Forty-Fourth, or Septuagesima, Section
If there is a malady which is a compilation of all maladies, all chapters of pathology at once, nobody has it but I. Apoplexy—hectic—cramp in the stomach or a lizard—three kinds of fever—polypus in the heart—sprouting gooseberry bushes:—such are the few visible constituents and ingredients which I have thus far been able to announce of my malady; a judicious deeper section of my poor body will, when both classes of constituents shall have laid it low, add to these the invisible ones also....