“My dear melancholy, Enraged she's colic! Lovely indeed a fellow And so sweet a collie. Never but so mellow Can she be like a dolly? However she's so frolic! Or could she get yellow Like a peach, but jolly? You'll regret her follies!” PoemHumorousMoodMelancholyPunsAcrosticRhymesFolliesColicSpiritual State Book:ACross Tic Source: ACross Tic
“My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.” HellToo MuchSkyAtheismChildhoodSorrowAngryPositive AtheismGhostSatanDreadDeitiesDeep SorrowWhooping CoughColic Author:George Eliot
“Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.” IfsHeartSpiritRichWindFitTasteCriticismCommunicateExcellentGenerousChampagneSourMuddySparklingVapidColic Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words
“Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.” ThinkingLittlesMatterToo MuchExperienceAppetiteSimpletonsColic Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be an abnormality of temperament or form (structure). Symptom is a manifestation of some abnormal state in the body. It may be harmful as a colic pain or harmless as the flushing of cheeks in peripneumonia.” MayStatesBodyPainFormProduceHealthDiseaseNormalFunctionStructureManifestationCheeksSymptomsTemperamentAbnormalDisturbanceAbnormalityFlushingColic Book:The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb) Source: The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)