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Quotation from Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“I followed this indication, and determined to cure myself or die without the aid of physicians and medicine”
Confessions, Book VIII, trans. Anonymous (Aldus Society, 1903)
After years of treatment that exhausted him, Rousseau abandons doctors.
Citation: "I followed this indication, and determined to cure myself or die without the aid of physicians and medicine" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions, Book VIII, trans. Anonymous (Aldus Society, 1903). (id rousseaus-confessions-q12)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
