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PHILOSOPHY > scholar, writer, clergyman > Robert Burton
Diseases . ....
Vendor: PHILOSOPHY
Diseases . . . crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.
Source: The Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. I, Sect. 2
-- Robert Burton, (Feb 8 1577-1640), English scholar, writer, clergyman; His Anatomy of Melancholy was considered a masterpiece of style and valuable index to philosophers of the time.