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Quotation from Essays by Francis Bacon
“you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flowers of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart, but a true friend”
Essays, Essay XXVII, Of Friendship (1625 text, modernized spelling (Project Gutenberg #575))
Bacon lists contemporary remedies (sarsaparilla, iron, sulphur, castoreum) to argue that only friendship relieves the burdened heart.
Citation: "you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flowers of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart, but a true friend" — Francis Bacon, Essays, Essay XXVII, Of Friendship (1625 text, modernized spelling (Project Gutenberg #575)). (id essays-bacon-q9)
Portrait: Portrait of Francis Bacon., Paul van Somer I / Formerly attributed to Frans Pourbus the Younger, Public domain.
