound to the head, is visited in a London hospital before dying of his injuries.
- Testament of Youth, Part III
Postwar Oxford: estrangement, numbness, nightmares and a period of distressing perceptions about her own face, followed by gradual recovery.
- That Hideous Strength, Chapter 8, Moonlight at Belbury, and Chapter 9
Mark is brought before the Head of Alcasan, sustained by pumps and tubes in Filostrato's laboratory.
- That Hideous Strength, Chapters 3 and 7
Grace Ironwood questions Jane about her dreams and tells her they are true visions, not a disorder to be cured.
- That Hideous Strength, Chapters 12-14
Frost conditions Mark in the Objective Room, a training meant to remove instinctive moral responses.
- That Hideous Strength, Chapter 7, The Pendragon
Jane first sees the Director lying with his wounded foot raised, living in constant pain from the heel wound received on Perelandra.
- That Hideous Strength, Chapter 16, Banquet at Belbury
The animals kept for experiment break out of the laboratory and attack the banquet guests.
- The Abolition of Man, Lecture III
Power over nature analysed as power of some men over others, with contraception, eugenics and prenatal conditioning as examples of control by one generation over its successors.
- The Abolition of Man, Lecture III
The Conditioners, who use applied psychology to produce whatever consciences they choose in their pupils.
- The Adventures of Pinocchio, Chapter 16
The Fairy calls three doctors, a Crow, an Owl, and the Talking Cricket, to decide whether the hanged puppet is alive; the first two give circular verdicts and the Cricket answers with a moral diagnosis instead.
- The Adventures of Pinocchio, Chapter 17
Feverish Pinocchio refuses his bitter medicine until four black rabbits bring a coffin for him; he swallows it and recovers at once.
- The Adventures of Pinocchio, Chapters 5-7
Alone and starving, Pinocchio searches the house for food, falls asleep with his feet on the foot warmer, and wakes with them burned off; Geppetto feeds him his own pears.
- The Adventures of Pinocchio, Chapters 12 and 36
The Fox and the Cat feign lameness and blindness to win sympathy; at the end the Cat has truly lost his sight and the starving Fox has sold his own tail for food.
- The Adventures of Pinocchio, Chapter 32
A Dormouse feels Pinocchio's pulse and diagnoses the donkey fever that turns lazy boys into donkeys.
- The Adventures of Pinocchio, Chapter 36
Pinocchio draws water each dawn to earn milk for his weak father, builds him a wheeled chair, and finds his friend Lamp-Wick dying as an overworked donkey.
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, A Scandal in Bohemia, opening
Watson describes Holmes, alone in Baker Street, alternating between bouts of cocaine and bursts of work on crime.
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Man with the Twisted Lip, opening
Isa Whitney's opium habit, begun after reading De Quincey, with the physical signs of the user; Watson then enters the Bar of Gold opium den in Upper Swandam Lane to bring him home and finds Holmes there in disguise.
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Man with the Twisted Lip
The beggar Hugh Boone's scarred, drawn-up lip, which proves to be greasepaint and disguise worn by Neville St. Clair to draw alms.
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Speckled Band
Dr. Grimesby Roylott, a physician who once practised in Calcutta, uses a trained swamp adder through a ventilator; Holmes reflects on doctors who become murderers and on poisons that escape chemical detection.
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
Victor Hatherley comes to Watson's surgery near Paddington with his thumb cut off by a cleaver; Watson cleans and dresses the wound while the patient tells his story.
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Boscombe Valley Mystery
John Turner, dying of long-standing diabetes, confesses to the killing and is spared the trial he would not live to finish.
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Mrs. Toller explains that Alice Rucastle, harried by her father to sign away her rights, fell ill with brain fever for six weeks and had her hair cut off.
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Ch. 6
Tom and Huck discuss folk cures for warts, including spunk-water and swinging a dead cat in a graveyard.
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Ch. 9
Dr. Robinson, Muff Potter and Injun Joe dig up a fresh grave to obtain a body; Injun Joe murders the doctor.
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Ch. 11
Tom's guilty conscience disturbs his sleep and he talks in his sleep, alarming Sid.
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Ch. 12
Aunt Polly, infatuated with patent medicines, tries the water treatment and other remedies on a listless Tom, who gives the Pain-killer to the cat.
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Ch. 22
Tom is laid up with measles for weeks while a revival sweeps the town.
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Ch. 33
Injun Joe is found dead of starvation behind the sealed cave door.
- The Aeneid, Book 2
Aeneas narrates the fall of Troy, Priam’s death and the loss of Creusa as survivor testimony.
- The Aeneid, Book 4
Dido’s passion, abandonment, curse and suicide dominate the Carthage episode.
- The Aeneid, Book 6
The Sibyl’s possession and Aeneas’ descent to the dead frame prophecy as an altered state.
- The Aeneid, Books 9–12
Battle scenes linger over wounds, young deaths and grieving parents.
- The Aeneid, Book 12
Aeneas kills Turnus after a flash of rage at Pallas’ belt.
- The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives, Life of Alexander 8
Aristotle's teaching gives Alexander a taste for medicine; he treats his friends when they are ill.
- The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives, Life of Alexander 19
Alexander falls ill after bathing in the cold Cydnus and drinks his physician Philip's draught while showing him an accusation of poisoning.
- The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives, Life of Alexander 50–52
In a drunken quarrel Alexander kills Cleitus, then lies prostrate with remorse for days.
- The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives, Life of Alexander 72
Hephaestion dies of fever after eating against his doctor's orders; Alexander has the physician executed and mourns extravagantly.
- The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives, Life of Alexander 75–77
Alexander's final fever at Babylon, day by day from the royal journals, with Plutarch's discussion of poisoning rumours.
- The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives, Life of Demosthenes 29–30
Demosthenes takes poison concealed in his pen to avoid capture by Macedonian agents.
- The Age of Alexander: Nine Greek Lives, Life of Agesilaus 2–3
Agesilaus' lameness and the oracle warning Sparta against a 'lame kingship'.
- The Age of Fable, Chapter III, Apollo and Daphne
Bulfinch explains why medicine belongs to Apollo's province, quoting the physician-poet Armstrong on music that allays grief and expels disease.
- The Age of Fable, Chapter XII, Cadmus--The Myrmidons
Aeacus narrates the plague of Aegina: corrupted air and water, the death of animals first, fever and thirst, contagion that kills the physicians, and the collapse of social restraint.
- The Age of Fable, Chapter XVI, Monsters (Centaurs); Chapter XXIII, Admetus and Alcestis
Chiron the centaur, skilled in medicine, raises the infant Aesculapius; Aesculapius later restores the dead to life and is killed by Jupiter's thunderbolt.
- The Age of Fable, Chapter XXII, Erisichthon
Ceres sends Famine to a man who cut down her sacred oak; his hunger grows with every meal until he devours his own body.
- The Age of Fable, Chapter XXXIV, Oracle of Aesculapius
The sick sleep in the temple at Epidaurus to receive healing responses; Bulfinch compares the cure to mesmerism and tells how the god's serpent came to Rome in a time of pestilence.
- The Age of Fable, Chapter XXVI, Aurora and Tithonus
Tithonus is granted immortality without youth and withers into extreme old age.
- The Agricola and the Germania, Agricola 43
Agricola's last illness, the emperor's physicians and freedmen visiting, and rumours of poison.
- The Agricola and the Germania, Agricola 45–46
Tacitus' lament and address to the dead Agricola, a classical consolation.
- The Agricola and the Germania, Germania 22–23
German drinking habits, quarrels at feasts, and deliberation over drink; their beer-like beverage.
- The Agricola and the Germania, Germania 27
Germanic funeral customs and mourning.
- The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory, Part II, ch. 6, opening sections
Duhem contrasts Claude Bernard's account of experiment in physiology with the logical situation of experiment in theoretical physics.
- The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory, Part II, ch. 6, on the impossibility of isolating a hypothesis
The comparison of the physicist with a physician who diagnoses the whole organism rather than a watchmaker who dismantles a watch.
- The Alexiad, Preface, 3–4
Nikephoros Bryennios returns from campaign with a fatal internal tumour; the family forbids him to talk for fear it may burst; Anna's grief.
- The Alexiad, Book I
Anna's analogy between the empire's rebels and fevers that physicians attribute to climate, diet or the humours.
- The Alexiad, Book XII
Irene accompanies Alexios on campaign partly because only her careful rubbing can ease his gout.
- The Alexiad, Book XIV
Anna's account of the causes of her father's gout: a polo injury, long audiences with the Frankish counts, and anxiety for the empire.
- The Alexiad, Book XV, the Orphanage
The charitable city for orphans, the aged, the blind and the lame, with servants assigned to the disabled.
- The Alexiad, Book XV, last illness
The physicians' dispute over purging, Alexios's breathlessness and swelling, the family's vigil, and his death in August 1118.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Democritus Junior to the Reader
Burton's confession of melancholy, his account of writing as occupation against it, and the satirical argument that the whole world is mad.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. 1, Sect. 1, Memb. 1, Subs. 4–5; Memb. 3, Subs. 1
Distinctions between madness, frenzy, melancholy as disposition and melancholy as habit, and the definition of melancholy as dotage without fever, with fear and sadness.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. 1, Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subs. 5–7
Bad air, immoderate exercise, solitariness and idleness, and disordered sleeping and waking as causes of melancholy.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. 1, Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subs. 15
Overmuch study as a cause of madness, with the digression on the misery of scholars and why the Muses are melancholy.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. 1, Sect. 3, Memb. 1, Subs. 2; Memb. 2
Symptoms in the mind: fear, sorrow, suspicion, jealousy, fixed delusions such as believing oneself made of glass, and the windy hypochondriacal melancholy.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. 1, Sect. 4, Memb. 1
Prognostics of melancholy, including Burton's discussion of suicide among melancholics and the question of how such deaths should be judged.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. 2, Sect. 2, Memb. 6, Subs. 3–4
Music, mirth, merry company and fair objects as remedies for a sorrowful heart, including a cup of strong drink.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. 2, Sect. 4, Memb. 2, Subs. 1
Emetic simples, hellebore and antimony, and the double-edged praise and condemnation of tobacco.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. 2, Sect. 5, Memb. 1, Subs. 2 and 6
Bloodletting for melancholy; correctors of insomnia and fearful dreams using poppy, mandrake, henbane, nightshade, hemp-seed and opiates.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. 3, Sect. 2
Heroical or love-melancholy treated as a disease, with symptoms (wasting, sleeplessness, sighing) and cures from diet and labour to marriage.
- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part. 3, Sect. 4, Memb. 2, Subs. 2–6
Religious despair: definitions, causes in the devil, melancholy and terrifying preaching, symptoms of fear and anxiety, prognosis toward violent death, and cure by physic and good counsel.
- The Annals of Imperial Rome, Book 4, treason trials
Informers and accusations create chronic fear and self-protective speech among elites.
- The Annals of Imperial Rome, Book 12, death of Claudius traditions
Tacitus reports the famous poisoning tradition surrounding Claudius and succession.
- The Annals of Imperial Rome, Book 14, murder of Agrippina
Nero’s attempts on his mother’s life turn family violence into imperial policy.
- The Annals of Imperial Rome, Book 15, Seneca’s death
Seneca’s forced suicide is narrated as philosophical performance and political coercion.
- The Annals of Imperial Rome, Book 15, fire and Christians
The great fire and punishments of Christians show public trauma redirected into scapegoating.
- The Anti-Federalist Papers, Brutus on judicial and national power
Concerns over expansive federal authority anticipate later disputes about courts, rights, and public-health power.
- The Anti-Federalist Papers, Federal Farmer on amendments
The insistence on explicit rights informs later arguments over bodily liberty and legal protection.
- The Antichrist, Opening aphorisms
Nietzsche uses health, decadence, and instinct as evaluative language against Christian morality.
- The Antichrist, Pity sections
Pity is treated as a psychological and physiological danger rather than a virtue.
- The Antichrist, Priest critique
Priestly power is analyzed as a manipulation of suffering and guilt.
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Story of the Greek King and the Physician Douban
Douban cures the king's leprosy with a drug in the handle of a polo club, is executed through the vizir's slander, and kills the king by a poisoned book.
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Little Hunchback
The hunchback chokes on a fishbone; a Jewish doctor, a purveyor and a broker each believe they have killed him until the barber revives him.
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Adventures of Prince Camaralzaman and the Princess Badoura
Badoura is shut up as insane for refusing to marry, with a cure promised to any suitor; Marzavan, posing as an astrologer, brings the lovers together.
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor, Fourth Voyage
Sindbad's companions are given a herb that drives them mad before they are fattened to be eaten; later he is buried alive with his dead wife by local custom.
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Story of the Blind Baba-Abdalla
A dervish's ointment shows hidden treasure when applied to one eye but blinds the greedy Baba-Abdalla when applied to the other.
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments, The Enchanted Horse
The Princess of Bengal feigns madness; doctors are summoned from far and wide, and the prince gains access to her disguised as a physician.
- The Argonautica, Book II, Phineus and the Harpies
The blind old prophet, starved by the Harpies, totters out to meet the heroes and is fed once the sons of Boreas drive the birds away.
- The Argonautica, Book III, Medea's night and the charm of Prometheus
Medea's sleepless night of divided thought, followed by the narrator's account of the flower sprung from Prometheus' ichor and how she gathered it.
- The Argonautica, Book IV, the serpent and the fleece
Medea sings to the serpent and sprinkles its eyes with a brew from a juniper spray until it sleeps.
- The Argonautica, Book IV, Libya, death of Mopsus
A serpent sprung from the Gorgon's blood bites Mopsus; numbness, failing sight and rapid corruption of the body follow.
- The Art of the Commonplace, Agrarian membership
The Art of the Commonplace gives this tag concrete force through his medical relevance lies in public health broadly conceived: food systems, labor, ecological damage, loneliness, and the social conditions of flourishing
- The Art of the Commonplace, Technology and scale
The Art of the Commonplace gives this tag concrete force through his medical relevance lies in public health broadly conceived: food systems, labor, ecological damage, loneliness, and the social conditions of flourishing
- The Art of the Commonplace, Economy and care
The Art of the Commonplace gives this tag concrete force through his medical relevance lies in public health broadly conceived: food systems, labor, ecological damage, loneliness, and the social conditions of flourishing
- The Art of War, Ch. VIII.12–14
Five dangerous faults of a general (recklessness, cowardice, hasty temper, sensitivity to shame, over-solicitude for his men), with commentators' examples of generals ruined by each.
- The Art of War, Ch. IX.11–12
Armies prefer high, sunny ground; camping on hard ground near water and pasture keeps the army free from disease; commentators call low ground damp and unhealthy.
- The Art of War, Ch. XI.23–28
Troops in desperate straits lose fear and fight to the death; Sun Tzu describes soldiers weeping on the day of battle and then fighting with the courage of legendary heroes.
- The Art of War, Ch. XII.18–22
No ruler should fight from anger or a general from resentment; feelings pass, but the dead cannot be brought back to life.
- The Art of War, Book II
Roman soldiers made the weight of armour bearable by habituating their bodies to hardship; accustomed pains cease to be felt.
- The Art of War, Book VI
How Roman generals avoided disease: fleeing fens and injurious winds, reading local inhabitants' complexions, shelter, shade, water, timing of marches, physicians, and daily exercise.
- The Art of War, Book VII (General rules of war)
The maxim preferring to defeat an enemy by famine rather than by the sword.
- The Arthashastra, Book 1 (protection of the king)
Signs by which poisoned food and drink can be detected, and the role of physicians and antidotes in guarding the king.
- The Arthashastra, Book 2 (superintendent of liquor)
Regulation of the production and sale of alcoholic drinks and the conduct of drinking houses.
- The Arthashastra, Book 4 (protection against artisans and professionals)
Penalties for physicians whose treatment causes death or injury without notification to authorities.
- The Arthashastra, Book 4 (examination of sudden death)
Procedures for inspecting a corpse to determine whether death resulted from hanging, drowning, poison or violence.
- The Arthashastra, Book 4 (remedies against national calamities)
State measures against fire, flood, epidemic disease, famine and pests.
- The Arthashastra, Book 14
Recipes for poisons, injurious smokes and their counter-measures, used in secret warfare.
- The Athenian Constitution, Part 49
The Council examines disabled paupers, who receive a state allowance of two obols a day.
- The Athenian Constitution, Part 50
City commissioners prevent building into the streets and drains emptying into them, and remove corpses from the streets with public slaves.
- The Athenian Constitution, Part 51
Market commissioners see that goods offered for sale are pure and unadulterated.
- The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Book I, Chapters XXVII-XXX
Plague in Rome and Cellini's work for the surgeon Giacomo da Carpi, famous for treating the French disease.
- The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Book I, Chapter LIX
Cellini's own case of the French disease and his fifty-day cure by guaiac wood and abstinence.
- The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Book I, Chapter LXIV
The necromantic conjuring in the Colosseum and the terror of the participants.
- The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Book I, Chapter CVII
The castellan's yearly delusions that he is an oil-jar, a frog, dead, or a bat, and the doctors' attempts to distract him.
- The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Book I, Chapters CVIII-CIX
The escape down a rope of sheets, the broken leg and its treatment.
- The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Book I, Chapters CXVIII-CXXII
Despair in the dark dungeon, an attempt at self-destruction stopped by an unseen force, and the vision of the sun.
- The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Book I, Chapters CXXV-CXXVI
The plot to kill him with pounded diamond in his food and his examination of the powder.
- The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Book II, Chapters LXXV-LXXVII
Fever and expectation of death during the casting of the Perseus, followed by sudden recovery.
- The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Book II, Chapter CXIII
The bad air of the Sienese Maremma and the fatal fever of Cardinal Giovanni de' Medici.
- The Bacchae and Other Plays, The Bacchae, prologue
Dionysus announces his punitive arrival and the women’s ecstatic departure to the mountain.
- The Bacchae and Other Plays, The Bacchae, first messenger speech
The bacchants nurse animals, strike the ground for water and wine, and tear cattle apart.
- The Bacchae and Other Plays, The Bacchae, Pentheus disguised
Pentheus’ desire to spy is manipulated through cross-dressing, fascination and altered perception.
- The Bacchae and Other Plays, The Bacchae, sparagmos
Agave and the bacchants dismember Pentheus while misrecognizing him as an animal.
- The Bacchae and Other Plays, The Bacchae, recognition scene
Agave gradually recognizes she carries her son’s head and enters catastrophic grief.
- The Bhagavad Gita, Ch. 1.28–1.47
Arjuna's physical and emotional collapse: trembling, dry mouth, burning skin, a reeling mind and refusal to fight.
- The Bhagavad Gita, Ch. 2.11–2.30
Krishna's argument that the wise grieve neither for the living nor the dead, because the self is eternal.
- The Bhagavad Gita, Ch. 2.54–2.72
Portrait of the person of steady wisdom, unmoved by pleasure and pain, who withdraws the senses as a tortoise draws in its limbs.
- The Bhagavad Gita, Ch. 6.16–6.17
Yoga is not for one who eats or sleeps too much or too little; moderation in food, recreation, sleep and waking.
- The Bhagavad Gita, Ch. 11
The vision of Krishna's universal form, which leaves Arjuna terrified, bewildered and trembling.
- The Bhagavad Gita, Ch. 17.7–17.10
Foods classified as sattvic, rajasic and tamasic, with their effects on health, mood and vitality.
- The Bible, Leviticus 13–14
Laws for priestly diagnosis, isolation outside the camp and purification of 'leprosy' in people, garments and houses.
- The Bible, 1 Samuel 16:14–23; 18:10–11
Saul's evil spirit, David's harp, and Saul's later violent episodes.
- The Bible, Daniel 4
Nebuchadnezzar is driven from men and eats grass like oxen until his reason returns.
- The Bible, 2 Kings 4:18–37
Elisha restores the Shunammite woman's dead son by lying upon him, mouth to mouth.
- The Bible, 2 Kings 20:1–7 / Isaiah 38
Hezekiah's mortal illness and the lump of figs laid on his boil.
- The Bible, Mark 5:1–20
The Gadarene demoniac, bound with chains among the tombs, healed by Jesus.
- The Bible, Mark 5:25–34
The woman with an issue of blood for twelve years who had spent all she had on physicians and grew worse.
- The Bible, Matthew 17:14–18; Mark 9:17–29
The boy described as 'lunatick' who falls into fire and water, foams and is rigid, often read as epilepsy.
- The Bible, Genesis 35:16–20
Rachel dies in hard labour giving birth to Benjamin.
- The Bible, 2 Samuel 24
A pestilence kills seventy thousand after David's census.
- The Birth of Tragedy, Attempt at Self-Criticism, §1
Nietzsche recalls convalescing from a disease brought home from the war and asks whether Socratism and scientific optimism are symptoms of decline and disease.
- The Birth of Tragedy, §1
Dream as the physiological basis of Apollonian art, including the sense that the dream is mere appearance; intoxication by narcotic draught as the basis of Dionysian art; the St. John's and St. Vitus's dancers.
- The Birth of Tragedy, §2
Contrast between Greek Dionysian festivals and the sexual licence and cruelty of barbarian orgies, which Nietzsche calls a mixture of lust and cruelty.
- The Birth of Tragedy, §3
The wisdom of Silenus, that it is best not to be born and next best to die soon, as the pessimistic ground of Greek art.
- The Birth of Tragedy, §7
The lethargic gulf of oblivion after Dionysian ecstasy; return to everyday reality brings nausea and an ascetic, will-paralysing mood; art as a healing enchantress.
- The Birth of Tragedy, §§13–15
Socrates' daemon as a warning instinct, the dying Socrates, and the faith that knowledge can heal the eternal wound of existence.
- The Black Arrow, Book I, Chapter VII
A blind leper with bell and staff crosses the heath and pursues the boys; he is revealed as Sir Daniel in disguise.
- The Black Arrow, Book II, Chapter I
The wounded archer Carter lies dying in the Moat House and refuses Dick the truth about his father's death.
- The Black Arrow, Book V, Chapter I
Dick meets the young Duke of Gloucester, slightly deformed with one shoulder higher than the other, fighting off assailants.
- The Black Arrow, Book V, Chapter VII
Sir Daniel, struck by the last black arrow, dies in spasms of pain in Dick's arms.
- The Blue Fairy Book, Sleeping Beauty
The princess’s long sleep under enchantment.
- The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch), Chapters VII–VIII
The Watchers teach charms, enchantments, root-cutting and the knowledge of plants, alongside weapons, cosmetics and astrology.
- The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch), Chapter X
Raphael is sent to bind Azazel and to heal the earth that the angels have corrupted.
- The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch), Chapter XV
The spirits that come forth from the giants are described as evil spirits that afflict and oppress on the earth.
- The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch), Chapter XL.9
Raphael named as the presence set over all diseases and wounds.
- The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch), Chapters LXVII and LXIX
The waters that heal the body of the kings while punishing the spirit, and the Watcher Kasdeja's teaching of smitings of spirits and of the embryo in the womb.
- The Borrowers, Opening chapters (frame)
Mrs May explains that her brother came from India to Great-Aunt Sophy's house to recover from an illness.
- The Borrowers, Later chapters, Great-Aunt Sophy's bedroom
The bedridden old lady sees Pod borrowing and attributes him to her decanter of Madeira.
- The Boxcar Children, Chapters 11-12
Violet falls ill in the boxcar; Henry runs for Dr. Moore, who takes the children to his own house and nurses her back to health.
- The Bronze Bow, Opening chapters
Daniel tells Joel and Thacia how his father was crucified, his mother died of grief, and Leah has been afraid to leave the house ever since.
- The Bronze Bow, Middle chapters, Ketzah
Daniel returns to nurse his failing grandmother and look after Leah, and his grandmother dies.
- The Bronze Bow, Rescue of Joel
The ambush on the road in which Samson and Nathan are mortally wounded freeing Joel.
- The Bronze Bow, Final chapters
Leah falls into a high, wasting fever after Daniel drives Marcus away, and Jesus comes to the house and restores her.
- The Brothers Karamazov, The Karamazov household
The Brothers Karamazov gives this tag concrete force through its medical material includes epilepsy, hysteria, alcoholism, trauma, patricidal obsession, suicidal despair, and the contagious psychology of families
- The Brothers Karamazov, Rebellion and holiness
The Brothers Karamazov gives this tag concrete force through its medical material includes epilepsy, hysteria, alcoholism, trauma, patricidal obsession, suicidal despair, and the contagious psychology of families
- The Brothers Karamazov, Murder and trial
The Brothers Karamazov gives this tag concrete force through its medical material includes epilepsy, hysteria, alcoholism, trauma, patricidal obsession, suicidal despair, and the contagious psychology of families
- The Brothers Karamazov, Murder and trial
The Brothers Karamazov gives this tag concrete force through its medical material includes epilepsy, hysteria, alcoholism, trauma, patricidal obsession, suicidal despair, and the contagious psychology of families
- The Brothers Karamazov, Murder and trial
The Brothers Karamazov gives this tag concrete force through its medical material includes epilepsy, hysteria, alcoholism, trauma, patricidal obsession, suicidal despair, and the contagious psychology of families
- The Brothers Karamazov, Murder and trial
The Brothers Karamazov gives this tag concrete force through its medical material includes epilepsy, hysteria, alcoholism, trauma, patricidal obsession, suicidal despair, and the contagious psychology of families
- The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, 'Dagon'
Narrator's morphine dependence, terror and suicidal resolve after his vision of the sea creature.
- The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, 'Herbert West—Reanimator', Parts I–II
Medical students steal fresh corpses for reanimation trials; a typhoid epidemic in Arkham supplies bodies and kills the medical dean.
- The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, 'Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family'
A family history of madness and 'taint' culminating in Arthur Jermyn's self-immolation.
- The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, 'Cool Air'
Dr Muñoz keeps his dead body functioning through artificial refrigeration until the machinery fails.
- The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, 'The Call of Cthulhu', Section I
Wilcox's fevered dreams and delirium; reports of worldwide nightmares, panic and asylum admissions among sensitives.
- The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, 'The Colour Out of Space'
The Gardner family sicken, grow grey and brittle, and lose their minds as the colour poisons the land.
- The Call of the Wild, Chapter III
Dolly goes suddenly mad on the trail, chases Buck in a frenzy, and is killed by François with an axe.
- The Call of the Wild, Chapter IV
Dave's inward injury: the drivers examine him at the fire, cannot locate the trouble, and let him return to harness before he is shot.
- The Call of the Wild, Chapter V
Hal and Charles halve the dogs' rations, then feed them frozen horse-hide; the dogs die one by one of exhaustion and hunger.
- The Call of the Wild, Chapter VI
Thornton, still limping from frozen feet, nurses Buck back to health; later Buck is found to have three broken ribs after the Forty-Mile rapids.
- The Canon of Medicine, Book I, Part 1, paras. 6-10
The definition of medicine, the relation of theory and practice, and whether there is a third state between health and disease.
- The Canon of Medicine, Book I, Part 1, Theses III-IV
The temperaments and their variation by age and sex; the four humours, their normal and abnormal forms, and their generation in the liver.
- The Canon of Medicine, Book I, Part 1, paras. 138-141
The seats of the faculties in brain, liver and heart, and the disagreement between Aristotle and the Galenic physicians.
- The Canon of Medicine, Book I, Part 2, Thesis 2, paras. 336-345
Effects of sleep, wakefulness and insomnia; the passions as movements of the breath, with fear, anger, gloom and shame; the parents' imagination and the offspring.
- The Canon of Medicine, Book I, Part 2, Thesis 3
The pulse and the urine as signs of disease, with their classification by quality and rhythm.
- The Canon of Medicine, Book I, Part 3, Thesis 1, paras. 690-733
Care of the newborn, breastfeeding and the wet-nurse, infant disorders including night-terrors, and the emotional regimen of childhood.
- The Canon of Medicine, Book I, Part 4, paras. 920-922 and 934-975
General rules of treatment, the relief of pain with white poppy, joy as an aid to cure, and the indications for bloodletting, purging and emesis.
- The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, the Doctor of Physic
The portrait of the physician, his learning in humours and astrology, and his love of gold, which in physic is a cordial.
- The Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale, Arcite in exile
Arcite wastes with the lover's malady, engendered of melancholic humours.
- The Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale, Arcite's death
Arcite's crushed chest festers and neither vomit upward nor laxative downward can help him.
- The Canterbury Tales, The Nun's Priest's Tale
Pertelote's diagnosis of humours too abundant and her herbal prescription; Chanticleer's defense of prophetic dreams.
- The Canterbury Tales, The Pardoner's Tale
The youngest rioter buys rat poison from an apothecary to kill his companions.
- The Chemical History of a Candle, Lecture VI
Breathing into a closed jar extinguishes a taper; Faraday applies the result to poorly ventilated houses where air is breathed over and over.
- The Chemical History of a Candle, Lecture VI
Account of the lungs, where blood and air are separated by a thin surface and carbon from food is converted to carbonic acid with the production of heat.
- The Chemical History of a Candle, Lecture VI
Daily carbon output by respiration in a man, a cow and a horse, and the exchange by which plants take up the carbonic acid animals exhale.
- The Civil War, Book I.48–52
Floods cut Caesar's army off from supply near Ilerda; famine prices and hardship in the camp until the bridges are restored.
- The Civil War, Book I.81–84
The Pompeian army in Spain, cut off from water and forage, kills its baggage animals and surrenders.
- The Civil War, Book II.22
Massilia's surrender after famine and a fatal pestilence attributed to confinement and old millet and barley.
- The Civil War, Book II.41–42
Curio's exhausted and wounded men cannot break out; Curio refuses flight and fights until killed.
- The Civil War, Book III.47–49
Dyrrachium: Caesar's troops eat chara bread and bark; Pompey's army suffers from foul smells, carcasses, hard labour and lack of water after Caesar dams the streams.
- The Civil War, Book III.75–78
After the defeat at Dyrrachium Caesar delays only to care for the sick and wounded and sends them to Apollonia before retreating.
- The Civil War, Book III.87
Labienus describes Caesar's veterans as wasted by autumn pestilence in Italy, with invalid cohorts at Brundisium.
- The Collar, Lines 7-9
The harvest of thorns that lets blood without restoring anything, set against cordial fruit.
- The Collar, Lines 3 and 10-12
The speaker's sighing and pining, and the sighs and tears that have dried his wine and drowned his corn.
- The Collar, Title and lines 33-34
The likely pun on choler and the speaker's mounting rage just before the call.
- The Comedy of Errors, Act 2, Scene 2 and Act 4, Scene 3
Antipholus of Syracuse wonders whether he is mad or dreaming and concludes that Ephesus is full of sorcerers; the Courtesan decides the Ephesian brother is mad.
- The Comedy of Errors, Act 4, Scene 4
Pinch feels the patient's pulse, attempts an exorcism, and has the husband and his servant bound and confined in a dark room.
- The Comedy of Errors, Act 5, Scene 1
The Abbess traces the husband's supposed madness to broken sleep, disturbed meals and barred recreation leading to fever and melancholy, and offers syrups, drugs and prayers.
- The Comedy of Errors, Act 5, Scene 1
Antipholus of Ephesus describes Pinch as a hollow-eyed mountebank and fortune-teller and tells how he gnawed through his bonds in the dark vault.
- The Commonwealth of Oceana, Part I, The Preliminaries (reply to Leviathan)
Political principles compared with Harvey's circulation of the blood, discovered from nature and not from the anatomy of a single body.
- The Commonwealth of Oceana, Part III, The Model (discourse on the Parliament)
The Parliament likened to a heart with two ventricles circulating the vital blood of Oceana.
- The Commonwealth of Oceana, Part III, The Model (debate on the ballot and agrarian)
Epimonus's speech on urns, balls and the pills of quacksalvers; the agrarian as the cure of a desperate disease.
- The Commonwealth of Oceana, Morley's Introduction
Harrington's imprisonment, scurvy, mental breakdown, later gout and palsy.
- The Communist Manifesto, Bourgeois and proletarians
The Communist Manifesto gives this tag concrete force through its medical relevance lies in social medicine: labor conditions, poverty, urbanization, family disruption, and the political diagnosis of suffering
- The Communist Manifesto, Communists and demands
The Communist Manifesto gives this tag concrete force through its medical relevance lies in social medicine: labor conditions, poverty, urbanization, family disruption, and the political diagnosis of suffering
- The Communist Manifesto, Rivals and conclusion
The Communist Manifesto gives this tag concrete force through its medical relevance lies in social medicine: labor conditions, poverty, urbanization, family disruption, and the political diagnosis of suffering
- The Complete Poems, Song of Myself
The speaker's celebration of bodies, breath, touch, labor and sexuality makes embodiment central to democratic vision.
- The Complete Poems, I Sing the Body Electric
The poem treats the human body as spiritually charged and socially meaningful.
- The Complete Poems, Drum-Taps
The Civil War poems move through camps, hospitals, wounds, deathbeds and nursing care.
- The Complete Poems, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Whitman's Lincoln elegy turns national mourning into ritualized grief and meditation on death.
- The Complete Poems, Late poems
Whitman's later work reflects aging, bodily limitation and spiritual persistence.
- The Conquest of Gaul, Book I.39–41
Panic spreads through Caesar's army before facing Ariovistus, with soldiers making wills and weeping in their tents; Caesar restores morale by a speech.
- The Conquest of Gaul, Book V.35–40
Cotta wounded in the face by a sling during the ambush; in Cicero's besieged camp even the sick and wounded get no rest, and the ill commander works through the nights.
- The Conquest of Gaul, Book VI.13–16
Druid teaching on memory and the soul's survival; those suffering severe diseases vow human sacrifices to win back the gods' favour.
- The Conquest of Gaul, Book VII.17
The Roman army before Avaricum goes days without corn, living on cattle driven in from distant villages.
- The Conquest of Gaul, Book VII.77–78
Critognatus's speech proposing cannibalism, and the Mandubii, including old and sick people unfit for war, expelled from Alesia and refused food at the Roman lines.
- The Conquest of Gaul, Book VIII.44
Defenders of Uxellodunum have their hands cut off; the captive Drappes starves himself to death.
- The Consolation of Philosophy, Book 1, opening
Boethius lies grieving in prison until Philosophy appears and diagnoses his condition.
- The Consolation of Philosophy, Book 1, expulsion of the Muses
Poetic consolers are called sweet but injurious physicians who nourish the disease.
- The Consolation of Philosophy, Book 2
Fortune’s mutability is reframed so loss becomes expected rather than metaphysically shocking.
- The Consolation of Philosophy, Book 3
External goods are shown unable to produce true happiness or secure identity.
- The Consolation of Philosophy, Book 5
Providence and freedom are reconciled to preserve responsibility in the face of death.
- The Cost of Discipleship, Part One, Discipleship and the Cross
Suffering and rejection are presented as the mark of the follower; the call is described as a summons to die to the old self.
- The Cost of Discipleship, Part Two, Matthew 6 (hidden righteousness)
Bonhoeffer argues that good deeds must be hidden even from oneself and that reflective self-observation destroys them, a theme relevant to scrupulosity and perfectionism.
- The Cost of Discipleship, Part Two, Matthew 5 (the enemy)
Love of enemies and refusal of retaliation are read as concrete commands, written amid persecution of Jews and dissenters.
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Château d'If chapters (before 'Number 34 and Number 27')
Dantès, despairing in solitary confinement, resolves to die by refusing food.
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Château d'If chapters ('The Abbé's Chamber' to 'The Cemetery of the Château d'If')
Faria's cataleptic attacks, treated with drops of a red liquid; the third attack kills him.
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Rome section ('Sinbad the Sailor')
Franz eats hashish in the Count's grotto on Monte Cristo and experiences vivid visions.
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Paris section ('Toxicology')
Monte Cristo discusses poisons, tolerance and the medicinal and lethal effects of drugs with Madame de Villefort.
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Paris section (Noirtier chapters)
Noirtier, paralysed and speechless, makes his will and his wishes known through eye signals.
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Paris section (Saint-Méran and Barrois deaths)
Successive poisonings in the Villefort household; Dr d'Avrigny diagnoses poison and confronts Villefort.
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Late Paris section ('Locusta' and following)
Monte Cristo substitutes a narcotic that simulates death to save Valentine from poisoning.
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Final chapters
Madame de Villefort poisons herself and her son; Villefort loses his reason.
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Ch. 1
The widow tells Peter Ivanovich of her husband's three days of incessant screaming before death.
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Ch. 3–4
The fall against a window frame, the pain in the side, the strange taste in the mouth, and the first consultation with a celebrated doctor.
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Ch. 4–5
Competing diagnoses (floating kidney, appendix); Ivan Ilyich reads medical books and becomes absorbed in his symptoms.
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Ch. 6
The Caius syllogism: he cannot accept that the logic of mortality applies to himself.
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Ch. 7
The lie that he is only ill torments him; Gerasim holds his legs on his shoulders for hours and speaks honestly of death.
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Ch. 8
Opium and morphine for pain and sleeplessness; the doctor's routine visit; the family goes to the theatre.
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Ch. 12
Three days of screaming, the sensation of being pushed into a black sack, then light and the end of fear.
- The Descent of Man, Part I, Chs. 2-5
Darwin treats mental faculties, moral sense, and social instincts as continuous with animal life.
- The Descent of Man, Sexual selection chapters
The account of mate choice and sex difference influenced later biological and medical thinking about sexuality.
- The Descent of Man, Race and inheritance sections
Victorian heredity and racial assumptions show both the influence and the danger of evolutionary medicine.
- The Divine Comedy, Inferno
The Divine Comedy gives this tag concrete force through dante is rich for the history of mind: despair, fear, grief, bodily torment, purgative healing, visionary states, and spiritual therapy structure the journey
- The Divine Comedy, Purgatorio
The Divine Comedy gives this tag concrete force through dante is rich for the history of mind: despair, fear, grief, bodily torment, purgative healing, visionary states, and spiritual therapy structure the journey
- The Divine Comedy, Paradiso
The Divine Comedy gives this tag concrete force through dante is rich for the history of mind: despair, fear, grief, bodily torment, purgative healing, visionary states, and spiritual therapy structure the journey
- The Divine Comedy, Paradiso
The Divine Comedy gives this tag concrete force through dante is rich for the history of mind: despair, fear, grief, bodily torment, purgative healing, visionary states, and spiritual therapy structure the journey
- The Divine Comedy, Paradiso
The Divine Comedy gives this tag concrete force through dante is rich for the history of mind: despair, fear, grief, bodily torment, purgative healing, visionary states, and spiritual therapy structure the journey
- The Door in the Wall, Opening chapters
Robin falls ill and loses the use of his legs as plague spreads through London and his servants abandon the house.
- The Door in the Wall, St. Mark's hospice chapters
Brother Luke nurses Robin and sets him to whittling, reading and swimming to restore strength and hope.
- The Door in the Wall, Siege of Lindsay
Robin, on crutches, swims the river and crosses enemy lines to bring help.
- The Eagle of the Ninth, Chapters IV–V
Marcus is wounded under the chariot charge at Isca and learns that the leg will keep him from serving again.
- The Eagle of the Ninth, Calleva chapters (around Chapters VII–VIII)
A surgeon at Calleva reopens and cleans the badly healed wound in a painful operation that finally lets it mend.
- The Eagle of the Ninth, Chapters XI–XVII
Marcus works his way north as the oculist Demetrius of Alexandria, treating eye ailments with salves among the tribes.
- The Early Christian Creeds, Apostles' Creed, articles on birth, death and resurrection
The creed moves through conception, birth, suffering, death, burial and bodily resurrection, offering a compact theology of embodied life.
- The Early Christian Creeds, Nicene Creed (325), article on the incarnation
The Son's descent and incarnation connect metaphysical claims about God to the healing and salvation of human life.
- The Early Christian Creeds, Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed (381), life of the world to come
The final hope of resurrection and future life functions as consolation in the face of death and communal suffering.
- The Early Christian Creeds, Chalcedonian Definition (451), two natures
Chalcedon's insistence that Christ is fully human protects the reality of embodied suffering from being treated as merely apparent.
- The Early Christian Creeds, Athanasian Creed, opening and closing warnings
The creed's severe salvation clauses show how doctrinal therapy can become anxious boundary policing as well as communal reassurance.
- The Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet II
Among the shepherds Enkidu is given bread and beer for the first time; he drinks seven jugs, becomes merry, and washes and anoints himself.
- The Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablets VII-VIII
Enkidu dreams of the gods' council and of the house of dust, falls sick, lies ill for twelve days and dies; Gilgamesh laments him and will not yield the body until decay begins.
- The Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablets IX-X
Gilgamesh wanders in skins with hollow cheeks and a face like one who has travelled far; each figure he meets asks why he looks so ravaged, and he tells of his grief and fear of death.
- The Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI
Utnapishtim challenges Gilgamesh to stay awake six days and seven nights; he falls asleep at once, and loaves set out each day, in stages of staleness and mould, prove how long he slept.
- The Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI, close
The plant from the bottom of the waters, whose name means that the old man becomes young, is carried off by a snake, which sheds its skin as it goes.
- The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Principles chapters
Darwin makes emotional expression a biological phenomenon governed by habit, antithesis, and nervous discharge.
- The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Suffering and anxiety chapters
Descriptions of grief, fear, anxiety, and bodily signs are useful for histories of affect and psychiatry.
- The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Observation methods
Photographs, questionnaires, children, and animals show nineteenth-century methods for studying emotion.
- The Faerie Queene, Book I, Book I, Canto V, stanzas 17 and 36-44
Leeches wash Sansjoy's wounds with wine and oil; Night carries him to Aesculapius in hell, whose story of healing Hippolytus is told.
- The Faerie Queene, Book I, Book I, Canto VIII, stanzas 40-41
Redcrosse is brought out of the dungeon pale, wasted and too weak to stand.
- The Faerie Queene, Book I, Book I, Canto IX, stanzas 28-54
Trevisan's flight, the cave of Despair, the argument for suicide, and Una's rescue of the knight as he raises the knife.
- The Faerie Queene, Book I, Book I, Canto X, stanzas 23-29
Coelia summons the leech Patience for a soul-diseased knight; diet, salves, Penance, Remorse and Repentance complete the cure.
- The Fall, Chapter 4
Clamence hears a young woman fall from the Pont Royal into the Seine at night and walks on.
- The Fall, Chapter 5
He describes trying to quiet the memory with alcohol and debauchery, and the sense of relief they gave.
- The Fall, Chapter 6
Clamence receives the stranger in his room while ill with fever.
- The Fall of Constantinople, 1453, Narrative of 29 May 1453
Giustiniani is badly wounded on the walls and is carried to a ship; his departure disheartens the defenders.
- The Fall of Constantinople, 1453, Narrative of the siege, April-May 1453
Bombardment by the great cannon and the repair of the walls each night under fire.
- The Fall of Constantinople, 1453: Eyewitness Accounts, Barbaro, diary entry for 29 May 1453
Giustiniani's wound and withdrawal during the final assault.
- The Fall of Constantinople, 1453: Eyewitness Accounts, Sphrantzes, Chronicon Minus, on the fall
The death of Constantine XI and the capture and later deaths of Sphrantzes's children.
- The Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives, Life of Marius 6
Marius has the varicose veins of one leg cut out without restraint, then refuses surgery on the other.
- The Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives, Life of Marius 45
Marius, aged and drinking heavily, falls ill with pleurisy and in delirium imagines himself fighting Mithridates.
- The Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives, Life of Sulla 36
Sulla's final illness, described as an infestation of lice and an internal ulcer, ending in a haemorrhage.
- The Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives, Life of Pompey 57
Pompey's serious illness at Naples and Italy-wide celebrations at his recovery.
- The Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives, Life of Caesar 17
Caesar's epilepsy and his use of hard living on campaign as a remedy for his weak health.
- The Fall of the Roman Republic: Six Lives, Life of Caesar 63
Calpurnia's nightmare and other portents before the Ides of March.
- The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire, Chapter 2, The Happiest Age
Endemic disease, mortality, stature and the health of Roman populations at the Antonine peak.
- The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire, Chapter 3, Apollo's Revenge
The Antonine Plague, Galen's observations, and the case for smallpox.
- The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire, Chapter 4, The Old Age of the World
The Plague of Cyprian and the hypothesis of a hemorrhagic viral fever; drought and the third-century crisis.
- The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire, Chapter 6, The Wine-Press of Wrath
The first bubonic plague pandemic from 541, its biology, routes and mortality, alongside the volcanic cooling of the 530s.
- The Federalist Papers, Federalist 10
Faction is analyzed as a persistent condition whose causes cannot be removed without destroying liberty.
- The Federalist Papers, Federalist 51
Checks and balances are presented as structural safeguards against predictable human impulses.
- The Founding Documents, Bill of Rights, due process and bodily protections
Rights language later shapes legal questions about bodily integrity, confinement, treatment, and punishment.
- The Founding Documents, Constitution, federal and state powers
The division of authority becomes central to American public-health law and emergency power.
- The Gay Science, Preface and convalescence frame
Nietzsche links philosophy, illness, recovery, gratitude, and the discipline of cheerfulness.
- The Gay Science, Madman aphorism
The death of God is presented through a figure whose apparent madness carries cultural diagnosis.
- The Gay Science, Eternal recurrence aphorism
The thought experiment tests whether suffering and joy can be affirmed together.
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Chapter 12, section VII
Animal spirits and spontaneous optimism as the basis of enterprise, with the comparison to a healthy man's disregard of death.
- The Giver, Chapter 5
After his dream of Fiona, Jonas's mother explains the Stirrings and gives him the first of the pills he must take every day.
- The Giver, Chapters 4 and 7
Jonas bathes Larissa at the House of the Old and hears of Roberto's celebrated release.
- The Giver, Chapter 12
The Giver transmits sunburn, Jonas's first experience of pain beyond the scraped knees that are instantly medicated.
- The Giver, Chapter 15
Jonas receives the memory of a battlefield where a wounded boy dies asking for water.
- The Giver, Chapter 19
The recorded release of a newborn twin by injection, performed by Jonas's father.
- The Giver, Chapter 20
The Giver tells how his daughter Rosemary, overwhelmed by painful memories, asked to be released, and how the people suffered when her memories returned.
- The Golden Ass, Book 3
Lucius applies the wrong magical ointment and becomes a donkey while retaining human mind.
- The Golden Ass, Books 4–6
Cupid and Psyche explores forbidden sight, trials and divine affliction inside the larger transformation plot.
- The Golden Ass, Books 4–10
Lucius as ass suffers beating, hunger, overwork and repeated threat from human owners.
- The Golden Ass, Book 10
Plans to exhibit Lucius in a sexual spectacle expose bodily exploitation and public entertainment.
- The Golden Ass, Book 11
Isis restores Lucius through ritual procession and roses, framing recovery as religious initiation.
- The Golden Bough (abridged edition), Chapter III, section 2
Homoeopathic cures for jaundice and other illnesses from Vedic India, Pliny and Marcellus of Bordeaux.
- The Golden Bough (abridged edition), Chapter V, section 1
The public magician's precarious office and Frazer's claim that such men were the predecessors of physicians and surgeons.
- The Golden Bough (abridged edition), Chapter XXIV
Kings put to death when sickness or age threatened their strength, lest nature decline with them.
- The Golden Bough (abridged edition), Chapters LV-LVI
The transference of illness to objects and animals, and public expulsions of evils, including measures against epidemics.
- The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, Part III, IV: The Life and Labors of Heracles
A madness sent by a goddess drives the young Heracles to kill his brother's children; afterwards sleep and rest leave him, and he goes to Delphi to be purified.
- The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, Part III, VII: Jason and Medea
Medea gathers magic herbs and grasses, brews a draught and anoints herself so that the marks of age leave her; she then tempts the trembling old Pelias with the hope of restored health.
- The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, Part II, II: Medea the Sorceress
Medea mingles the juice of secret herbs in a phial as a charm to protect Jason against the fire-breathing bulls.
- The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, Part I, VII: King Phineus
The blind, aged king is starved by the Harpies, who snatch or foul his food until the sons of the North Wind drive them off.
- The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, Part I, XII: The Mountain Caucasus
The heroes hear Prometheus cry out as the vulture of Zeus descends on him each day.
- The Golden Legend: Popular Saints, Life of St. George
The healing fountain attached to George's church shows how martyr cult could become a site for illness narratives.
- The Golden Legend: Popular Saints, Life of St. Lucy
Lucy's later eye patronage and martyrdom narratives make her important for the history of blindness devotion and ocular symbolism.
- The Golden Legend: Popular Saints, Life of St. Valentine and later cult
Valentine was invoked against epilepsy in parts of medieval and early modern Europe, a strand separate from the later romance holiday.
- The Golden Legend: Popular Saints, Lives of plague and danger saints in the Golden Legend tradition
Roch, Sebastian, Barbara, and Christopher show how sudden communal or occupational risks were organized through saints before modern public health.
- The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In, The foundations of conquest
Plague and the long Roman-Persian war as causes of imperial weakness before the conquests.
- The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In, The conquest of Syria and Palestine
The plague of Amwas among the Muslim armies in Syria.
- The Great Gatsby, Chapter II
The drunken apartment party ends when Tom breaks Myrtle's nose with his open hand.
- The Great Gatsby, Chapter VII
Tom accuses Gatsby of selling grain alcohol over the counter through drugstores in New York and Chicago.
- The Great Gatsby, Chapter VII
Myrtle runs into the road and is killed by Gatsby's car; the scene at the garage and the body are described.
- The Great Gatsby, Chapter VIII
Wilson's night of grief with Michaelis, his fixation on the billboard eyes as the eyes of God, and the murder of Gatsby and Wilson's suicide.
- The Gulag Archipelago, Part I, chapter on interrogation
Methods of interrogation, including sleep deprivation, cold, hunger and prolonged standing, and their effects on body and will.
- The Gulag Archipelago, Part III, chapters on camp life
Rations, work norms and the progressive wasting of prisoners; the camp medical unit and the role of doctors in certifying fitness for work.
- The Gulag Archipelago, Part IV
Reflections on how prisoners endured or were broken psychologically, and on Solzhenitsyn's own inner change.
- The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children, The Argonauts, Part I
Cheiron teaches the virtues of all healing herbs; Asclepius carries herbs and a snake; Jason learns to cure wounds and is called the healer.
- The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children, The Argonauts, Part I (introduction)
Kingsley praises the ladies who went the year before to work in the hospitals of the East, alongside explorers and soldiers.
- The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children, The Argonauts, Part VI
Cheiron is wounded by a poisoned arrow after the fight over Heracles's wine-jar and, unable to die, gives his immortality to Prometheus to end his pain.
- The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children, The Argonauts, Part VI
Medeia appears to make an old ram young in her cauldron and tricks Pelias's daughters; the songs say she restored Jason's father.
- The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children, Theseus, Part II
Medeia prepares a poisoned cup for Theseus at the court of Aegeus.
- The Hiding Place, Chapters 3-4
Deaths of the aunts from tuberculosis and diabetes and the mother's stroke, nursed at home by the ten Boom daughters.
- The Hiding Place, Chapters 9-10
Corrie, sick with influenza, is arrested in the raid; her elderly father dies some ten days after the arrest while she is in solitary confinement.
- The Hiding Place, Chapters 13-14
Ravensbrück: hunger, cold roll calls, fleas and lice, the shared vitamin drops, and Betsie's decline and death in the camp hospital.
- The Hiding Place, Chapter 15
Corrie's release is delayed for swelling of the legs; afterwards she opens homes where survivors and others damaged by the war recover.
- The Histories, Book 1.105; 4.67
The Scythian Enarees, men afflicted by a 'female disease', said to be punishment for plundering a temple.
- The Histories, Book 1.197
The Babylonians, having no physicians, carry the sick into the market so passers-by can advise them.
- The Histories, Book 2.84–88
Egyptian medical specialization and the three grades of embalming, with removal of brain and viscera.
- The Histories, Book 3.29–38
Cambyses' madness, his killing of the Apis bull, and Herodotus' suggestion that he had the 'sacred disease'.
- The Histories, Book 3.129–137
Democedes of Croton heals Darius' dislocated ankle and Atossa's breast growth, then escapes to Greece.
- The Histories, Book 4.73–75
Scythians purify themselves after funerals by inhaling hemp-seed vapour in felt tents.
- The Histories, Book 6.75, 84
Cleomenes goes mad and mutilates himself with a knife; the Spartans blame his habit of drinking unmixed wine.
- The Histories, Book 7.12–18
Xerxes' and Artabanus' recurring dreams urging the invasion, with a discussion of whether dreams are meaningful.
- The Histories, Book 8.115
Plague and dysentery afflict Xerxes' army on its retreat through Thrace.
- The Histories, Book II, ch. 46-49
Otho refuses to prolong the war, consoles his nephew, sleeps, and kills himself at dawn; some soldiers die by their own hand at his pyre.
- The Histories, Book II, ch. 93
Vitellian soldiers settle in the unhealthy Vatican quarter by the Tiber; disease and mortality rise among the Germans and Gauls.
- The Histories, Book III, ch. 25 and 33
After the second battle at Cremona a son is found to have killed his father; Cremona is then sacked and burned.
- The Histories, Book IV, ch. 81
Vespasian consults doctors about a blind man and a man with a maimed hand before attempting their cure at Alexandria.
- The Histories, Book V, ch. 3
Tacitus reports a hostile origin legend in which a disfiguring plague in Egypt leads to an expulsion.
- The Histories, Book VI, Book VI, ch. 5
The cycle begins after floods, pestilences or failures of crops have nearly destroyed mankind.
- The Histories, Book VI, Book VI, chs. 37–39
Military punishments (flogging, fustuarium, decimation with barley rations) and the civic crown for saving a citizen in battle.
- The Histories, Book VI, Book VI, chs. 53–54
The Roman aristocratic funeral: the body at the Rostra, the eulogy, and the procession of ancestral masks.
- The History of Rome, Books I-V, Book I, ch. 31
A pestilence strikes under Tullus Hostilius, and the warlike king, himself falling ill, turns anxiously to neglected rites.
- The History of Rome, Books I-V, Book I, ch. 58
Lucretia distinguishes the violated body from the guiltless mind and kills herself before her kin.
- The History of Rome, Books I-V, Book II, ch. 32
Menenius Agrippa's fable of the limbs that starve the belly, with its account of food made into blood for the veins.
- The History of Rome, Books I-V, Book III, chs. 6-8 and 32
Pestilence kills consuls, augurs and much of the people while the Aequi and Volsci press on the city; later plague and famine come together.
- The History of Rome, Books I-V, Book IV, ch. 25; Book V, ch. 13
A temple vowed to Apollo for the health of the people, and the first lectisternium held to end an intractable pestilence.
- The History of Rome, Books I-V, Book V, ch. 48
Disease among the Gauls camped in the ruined city amid ashes and unburied dead during the siege of the Capitol.
- The History of the Church, Books 5–6, martyr narratives
Accounts of imprisoned and tortured Christians make bodily suffering central to communal memory.
- The History of the Church, Book 6, Origen traditions
Ascetic discipline and bodily renunciation are framed as scholarly and spiritual seriousness.
- The History of the Church, Books 8–9, Great Persecution
Executions, mutilations, mines and prisons under Diocletian dominate the late narrative.
- The History of the Church, Book 9, crisis and relief
Social catastrophe, famine and disease imagery accompany persecution and political upheaval.
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Selections), Chapter II, Part II, note 57
Footnote observing that many Roman physicians were slaves.
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Selections), Chapter II, Part IV
Long peace described as a slow and secret poison in the vitals of the empire, an organic metaphor for decline.
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Selections), Chapter LXVIII, Part IV, and notes 58–59
Justiniani's wound, his withdrawal to seek a surgeon, the varying accounts of the injury, and the death of Constantine Palaeologus.
- The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 2.47–54
The plague enters Athens and produces fever, inflamed eyes, throat distress, ulcers, thirst, diarrhea and high mortality.
- The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 2.51–53
Caregivers die, laws lose force, burial customs collapse and despair spreads through the crowded city.
- The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 3.82–84
Civil war at Corcyra transforms language and behavior under fear and factional hatred.
- The History of the Peloponnesian War, Book 7.75–87
The Sicilian retreat culminates in thirst, slaughter, imprisonment in quarries and catastrophic defeat.
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book II, Chapters viii-ix
Captain Blifil dies suddenly; two physicians called in after death dispute apoplexy versus epilepsy.
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book IV, Chapter xiv
A surgeon arrives after Tom saves Sophia, advises that she be blooded after her fall, and sets Tom's broken arm.
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book V, Chapter vii
Allworthy, seriously ill, gathers his household to settle his affairs, believing himself near death.
- The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book VII, Chapter xiii, and Book VIII, Chapter iii
The inn surgeon treats Tom's head wound with jargon and phlebotomy and quarrels when the patient refuses to be blooded again.
- The Hobbit, Chapter 8: Flies and Spiders
Food runs out in Mirkwood; Bombur falls into the enchanted stream and sleeps, dreaming of feasts.
- The Hobbit, Chapters 15-16
Thorin, inside the Mountain, will not share the treasure and searches obsessively for the Arkenstone.
- The Hobbit, Chapter 18: The Return Journey
Thorin lies wounded in a tent after the battle and makes peace with Bilbo before dying.
- The Homeric Hymns, Hymn V, To Aphrodite, ll. 218-246
Aphrodite tells how Eos asked immortality but not youth for Tithonus, and how he withered and was shut in a room.
- The Homeric Hymns, Hymn II, To Demeter, ll. 224-230
Demeter, disguised as an old nurse, promises Metaneira to guard the baby from the Undercutter and from witchcraft.
- The Homeric Hymns, Hymn II, To Demeter, ll. 40-53 and 301-320
Demeter's mourning and fasting, then the year of barren fields that nearly destroys mankind.
- The Homeric Hymns, Hymn XVI, To Asclepius
Five-line hymn to Asclepius, born of Coronis, as healer and soother of pain.
- The Horse and His Boy, Chapter 3
Aravis tells how she meant to kill herself rather than marry Ahoshta, until Hwin spoke.
- The Horse and His Boy, Chapter 10
The Hermit tends the lion's scratches on Aravis's back and rests the horses.
- The Horse and His Boy, Chapter 13
The battle at Anvard, seen in the Hermit's pool.
- The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 1
Watson reads Dr. Mortimer's entry in the Medical Directory: Charing Cross house-surgeon, prize essay on whether disease is a reversion, papers on atavism in the Lancet and on progress in the Journal of Psychology.
- The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 1
Mortimer admires Holmes's long skull and supra-orbital development and asks to run his finger along his parietal fissure.
- The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 2
The newspaper account of the inquest: Sir Charles's heart disease, changes of colour, breathlessness and nervous depression, facial distortion explained as usual in death from cardiac exhaustion, and a post-mortem confirming organic disease.
- The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 2
Mortimer describes Sir Charles's mounting dread of the legend and his medical advice to spend months in London for distraction.
- The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 13
Holmes uncovers Stapleton's face in the portrait of Hugo Baskerville and speaks of a physical and spiritual throwback.
- The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 14
After the hound's attack Sir Henry is revived with brandy; that night the shock brings on a delirious high fever, and Mortimer later takes him round the world to recover.
- The House at Pooh Corner, Chapter II
At Kanga's house Roo is given his Extract of Malt, called his Strengthening Medicine, and Tigger swallows it with pleasure.
- The House at Pooh Corner, Chapters I and VI
Eeyore expects to be forgotten when his house disappears and when he floats in the river, and the friends answer his gloom with help.
- The Huxley-Wilberforce Debate, Thursday 28 June 1860 (Section D)
Owen and Huxley dispute the comparative anatomy of the gorilla and human brain, a question Huxley later pursued in print and in Man's Place in Nature (1863).
- The Huxley-Wilberforce Debate, Background (Darwin's absence)
Darwin, ill, is away at a hydropathic establishment and learns of the meeting through letters from Hooker and others.
- The Idiot, Part I, Chapters II and V
Myshkin's accounts of an execution by guillotine and of a man reprieved before a firing squad, focusing on the mind in its last minutes.
- The Idiot, Part II, Chapter V
The extended description of Myshkin's pre-seizure states, his reflection on whether a diseased state can yield a true insight, and the fit on the hotel staircase.
- The Idiot, Part III, Chapters V-VII
Ippolit, dying of consumption, reads his written explanation and attempts suicide with a pistol that has no cap.
- The Idiot, Part IV, Chapters IV-V
General Ivolgin's drinking, collapse in the street and death after a stroke.
- The Idiot, Part IV, Chapter VII and Conclusion
The seizure at the Epanchins' party, and Myshkin's final loss of understanding and return to Dr. Schneider's care in Switzerland.
- The Iliad, Book 1.43–52
Apollo shoots his arrows into the Greek camp, killing first mules and dogs and then men, for nine days.
- The Iliad, Book 4.190–219
Machaon is summoned to treat Menelaus' arrow wound: he draws the arrow, sucks out the blood and applies healing herbs.
- The Iliad, Book 5
Diomedes' rampage: detailed anatomical wounds, and the healing of the wounded gods by the divine physician Paieon.
- The Iliad, Book 11.504–520
Machaon is wounded and carried from the field; the healer is said to be worth many men.
- The Iliad, Book 11.828–848
Patroclus cuts the arrow from Eurypylus' thigh, washes the wound, and applies a bitter, pain-killing root.
- The Iliad, Book 18.22–35
Achilles learns of Patroclus' death: he pours ashes on his head, tears his hair and groans so terribly that Antilochus fears he will cut his own throat.
- The Iliad, Book 19
Achilles refuses food before battle; Athena sustains him with nectar and ambrosia.
- The Iliad, Book 24.1–18
Achilles, sleepless, weeps and drags Hector's body around Patroclus' tomb each dawn.
- The Innocence of Father Brown, The Wrong Shape, Dr. Harris's letter
A physician explains how he drugged his patient, staged a suicide note and calculated the angle of the knife.
- The Innocence of Father Brown, The Wrong Shape, early scenes
Quinton's opium habit and his wife's objection to it are described as part of his Eastern fantasies.
- The Innocence of Father Brown, The Three Tools of Death, Brown's explanation
A teetotal philanthropist relapses into drink and tries to kill himself; the rope, knife and pistol were used to restrain him.
- The Innocence of Father Brown, The Eye of Apollo, conclusion
Brown explains Pauline Stacey's hereditary failing sight, aggravated by sun-gazing, and how her blindness was used to kill her.
- The Innocence of Father Brown, The Secret Garden, last paragraph
Valentin is found dead at his desk with a small box of pills beside him.
- The Institutes of Justinian, Book I, Title 23.3-4
Curators appointed for lunatics and prodigals, and for persons of weak mind, the deaf, the dumb and those with chronic disease.
- The Institutes of Justinian, Book I, Title 25.15
Physicians at Rome, with grammarians and rhetoricians, excused from serving as guardians or curators.
- The Institutes of Justinian, Book II, Title 12.1-3
Lunatics cannot make wills except in a lucid interval; the rules for the deaf and dumb, and for those who lose hearing or speech through illness.
- The Institutes of Justinian, Book III, Title 19.7-8
The dumb and the stone-deaf cannot make a stipulation, and a lunatic cannot make any contract because he does not understand what he is doing.
- The Institutes of Justinian, Book IV, Title 3.6-7
Liability of a surgeon who neglects aftercare, operates unskilfully or gives the wrong medicines.
- The Institutes of Justinian, Book IV, Title 18.5
The lex Cornelia's penalty of death for poisoners using poison and magic and for public sellers of deadly drugs.
- The Interpretation of Dreams, Chapter I
Survey of external, internal sensory and organic stimuli as causes of dreams, including experiments on sleepers and the views of physicians and psychiatrists on dreams and insanity.
- The Interpretation of Dreams, Chapter II, the dream of Irma's injection
A patient with hysterical symptoms, a throat examination revealing white patches, colleagues diagnosing infection and blaming an injection given with an unclean syringe; Freud's analysis of his own professional guilt.
- The Interpretation of Dreams, Chapter IV
Anxiety and unpleasant dreams, the dreams of patients that seem to contradict the theory, and the introduction of the censor and dream distortion.
- The Interpretation of Dreams, Chapter V, typical dreams
Dreams of embarrassment at nakedness, examination dreams and dreams of the death of loved persons, leading to the Oedipus and Hamlet readings and the discussion of childhood sexuality and sibling rivalry.
- The Interpretation of Dreams, Chapter VII, opening
The dream of the burning child, reported by a patient from a lecture, and Freud's account of how external perception and grief enter a dream.
- The Interpretation of Dreams, Chapter VII, sections on regression and wish-fulfilment
The model of the psychic apparatus, regression to perception in hallucinatory dreams, and the relation of dreams to the psychoneuroses, hysterical symptoms and psychosis.
- The Jewish War, Book 1, late Herod narrative
Herod the Great's final illness is described through bodily pain, feverish symptoms, ulceration and futile attempts at relief before his death.
- The Jewish War, Book 3, siege of Jotapata
Roman siege engines, wounds, exhaustion, fear and Josephus' survival after a collective death pact make the campaign a study in injury and combat psychology.
- The Jewish War, Book 5, Jerusalem under siege
Crowding, corpses, factional violence and the shrinking food supply turn Jerusalem into a public health crisis before the final assault.
- The Jewish War, Book 6, famine in Jerusalem
The famine reaches its most extreme form, including the story of a mother driven to cannibalism, which Josephus uses as a sign of social and bodily collapse.
- The Jewish War, Book 6, burning of the Temple
The final fighting around the Temple brings fire, crush injuries, slaughter and mass death in a sacred precinct.
- The Jewish War, Book 7, Masada
The Masada episode presents collective suicide as a response to enslavement and defeat, requiring careful historical and ethical reading.
- The Journal of John Woolman, Journal, Chapter II
The account of his sister Elizabeth, her care for the sick, and her death of smallpox.
- The Journal of John Woolman, Journal, Chapter III
Woolman watches by night with his father, dying of a fever in 1750, who speaks of his concern for the enslaved.
- The Journal of John Woolman, Journal, Chapter X
In the crowded steerage he finds breathing difficult and stands near the hatchway at midnight for fresh air, and observes the sailors' wet and close quarters.
- The Journal of John Woolman, Journal, Chapter XI (closing minutes)
Friends at York record the progress of his smallpox, his prayers, the attempts at medicine, his talk with the apothecary and his death.
- The Journey of the Mind into God, Prologue at La Verna
The Journey of the Mind into God gives this tag concrete force through the work is not clinical, but its language of the mind, affection, illumination, ecstasy, and disciplined desire belongs to philosophy as therapy
- The Journey of the Mind into God, Through the world
The Journey of the Mind into God gives this tag concrete force through the work is not clinical, but its language of the mind, affection, illumination, ecstasy, and disciplined desire belongs to philosophy as therapy
- The Journey of the Mind into God, Within and beyond the mind
The Journey of the Mind into God gives this tag concrete force through the work is not clinical, but its language of the mind, affection, illumination, ecstasy, and disciplined desire belongs to philosophy as therapy
- The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, opening
Father Wolf and the narrator explain that a jackal with dewanee, hydrophobia, is the most feared creature in the jungle.
- The Jungle Book, Kaa's Hunting, at the Cold Lairs
Kaa's hunger dance in the moonlight entrances the Bandar-log, who walk toward him against their will.
- The Jungle Book, Mowgli's Brothers, ending
Mowgli sobs for the first time and asks Bagheera whether he is dying.
- The Koran, Sura 2:183–185
Fasting in Ramadan, with exemptions for the sick and travellers.
- The Koran, Sura 2:219; 5:90–91
Wine and gambling: first described as containing sin and some benefit, later forbidden as works of Satan.
- The Koran, Sura 2:233
Mothers to nurse their children for two full years.
- The Koran, Sura 4:29
Command not to kill yourselves (or each other), interpreted as forbidding suicide.
- The Koran, Sura 3:49; 5:110
Jesus heals the blind and the leper and raises the dead by God's permission.
- The Koran, Sura 16:68–69
Bees produce a drink of varying colours in which there is healing for people.
- The Koran, Sura 19:23–26
Mary's labour pains beneath a palm tree; she is told to eat dates and drink from a stream.
- The Koran, Sura 23:12–14
Stages of human creation in the womb.
- The Koran, Sura 38:41–44
Job, afflicted by Satan with distress and suffering, is told to strike the ground and finds cool water to wash and drink.
- The Lais of Marie de France, 'Guigemar'
The rebounding arrow wounds Guigemar in the thigh; the hind prophesies that only a woman's love can heal him.
- The Lais of Marie de France, 'Bisclavret'
The baron's periodic transformation into a werewolf and his confession to his wife.
- The Lais of Marie de France, 'Les Deus Amanz'
A strengthening potion from a relative at Salerno; the lover refuses it and dies of exhaustion at the summit.
- The Lais of Marie de France, 'Yonec'
The hawk-knight is impaled on the spikes at the window and bleeds to death.
- The Lais of Marie de France, 'Chaitivel'
The surviving suitor is wounded in the thigh, alive but unable to enjoy love.
- The Lais of Marie de France, 'Eliduc'
Guilliadun falls into a deathlike swoon and is revived with a red flower used by a weasel to restore its mate.
- The Last Battle, Chapter 9: The Great Meeting on Stable Hill
Ginger swaggers into the stable and bolts out terrified, unable to speak; the Talking Beasts watch him become a dumb animal.
- The Last Battle, Chapter 13: How the Dwarfs Refused to Be Taken In
The Dwarfs sit in the open country convinced they are in a dark stable, and Aslan's feast tastes to them like stable fodder.
- The Last Battle, Chapter 14: Night Falls on Narnia
Tirian and the children watch the death of the Narnian world and grieve for it before Peter shuts the door.
- The Last Battle, Chapter 16: Farewell to Shadowlands
Aslan reveals that the children and their parents were killed in a railway accident and that they will stay in his country.
- The Last Days of Socrates, Apology 31c–d; 40a–c
Socrates' divine sign, an inner voice that only ever restrains him, and its silence on the day of the trial.
- The Last Days of Socrates, Apology 40c–41c
Death as either a dreamless sleep or a journey to converse with the dead: neither is to be feared.
- The Last Days of Socrates, Crito 47a–48a
Analogy of the trainer and physician: one should heed the expert, not the many, about health of body and soul.
- The Last Days of Socrates, Phaedo 60e–62c
Socrates' recurring dream telling him to make music, and his argument that suicide is wrong until the god sends necessity.
- The Last Days of Socrates, Phaedo 64a–68b
Philosophy as practice for death: the soul's freeing from the body's distractions and diseases.
- The Last Days of Socrates, Phaedo 116a–118a
The bath, the farewell, the friends' weeping, the drinking of the hemlock and the ascending numbness until death.
- The Last of the Mohicans, Chapter XI
Magua tells Cora how fire-water led him into Munro's camp and to a public flogging.
- The Last of the Mohicans, Chapter XXII
David explains that he passes freely among the Hurons, and Hawkeye attributes it to their sparing of those touched in mind.
- The Last of the Mohicans, Chapters XXIV-XXV
Heyward, disguised as a French healer, is led to a sick Huron woman lying paralysed in a cave, where David sings to her and Hawkeye appears as a bear-conjurer.
- The Last of the Mohicans, Chapter XXXIII
Munro sinks into melancholy at Cora's funeral, and Tamenund, worn by great age, laments having lived too long.
- The Library (Bibliotheca), Book II.2.2
The daughters of Proetus go mad and roam the land; Melampus demands a share of the kingdom, then cures them by a pursuit and purification, though the eldest dies.
- The Library (Bibliotheca), Book III.10.3-4
Asclepius learns healing from Chiron, raises the dead with the Gorgon's blood, and is struck down by Zeus.
- The Library (Bibliotheca), Book II.4.12
Heracles, driven mad by Hera, throws his own children into the fire and goes into exile for purification.
- The Library (Bibliotheca), Book II.5.4
Heracles accidentally wounds Chiron with a poisoned arrow; the medicine fails, and the immortal centaur longs to die.
- The Library (Bibliotheca), Book I.7.1
An eagle daily devours the lobes of Prometheus's liver, which grow again by night.
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Vol. I, Chs. 1–4
The interrupted conception, the scattering of the animal spirits, and the association of ideas between the clock and the marriage bed.
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Vol. I, Chs. 7, 13 and 18
The village midwife, the marriage settlement and Walter's insistence on sending for a man-midwife.
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Vol. II, Chs. 1–5
Toby's groin wound at Namur, his long recovery, and his turn to the study of fortification to explain where he was hurt.
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Vol. III, Chs. 8–16, and Vol. IV, Ch. 27
Dr. Slop's knotted bag of instruments, the newly invented forceps, and the injury to the infant's nose.
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Vol. VI, Chs. 6–10
Toby and Trim's care of the dying Lieutenant Le Fever at the inn.
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Vol. VII, Ch. 1
Tristram, coughing and ill, resolves to flee from Death across France.
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1709-1728 (early life)
Johnson's scrofula, his impaired eye, and the journey to London to be touched by Queen Anne on Sir John Floyer's advice.
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1729 (the Oxford years)
The first great attack of morbid melancholy, Johnson's long walks to fight it, and the Latin case history he gave Dr. Swinfen.
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1737-1739 (Pope's note)
Pope's note on Johnson's convulsive infirmity and Boswell's comparison of it with Sydenham's description of St. Vitus's dance.
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1769 (Aetat. 60)
Conversations on the fear of death, Hume's calm, and whether the mind can be fortified against the last hour.
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1776 (Aetat. 67)
Johnson's advice on constitutional melancholy: divert rather than combat distressing thoughts, keep a lamp lit, read when wakeful.
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1783 (Aetat. 74), March
Johnson takes opium for his breathing and argues that it should be given only with reluctance and in necessity.
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1783 (Aetat. 74), letter to Mrs. Thrale on the stroke
His own account of a paralytic stroke that took his speech but not his hand, and his summons of Heberden and Brocklesby.
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1784 (Aetat. 75)
Dropsy, breathlessness that forces him to sit up all night, and the last days and prayers before his death on 13 December.
- The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, Chapter IV, §§ 6-8
Fainting fits and heart trouble after entering the convent; her father takes her to a place of cures, where she suffers harsh remedies.
- The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, Chapter V
The crisis in her father's house: about four days insensible, the last anointing, and her family's belief that she was dead.
- The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, Chapter VI
Years of paralysis and pain endured with patience, and her recovery, which she credits to St. Joseph.
- The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, Chapters XVIII-XX
Union and rapture described with attention to their bodily effects: loss of sensation, coldness, and the body lifted or held motionless.
- The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, Chapter XXIX, §§ 16-17
The vision of the angel with a fiery spear and her description of a pain that is spiritual but shared by the body.
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Chapter 17
After the battle Lucy uses her cordial on the gravely wounded Edmund and then, at Aslan's urging, goes on to the other wounded.
- The Little Prince, Chapter XII
The tippler explains that he drinks to forget his shame, and that he is ashamed of drinking.
- The Little Prince, Chapters XXIII-XXV
The merchant's thirst-quenching pills; the pilot's water runs out and he and the prince walk to the well.
- The Little Prince, Chapters XXVI-XXVII
The snake's bite, the prince's quiet fall, and the narrator's grief in the years afterward.
- The Lives of Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Robert Sanderson, Life of Hooker, last illness
Hooker's long sickness after a cold, his restless nights, his loss of appetite and his final conversation with Saravia.
- The Lives of Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Robert Sanderson, Life of Herbert, at Woodford
Herbert's quotidian ague, his self-prescribed diet, and the supposed consumption that followed.
- The Lives of Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Robert Sanderson, Life of Herbert, last weeks
His decline at Bemerton, the visits of clergy, and his deathbed reflections and songs.
- The Lives of Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Robert Sanderson, Life of Hooker, parish duties
Hooker's diligence in enquiring after and visiting the sick of his parish.
- The Lives of Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Robert Sanderson, Life of Sanderson, pulpit
His fear and bashfulness, which forced him to read rather than preach his sermons.
- The Lord of the Rings, Book I, Chapters 11-12
Frodo is stabbed on Weathertop; the cold spreads from the wound until Elrond removes the knife-splinter at Rivendell.
- The Lord of the Rings, Book IV, Chapter 2 and following
Gollum's divided talk between Sméagol and Gollum as he argues with himself over the precious.
- The Lord of the Rings, Book V, Chapter 7: The Pyre of Denethor
Denethor, despairing after looking into the palantír, burns himself and nearly burns his living son.
- The Lord of the Rings, Book V, Chapter 8: The Houses of Healing
Aragorn treats Faramir, Éowyn and Merry for the Black Breath with athelas, while Ioreth and the herb-master look on.
- The Lord of the Rings, Book VI, Chapters 2-3
Frodo and Sam cross Mordor short of water and food, Sam rationing what is left and finally carrying his master.
- The Lord of the Rings, Book VI, Chapter 9: The Grey Havens
Frodo falls ill on the anniversaries of his wounds and decides to sail West for healing he cannot find at home.
- The Mabinogion, The Lady of the Fountain
After a damsel takes back his ring, Owain wanders the mountains until his clothes wear out and he lives among wild beasts; a widowed Countess's maiden revives him with a flask of balsam.
- The Mabinogion, Kilhwch and Olwen, opening
Queen Goleuddydd becomes wild and wanders without a home during her pregnancy; her reason returns as her delivery nears, and she gives birth in fear near a swineherd's herd.
- The Mabinogion, Pwyll Prince of Dyved
Rhiannon's newborn son disappears on the night of his birth while the women watching her sleep, and she is accused of destroying him.
- The Mabinogion, Branwen the Daughter of Llyr
The cauldron of renovation returns dead warriors to fighting strength but without speech; Bran is wounded in the foot by a poisoned dart; Branwen dies of grief.
- The Mabinogion, Math the Son of Mathonwy
Llew, struck by a poisoned dart and found as a wasted eagle, is brought back to his form as skin and bone and healed by the physicians of Gwynedd before the year's end.
- The Mabinogion, The Story of Lludd and Llevelys
Three plagues afflict Britain; the second, a shriek every May-eve, makes men lose colour and strength, women lose their children, and the young lose their senses; Lludd later keeps himself awake with a vessel of cold water.
- The Mabinogion, The Dream of Rhonabwy
Rhonabwy sleeps three days and nights on a yellow calf-skin and dreams the entire Arthurian vision that forms the tale.
- The Magician's Nephew, Chapter 1: The Wrong Door
Digory tells Polly that his father is in India and his mother is ill and going to die.
- The Magician's Nephew, Chapter 2: Digory and His Uncle
Uncle Andrew explains that he tested the rings on guinea pigs and justifies sending a child into the unknown.
- The Magician's Nephew, Chapter 11 onward
The frightened Uncle Andrew, planted and watered by the animals, keeps asking for brandy.
- The Magician's Nephew, Chapter 12: Strawberry's Adventure
Digory asks Aslan for something to cure his mother and sees great tears in the Lion's eyes.
- The Magician's Nephew, Chapter 15
Digory's mother eats the apple, sleeps naturally, and begins to recover.
- The Major Symptoms of Hysteria, Lectures I-II
Janet defines hysteria through psychological dissociation and lowered integrative capacity.
- The Major Symptoms of Hysteria, Symptom lectures
Anesthesia, paralysis, contracture, amnesia, and crises are treated as disturbances of function and synthesis.
- The Major Symptoms of Hysteria, Fixed ideas
Janet connects persistent traumatic or emotional ideas to bodily and mental symptoms.
- The Master and Margarita, Part One, Ch. 2
Pilate suffers an excruciating hemicrania during the interrogation; Yeshua perceives it and it lifts.
- The Master and Margarita, Part One, Ch. 6–8
Ivan's arrival at the clinic in his underwear, his sedation, and his interview with Professor Stravinsky.
- The Master and Margarita, Part One, Ch. 13
The Master tells Ivan of his novel's persecution, his fear, the burning of the manuscript and his flight to the clinic.
- The Master and Margarita, Part Two, Ch. 23
Satan's ball: Margarita receives a procession of poisoners and murderers from history.
- The Master and Margarita, Epilogue
Ivan, now a professor, is restless at each spring full moon, dreams of Pilate, and is calmed by an injection from his wife.
- The Mayflower Compact, Signers' list
Samuel Fuller, the company's physician and a deacon of the church, appears among the signers.
- The Meek One, Author's preface
Dostoevsky describes the narrator's state of shock and disordered thinking hours after the suicide.
- The Meek One, Part One, Ch. 5–6
The wife stands over her husband with a revolver at his temple while he feigns sleep.
- The Meek One, Part Two, Ch. 1
Her prolonged fever; the narrator arranges a doctor and nursing care; her silent withdrawal afterwards.
- The Meek One, Part Two, Ch. 3–4
Her jump from the window holding an icon, Lukerya's account, and the narrator's anguish over the body.
- The Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 1
Antonio's unexplained sadness, his friends' guesses at its cause, and Gratiano's humoral advice to play the fool.
- The Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 2
Portia says her little body is weary of the world; Nerissa answers that surfeit sickens as much as starving.
- The Merchant of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1
Shylock compares his hatred of Antonio to men's involuntary aversions to a gaping pig, a cat or the bagpipe.
- The Merchant of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1
Antonio bares his breast as a tainted wether; Portia asks for a surgeon to stop his wounds and rules on flesh without blood.
- The Metamorphosis, Part I
Gregor's first attempts to control an unfamiliar body, and his injury on the door frame when his father forces him back.
- The Metamorphosis, Part II
Grete's home nursing: food left out, the room cleaned, the decision to remove furniture, and the mother's fainting at the sight of her son.
- The Metamorphosis, Part II, end, and Part III
The apple lodged in Gregor's back becomes an inflamed wound that weakens him over the following weeks.
- The Metamorphosis, Part III
Gregor stops eating, wastes away, and dies alone at dawn; the charwoman finds the dried body and the family feels relief.
- The Metaphysical Poets, John Donne, 'Hymn to God, my God, in my Sickness'
Donne, on what he believes is his deathbed, imagines his physicians as cosmographers reading his body as a flat map.
- The Metaphysical Poets, John Donne, 'A Fever'
The poet addresses his feverish mistress, arguing that the world will perish if she dies.
- The Metaphysical Poets, John Donne, 'A Nocturnal upon St Lucy's Day'
A meditation on the longest night in which the speaker describes himself as the quintessence of nothingness after a loved one's death.
- The Metaphysical Poets, George Herbert, 'Affliction (I)'
Herbert recounts how sickness and setbacks wasted his youth, and his complaint against God.
- The Metaphysical Poets, Andrew Marvell, 'A Dialogue between the Soul and Body'
Soul and Body each complain of imprisonment by the other, with images of bones, nerves and diseases.
- The Metaphysical Poets, Henry King, 'An Exequy to his Matchless Never to be Forgotten Friend'
King's elegy for his young wife, longing to join her in the grave.
- The Misanthrope and Other Plays, The Misanthrope, subtitle and Act 1, Scene 1
Alceste's black humour and contempt for society, framed by the subtitle 'The Atrabilious Lover' (atrabile = black bile).
- The Misanthrope and Other Plays, A Doctor in Spite of Himself, Act 2
Sganarelle, disguised as a physician, diagnoses Lucinde's feigned dumbness with Latin nonsense and reversed anatomy.
- The Misanthrope and Other Plays, The Imaginary Invalid, Act 1, Scene 1
Argan audits his apothecary's bill for enemas, purges and draughts.
- The Misanthrope and Other Plays, The Imaginary Invalid, Act 2
The Diafoiruses visit; young Thomas Diafoirus boasts of rejecting the circulation of the blood; the doctors examine Argan.
- The Misanthrope and Other Plays, The Imaginary Invalid, Act 3
Monsieur Purgon curses Argan with a cascade of diseases; Toinette, disguised as a doctor, prescribes absurd remedies; Argan feigns death to test his family.
- The Misanthrope and Other Plays, The Imaginary Invalid, final interlude
Burlesque Latin ceremony admitting Argan to the medical profession.
- The Moffats, Chapter 7, Another Sign on the Yellow House
Rufus has scarlet fever, the house is quarantined, and Mama nurses him while the older children keep house.
- The Monroe Doctrine, Navy section, paragraph on Thompson's Island
The malignant fever at the West India station, the loss of medical officers, and Commodore Rodgers's mission with surgeons to determine the fever's origin.
- The Moonstone, First Period, Chapter X
At the birthday dinner Franklin Blake, sleepless after giving up tobacco, mocks medicine, and Mr. Candy takes offense; Betteredge notes Franklin's restless nights.
- The Moonstone, First Period, Chapters XVIII–XIX
Rosanna Spearman is found to be missing, and Cuff and Betteredge follow her footsteps to the edge of the Shivering Sand, where they end.
- The Moonstone, Third Narrative
Franklin meets Ezra Jennings, who has nursed Mr. Candy through a fever that has destroyed parts of his memory and kept notes of his wandering speech.
- The Moonstone, Third Narrative, Chapter X
Jennings lays out his proposal with quotations from Carpenter and from Elliotson's Human Physiology on memory under intoxication.
- The Moonstone, Fourth Narrative
Jennings' journal records his own opium dreams and pain, the preparation of the house, the forty-minim dose, and Franklin's trance-like reenactment.
- The Moonstone, Seventh Narrative
Mr. Candy's letter reports Jennings' death and his request to be buried with his papers in an unmarked grave.
- The Muqaddimah, Introduction (on the changes in the world after the plague)
The plague of the mid-fourteenth century described as emptying cities and weakening dynasties in East and West.
- The Muqaddimah, Chapter 1 (effects of abundance and hunger)
Desert peoples with scanty food compared favourably in body and mind with well-fed city dwellers; the benefits of hunger.
- The Muqaddimah, Chapter 3 (end of dynasties)
Famine and plague increasing at the end of a dynasty, attributed in part to the corruption of the air in crowded cities.
- The Muqaddimah, Chapter 6 (the science of medicine)
Medicine described as a craft based on Galen and later Arabic physicians, with remarks on Bedouin medicine and the medicine of the prophetic tradition.
- The Murder on the Links, Chapter 3, At the Villa Geneviève
Dr. Durand reports that death occurred seven to ten hours before his examination and that the stab could not have been self-inflicted; he has sedated Mrs. Renauld.
- The Murder on the Links, Chapter 5, Mrs. Renauld's Story
Mrs. Renauld, viewing her husband's body, falls in a dead faint; Poirot later treats the collapse as evidence of real grief.
- The Murder on the Links, Chapters 14-15 and 19
The examining doctor finds that the man in the shed was already dead when stabbed; Poirot's reconstruction attributes his death to an epileptic fit.
- The Murder on the Links, Chapter 28, Journey's End
Jack fears that as his father's son no one will marry him; Poirot says he believes in heredity but reminds him that he is also his mother's son.
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Chapter III
Mrs. Inglethorp's convulsions behind the bolted doors, Dr. Bauerstein's artificial respiration and her death.
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Chapter VI
The inquest: medical evidence of strychnine, the chemist's poison register and the question of when the dose was taken.
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Chapters II and IX
Hastings visits Cynthia's dispensary at the Tadminster hospital with its poison cupboard, and later arranges for Poirot to see it.
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Chapter XIII
Poirot explains the bromide precipitation of strychnine in the tonic and the narcotic in the cocoa that delayed the symptoms.
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Ch. 2-3
The Ariel voyage exposes Pym and Augustus to intoxication, storm, near drowning and rescue after impaired judgment at sea.
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Ch. 4-7
Pym's confinement in the Grampus hold combines darkness, foul air, hunger, thirst, fear and possible delirious misperception.
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Ch. 10-12
After mutiny and storm, the survivors face wounds, thirst and starvation on the wreck before drawing lots for cannibalism.
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Final chapters
The flight from Tsalal into the polar unknown produces terror, exhaustion and visionary perception at the edge of narrative collapse.
- The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, The attack on Lancaster
Rowlandson is wounded in the side by a bullet that also wounds the child in her arms.
- The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, The Third Remove
Nine days caring for her wounded daughter until Sarah dies at Wenimesset, and the remedy of oaken leaves for her own wound, learned from a fellow captive.
- The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, The Eighth Remove
Her visit to Metacom, her refusal of his pipe, and her account of having given up tobacco since her capture.
- The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, The Fifth to Nineteenth Removes
Extreme hunger, the foods eaten in the camps, and the scarcity the whole company faces on the march.
- The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Closing reflections
Sleepless nights of weeping after her restoration, which she interprets through Psalm 6.
- The Natural History of Selborne, To Pennant, Letter V
White notes that the village, though surrounded by trees and damp, is healthy and free from agues.
- The Natural History of Selborne, To Pennant, Letter XXXIV
The harvest-bug's bites raise tumours that itch intolerably on those who walk in the grass in summer.
- The Natural History of Selborne, To Barrington, Letter XXVII
A village boy of very limited understanding spent summers catching bees and sucking their honey-bags, torpid by the fire in winter.
- The Natural History of Selborne, To Barrington, Letter LXV
White records the strange haze, heat and storms of the summer of 1783 and their effects in the parish.
- The Nature of the Physical World, Chapter XIII (Reality)
Eddington proposes that the stuff of the world is of a mental character, known directly only in consciousness.
- The Nature of the Physical World, Chapter XIV (Causation)
Discussion of indeterminism, the brain and free will.
- The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium, Chapters on Justinian and the sixth century
The arrival of plague in 541–542 and its demographic and political effects.
- The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium, Chapters on the Palaiologan period
The Black Death of 1347 at Constantinople amid civil war.
- The New York Trilogy, City of Glass, opening chapters
Quinn's bereavement, pseudonymous writing life and willingness to answer a call meant for another person set up identity as a fragile compensatory structure.
- The New York Trilogy, City of Glass, Peter Stillman's history
Peter Stillman's childhood confinement by his father links language deprivation, abuse and religious theory.
- The New York Trilogy, City of Glass, surveillance of Stillman
Quinn maps Stillman's walks into patterns and lets the case consume sleep, home and ordinary social reality.
- The New York Trilogy, Ghosts
Blue's assignment to watch Black becomes a closed circuit of isolation, projection and increasingly paranoid interpretation.
- The New York Trilogy, The Locked Room
The narrator's fixation on Fanshawe turns literary stewardship into rivalry, envy and self-loss.
- The Newburgh Address, After the address (as reported by witnesses)
Washington pauses while reading Joseph Jones's letter, puts on spectacles, and speaks of having grown gray and almost blind in his country's service.
- The Nibelungenlied, Aventiure 3
Siegfried's dragon-blood invulnerability leaves one concealed vulnerable spot, making the hero's body both magical and anatomically fragile.
- The Nibelungenlied, Aventiure 16
Hagen kills Siegfried by striking the hidden vulnerable place while the hero drinks at a spring.
- The Nibelungenlied, Aventiure 17-19
Kriemhild's mourning over Siegfried's body becomes the emotional and political source of the revenge plot.
- The Nibelungenlied, Aventiure 33-39
The fighting in Etzel's hall emphasizes wounds, exhaustion, burning, thirst and the mass death of warriors trapped by honor.
- The Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2
Virtue arises from habituated action, with pleasure and pain as signs of character formation.
- The Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3
Voluntary action, choice and deliberation define responsibility and agency.
- The Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7
Akrasia examines knowing the better course but acting under appetite or pleasure.
- The Nicomachean Ethics, Books 8–9
Friendship is necessary for life and helps sustain virtue and self-knowledge.
- The Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10
The final account of happiness links pleasure, contemplation and a complete life.
- The Odyssey, Book 4
Helen mixes a drug into wine that suppresses grief and anger, a striking ancient fantasy of pharmacological emotional control.
- The Odyssey, Book 5
Odysseus is shipwrecked, battered and washed ashore exhausted, showing exposure, pain and recovery at the edge of death.
- The Odyssey, Book 9
The Lotus-Eaters offer a plant that dissolves the will to return, making appetite and drugged forgetting enemies of homecoming.
- The Odyssey, Book 10
Circe's potion transforms men into swine; Hermes provides moly as protective antidote before Odysseus confronts her.
- The Odyssey, Book 11
The underworld journey stages grief, memory, sacrificial blood and conversation with the dead.
- The Odyssey, Books 19 and 23
Odysseus's scar is recognized by Eurycleia, and the marriage bed confirms identity, joining wound memory to bodily recognition.
- The Old Man and the Sea, Eighty-four days
The Old Man and the Sea gives this tag concrete force through its medical lens is practical and bodily: age, cramps, hand wounds, exhaustion, starvation, pain tolerance, and the dignity of care between santiago and manolin
- The Old Man and the Sea, The marlin
The Old Man and the Sea gives this tag concrete force through its medical lens is practical and bodily: age, cramps, hand wounds, exhaustion, starvation, pain tolerance, and the dignity of care between santiago and manolin
- The Old Man and the Sea, The sharks
The Old Man and the Sea gives this tag concrete force through its medical lens is practical and bodily: age, cramps, hand wounds, exhaustion, starvation, pain tolerance, and the dignity of care between santiago and manolin
- The Old Man and the Sea, The sharks
The Old Man and the Sea gives this tag concrete force through its medical lens is practical and bodily: age, cramps, hand wounds, exhaustion, starvation, pain tolerance, and the dignity of care between santiago and manolin
- The Old Regime and the Revolution, Book II, ch. 16
Evils patiently endured become intolerable once escape seems possible; the pain lessened, the patient's sensibility greater.
- The Old Regime and the Revolution, Book II, chs. 12 and 17
The peasant's condition in years of dearth, and the intendants' relief measures, which publicized the misery they meant to ease.
- The Oresteia, Agamemnon, Cassandra scene
Cassandra foresees murder, ancestral crimes and her own death while the chorus struggles to understand her.
- The Oresteia, Agamemnon, murder aftermath
Clytemnestra presents the killing as payment for Iphigenia and reveals grief turned into lethal purpose.
- The Oresteia, Libation Bearers, tomb scene
Electra and Orestes perform mourning at Agamemnon’s grave and convert lament into revenge.
- The Oresteia, Libation Bearers, ending
Orestes sees the Furies immediately after killing Clytemnestra and flees in terror.
- The Oresteia, Eumenides, opening and trial
The Furies embody pursuit, sleepless accusation and blood guilt until redirected by Athena.
- The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part Three, ch. 12, Total Domination
The camps as laboratories of total domination; the killing of the juridical person, the moral person and individuality.
- The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part Three, ch. 13, Ideology and Terror
Loneliness distinguished from isolation and solitude, presented as the ground prepared for total domination.
- The Passions of the Soul, Part One, opening articles (c. Art. 7–16)
Brief description of the body's parts: the heat in the heart, circulation of the blood, the animal spirits formed in the brain and travelling through the nerves to move the muscles.
- The Passions of the Soul, Part One (c. Art. 30–34)
The soul joined to the whole body but exercising its functions chiefly in a small gland in the middle of the brain, which the spirits move and which in turn moves the spirits.
- The Passions of the Soul, Part One, final articles (c. Art. 45–50)
The soul's indirect power over the passions; habits that join movements of the gland to thoughts; the example of training animals; the claim that no soul is so weak that it cannot acquire mastery.
- The Passions of the Soul, Part Two (c. Art. 96–111)
Movements of blood and spirits, and changes of pulse, heat and digestion, in love, hatred, desire, joy and sadness; why love is good for health and sadness weakens the appetite.
- The Passions of the Soul, Part Two (c. Art. 112–135)
External signs of the passions: changes of colour, trembling, languor, fainting, laughter, tears, groans and sighs, each explained by the motion of blood and spirits.
- The Passions of the Soul, Part Two (c. Art. 136)
Strange aversions in some people, such as an inability to bear the smell of roses or the presence of a cat, explained by impressions received in infancy.
- The Passions of the Soul, Part Three, closing articles (c. Art. 211–212)
A general remedy: in a strong passion, recall that the imagination exaggerates and wait for the agitation of the blood to calm before acting.
- The Pearl, Chapter 1
The scorpion stings Coyotito; Juana sucks the puncture; the family goes to the doctor's gate and is refused through his servant.
- The Pearl, Chapter 2
Juana prepares a seaweed poultice for the baby's swollen shoulder while Kino dives.
- The Pearl, Chapter 3
The doctor arrives uninvited, gives the child a white powder, and returns an hour later to treat the illness that follows, while watching Kino's eyes for the pearl's hiding place.
- The Pearl, Chapter 6
The rifleman's shot at the cry in the cave kills Coyotito; Juana and Kino carry him back to La Paz.
- The Persian Expedition, Book I, Chapter VIII
At Cunaxa Cyrus wounds Artaxerxes through his corselet; Ctesias the physician states he healed the wound. Cyrus is struck under the eye by a javelin and killed.
- The Persian Expedition, Book III, Chapter I
Xenophon's distress, insomnia and dream of lightning striking his father's house, which he interprets as both promise and warning before taking command.
- The Persian Expedition, Book III, Chapter IV
Eight surgeons are appointed; the army halts three days for its many wounded, and so many men are carrying the wounded that marching and fighting become impossible together.
- The Persian Expedition, Book IV, Chapter V
The Armenian snows: deep drifts, a north wind, men dying overnight without fire or food, hunger-faintness, snow-blindness and frostbitten toes, with practical remedies.
- The Persian Expedition, Book IV, Chapter VIII
Mass poisoning by wild honey: dose-dependent intoxication, vomiting, diarrhoea, inability to stand, delirium and collapse, with recovery after a day and convalescence over three to four days.
- The Persian Expedition, Book V, Chapter VIII
Xenophon's defence at the army's audit: he struck men who left the disabled behind or tried to bury a living comrade, and forced stragglers to keep moving to prevent freezing.
- The Phantom of the Opera, Chapter I
Buquet's description of the ghost's skeletal face and the discovery of Buquet hanged in the cellar.
- The Phantom of the Opera, Chapter XII
Christine's account of unmasking Erik and his despairing reaction.
- The Phantom of the Opera, Epilogue
Erik's childhood rejection by his parents and exhibition at fairs as a living corpse.
- The Phantom Tollbooth, Chapter 1
Milo's opening listlessness: everything seems a waste of time and nothing interests him.
- The Phantom Tollbooth, Chapter 2
The Doldrums, where the Lethargians have outlawed thinking and laughing; Milo leaves only when he starts to think.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter IV
Lord Henry reflects on studying Dorian by the experimental method and on psychology as a science of the passions.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter VIII
Lord Henry reports Sibyl's death at the theater from a swallowed substance he supposes was prussic acid or white lead, and the inquest that will follow.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter XI
Dorian walks the portrait gallery at Selby and imagines inheriting the sins and passions of his ancestors.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter XIV
Alan Campbell, a chemist with his own laboratory, is forced to destroy Basil's body with chemicals; a smell of nitric acid remains.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter XVI
Dorian drives through the night to an opium den by the river, gripped by a physical craving; he meets Adrian Singleton there.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter XX
Dorian's body, found beside the restored portrait, is withered and aged beyond recognition.
- The Plague, Part I
The appearance of dying rats in buildings and streets, the concierge Michel's fever and swollen glands, and his death.
- The Plague, Part I
The health committee at the prefecture, where Rieux and Castel press officials to name the disease and adopt the regulations it requires.
- The Plague, Part II
Tarrou's proposal of volunteer sanitary squads and the discussion with Rieux and Rambert about duty, decency and the doctor's job.
- The Plague, Part III
The summer peak: the closing of cemeteries, burial in lime pits, the crematorium and the trams carrying the dead at night.
- The Plague, Part IV
The death of Othon's young son after an injection of Castel's serum, watched at the bedside by Rieux, Castel, Tarrou and Paneloux.
- The Plague, Part IV
Paneloux's final illness, which the doctors record as a doubtful case because it lacks the usual signs.
- The Plague, Part V
Tarrou's death in Rieux's home, nursed by Rieux and his mother, and the telegram announcing the death of Rieux's wife at the sanatorium.
- The Plague, Part I and Part V
Cottard's attempted hanging at the start of the epidemic and his breakdown and arrest when it ends.
- The Poetic Edda, Hovamol, stanzas 11-14
Warnings that ale weakens a man's mastery of his mind, followed by Othin's confession of drunkenness in Gunnloth's house and the heron of forgetfulness.
- The Poetic Edda, Hovamol, stanzas 68-71
Sayings on health, sickness and the usefulness of the maimed: the lame man rides, the handless herds, the deaf fight.
- The Poetic Edda, Hovamol, stanzas 147-148
Othin's first charms: one that helps in sorrow, pain and sickness, and one needed by those who practise leechcraft (the second stanza survives only in part).
- The Poetic Edda, Sigrdrifumol, stanza 8
Sigrdrifa teaches birth-runes, written on the palms and around the joints, to help bring a child from its mother.
- The Poetic Edda, Svipdagsmol (Fjolsvinnsmol), stanza 52
Lyfjaberg, the Hill of Healing, is said to cure any woman who climbs it, however long she has been sick.
- The Poetic Edda, Baldrs Draumar
Baldr's evil dreams send Othin riding to Hel to wake a dead seeress and learn his son's fate.
- The Poetic Edda, Guthrunarkvitha I
Guthrun sits dry-eyed beside Sigurth's body while other women tell their sorrows, until his face is uncovered and she weeps.
- The Popol Vuh (Lewis Spence's account), The myth of Vukub-Cakix (First Book)
Spence's summary of Vukub-Cakix's jaw wound and toothache and the disguised grandparents' false operation on his teeth and eyes.
- The Popol Vuh (Lewis Spence's account), The myth of Vukub-Cakix (First Book), close
The twins give Cabrakan a bird poisoned with earth, after which his strength fails.
- The Popol Vuh (Lewis Spence's account), The Second Book, the twins' wonders in Xibalba
Spence's account of the twins' self-chosen death, return, and display of killing and restoring men and animals before the lords of Xibalba.
- The Portable Dorothy Parker, Big Blonde
Hazel Morse's party persona, drinking, depressive decline and suicide attempt make the story central for alcoholism and gendered despair.
- The Portable Dorothy Parker, A Telephone Call
The unnamed speaker's waiting becomes a loop of bargaining, self-reproach and anxious dependence.
- The Portable Dorothy Parker, Selected poems on suicide and heartbreak
Several short lyrics use comic form to stage suicidal thought, romantic despair and the social performance of toughness.
- The Portable Dorothy Parker, The Lovely Leave
A wartime reunion compresses longing, resentment, panic and bodily expectation into a brief domestic interval.
- The Portable Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury selections
Benjy's sensory narrative, Caddy's absence and Quentin's breakdown foreground disability, grief, time disturbance and suicidal despair.
- The Portable Faulkner, As I Lay Dying selections
The Bundrens' journey with Addie's corpse centers childbirth, death care, injury, heat, smell and family endurance.
- The Portable Faulkner, Light in August selections
Joe Christmas's alienation and the violence around racial identity invite discussion of trauma, heredity myths and social pathology.
- The Portable Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! selections
Sutpen's dynastic design and its collapse link racial violence, obsession, family secrets and intergenerational damage.
- The Portrait of a Lady, Early Gardencourt chapters
Ralph's chronic illness shapes his observational life, his limited mobility and his imaginative investment in Isabel's freedom.
- The Portrait of a Lady, Mr. Touchett's final illness
Inheritance is decided at a sickbed, linking money, care, mortality and Ralph's experiment in enabling Isabel.
- The Portrait of a Lady, Rome marriage chapters
Isabel's life with Osmond is marked by constriction, watchfulness and psychological coercion rather than overt physical violence.
- The Portrait of a Lady, Ralph's deathbed
Isabel's return to the dying Ralph concentrates grief, confession, forgiveness and the bodily end of one of the novel's moral witnesses.
- The Power and the Glory, Opening section with Mr. Tench
The dentist's decayed professional life and the priest's search for brandy establish bodily and spiritual malaise together.
- The Power and the Glory, Village and flight chapters
The priest's craving for alcohol recurs alongside fear, fatigue, hunger and the need to perform sacraments.
- The Power and the Glory, Prison sequence
Crowded confinement, bodily stink, fear and legal violence place sin and suffering in an institutional space.
- The Power and the Glory, Final return to the dying American
The call to attend a dying man forces the priest back into danger and frames sacramental care as a duty to the body at death.
- The Practice of the Presence of God, Second Conversation
Four years of conviction that he would be damned, resolved by choosing to love God whatever became of him.
- The Practice of the Presence of God, Second Conversation
Sent to buy wine though lame, he moves about the boat by rolling over the casks.
- The Practice of the Presence of God, Eighth Letter
Counsel on wandering thoughts in prayer and calmly recalling the mind by the will.
- The Practice of the Presence of God, Eleventh to Thirteenth Letters
Advice to a long-ill correspondent on sickness, physic, and God as physician of body and soul.
- The Practice of the Presence of God, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Letters, final note
Lawrence, near eighty and often near death, anticipates seeing God; he takes to his bed two days after the last letter.
- The Prince, Chapter III
The extended analogy between foreseeing political trouble and the physicians' maxim about hectic fever: easy to cure but hard to detect early, easy to detect but hard to cure late.
- The Prince, Chapter VII
Borgia explains that he had planned for everything at his father's death except being himself at the point of death at the same time; illness, not lack of ability, ruins him.
- The Prince, Chapter XIII
Machiavelli recalls the hectic-fever analogy: the scanty wisdom of man cannot discern the poison hidden in a policy that looks good at first.
- The Prince, Chapters XVII and XIX
Analysis of fear, love, hatred and contempt as the emotional forces that hold or dissolve a state; a ruler should be feared without being hated.
- The Prince, Chapter XXVI
Italy pictured as beaten, despoiled and lacerated, waiting for someone to heal her wounds and cleanse her long-festering sores.
- The Prince and the Pauper, Chapter V
The court and physicians examine Tom in Latin and French and Henry VIII declares him mad from over-study.
- The Prince and the Pauper, Chapter X
Mrs. Canty tests whether the boy is really Tom by startling him awake and watching for his old gesture.
- The Prince and the Pauper, Chapter XV
A man is condemned to be boiled alive for poisoning on the doctors' word about the symptoms; Tom examines the evidence and frees him.
- The Prince and the Pauper, Chapter XX
The mad hermit, believing himself an archangel, binds the sleeping king and sharpens a knife.
- The Prince and the Pauper, Chapter XVII
Yokel tells how his mother, who nursed the sick, was burned as a witch when a patient died, and how his children starved.
- The Princess and Curdie, Chapter 19, The King's Chamber
Irene describes her father's nightly wandering and the doctor's medicine that is not really medicine but wine; Dr Kelman rouses the king and appears to run something bright into his arm.
- The Princess and Curdie, Chapter 23, Dr Kelman
The king tells of his despondency, sleeplessness, dreams and suspicion; the doctor fills the glass from a phial and takes out a lancet before Lina seizes him.
- The Princess and Curdie, Chapter 28, The Preacher
The first priest, carried off by the legserpent, is found a lunatic whose madness, the narrator says, jabbered sense.
- The Princess and Curdie, Chapter 29, Barbara
Evil dreams left by the doctor's medicines wake the king in terror, and only the sleeping child Barbara laid in his arms drives them away.
- The Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, Chapter II: The Functions of the Brain
Motor and sensory aphasia, cerebral localisation, lesion studies and the cases in which patients recognise and suffer from their speech errors.
- The Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, Chapter IV: Habit
Plasticity of nervous tissue, practical maxims for breaking bad habits, and the drunkard who excuses each lapse though his nerve cells register it.
- The Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, Chapter VIII: The Relations of Minds to Other Things
Hysterical anaesthesia and blindness, Janet's and Binet's experiments, automatic writing and the secondary or subconscious self.
- The Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, Chapter IX: The Stream of Thought
Interruptions of consciousness under nitrous oxide and other anaesthetics, in epilepsy and fainting, and how the edges of experience merge across the gap.
- The Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, Chapter X: The Consciousness of Self
Mutations of the self: insane delusions, alternating personalities, Janet's patient Lucie, the boy Louis V., the fugue of the Rev. Ansel Bourne, and mediumship.
- The Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, Chapter XI: Attention
The definition of attention and its opposite, the dazed scatter-brained state of distraction; discussion of effort and fatigue.
- The Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, Chapter XVI: Memory
Retention as a matter of brain paths, the conditions of good memory, forgetting, and pathological losses of memory.
- The Problems of Philosophy, Chapter I
The table's appearance varying with light, position, colour-blindness and blue spectacles.
- The Problems of Philosophy, Chapter II
Dreams and the hypothesis that the whole of life is a dream, weighed against belief in an external world.
- The Problems of Philosophy, Chapter III
The physical and physiological causes of perception and the gap between physical space and the space of sense-data.
- The Prose Edda, Skáldskaparmál, Thor and Hrungnir
Fragments of Hrungnir's hone stick in Thor's head; the wise woman Groa chants spells over him until it loosens, and he distracts her with news of her husband so that the spell is left unfinished.
- The Prose Edda, Gylfaginning XLVI-XLVII
Thor wrestles the old woman Elli and is forced to one knee; Utgarda-Loki explains that she was Old Age, who brings every man down.
- The Prose Edda, Gylfaginning XXVI; Skáldskaparmál, Idunn and Thjazi
Idunn's apples restore youth to the gods; when she is carried off they grow grey and old until Loki brings her back.
- The Prose Edda, Gylfaginning XXV and XXXIV
Tyr loses his hand in the Fenris-Wolf's jaws when the gods bind the wolf with Gleipnir.
- The Prose Edda, Skáldskaparmál, the mead of poetry
Kvasir's blood mixed with honey becomes a mead that makes whoever drinks it a poet or scholar; Odin wins it by seduction and shape-changing.
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Part Two, Ch. 4
The doctrine of predestination, the believer's isolation, and the search for signs of election.
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Part Two, Ch. 5
Baxter's counsel of hard work, plain diet and cold baths as defenses against temptation and idleness.
- The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, The Prussian Officer, III-IV
The orderly wanders feverish and hallucinating in the heat, collapses, and dies in hospital; the doctors notice the bruises and say nothing.
- The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, The Thorn in the Flesh
Bachmann's vertigo on the scaling ladder and his loss of bladder control before the company.
- The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, A Sick Collier
Willy Horsepool's pit injury, six weeks of pain, and his raving outburst during the strike; his wife's fear for the compensation.
- The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, The Shadow in the Rose Garden
The former lover, deranged after sunstroke, recognised by the wife in the garden where his keeper watches him.
- The Prussian Officer and Other Stories, Odour of Chrysanthemums
Walter Bates is brought home dead from the pit; his wife and mother wash and dress the body in the parlour.
- The Psychology of Dementia Praecox, Association experiment chapters
Jung uses reaction times and verbal responses to infer affective complexes.
- The Psychology of Dementia Praecox, Clinical interpretation chapters
Delusions, stereotypies, and neologisms are read as meaningful products of disturbed complexes.
- The Psychology of Dementia Praecox, Comparative chapters
Jung compares dementia praecox with hysteria, dreams, and psychoanalytic mechanisms.
- The Quiet American, Saigon domestic chapters
Fowler's opium use accompanies insomnia, detachment and emotional avoidance in a imperial urban setting.
- The Quiet American, Phat Diem / war reporting chapters
Fowler's reporting confronts corpses, danger and the gap between military language and bodily suffering.
- The Quiet American, Watchtower episode
Fowler and Pyle trapped in danger reveal fear, pain and dependence beneath political disagreement.
- The Quiet American, Place Garnier bombing
Civilian casualties after the bombing make Pyle's theory visible as wounds, blood and preventable death.
- The Railway Children, Chapter III, The old gentleman
Dr Forrest diagnoses Mother's influenza and lists what she needs; the children ask the old gentleman for it.
- The Railway Children, Chapter V, Prisoners and captives
The doctor sees the Russian exile and says he is worn out, mind and body.
- The Railway Children, Chapters XII-XIII
Jim, injured in the tunnel, is brought to Three Chimneys; the doctor sets the leg and Mother nurses him.
- The Ramayana, Book II, Cantos LXIII-LXIV
Dasaratha tells Kausalya of the hermit's son he once shot by mistake and the parents' curse, then dies of grief for the exiled Rama.
- The Ramayana, Book II, Canto LXIX (Bharat's Dream)
Bharat, far away in his grandfather's kingdom, is troubled by an evil dream on the night the messengers arrive.
- The Ramayana, Book VI, Cantos LX-LXVII
Kumbhakarna, Ravan's giant brother, is roused with great effort from his long sleep to fight and is killed by Rama.
- The Ramayana, Book VI, Canto LXXIV (The Medicinal Herbs)
Jambavan describes four healing plants on a Himalayan peak; Hanuman carries the whole mountaintop back and the wounded army revives.
- The Raven, Stanzas 1-2
Midnight sleeplessness and the attempt to find relief from sorrow in books.
- The Raven, Stanza 14
The speaker imagines a heaven-sent drug of forgetting and begs to drink it, a pharmacological wish for relief from memory.
- The Raven, Stanzas 15-18
Escalating questions about healing and reunion end in the speaker's own declaration that his soul will never rise from the shadow.
- The Real Mother Goose, Jack and Jill
Jack breaks his crown in the fall down the hill.
- The Red Badge of Courage, Chapter I
Henry lies awake in his hut calculating whether he will run, an extended portrait of anticipatory anxiety before a first battle.
- The Red Badge of Courage, Chapter VI
Henry's flight: he sees others running, drops his rifle and runs blindly to the rear before he has decided anything.
- The Red Badge of Courage, Chapter VIII
The procession of walking wounded on the road to the rear: a man with a shoeful of blood laughing hysterically, a singing soldier, an officer carried by two privates, the spectral soldier with the gray seal of death on his face, and the tattered man with wounds to the head and arm.
- The Red Badge of Courage, Chapter IX
Jim Conklin's death from a torn side, his fear of being crushed by artillery, and his final rigid convulsion in a field.
- The Red Badge of Courage, Chapter XII
Henry is struck on the head by a retreating soldier's rifle and walks on dazed and bleeding until a stranger guides him.
- The Red Badge of Courage, Chapter XIII
Wilson nurses Henry by the fire with coffee, a wet handkerchief bandage and his own blankets.
- The Republic, Book 4
The tripartite soul divides reason, spirit and appetite and defines justice as inner order.
- The Republic, Book 3
Music and gymnastics train character, emotion and bodily discipline for guardians.
- The Republic, Book 5
Guardian reproduction and family arrangements treat politics as managed breeding and education.
- The Republic, Book 7
The cave allegory presents education as painful conversion from illusion to reality.
- The Republic, Book 9
The tyrannical soul is ruled by lawless desires, dreams and compulsions.
- The Republic and The Laws, Republic, Book II, closing fragments
Reason as the driver of an elephant or charioteer of the passions, with a fragment naming a kind of anxiety prone to mourning and melancholy.
- The Republic and The Laws, Republic, Book V fragments
The ruler's aim compared with a pilot's safe voyage and a physician's restoring his patient to health.
- The Republic and The Laws, Laws, Book II
Unjust enactments compared with the recipes of unskilful empirics who give poisons instead of medicines.
- The Republic and The Laws, Republic, Book VI (Dream of Scipio)
The body is mortal but the mind is the true self, divine and self-moving.
- The River War, Chapter III: The Dervish Empire
The Mahdi falls ill in June 1885; public prayers are offered; he dies of what his attendants recognise as typhus within days.
- The River War, Chapters IV–V
Reforms of the Egyptian army include hospital care for the sick (Ch. IV); the Suakin garrison (Ch. V) suffers malaria, liver abscess, bursati sores in animals and invaliding of a quarter of British officers.
- The River War, Chapter VII: The Recovery of the Dongola Province
Cholera creeps up the Nile from Cairo; case-fatality near 80 per cent among the first thousand cases; detailed casualty figures; profound depression across the army.
- The River War, Chapter XII: The Battle of the Atbara
Wounded soldiers in high fever carried on a thirty-hour march back to camp without sleep.
- The River War, Chapter XV: The Battle of Omdurman
Field hospitals in the zeriba, the hospital-barge blunder, the wounded of the Lancers' charge trickling in, and the field of Dervish dead and wounded.
- The River War, Chapter XVI: The Fall of the City
Bombarded Omdurman: mangled civilians, houses crammed with wounded, decomposing bodies and animal carcasses.
- The River War, Chapters XVII–XVIII
Pestilential Fashoda and the Blue Nile operations, where malarial fever affects every European and at one time hundreds of men are sick.
- The Road to Serfdom, Ch. 3, Individualism and Collectivism
Regulation of poisonous substances, working hours and sanitary arrangements accepted as compatible with a competitive system.
- The Road to Serfdom, Ch. 9, Security and Freedom
Support for a guaranteed minimum of food, shelter and clothing and for social insurance against sickness and accident.
- The Roman History, Book XIX, ch. 4
Unburied dead at Amida breed pestilence; Ammianus explains the causes and three kinds of plague and the garrison's recovery after rain.
- The Roman History, Book XXI, ch. 15
Constantius II falls ill with fever on the march and dies at Mopsucrenae in Cilicia.
- The Roman History, Book XXV, ch. 3
Julian is speared through the side, cuts his fingers trying to pull out the weapon, is treated by a physician, and dies after losing blood while discussing the soul.
- The Roman History, Book XXV, ch. 10
Jovian dies suddenly at Dadastana; Ammianus gives the explanations current at the time, among them noxious fumes and overeating.
- The Roman History, Books XXVIII, ch. 1 and XXIX, ch. 1-2
Prosecutions at Rome and Antioch for sorcery and poisoning spread through the senatorial class.
- The Roman History, Book XXX, ch. 6
Valentinian, enraged at the Quadic envoys, loses his voice, is seized by convulsions and dies at Brigetio.
- The Roman History, Book XXXI, ch. 4
Starving Gothic refugees on the Danube are forced by Roman officers to trade for food on ruinous terms.
- The Roman History, Book XX, ch. 5 and Book XXV, ch. 2
Julian sees the Genius of the State in a vision at Paris and again, departing in grief, before his death.
- The Rule of St Benedict, Chapter 36
Care of the sick is placed before and above other duties, with service rendered as to Christ.
- The Rule of St Benedict, Chapters 39–41
Food, drink, wine and meal times are regulated with moderation and adaptation.
- The Rule of St Benedict, Chapters 8–20
Night offices, prayer and sleep structure the body’s daily rhythm.
- The Rule of St Benedict, Chapters 23–30
Correction and excommunication regulate disruptive behavior within a closed institution.
- The Rule of St Benedict, Chapter 64
The abbot is warned to adapt to many temperaments and not crush the bruised reed.
- The Satires of Horace and Persius, Horace, Satire 1.1
The attack on greed and dissatisfaction treats desire as an appetite that cannot find healthy measure.
- The Satires of Horace and Persius, Horace, Satire 1.5
The journey to Brundisium includes bodily discomforts, travel ailments and comic attention to digestion and irritation.
- The Satires of Horace and Persius, Horace, Satire 1.8
Canidia and Sagana's magic rites invoke poisons, corpses and bodily grotesquerie in a comic anti-witchcraft scene.
- The Satires of Horace and Persius, Persius, Satire 3
The poem frames moral laziness and bad education through imagery of illness, treatment and the need for philosophical discipline.
- The Satires of Horace and Persius, Persius, Satire 5
The Stoic discussion of freedom treats enslavement to passions as a disease of the will.
- The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 2-3
Hester's postpartum public punishment makes sexuality, maternity and communal discipline visible on the scaffold.
- The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 9-10
Chillingworth becomes Dimmesdale's physician and investigates his secret through bodily symptoms and psychological pressure.
- The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 11-12
Dimmesdale's vigils, self-punishment and wasting health show guilt translated into bodily and mental suffering.
- The Scarlet Letter, Ch. 23
The final scaffold confession and death present public truth as both spiritual release and bodily endpoint.
- The Scarlet Pimpernel, Ch. I
The old woman at the West Barricade mentions smallpox in her cart, and Bibot steps hastily back and lets her through.
- The Scarlet Pimpernel, Ch. XXIX-XXXI
Chauvelin's soldiers beat the supposed carter, who later proves to be Percy, sore but able to carry Marguerite along the cliffs.
- The Sceptical Chymist, A Praeface Introductory
Boyle warns that physicians and naturalists are adopting chemical theories uncritically, while affirming his esteem for chemical remedies.
- The Sceptical Chymist, The First and Second Parts
Accounts of distilling human blood and deer's blood into differing oils, spirits and salts, used to question whether the products existed beforehand.
- The Sceptical Chymist, The Second Part
Discussion of the physicians' teaching that chyle becomes blood and blood the parts of the body, as an analogy for the transformation of matter.
- The Sceptical Chymist, The Fifth Part
Carneades argues that specific qualities of bodies, including medicinal virtues, are not explained by salt, sulphur and mercury.
- The Screwtape Letters, Letter VI
Screwtape urges Wormwood to keep the patient in suspense and anxiety about wartime dangers that may never come, rather than in present duty.
- The Screwtape Letters, Letters VIII-IX
The law of Undulation: humans as creatures of body and spirit pass through natural peaks and troughs of feeling, which tempters try to exploit during dry periods.
- The Screwtape Letters, Letter IV
Screwtape advises turning prayer toward the patient's own feelings and notes that bodily posture in prayer affects the soul.
- The Screwtape Letters, Letter XVII
The patient's mother demands tiny, exactly prepared portions and makes the household miserable; Screwtape calls this gluttony of delicacy.
- The Screwtape Letters, Letters XXIX-XXX
Fear, cowardice, fatigue and short temper during air raids, and Screwtape's attempts to use exhaustion against the patient.
- The Screwtape Letters, Letter XXXI
The patient's sudden death in an air raid, described from the devils' side as a soul passing beyond their reach.
- The Secret Garden, Ch. 1
The cholera outbreak kills Mary's parents and household, revealing imperial neglect and epidemic vulnerability.
- The Secret Garden, Early Misselthwaite chapters
Mary's sourness, poor appetite and lack of affection are linked to neglect, environment and bodily habits.
- The Secret Garden, Colin's room
Colin's confinement, fear of deformity and expectation of death show hypochondriacal and disability-anxiety themes.
- The Secret Garden, Garden recovery chapters
Fresh air, exercise, food, friendship and belief become a child-centered therapeutic regimen.
- The Secret Garden, Archibald Craven's return
The father's grief and withdrawal are treated through dream, memory and reunion with the recovered child.
- The Secret History, Chapter 4
During Justinian's illness from the plague, talk among the generals about a successor leads to the disgrace of Belisarius and the imprisonment of Buzes.
- The Secret History, Chapter 12
Procopius reports stories from courtiers that Justinian was a demon in human form, whose head seemed to vanish as he paced at night.
- The Sickness Unto Death, Preface and Introduction
The physician's bedside manner as a model for Christian exposition; the Lazarus story and the claim that despair, not death, is the mortal sickness.
- The Sickness Unto Death, Part One, A
Despair as a sickness one cannot die of: the torment of wishing to die and being unable to, of the self wanting to be rid of itself.
- The Sickness Unto Death, Part One, B
The analogy of the physician who knows that apparent health may hide illness, applied to the universality of unrecognised despair.
- The Sickness Unto Death, Part One, C (forms of the synthesis)
Despair of infinitude lost in fantasy and despair of possibility, set against fatalistic and philistine despair of necessity; descriptions often compared to grandiosity and to depressive hopelessness.
- The Sickness Unto Death, Part One, C (despair of weakness and of defiance)
Despair over the earthly and over oneself, inclosing reserve that hides despair from others, the risk of suicide in the inclosed person, and demonic defiance.
- The Sickness Unto Death, Part Two, B
Despair over one's sin and of forgiveness as intensifications of despair, relevant to religious guilt and scrupulosity in clinical settings.
- The Sign of the Beaver, Chapter 5
Matt is stung by a swarm at the bee tree, plunges into the pond, and wakes in his cabin with Saknis and Attean tending his swollen stings.
- The Sign of the Beaver, Chapter 17
Attean tells Matt how his mother was killed and his father went after the killers and did not return; his grandmother's bitterness is explained.
- The Sign of the Beaver, Chapters 23-24
Matt lays in meat, fish and firewood, and makes mittens and a cap from skins, to last a winter alone.
- The Sign of the Beaver, Chapter 25
The family arrives and explains the delay: all were sick with typhus, and the baby born in Massachusetts has died.
- The Silver Chair, Chapter 11: In the Dark Castle
The knight explains that the Queen has told him he suffers a nightly fit of madness and must be tied to the silver chair until it passes.
- The Silver Chair, Chapter 12: The Queen of Underland
The Queen's green powder, sweet smoke and thrumming dull the travellers' minds until Puddleglum stamps on the fire and the pain of his burnt foot clears his head.
- The Silver Chair, Chapter 16: The Healing of Harms
Old King Caspian returns from his voyage, blesses Rilian and dies; on Aslan's mountain the dead king lies in the stream before he is made young.
- The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., Rip Van Winkle
Rip drinks repeatedly from the ninepin players' flagon, sleeps twenty years, and on waking at first blames the flagon; later he cannot say who he is before the village crowd.
- The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., Rip Van Winkle
Judith reports that her mother died after breaking a blood-vessel in a fit of passion at a New England peddler.
- The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., The Broken Heart
Crayon argues that women can die of disappointed love and tells of a betrothed girl who wastes away in melancholy after her lover's execution.
- The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., The Widow and Her Son; Rural Funerals
A poor widow mourns her only son, a sailor who comes home to die; Crayon describes English burial flowers and reflects on the sorrow for the dead.
- The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., The Pride of the Village
A village girl deserted by an officer declines through the spring and dies, the parish mourning at her funeral.
- The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, opening
The inhabitants are said to live in a continual reverie, subject to trances and visions, and haunted by the nightmare.
- The Social Contract, Book III, Chapter IX
Rousseau names the increase of population, without colonies or naturalisation, as the decisive mark of good government and dismisses tranquillity that hides depopulation.
- The Social Contract, Book III, Chapter XI
The body politic compared to a human body that begins to die at birth; the constitution of man is nature's work, that of the state the work of art and can be prolonged.
- The Social Contract, Book II, Chapter VIII
Peoples, like men, are docile only in youth; aged peoples resist reform like cowardly patients who rave at the sight of the doctor. Revolutions are compared to illnesses that make individuals forget the past, after which a state may be reborn.
- The Song of Hiawatha, Canto V, Hiawatha's Fasting
Seven days of fasting with exhaustion and visions before the wrestling with Mondamin.
- The Song of Hiawatha, Canto IX, Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather
Nokomis describes the magician who sends fever and poisonous exhalations from the marshes.
- The Song of Hiawatha, Canto XV, Hiawatha's Lamentation
Seven weeks of mourning for Chibiabos, ended by the Medas' herbal drink, chants and medicine-dance; Hiawatha then teaches simples, antidotes and the art of healing.
- The Song of Hiawatha, Canto XIX, The Ghosts
Two ghosts sit in silence in the wigwam and then ask the living not to burden the dead with lamentation and grave-goods.
- The Song of Hiawatha, Canto XX, The Famine
Famine and Fever enter the wigwam; Minnehaha's delirium and death; Hiawatha sits seven days speechless.
- The Song of Roland, Ganelon's grievance
The Song of Roland gives this tag concrete force through its battlefield scenes emphasize wounds, exhaustion, hearing, breath, and the ritual handling of the dead more than inward psychology
- The Song of Roland, The horn too late
The Song of Roland gives this tag concrete force through its battlefield scenes emphasize wounds, exhaustion, hearing, breath, and the ritual handling of the dead more than inward psychology
- The Song of Roland, Judgment after battle
The Song of Roland gives this tag concrete force through its battlefield scenes emphasize wounds, exhaustion, hearing, breath, and the ritual handling of the dead more than inward psychology
- The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter XI, Of the Passing of the First-Born
The birth of Burghardt, his illness in Atlanta, the watch beside him as the physician comes and goes, his death and burial, and the father's mixed grief and consolation.
- The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter II, Of the Dawn of Freedom
A summary of the Freedmen's Bureau's work, including its physicians, surgeons, hospitals and asylums for the newly freed.
- The Spirit of the Laws, Book XIV, ch. 2
Cold and warm air act on the external fibres of the body, with the experiment on a sheep's tongue, and Montesquieu's inferences about vigour and sensibility.
- The Spirit of the Laws, Book XIV, ch. 10
Laws about drinking and sobriety explained by the needs of hot and cold climates.
- The Spirit of the Laws, Book XIV, ch. 11
Laws in relation to the distempers of the climate: leprosy and the laws of Moses, the disease brought from America, and the military cordon against plague.
- The Spirit of the Laws, Book XIV, ch. 12
Roman and English suicide compared; the English case attributed to a distemper of the body rather than to education.
- The St Crispin's Day Speech, Act 4, Scene 3 (the Crispian feast)
The imagined veteran strips his sleeve each year to show the wounds he received on Crispian's day and tells their story to his neighbors.
- The Story of a Soul, Chapter II
Her mother's death in August 1877, the Extreme Unction she witnessed, and the change in her temperament afterward.
- The Story of a Soul, Chapter III
The illness of 1883 with terrors, apparent delirium and torpor, Marie's nursing, and the cure she attributes to the smile of the Virgin.
- The Story of a Soul, Chapter IV
The years of scruples after her First Communion, which she calls a terrible disease.
- The Story of a Soul, Chapter IX
The first hemorrhage from the lungs on the night before Good Friday 1896, which she receives as the first call of her Beloved.
- The Story of a Soul, Epilogue
The final months in the infirmary, the doctor's visits and remedies, her suffering and her death on 30 September 1897.
- The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Book I, Part II, Chapter Second
Arthur, sorely wounded by the Sable Knight, is carried by Merlin to a forest hermit who tends his wounds.
- The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Book I, Part II, Chapter Third
Merlin explains that the sheath of Excalibur keeps its wearer from losing a drop of blood.
- The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Book II, Part II, Chapter Sixth
Pellias, wounded in the forest, is brought to a hermit and then healed by the Lady of the Lake.
- The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Chapter I
Servant girls' tales of the Dandy Doctors who prowl with sticking-plaster and carry children off to be dissected in Edinburgh.
- The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Chapter III
The mare Nob, overdriven to Portage on a hot day, sickens with inflamed lungs and is treated without success by a minister who doubles as horse-doctor.
- The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Chapter VI
Harvest work through mumps, pneumonia with no physician called, and the overwork common among the Scottish, English and Irish settlers.
- The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Chapter VI
The near-fatal choke-damp at the bottom of the Hickory Hill well and William Duncan's methods for clearing the gas.
- The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Chapter VII
Rising at one in the morning all winter to study and invent, and the early-rising machine that tips him out of bed.
- The Story of My Life, Part I, Chapter I
The fever in her second year, the doctor's verdict, and her confused memory of turning her hot, dry eyes from the light.
- The Story of My Life, Part I, Chapter III
The visit to the oculist Dr. Chisholm in Baltimore and to Dr. Bell in Washington.
- The Story of My Life, Part I, Chapter XIII
Learning to speak in 1890 by feeling the position of Sarah Fuller's tongue and lips.
- The Story of My Life, Part I, Chapter XIV
The Frost King hearing and her long afterward fear that her ideas were not her own.
- The Story of My Life, Part III, Chapter IV
Macy and Sullivan on how Keller's speech was taught and how she reads lips with her fingers.
- The Story of My Life, Part III, Chapter V
Keller's description of her dreams and how the senses she lacks appear in them.
- The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga), Chapter VIII
Sigmund can eat venom without harm, while Sinfjotli can bear it only on his skin; later, after the wolf-skin fight, Sigmund sees a weasel heal its fellow with a leaf and uses the same herb on Sinfjotli's throat.
- The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga), Chapter X
Queen Borghild offers Sinfjotli the horn three times; Sigmund, by then very drunk, tells him to strain the venom out with his lip, and he dies at once.
- The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga), Chapter XII
Sigmund, mortally wounded on the battlefield, refuses Hjordis's offer of healing because his luck and Odin's favour have left him.
- The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga), Chapters XX-XXI
Brynhild teaches help-runes for childbirth and bough-runes for leech-lore and wound-searching, and counsels careful washing and burial of the dead.
- The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga), Chapter XXVI
Grimhild gives Sigurd a horn of drink, and he forgets Brynhild entirely and remains at the Giuking court.
- The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga), Chapter XXIX
Brynhild lies abed as one dead, will not answer Gunnar, and speaks only of her wrongs before she demands Sigurd's death.
- The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga), Chapters XXXV-XXXVI
Kostbera and Glaumvor recount ominous dreams to their husbands before the ride to Atli, and the men explain each one away.
- The Stranger, Part One, Chapter 1
The vigil among the elderly residents of the home at Marengo and the funeral procession, in which Pérez collapses in the heat.
- The Stranger, Part One, Chapter 6
The sun, glare and sweat that overwhelm Meursault as he approaches the spring and fires the revolver.
- The Stranger, Part Two, Chapter 5
Meursault's thoughts on the guillotine, the chances of a successful appeal and the dawn on which the condemned are taken.
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Preface
Kuhn acknowledges Fleck's monograph on the history of the concept of syphilis as anticipating many of his own ideas.
- The Subjection of Women, Chapter I
Medical practitioners and physiologists know something of bodily differences, but few are psychologists and their views of women's minds are no better than common opinion.
- The Subjection of Women, Chapter III
Nervous susceptibility as an objection to women's fitness for business; hysterics and fainting fits disappearing with fashion; the hot-house upbringing of upper-class girls.
- The Subjection of Women, Chapter III
The anatomical argument from the size of women's brains, and Mill's reply on proportion, quality and the circulation of blood through the brain.
- The Subjection of Women, Chapter IV, closing pages
The weariness, disappointment and dissatisfaction with life of women whose faculties have no outlet: the feeling of a wasted life.
- The Swiss Family Robinson, Chapter II-III
The father tests unfamiliar fruits and foods before letting the children eat them, a practical lesson in caution with unknown plants.
- The Swiss Family Robinson, Chapter XVIII
Mr. Wolston, an invalid passenger from the Unicorn, rests at Rockburg and revives in the island's air and quiet.
- The Sword in the Stone, The hawks' mews episode
The Wart, changed into a merlin, keeps a night vigil beside the dangerous old goshawk Cully as an ordeal of courage set by the other hawks.
- The Sword in the Stone, The Madame Mim episode (1938 text only)
In the shape-changing duel Merlyn becomes the microbes of a number of diseases and destroys the witch in her dragon form.
- The Sword in the Stone, The boar hunt
Master Twyti weeps over his dead hound after the boar is killed.
- The Symposium, Eryximachus speech
A physician defines love as harmony and disorder in bodies, medicine, music, seasons and sacrifice.
- The Symposium, Symposium setting
The guests regulate drinking after earlier excess, making intoxication part of the social frame.
- The Symposium, Diotima speech
Love ascends from bodies to souls, laws, knowledge and Beauty itself as a therapeutic education of desire.
- The Symposium, Alcibiades speech
A drunken Alcibiades describes erotic fixation, shame and failed seduction of Socrates.
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Closing
Chamomile tea and bed.
- The Taming of the Shrew, Induction, Scene 2
The Lord's servants persuade Sly that he has been mad for fifteen years, mention his physicians' orders, and announce a comedy as a remedy for melancholy.
- The Taming of the Shrew, Act 4, Scene 1
Petruchio throws out the supper as burnt meat that engenders choler, then explains in soliloquy his plan to keep Kate hungry and sleepless like an untrained hawk.
- The Taming of the Shrew, Act 4, Scene 3
Grumio offers the starving Kate one dish after another and withdraws each as too choleric.
- The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2; Act 2, Scene 1
Prospero charms Miranda asleep, and Ariel brings a heavy, sudden sleep on all the courtiers except Antonio and Sebastian.
- The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2; Act 4, Scene 1
Prospero threatens and punishes Caliban and the conspirators with cramps, aches and pinches sent by spirits.
- The Tempest, Act 2, Scene 2; Act 3, Scene 2
Stephano's wine makes Caliban drunk and devoted; the three conspirators plot while tipsy.
- The Tempest, Act 3, Scene 3; Act 5, Scene 1
Ariel's harpy speech leaves the three men of sin distracted; Prospero restores them with solemn music, and Alonso says a madness held him.
- The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1; Act 5, Scene 1
Prospero walks to still his beating mind, confesses his old brain is troubled, and says every third thought will be his grave.
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapter IV
At the Markhams' tea party Lawrence defends Helen's plan of teaching her son to loathe wine, comparing it to the general wisdom of abstaining from laudanum.
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapter XXII
Huntingdon tells Helen how Lowborough forswore drink but kept a private bottle of laudanum, then relapsed into spirits at the club.
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapters XXIX–XXXI
Huntingdon returns from London seasons worn out and irritable, and the gatherings at Grassdale descend into drunken scenes that Helen records.
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapter XLI
Helen describes giving her son wine dosed with tartar-emetic until he is disgusted by every kind of liquor, and her fear that he may inherit the taste.
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapters XLVII–XLIX
Helen's letters report Huntingdon's hunting injury, his half-delirium and thirst, the doctor's order to bleed him, his relapse into wine, the onset of mortification, and his death.
- The Theban Plays, Oedipus the King, opening
Thebes suffers plague, failed crops, infertility and public supplication before Oedipus.
- The Theban Plays, Oedipus the King, recognition
Jocasta dies by hanging and Oedipus blinds himself after discovering his birth and crimes.
- The Theban Plays, Oedipus at Colonus, opening
The blind, dependent Oedipus arrives guided by Antigone, reframing disability and exile.
- The Theban Plays, Antigone, burial conflict
Antigone insists on rites for the dead despite state prohibition, making grief a public act.
- The Theban Plays, Antigone, final messenger speech
Antigone, Haemon and Eurydice die by suicide after Creon’s delayed repentance.
- The Theory of the Leisure Class, Chapter Four
Intoxicating beverages and narcotics as honorific goods; infirmities from over-indulgence regarded among some peoples as manly attributes.
- The Theory of the Leisure Class, Chapter Seven
The corset, high heels and long skirts analysed as impairments that display the wearer's freedom from labour.
- The Thirty-Nine Steps, Chapter VI
Hannay escapes the storeroom after the lentonite blast, sick, giddy and half-poisoned by the fumes, and swoons on top of the dovecot.
- The Thirty-Nine Steps, Chapter VII
A bout of malaria lays Hannay low at Turnbull's cottage, and the roadman nurses him for about ten days.
- The Thirty-Nine Steps, Chapter V
Turnbull, still drunk from his daughter's wedding, fears losing his job and gladly lets Hannay take his place.
- The Thirty-Nine Steps, Chapter VII
Bullivant describes Scudder as half crank, half genius, always frightened yet never deterred.
- The Thousand and One Nights (Lane's translation, Volume I), Chapter II, Story of King Yoonán and the Sage Doobán
Doobán cures the King's leprosy with drugs concealed in a goff-stick, is executed on the Wezeer's slander, and kills the King with a book whose leaves are poisoned.
- The Thousand and One Nights (Lane's translation, Volume I), Chapter III, Story of the Envier and the Envied, with Note 63 (On Muslim Saints, or Devotees)
A king's daughter, possessed by a love-struck Márid, is cured by fumigation; Lane's note discusses insanity regarded as sanctity and confinement in the Máristán.
- The Thousand and One Nights (Lane's translation, Volume I), Chapter II, Story of the Young King of the Black Islands, with Note 46 (On the Use of Hemp to induce Intoxication)
The queen drugs her husband's nightly wine with benj; Lane's note identifies benj with henbane or hemp and connects it with the Assassins.
- The Thousand and One Nights (Lane's translation, Volume I), Chapter V, Story of the Humpback and its conclusion
A fishbone apparently kills the humpback; a Jewish physician believes he caused the death; the barber anoints the neck and removes the bone with forceps.
- The Thousand and One Nights (Lane's translation, Volume I), Chapter V, Story told by the Jewish Physician, with Note 47
The physician takes a pulse, prescribes, and is made superintendent of the hospital of Damascus; Lane's note on the first Muslim hospital (AD 706-7).
- The Thousand and One Nights (Lane's translation, Volume I), Notes to Chapter I, Note 5 (On Fate and Destiny)
Traditions on medicine and predestination, and a list of contagious and engendered diseases including melancholy, pestilence, leprosy, epilepsy and phthisis.
- The Thousand and One Nights (Lane's translation, Volume I), Chapter VII, Story of Ghánim the Son of Eiyoob
Ḳoot-el-Ḳuloob is drugged with benj and buried alive in a chest; later Ghánim, wasted by grief and hunger, is spared from the Baghdád hospital by a charitable sheykh.
- The Three Musketeers, Chapters I-V
The mother's miraculous balsam and its use on d'Artagnan's own wounds after Meung, then its offer for Athos's wounded shoulder.
- The Three Musketeers, Chapter XLII, The Anjou Wine
Poisoned wine sent as a gift kills a soldier who drinks it before the musketeers can.
- The Three Musketeers, Chapter LXIII, The Drop of Water
Constance dies in the convent after drinking the wine Milady has drugged.
- The Travels of Ibn Battuta, Prologue (Chapter I)
The abridger notes that Ibn Battuta's account of Indian aromatic roots differs from the physicians' and is probably correct.
- The Travels of Ibn Battuta, Chapter II (Alexandria)
Sheikh al-Murshidi interprets the dream of the great bird as a prophecy of travels.
- The Travels of Ibn Battuta, Chapter II (Upper Egypt, Humaithira)
Story of the Sufi master al-Shadhili, who dies at a desert station with a poisonous well after foretelling his own burial.
- The Travels of Ibn Battuta, Chapter V (Damascus)
The people of Damascus gather at the Mosque of the Footprint to pray against plague amid thousands of deaths a day.
- The Travels of Ibn Battuta, Chapter XIV (India)
Ibn Battuta describes the burning of widows and drowning in the Ganges as religious practices of some Hindus.
- The Travels of Ibn Battuta, Chapter XV (history of Delhi)
Sultan Muizz al-Din Kaiqubad suffers a complaint that withers one side of his body and that the physicians cannot remedy.
- The Travels of Marco Polo, Book I, Chapters XXIII-XXIV
The Old Man of the Mountain gives his young followers a sleeping potion and carries them into his garden paradise.
- The Travels of Marco Polo, Book I, Chapter XXIX
The pure air of the Badakhshan mountains cures fevers, and Marco's own year of illness ends there.
- The Travels of Marco Polo, Book I, Chapter XLIII; Book II, Chapter LXXV
Rhubarb in the mountains of Tangut and rhubarb and ginger near Suju, gathered for trade all over the world.
- The Travels of Marco Polo, Book II, Chapters XLIX-L
Crocodile gall used against rabies and in childbirth; in Carajan no physicians, and the sick consult spirit-conjurors.
- The Travels of Marco Polo, Book III, Chapter XX
Ascetics of India who live long on rice and milk and drink sulphur and quicksilver twice a month.
- The Trial, Chapter 3 (In the Empty Courtroom; The Offices)
K. becomes weak and dizzy in the airless attic offices of the court and is half carried to the stairs, recovering in the open air.
- The Trial, Chapter 5 (The Flogger)
In a lumber room at the bank K. finds the warders being whipped by an official in leather, and their cries follow him.
- The Trial, Chapter 6
The advocate Huld receives K. and his uncle in bed, weakened by a heart complaint, while Leni nurses him.
- The Trial, Chapter 10
K.'s execution in the quarry, described with physical exactness.
- The Trial of Joan of Arc, Condemnation trial, first voice testimony
Joan describes onset, fear, time of day, location, light, and auditory experience, giving material often cited in medical speculation.
- The Trial of Joan of Arc, Condemnation trial, repeated interrogations
The court repeatedly pressures Joan to define the voices, creating a hostile setting unlike any modern diagnostic encounter.
- The Trial of Joan of Arc, Capture, imprisonment, and execution
The wider record involves captivity, threat, public humiliation, and execution, all relevant to trauma-informed reading.
- The Trojan War, Chapter 3, The madness of Odysseus
Odysseus pretends to be mad to avoid going to war, and the pretense is exposed.
- The Trojan War, Chapter 11, The quarrel
The quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles, which in Homer arises from Apollo's plague on the camp.
- The Trojan War, Chapter 21, The armor of Achilles
Ajax and Odysseus contend for the dead hero's armor; in the tradition Ajax's defeat ends in madness and suicide.
- The Trojan War, Chapters 23–24, The bow of Heracles; Oenone
The wounded Philoctetes and his bow are brought to Troy; the wounded Paris turns to the healer Oenone.
- The Trojan Women and Other Plays, Iphigenia in Tauris, herdsman's speech
A herdsman reports how one stranger trembled, cried out at Furies no one else could see, attacked the cattle, and fell foaming while his friend tended him.
- The Trojan Women and Other Plays, The Trojan Women, Andromache scene
Andromache argues that death is mere not-being and better than a life of grief; Hecuba replies that life always holds hope.
- The Trojan Women and Other Plays, The Trojan Women, final scene
Hecuba tries to rush into the burning city and is restrained by the soldiers before she is led to the ships.
- The Trojan Women and Other Plays, The Trojan Women, burial of Astyanax
Hecuba washes and dresses her grandson's broken body on Hector's shield, in one of the longest laments in Greek tragedy.
- The Trojan Women and Other Plays, Hecuba, blinding of Polymestor
Polymestor stumbles from the tent blinded by the captive women and cries for vengeance on all-fours like a beast.
- The True Story of My Life, Chapter I
The asylum garden, the harmless patients in the court, and the raving woman who reaches for the boy through her cell door.
- The True Story of My Life, Chapter I
His weak-minded grandfather carving fantastic figures and the boy's fear of sharing his blood.
- The True Story of My Life, Chapter I
His father's delirium about Napoleon, the visit to a wise woman instead of a physician, and the father's death.
- The True Story of My Life, Chapter I
Sick with measles, he watches his father leave for war and hears his grandmother say it would be good if he died.
- The True Story of My Life, Chapter III
The harsh rector at Slagelse and Helsingør and the misery that brings him near to sinking.
- The Trumpet of the Swan, Chapter 5: Louis
The parents discover that Louis has no voice, and the cob and pen discuss what this will mean for him.
- The Trumpet of the Swan, Chapter 7: School Days
Louis learns to read and write in Mrs. Hammerbotham's class and begins to communicate with a slate.
- The Trumpet of the Swan, Chapter 9: The Trumpet
The cob crashes through the music store window in Billings and is wounded by the storekeeper's shot.
- The Trumpet of the Swan, Chapter 11: Camp Kookooskoos
The web of Louis's foot is slit so that he can press the trumpet's valves.
- The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers, The Turn of the Screw, early Bly chapters
The governess's isolation, attraction to the absent employer and first apparition establish an anxious perceptual field.
- The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers, The Turn of the Screw, school expulsion and surveillance
Miles's unclear misconduct and the governess's scrutiny raise questions about child psychology, projection and moral panic.
- The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers, The Turn of the Screw, final scene
The confrontation with Miles joins possible exorcism, panic, coercion and child death.
- The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers, The Aspern Papers, Juliana Bordereau scenes
Juliana's extreme age, guarded privacy and bodily frailty become objects of the narrator's archival opportunism.
- The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers, The Aspern Papers, narrator's pursuit
The scholar's fixation on the papers becomes a study in monomania and professional self-excuse.
- The Twelve Caesars, Julius Caesar
Reports of Caesar's falling sickness and bodily habits show illness incorporated into political biography.
- The Twelve Caesars, Caligula
The biography uses illness, sleeplessness and behavioral excess to frame tyranny as madness or monstrous disorder.
- The Twelve Caesars, Claudius
Descriptions of Claudius's gait, speech and bodily difference connect disability, mockery and political underestimation.
- The Twelve Caesars, Nero
Nero's violence, artistic grandiosity and suicide are presented through bodily fear, performance and death.
- The Twelve Caesars, Several lives
Poisoning rumors, assassination wounds and deathbed omens recur as instruments of political interpretation.
- The Underdogs, Opening mountain fighting
Demetrio's band fights from rough terrain, foregrounding gunshot wounds, flight and bodily endurance.
- The Underdogs, Luis Cervantes joins the band
A former medical student enters the revolutionary group, linking educated medicine to political opportunism.
- The Underdogs, Camp and march episodes
The fighters' drinking, hunger, fatigue and casual violence create a field medicine atmosphere without stable institutions.
- The Underdogs, Camila and La Pintada episodes
Sexual jealousy and coercion reveal gendered vulnerability in the revolutionary camp.
- The Underdogs, Final battle
The circular return to combat emphasizes death, repetition and the exhaustion of revolutionary purpose.
- The Vampyre, Opening London society
Ruthven's social effect resembles moral contagion, harming the innocent while leaving corrupt people flourishing.
- The Vampyre, Greek episode
Ianthe's death after vampire warnings links folklore, bodily violation and the drained victim.
- The Vampyre, Aubrey's return to England
Aubrey suffers fever, terror and apparent mental disorder after Ruthven returns and the oath prevents disclosure.
- The Vampyre, Final marriage plot
Aubrey's failed warning and death frame secrecy and social disbelief as fatal for his sister.
- The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture I: Religion and Neurology
Critique of medical materialism; acknowledgement that religious leaders often show nervous instability, and the argument that origin does not determine value.
- The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures IV and V: The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness
The mind-cure and New Thought movements, their therapeutic claims, testimonies of recovery from nervous and physical illness, and James's verdict that their results must be taken seriously.
- The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures VI and VII: The Sick Soul
Anhedonia, Tolstoy's crisis of meaning, Bunyan's obsessions and verbal automatisms, and the anonymous French sufferer's panic and lasting dread.
- The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures IX and X: Conversion
Sudden and gradual conversion explained through subconscious incubation, with cases of drunkards rescued by religious experience, including S. H. Hadley.
- The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures XI–XV: Saintliness
Extreme asceticism, self-mortification and fasting described and evaluated, including James's judgement on its pathological excesses.
- The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures XVI and XVII: Mysticism
The four marks of mystical states; alcohol as the exciter of the 'Yes function'; nitrous oxide and ether revelations; epileptic auras and the darker 'diabolical mysticism' of insanity.
- The Velveteen Rabbit, Anxious Times / fever chapters
The Boys scarlet fever and the disposal of infected toys.
- The Voyage of the Beagle, South America chapters
Darwin records illness, exposure, fatigue, and the bodily demands of collecting and travel.
- The Voyage of the Beagle, imperial encounters
Darwin's observations of slavery in Brazil, frontier warfare in Argentina, and disease among peoples the ship visited set his natural history within the voyage's human world.
- The Voyage of the Beagle, Galapagos chapters
Island observation becomes a training ground for later biological theory rather than a finished evolutionary argument.
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Chapters 5-6
Eustace's diary records seasickness, the storm, and the rationing of fresh water; he is caught stealing extra water at night.
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Chapter 6: The Adventures of Eustace
The gold bracelet bites into the dragon's foreleg, and Lucy's cordial does not ease the pain.
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Chapter 12: The Dark Island
The crew enter the island where dreams come true and flee in terror; Lord Rhoop is rescued after years of living nightmares.
- The Waning of the Middle Ages, Chapter XI, The Vision of Death
The dance of death, the macabre image of decomposition and the call to remember mortality.
- The Waning of the Middle Ages, Chapter II, Pessimism and the Ideal of the Sublime Life
The melancholy complaints of poets and chroniclers about the miseries of the world.
- The War of the Worlds, Book Two, Chapter II (What We Saw from the Ruined House)
The narrator's account of Martian anatomy: a body that is mostly brain, no digestion, feeding by injecting living blood, absence of sleep and fatigue, and the absence of bacteria and disease on Mars.
- The War of the Worlds, Book One, Chapter XIII (How I Fell In with the Curate)
The curate, sitting by the Thames, asks why such things are permitted and breaks into apocalyptic cries; the narrator judges that the disaster has driven him to the edge of his reason.
- The War of the Worlds, Book Two, Chapters III-IV (The Days of Imprisonment; The Death of the Curate)
Hunger and thirst in the ruined house at Sheen, the curate's drinking and loud raving, and the narrator's struggle to keep his own self-command.
- The War of the Worlds, Book Two, Chapter VIII (Dead London)
The Martians found dead of putrefactive and disease bacteria, with the narrator's explanation of human resistance acquired through natural selection.
- The War of the Worlds, Book Two, Chapter IX (Wreckage) and Chapter X (The Epilogue)
Three days the narrator cannot remember, his wandering through St. John's Wood, care by kindly strangers, and his later night visions of the dead.
- The Warden, Opening chapters
Hiram's Hospital is described as a charitable home for elderly men, establishing dependency, routine and institutional paternalism.
- The Warden, Bold's reform campaign
The bedesmen become subjects of legal and journalistic advocacy, raising consent and representation issues.
- The Warden, Harding under attack
Harding's conscience and public shame disturb his peace, appetite and sense of vocation.
- The Waste Land, Epigraph
The Sibyl of Cumae, given long life without youth and shrunk to hang in a jar, says she wants to die.
- The Waste Land, II. A Game of Chess, ll. 111-138
A woman's nerves are bad tonight; she begs her companion to speak, and he answers inwardly of rats' alley and dead men's bones.
- The Waste Land, II. A Game of Chess, ll. 139-172
In the pub, Lil's friend tells of her demobbed husband, her teeth, her five children and the pills taken to bring off a pregnancy.
- The Waste Land, III. The Fire Sermon, ll. 222-256
Tiresias watches the typist and the clerk's loveless encounter, an episode often read as a study in sexual indifference.
- The Waste Land, III. The Fire Sermon, ll. 182 and 300
By the waters of Leman and On Margate Sands, places linked to Eliot's rest and treatment in 1921.
- The Waves, Childhood sections
The early voices establish distinct sensory and affective patterns, suggesting personality as rhythm before biography.
- The Waves, Rhoda's soliloquies
Rhoda repeatedly experiences terror, unreality and separation from ordinary social identity.
- The Waves, Percival's death
The group absorbs Percival's sudden death as a disruption of shared identity and private desire.
- The Waves, Later-life sections
Aging, memory and bodily change alter the voices' relation to desire, ambition and language.
- The Wealth of Nations, Book I, ch. viii
Overwork by piece-rate workers leads to infirmities peculiar to each trade; Ramazzini's book on the diseases of artificers is cited.
- The Wealth of Nations, Book I, ch. viii
Poverty and child mortality in the Highlands of Scotland; the poor bear many children but rear few.
- The Wealth of Nations, Book I, ch. x, Part I
The reward of physicians explained by the trust society places in them with health, and by the cost of their training.
- The Wealth of Nations, Book V, ch. i, Part III, Art. II
Mental torpor from repetitive work likened to mutilation, and public instruction compared to preventing a leprosy from spreading among the people.
- The Wise Woman (A Double Story), Chapter I
Rosamond's rages, the fit after she loses her silver moon, and the narrator's note that she had nearly killed her nurse and all but hanged herself.
- The Wise Woman (A Double Story), Chapter III
Rosamond's dream that she is the old cold woman in the sky, wandering forever over blue sand.
- The Wise Woman (A Double Story), Chapter VII
Agnes in the bluish sphere loses all sense of time and is nursed and fed by the wise woman each night while she sleeps.
- The Wise Woman (A Double Story), Chapter XI
The poor woman feels Rosamond's joints, finds the sprain, and strokes and presses the ankle until the girl can walk.
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Chapter 3 and following
Mercy Wood, lame from a fever in childhood, does her work seated and with a crutch; the household takes her lameness as part of life.
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Chapters 18-19
Fever spreads through the town, children die, Mercy lies near death, and a mob blames Hannah Tupper's witchcraft.
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Chapter 19
Mercy's fever breaks on the night Kit returns from helping Hannah escape.
- The Woman in White, First Epoch, Hartright, IV
The escaped asylum patient on the Hampstead road and the two men who pursue her by chaise.
- The Woman in White, Second Epoch, Frederick Fairlie's narrative
Mr. Fairlie's elaborate account of his nerves and his sufferings from noise and light, interrupted by visitors he cannot refuse.
- The Woman in White, Second Epoch, Marian Halcombe's diary and Mrs. Michelson's narrative
Marian's fever after the rain, the dispute in which Fosco calls the fever typhus against Mr. Dawson's opinion, Fosco's interference and Mrs. Rubelle's nursing.
- The Woman in White, Second Epoch, The Narrative of the Doctor
A brief death certificate recording the death of Lady Glyde from aneurism at St. John's Wood.
- The Woman in White, Second Epoch, Hartright's narrative; Third Epoch
Laura's confinement in the asylum under Anne's name, her rescue by Marian through a bribed nurse, and the effects of the ordeal on her memory and spirits.
- The Woman in White, Third Epoch, The Story Continued by Isidor, Ottavio, Baldassare Fosco
Fosco's praise of chemistry as power and his account of the drugs used during the substitution.
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter V, The Rescue of the Tin Woodman
The Tin Woodman tells how his enchanted axe cut off his legs, arms and head in turn and a tinsmith replaced each part with tin.
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VIII, The Deadly Poppy Field
The scent of the poppies overpowers Dorothy, Toto and the Lion, and the friends who do not breathe must carry Dorothy out before she sleeps forever.
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter XVI, The Magic Art of the Great Humbug
Oz fills the Scarecrow's head with bran, gives the Tin Woodman a silk heart and pours courage for the Lion, knowing the gifts work by belief.
- The World as Will and Representation, Second Book, §§18–20
Identity of willing and bodily movement; pain and pleasure as immediate affections of the will; organs as objectified desires.
- The World as Will and Representation, Third Book, §36
Genius and madness compared; theory of insanity as a broken thread of memory filled with fictions, giving rise to monomania, melancholy or folly; the difficulty of obtaining histories from asylum patients; madness as a refuge from unbearable grief.
- The World as Will and Representation, Third Book, §38 and §52
Aesthetic contemplation as release from the suffering of willing; music as the expression of the will and the language of feeling.
- The World as Will and Representation, Fourth Book, §§56–59
Life as constant striving, pain and boredom; the negativity of happiness; the sum of suffering in human life.
- The World as Will and Representation, Fourth Book, §60
Affirmation of the will in the sexual impulse; the genitals as the focus of the will.
- The World as Will and Representation, Fourth Book, §§68–69
Asceticism, fasting and self-mortification; suicide as affirmation of the will; voluntary starvation by ascetics, with cases reported in contemporary sources.
- Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography, Chapter I
Childhood asthma and the discovery of his nearsightedness and first spectacles.
- Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography, Chapter II
Building up a weak constitution by exercise and his account of training soul and spirit along with the body.
- Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography, Chapter VI
Night tours of the tenement districts with Jacob Riis and the work of the police and health boards.
- Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography, Chapter VII
Wounds at San Juan, malaria and dysentery in the army before Santiago, and the round robin to General Shafter.
- Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography, Chapter XII
Inspection of the packing-houses and the passage of the meat inspection law and the Pure Food and Drugs Act.
- Theogony and Works and Days, Works and Days, ll. 90-105
Before Pandora men lived free from heavy sickness; after the jar is opened, silent diseases roam by day and night.
- Theogony and Works and Days, Works and Days, ll. 225-247
The just city knows no famine; the unjust city suffers famine and plague sent by Zeus, and its women bear no children.
- Theogony and Works and Days, Works and Days, ll. 582-596
High summer, when Sirius parches head and knees and Hesiod prescribes shade, food and diluted wine.
- Theogony and Works and Days, Theogony, ll. 75-103
The Muses, daughters of Memory, give a song that lets a grieving man forget his sorrow.
- Theogony and Works and Days, Theogony, ll. 211-225 and 758-766
Night bears Death, Sleep and the tribe of Dreams; later Sleep and Death dwell together beneath the earth.
- This Side of Paradise, Book One, Ch. 1
Amory's appendix bursts on an ocean liner, the ship turns back, and after the operation Beatrice suffers a 'nervous breakdown' the narrator likens to delirium tremens; Amory is sent to Minneapolis.
- This Side of Paradise, Book One, Ch. 2
The car crash on the road from New York in which Dick Humbird is killed.
- This Side of Paradise, Book One, Ch. 3 ('The Devil')
Amory's vision of a ghostly figure in a New York apartment and his flight through the streets.
- This Side of Paradise, Book Two, Ch. 2
Amory's three-week binge after Rosalind leaves him, ended by the coming of Prohibition.
- Thoughts on Government and Selected Letters, Late Adams-Jefferson correspondence
Aging, grief, memory, and mortality shape the retrospective friendship.
- Thoughts on Government and Selected Letters, Thoughts on Government
Balanced institutions are described as preventive discipline for political passion.
- Through Gates of Splendor, Chapters on the search
The wives wait at Shell Mera through the days of silence while the search party goes to Palm Beach.
- Through Gates of Splendor, Closing chapters
Burial of the men near the sandbar and the widows' reflections on loss and faith.
- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Chapter III
In the wood where things have no names, Alice forgets her own name and the Fawn forgets what it is.
- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Chapter IV
Tweedledum and Tweedledee show Alice the snoring Red King and tell her she is only a sort of thing in his dream.
- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Chapter V
The White Queen's memory works both ways; she bandages and screams over her finger before the brooch pricks it.
- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Chapter XII
Awake, Alice asks the kitten which of them dreamed it, herself or the Red King.
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Prologue, §5
The last man: health-conscious, conflict-averse, managing his days with small doses of poison for pleasant dreams and a larger dose for a pleasant death; dissenters go voluntarily into the madhouse.
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part I, Discourse II: The Academic Chairs of Virtue
A sage's lecture on sleep hygiene as ethics: ten self-overcomings, reconciliations, truths and laughters a day as 'poppy to the soul'.
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part I, Discourses III–IV: Backworldsmen; The Despisers of the Body
Otherworldly belief traced to the weariness of the sick body; the ego as the instrument of a bodily Self; the body as 'a plurality with one sense'.
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part I, Discourse VI: The Pale Criminal
A murderer whose reason misinterprets his own impulses; 'madness before the deed' and 'madness after the deed'; a plea to judges to say 'invalid' rather than 'wretch'.
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part I, Discourse XXI: Voluntary Death
Praise of dying 'at the right time' and scorn for lingering decline; important for the history of arguments about suicide and end-of-life choice.
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part II, Discourse XLII: Redemption
Cripples and a hunchback ask Zarathustra to heal them; he replies with folk sayings on the costs of cure and describes 'reversed cripples' who are all ear or all eye.
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part III, Discourse LVII: The Convalescent
Zarathustra falls 'as one dead', lies seven days without eating, is fed and watched by his animals, and recovers to describe his 'great disgust at man'.
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part IV, Discourse LXIV: The Leech
A scientist lies in a swamp letting leeches bleed his arm to study the leech's brain; Zarathustra calls him a 'cupping-glass' of conscience and offers to tend his wounds.
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Introduction by Mrs Förster-Nietzsche (stored text, before the Prologue)
Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche describes the Rapallo winter of influenza and her brother's effort in spring 1883 to stop taking chloral hydrate.
- Till We Have Faces, Part One, Chapters 4-5
Fever spreads through Glome; Psyche touches and blesses the sick, and the people's gratitude turns to fear as the plague continues.
- Till We Have Faces, Part One, Chapter 7
Orual lies ill with fever while Psyche is prepared for the Great Offering.
- Till We Have Faces, Part One, Chapters 1 and 20
The Fox counsels the princesses with Stoic maxims on death and loss, and later grows old and dies in Orual's service.
- Till We Have Faces, Part Two, Chapters 2-4
Orual's visions of becoming Ungit, of Psyche's labours and of the court of the dead, which she cannot separate from waking life.
- Timaeus, The civic frame
Timaeus gives this tag concrete force through timaeus is unusually rich for medical history because it links soul, body, marrow, organs, disease, diet, and psychic disorder inside a single cosmic anatomy
- Timaeus, The crafted cosmos
Timaeus gives this tag concrete force through timaeus is unusually rich for medical history because it links soul, body, marrow, organs, disease, diet, and psychic disorder inside a single cosmic anatomy
- Timaeus, Embodiment and disorder
Timaeus gives this tag concrete force through timaeus is unusually rich for medical history because it links soul, body, marrow, organs, disease, diet, and psychic disorder inside a single cosmic anatomy
- Timaeus, Embodiment and disorder
Timaeus gives this tag concrete force through timaeus is unusually rich for medical history because it links soul, body, marrow, organs, disease, diet, and psychic disorder inside a single cosmic anatomy
- Timaeus, Embodiment and disorder
Timaeus gives this tag concrete force through timaeus is unusually rich for medical history because it links soul, body, marrow, organs, disease, diet, and psychic disorder inside a single cosmic anatomy
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 11
Jem reads to Mrs. Dubose through her fits; after her death Atticus reveals her fight to break her morphine addiction.
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 10
Calpurnia spots the mad dog Tim Johnson and Atticus shoots it in the street.
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapters 18-19
Tom Robinson's crippled left arm, injured in a cotton gin, is shown to the court.
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 20
Dolphus Raymond shows the children that his paper sack holds only Coca-Cola.
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapters 28-29
Jem's arm is broken in the attack and Dr. Reynolds attends him.
- To the Lighthouse, Part I, The Window
Mrs Ramsay knits the stocking for the lighthouse keeper's boy, who is threatened with a tuberculous hip.
- To the Lighthouse, Part I, The Window
Mr Carmichael's opium-taking is mentioned in connection with the stain in his beard.
- To the Lighthouse, Part II, Time Passes
Bracketed reports of Mrs Ramsay's death, Prue's death after childbirth, and Andrew's death by a shell.
- To the Lighthouse, Part III, The Lighthouse
Lily's delayed grief for Mrs Ramsay overtakes her on the lawn as she paints.
- Travels with My Aunt, Opening funeral
Henry's mother's funeral initiates grief, family uncertainty and a late-life identity crisis.
- Travels with My Aunt, Henry's retirement routines
Henry's dahlias and banking habits suggest emotional constriction, safe routine and underused vitality.
- Travels with My Aunt, Augusta's travel stories
Augusta's erotic and criminal memories challenge medicalized assumptions about sexuality and old age.
- Travels with My Aunt, Travel episodes
Alcohol, risk and movement become comic antidotes to Henry's stagnant safety.
- Treasure Island, Admiral Benbow chapters
Billy Bones's heavy drinking, stroke-like collapse and death bring alcohol, vascular crisis and fear into the opening.
- Treasure Island, Dr. Livesey's early scenes
Livesey combines physician, magistrate and gentlemanly courage, representing medicine as practical authority.
- Treasure Island, Stockade fighting
The loyal party deals with gunshot wounds, field treatment, fever risk and pain during the island conflict.
- Treasure Island, Long John Silver throughout
Silver's one-legged body is central to his social performance, underestimated mobility and pirate image.
- Treasure Island, Final paragraph
Jim's dreams and auditory memories of the island suggest adventure as haunting aftereffect.
- Treatise on Light, Chapter I
Sight is described as excited by the impression of a movement of matter on the nerves at the back of the eye, supporting the claim that light is a motion.
- Treatise on Light, Chapter I, on Römer's observations
Huygens converts the speed of light into Earth diameters per second, equated with one beat of the pulse.
- Troilus and Criseyde, Book I
Troilus is struck by love and displays classic lovesickness: pallor, secrecy, sighing, sleeplessness and obsessive thought.
- Troilus and Criseyde, Book II
Pandarus interprets Troilus's symptoms and treats persuasion of Criseyde as the remedy.
- Troilus and Criseyde, Book IV
Separation intensifies Troilus's despair, appetite loss and fixation on Criseyde's return.
- Troilus and Criseyde, Book V
Troilus's grief after Criseyde's betrayal turns toward battlefield death and the poem's philosophical release.
- Twelfth Night, Shipwreck and disguise
Twelfth Night gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens includes melancholy, love-sickness, feigned madness, confinement, and the social power to declare someone disordered
- Twelfth Night, Illyrian love plots
Twelfth Night gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens includes melancholy, love-sickness, feigned madness, confinement, and the social power to declare someone disordered
- Twelfth Night, Malvolio enclosed
Twelfth Night gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens includes melancholy, love-sickness, feigned madness, confinement, and the social power to declare someone disordered
- Twelfth Night, Malvolio enclosed
Twelfth Night gives this tag concrete force through the medical lens includes melancholy, love-sickness, feigned madness, confinement, and the social power to declare someone disordered
- Twelve Angry Men, Opening deliberation
Heat, impatience and life-or-death stakes create a pressure environment for group decision-making.
- Twelve Angry Men, Discussion of witnesses
The jurors test memory, perception, age, stress and inference in eyewitness testimony.
- Twelve Angry Men, Juror Ten's speech
The group confronts explicit prejudice as a contaminant of judgment.
- Twelve Angry Men, Juror Three's final reversal
Personal trauma around his son breaks through the facade of certainty and punitive anger.
- Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Poems 1-5
The beloved's body is repeatedly fused with earth, fruit, hills and night, making desire a mind-body landscape.
- Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Middle poems
Distance, jealousy and memory turn erotic longing into repetitive thought and emotional dependence.
- Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, Nocturnal poems
Night settings intensify solitude, sleepless reflection and the speaker's need to address an absent beloved.
- Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, A Song of Despair
The closing poem gathers erotic loss into lament, grief and depressive imagery.
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Part I, Chapter XXII, Aegri Somnia
Aronnax and his companions fall into a sudden, irresistible sleep after a meal, apparently drugged, during an unexplained encounter.
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Part I, Chapter XXIII, The Coral Kingdom
Aronnax, acknowledging his medical training, examines a crewman with a shattered skull and exposed brain and judges the wound fatal.
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Part II, Chapter XVI, Want of Air
As the oxygen runs out beneath the ice, Aronnax records headache, dizziness, laboured breathing and the near-collapse of the crew.
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Part II, Chapter XXI, A Hecatomb
After sinking the warship, Nemo kneels before the portrait of a young woman and two children and breaks into sobs.
- Twenty Years at Hull-House, Chapter IV, The Snare of Preparation
Medical school, the spinal difficulty, Weir Mitchell's hospital, six months in bed, and years of nervous depression.
- Twenty Years at Hull-House, Chapter XIII, Public Activities and Investigations
Addams as garbage inspector of the nineteenth ward and the women of the neighborhood who thought it was not a lady's job.
- Twenty Years at Hull-House, Chapter XIII, Public Activities and Investigations
The typhoid epidemic of 1902 and the residents' investigation of plumbing near clusters of cases.
- Twenty Years at Hull-House, Chapter XIII, Public Activities and Investigations
The campaign against druggists selling cocaine to minors and the death of a former kindergarten pupil at seventeen.
- Twenty Years at Hull-House, Chapter XIV, Civic Cooperation
The smallpox epidemic after the World's Fair, garments finished in infected houses, and Julia Lathrop's visits to the pest house.
- Twilight of the Idols, Problem of Socrates
Nietzsche reads Socratic rationalism through the language of decadence and symptom.
- Twilight of the Idols, Morality as Anti-Nature
The treatment of passion criticizes moral extirpation and favors transformation.
- Twilight of the Idols, Skirmishes sections
Health, sickness, strength, and decline become tools of cultural criticism.
- Two Lives of Charlemagne, Einhard, personal habits section
Charlemagne's clothing, diet, moderation, exercise and swimming present health as part of royal discipline.
- Two Lives of Charlemagne, Einhard, health and death
Charlemagne's fevers, aging and final illness make the emperor's body a political and moral subject.
- Two Lives of Charlemagne, Campaign narratives
Wars and punishments imply wounds, pain and coercive bodily discipline at the edge of exemplary kingship.
- Two Lives of Charlemagne, Notker's authorial tradition
Notker's remembered identity as the Stammerer raises questions about disability, voice and monastic authorship.
- Ulysses, Lines 49-53 and 65-70
Ulysses admits that he and his mariners are old and weakened, and insists that age still has its honour and its work.
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, Part III (the raft)
Thirst, rain-catching, rationing, raw food, shark attacks and the men's physical decline over forty-seven days.
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, Part IV (Kwajalein)
Injections given to the captured airmen in what appear to have been medical experiments.
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, Part IV (Omori and Naoetsu)
Hunger, dysentery, beatings and forced labor in the prisoner-of-war camps.
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, Part V (homecoming)
Recurring nightmares of the Bird, flashbacks, drinking and despair before the 1949 crusade.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapters XXII-XXVI
Eva's cough, flushed cheek and slow fever; Marie dismisses it while Ophelia and the doctor recognize consumption; Eva's death.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter XV
Marie St. Clare's sick-headaches and complaints, and Miss Ophelia's offer of juniper-berry tea.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter XX; Chapter XXXIV
St. Clare's comparison of cruelty to laudanum; Cassy's account of giving her baby laudanum.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter XII; Chapter XVIII
Lucy drowns herself from Haley's boat after her child is sold; old Prue drinks to forget the child she lost.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter XVII; Chapter XXXVII
George's shot wounds the slave-hunter Tom Loker, and the Quakers take him in and nurse him back to health.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Chapter XLII
Legree drinks recklessly and dies raving and screaming of visions.
- Uncle Vanya, Act I
Astroff tells Marina of the typhoid epidemic at Malitskoi and the switchman who died under chloroform.
- Uncle Vanya, Act II
Serebrakoff, sleepless with gout, fears angina and complains of old age; he refuses to see Astroff, whom he had sent for, and is soothed by Marina with linden tea; Astroff drinks with Vanya.
- Uncle Vanya, Act III
Vanya's despair at the family council ends in two shots fired at the professor.
- Uncle Vanya, Act IV
Astroff demands the return of the morphine Vanya has taken from his medicine case, and Sonia persuades her uncle to give it back.
- Understood Betsy, Chapter I, Aunt Harriet Has a Cough
Aunt Frances's nightly dream interviews, her worry over the child's nerves and appetite, the doctor's verdict that the child is sound, and his alarm at Aunt Harriet's cough.
- Understood Betsy, Chapter I, Aunt Harriet Has a Cough
Old Mrs. Lathrop shouts from a window that the cook has scarlet fever and the house is quarantined.
- Understood Betsy, Chapter VII, Elizabeth Ann Fails in an Examination
The narrator lists the examination symptoms Betsy learned from Aunt Frances, and Cousin Ann's refusal to rehearse them.
- Understood Betsy, Chapters VIII-IX
'Lias Brewster's hunger and neglect, and his stepfather's selling the new clothes for whiskey.
- Up from Slavery, Chapter III
At Hampton he learns the use of the bath, the toothbrush and sheets, and explains their value for health and self-respect.
- Up from Slavery, Chapter VIII
Olivia Davidson's earlier service nursing a smallpox patient in Mississippi and offering herself as a yellow fever nurse in Memphis.
- Up from Slavery, Chapter XI
The gospel of the tooth-brush and the teaching of bathing and sleeping between sheets at Tuskegee.
- Up from Slavery, Chapter XV
Washington's rules for keeping body and nerves fit, his reliance on sleep as a warning sign, and his habit of short naps.
- Up from Slavery, Chapter XVI
On the voyage to Europe he sleeps fifteen hours a day and first realizes how tired he is after eighteen years of work.
- Utilitarianism, Chapter II (higher and lower pleasures)
The competent-judge test; the claim that pains, like pleasures, can only be ranked by the experienced; the 'tender plant' of the nobler feelings that dies for want of sustenance.
- Utilitarianism, Chapter II (whether happiness is attainable)
Tranquillity and excitement as the two constituents of a satisfied life; the 'need of excitement' as a disease; selfishness and lack of mental cultivation as the main causes of an unsatisfying life; a passing reference to Novalis's recommendation of suicide.
- Utilitarianism, Chapter II (the removable evils)
Poverty and disease presented as largely conquerable by education, social institutions, 'proper control of noxious influences' and science; those who care for others keep their interest in life on the eve of death.
- Utilitarianism, Chapter III
Conscience analysed as a learned feeling of pain at violating duty, encrusted with associations from childhood, religion and self-esteem.
- Utilitarianism, Chapter IV (will, desire and habit)
Will as 'the child of desire' that can come under the dominion of habit; the example of those 'who have contracted habits of vicious or hurtful indulgence' acting against their own deliberate preference.
- Utilitarianism, Chapter V (justice and expediency)
A duty to steal medicine or compel the only qualified doctor to save a life; rights as protection of security; the injustice of sacrificing an individual without consent for others' benefit, raised in the discussion of punishment.
- Utopia, Book II, Of Their Traffic
The four public hospitals outside each city, isolation of infectious patients, attendance by physicians, and the steward's priority in the market.
- Utopia, Book II, Of Their Traffic
Butchering and washing of beasts done outside the town so the air is not corrupted.
- Utopia, Book II, Of the Travelling of the Utopians
Health as the foundation of bodily pleasure, and the Utopians' esteem for Hippocrates, Galen and the study of medicine.
- Utopia, Book II, Of Their Slaves, and of Their Marriages
Care of the incurable, counselled voluntary death by fasting or opium, refusal of honours to unsanctioned suicide, and old age called a disease of itself.
- Villette, Ch. IV
Lucy nurses the rheumatic invalid Miss Marchmont, hears her story on her last night, and finds her dead in the morning.
- Villette, Ch. XV
The long vacation: Lucy alone with a disabled pupil, then wholly alone, sleepless and despairing, until she confesses at a church and collapses.
- Villette, Ch. XVII
Dr. John questions Lucy about her nervous system and prescribes cheerful society and exercise, conceding the limits of medicine.
- Villette, Ch. XXII
Lucy sees the nun in the garret and Dr. John speaks of spectral illusion as a possible effect of long mental conflict.
- Villette, Ch. XXXVIII
Lucy is given a sweet drink containing a strong opiate; instead of sleep it brings excitement, and she walks out to the moonlit park festival.
- Waiting for Godot, Act I, opening
Estragon's struggle with his boot and Vladimir's urinary discomfort and anxiety about his hat.
- Waiting for Godot, Act I and Act II, by the tree
The friends discuss hanging themselves and, at the end of Act II, test Estragon's belt, which breaks.
- Waiting for Godot, Act II
Estragon cannot recall the events of the day before; Pozzo returns blind and Lucky dumb, and both collapse.
- Walden, Economy
The diagnosis of quiet desperation among Concord's laboring men, followed by the inventory of necessaries and Thoreau's food accounts.
- Walden, Solitude
Thoreau argues that nature's society cures melancholy and that a gentle rain is good company for a man alone.
- Walden, Visitors
Simple-minded paupers from the almshouse visit the house, and Thoreau finds one of them more candid than most philosophers.
- Walden, Higher Laws
Thoreau's case for water as the only drink for a wise man, set against wine, coffee, tea and the opium-eater's heaven.
- Walden, Conclusion
The doctors' prescription of a change of air and scenery for the sick becomes a call to explore one's own inner world.
- War and Peace, Book Three, Ch. XIX
Andrew, wounded at Austerlitz, is carried to a dressing station, probed, and commended by Napoleon to his surgeon Larrey, who judges him unlikely to recover.
- War and Peace, Book Four, Chs. VIII–IX
Lise's labor and death in childbirth at Bald Hills as Andrew returns home.
- War and Peace, Book Five, Ch. XVII
Nicholas visits Denísov in a crowded military hospital where typhus is raging and amputees lie untended.
- War and Peace, Book Nine, Ch. XVI
Natásha's illness after the broken engagement and Tolstoy's reflections on the limits of the doctors who attend her.
- War and Peace, Book Ten, Ch. XXXVII
The surgeons' tent after Borodinó, where Andrew sees Anatole's leg amputated.
- War and Peace, Book Twelve, Chs. XV–XVI
Andrew's last days at Yaroslavl, nursed by Natásha and Princess Mary.
- War and Peace, Book Fourteen, Chs. XII–XIV
Pierre's march with the prisoners in the French retreat: hunger, sore feet, cold, and the shooting of Karatáev.
- Washington Square, Early Sloper household chapters
Dr. Sloper's grief over his wife and disappointment in Catherine establish a physician-father whose intelligence is emotionally punitive.
- Washington Square, Morris courtship chapters
Sloper evaluates Morris like a case, using social evidence and diagnostic confidence to predict mercenary motives.
- Washington Square, Europe journey
Sloper attempts to cure Catherine's attachment through distance and pressure, treating emotion as a correctable error.
- Washington Square, Final refusal
Catherine's refusal of Morris shows a life after romantic injury that is neither cure nor collapse.
- Washington v. Glucksberg, Opinion of the Court, Part II, paragraph beginning Those who attempt suicide
Relies on the New York Task Force for the link between suicidal wishes and depression, and for the concern that depression in seriously ill patients is often missed.
- Washington v. Glucksberg, Opinion of the Court, Part II, paragraph beginning The State also has an interest in protecting the integrity and ethics of the medical profession
Sets the American Medical Association's opposition to physician-assisted suicide and testimony on patient trust against the Ninth Circuit's view that medicine's integrity was not at risk.
- Washington v. Glucksberg, Opinion of Justice Breyer, paragraph on pain-relieving drugs and hospice briefs
Considers the testimony of hospice and medical organizations that pain can nearly always be controlled, and treats lawful palliative care as decisive for the case.
- Washington: A Life, Youth: voyage to Barbados (1751)
Washington contracts smallpox while accompanying his ailing half-brother Lawrence, who died of tuberculosis soon after.
- Washington: A Life, The planter years (1773)
Patsy Custis's epilepsy and death in a seizure at Mount Vernon.
- Washington: A Life, The war years (1777)
The decision to inoculate the Continental Army against smallpox.
- Washington: A Life, Throughout, especially the presidency
Washington's dental losses, dentures and the pain they caused.
- Washington: A Life, The first term (1789-1790)
The thigh abscess or tumour and the respiratory illness that twice put the new president's life in danger.
- Washington: A Life, Final chapter (December 1799)
The throat infection, the physicians' repeated bleeding and other remedies, and Washington's composed death.
- Watership Down, Part I, opening chapters
Fiver's vision of the field covered in blood and his collapse into fear before the flight from Sandleford.
- Watership Down, Part I, the snare at Cowslip's warren
Bigwig is caught by a wire noose and nearly dies before the others dig out the peg.
- Watership Down, Part II, Holly's story
Holly and Bluebell, exhausted and shocked, tell how men gassed the Sandleford warren and filled in the runs.
- Watership Down, Part II, the Nuthanger raid
Hazel is shot by the farmer and lies wounded in a drain until Fiver, led by a dream, finds him.
- We, Early records
D-503 praises rational happiness and describes regulated sex, time and transparent living as healthful social order.
- We, Records after meeting I-330
D-503 experiences desire, jealousy and dreams as illness or infection of the self.
- We, O-90 pregnancy plot
O-90's illegal pregnancy exposes reproductive control and the state's claim over bodies.
- We, Great Operation records
The surgical removal of imagination turns medicine into political pacification.
- We Hold These Truths, Public consensus
We Hold These Truths gives this tag concrete force through its medical relevance appears where conscience, institutional freedom, public reason, and contested moral goods affect health law and care
- We Hold These Truths, Church and state
We Hold These Truths gives this tag concrete force through its medical relevance appears where conscience, institutional freedom, public reason, and contested moral goods affect health law and care
- Webb v. United States, Certificate of the Circuit Court of Appeals, sentence beginning: It was Webb's regular cus tom and practice to prescribe morphine for habitual users
The appeals court's description of Webb's practice, contrasting orders intended to cure or break the habit with orders written for continuing use; the stored text splits the word custom.
- Webb v. United States, Opinion of the Court, answer to question three: to call such an order for the use of morphine a physician's prescription
Justice Day's one-sentence holding that a maintenance order is not a prescription, the line later used to restrict physicians treating opiate dependence.
- What Is Life?, Chapters 2-3
Mendelian inheritance, recessive mutations carried without effect in heterozygotes, and X-ray induced mutation rates used to estimate gene size.
- What Is Life?, Chapter 4
The permanence of hereditary traits across many generations explained by the quantum stability of the gene molecule.
- What Is Life?, Epilogue
The body as a mechanism obeying natural law, set against the direct experience of directing its motions, resolved in the identity of the self with universal consciousness.
- When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty, Chapter 9, Abbasid court culture
The patronage of learning and translation at the caliphal court, the context for the Arabic reception of Greek medicine.
- Where the Red Fern Grows, Chopping the big sycamore
Billy chops for days until his hands are blistered and bleeding, refusing to quit on his promise to the dogs.
- Where the Red Fern Grows, The ghost coon and the Pritchards
Rubin Pritchard trips while running with Billy's axe and is fatally wounded; Billy is left shaken by the death.
- Where the Red Fern Grows, The championship hunt
In a blizzard Grandpa falls and sprains his ankle and is lost for a time; the dogs are found coated in ice and are thawed and rubbed by the fire.
- Where the Red Fern Grows, The mountain lion
Old Dan is mortally wounded fighting the lion and dies; Little Ann refuses food and dies on his grave.
- Where the Red Fern Grows, Chapter 20
Billy's grief is eased when the family finds the red fern between the graves and Papa and Mama speak of God's purposes.
- White Fang, Part IV, Chapter II
Beauty Smith plies Grey Beaver with whisky until the trader's craving consumes his money and goods and he sells White Fang for bottles.
- White Fang, Part III, Chapter VI
Famine in the Indian camp: dogs eat each other and their harness, and White Fang flees to the woods to hunt alone.
- White Fang, Part V, Chapter V
The surgeon's examination and verdict after the fight with Jim Hall, the call for an X-ray and a San Francisco doctor, and the weeks of nursing in plaster casts and bandages.
- White Fang, Part V, Chapter V
During convalescence White Fang dreams again of the lair, Lip-lip and Beauty Smith's fighting pen, and suffers a recurring nightmare of electric cars turning into lynxes.
- White Fang, Part V, Chapter V
The account of Jim Hall's childhood and prison treatment, described as soft clay moulded by brutality.
- White Nights, First night
The dreamer's solitary walks and attachment to buildings show urban loneliness converted into imaginative companionship.
- White Nights, Second night
The dreamer narrates his withdrawal into fantasy, revealing both self-protection and social deprivation.
- White Nights, Nastenka's story
Nastenka's blind grandmother pins her dress as supervision, blending care, disability and confinement.
- White Nights, Fourth night and morning
The dreamer's sudden hope and loss form a compact study of attachment, disappointment and depressive return.
- Winnie-the-Pooh, Eeyore chapters
Friends include the gloomy donkey.
- Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, Chapter I
Childhood practice of medicine on her doll and pets, learned by watching her mother's patients.
- Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, Chapter IV
Cholera at Cruces: her treatments, the deaths, the examination of an infant's body to learn about the disease, and her own attack of cholera.
- Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, Chapter VII
Nursing army officers and their families through the yellow fever epidemic in Kingston in 1853, with many death-bed scenes.
- Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, Chapter IX
A visit to the Barrack Hospital at Scutari and her meeting with Florence Nightingale.
- Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, Chapter XIII
Her medical work among the troops from the British Hotel, with testimonials from army surgeons.
- Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, Chapter XVI
Dressing wounds at the field hospital on 18 June 1855 and on the field of the Tchernaya.
- Wuthering Heights, Childhood at Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff's degradation, Catherine's wild attachment and Hindley's violence establish early trauma and attachment injury.
- Wuthering Heights, Hindley's decline
Hindley's alcoholism, gambling and violence after Frances's death damage Hareton and the household.
- Wuthering Heights, Catherine's illness and childbirth
Catherine's emotional crisis becomes feverish illness, delirium, childbirth and death.
- Wuthering Heights, Linton Heathcliff chapters
Linton's chronic frailty and manipulation by Heathcliff link invalidism to inheritance and coercion.
- Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff's final days
Heathcliff's visions of Catherine, refusal of food and death show grief as obsessive bodily unraveling.
- Youngberg v. Romeo, Opinion of the Court, Part I, paragraph beginning At Pennhurst, Romeo was injured on numerous occasions
Describes the injuries and the complaint that led a mother to sue the administrators of the institution where her son lived, and the arm restraints later used in its hospital ward.
- Youngberg v. Romeo, Opinion of the Court, Part IV, at the sentence beginning In determining whether the State has met its obligations
Gives decisions of professional staff a presumption of correctness and acknowledges that such institutions were often overcrowded and understaffed.
- Youngberg v. Romeo, Concurrence of Justice Blackmun, paragraph beginning The second difficult question left open today
Raises whether training to preserve a resident's existing self-care skills, such as dressing and hygiene, is part of the minimally adequate care the Constitution requires.