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John Donne

The Stations of the Sickness

1. The first alteration, the first grudging of the sickness 7
2. The strength and the function of the senses, and other faculties, change and fail 12
3. The patient takes his bed 17
4. The physician is sent for 23
5. The physician comes 30
6. The physician is afraid 35
7. The physician desires to have others joined with him 43
8. The king sends his own physician 50
9. Upon their consultation, they prescribe 56
10. They find the disease to steal on insensibly, and endeavor to meet with it so 63
11. They use cordials, to keep the venom and the malignity of the disease from the heart 69
12. They apply pigeons, to draw the vapours from the head 77
13. The sickness declares the infection and malignity thereof by spots 83
14. The Physicians observe these accidents to have fallen upon the critical days 88
15. I sleep not day or night 96
16. From the bells of the church adjoining, I am daily remembered of my burial in the funerals of others 102
17. Now, this bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die 107

18. The bell rings out, and tells me in him, that I am dead 114
19. At last the physicians, after a long and stormy voyage, see land: They have so good signs of the concoction of the disease, as that they may safely proceed to purge 122
20. Upon these indications of digested matter, they proceed to purge 131
21. God prospers their practice, and he, by them, calls Lazarus out of his tomb, me out of my bed 138
22. The physicians consider the root and occasion, the embers, and coals, and fuel of the disease, and seek to purge or correct that 145
23. They warn me of the fearful danger of relapsing 152

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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