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Quotation from Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“I could not read the description of any malady without thinking it mine, and, had I not been already indisposed, I am certain I should have become so from this study”
Confessions, Book VI, trans. Anonymous (Aldus Society, 1903)
Reading physiology and anatomy leads Rousseau to believe he has a 'polypus at the heart'.
Citation: "I could not read the description of any malady without thinking it mine, and, had I not been already indisposed, I am certain I should have become so from this study" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions, Book VI, trans. Anonymous (Aldus Society, 1903). (id rousseaus-confessions-q8)
Portrait: Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Public domain.
