Consumption catch thee! _Timon of Athens, Act IV., Sc. III._
There’s hell, there’s darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption! _King Lear, Act IV., Sc. VI._
Thy food is such As has been belch’d on by infected lungs. _Pericles, Act IV., Sc. VI._
But I’m relapsing into metaphysics, That labyrinth, whose clue is of the same Construction as your cures for hectic phthisics, Those bright moths fluttering round a dying flame. _Byron—Don Juan, Canto XII., Verse LXXII._
Love is riotous, but marriage should have quiet, And, being consumptive, live on a milk diet. _Byron—Don Juan, Canto XV., Verse XLI._
For goodness, growing to a plurisy, Dies in his own too-much. _Hamlet, Act IV., Sc. VII._
A whoreson cold, sir; a cough, sir; which I caught with ringing in the king’s affairs, upon his coronation day. _Henry IV—2d, Act III., Sc. II._
’Tis dangerous to take a cold. _Henry IV., Act II., Sc. III._
The tailor cries, and falls into a cough. _Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act II., Sc. I._
Coughs will come when sighs depart. _Byron—Don Juan, Canto X., Verse VIII._
Who, * * * but would much rather Sigh like his son, than cough like his grandfather? _Byron—Don Juan, Canto X., Verse VI._
He has not forgotten the diseases affecting the digestive organs.
An old superstition regarding toothache was that it was caused by a small worm, formed like an eel, which bored a hole into the tooth, and various methods were employed to remove it. Dyer notes the fact that John of Gatisden, one of the oldest medical authorities, attributed decay of the teeth to this cause.
_Don Pedro._ What! sigh for the toothache? _Leon._ Where is but a humour or a worm? _Much Ado, Act III., Sc. II._
He that sleeps feels not the toothache. _Cymbeline, Act V., Sc. IV._
Being troubled with a raging tooth, I could not sleep. _Othello, Act III., Sc. III._
There was never yet philosopher, That could endure the toothache patiently. _Much Ado, Act V., Sc. I._
She shall be buried with her face upwards; Yet this is no charm for the toothache. _Much Ado, Act III., Sc. II._
_Bene._ I have the toothache. _D. Pedro._ Draw it. _Much Ado, Act III., Sc. II._
Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. _Richard II., Act I., Sc. III._