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Quotation from Villette by Charlotte Brontë
“Medicine can give nobody good spirits. My art halts at the threshold of Hypochondria: she just looks in and sees a chamber of torture, but can neither say nor do much.”
Villette, Ch. XVII (Project Gutenberg text)
At La Terrasse the young doctor tells Lucy he cannot cure low spirits by pill or potion and prescribes company and exercise.
Citation: "Medicine can give nobody good spirits. My art halts at the threshold of Hypochondria: she just looks in and sees a chamber of torture, but can neither say nor do much." — Charlotte Brontë, Villette, Ch. XVII (Project Gutenberg text). (id villette-q4)
Portrait: CBRichmond, George Richmond, Public domain.
