Doctor Lounge shelf
Loss of a patient
Elegies, consolations, and night-watch poems written around deaths the art could not prevent.
How this shelf is gathered
Grief at the bedside
Built from labels and source text that name loss, elegy, patient death, bedside watching, and consolation.
Representative records
Poems surfaced from the current release.
- De Coriandro.Latin · 15th century · English available
The power of the herb Coriander is said to be rigid, and at the same time to have a certain austere virtue. Galen states this: by which it is accustomed to drive out worms and t...
De viribus herbarum - De Papauere.Latin · 15th century · English available
They say the force of the poppy is cold and dry. They assign three species to it: the flower of one is white, of another, red: and the flower of the smaller one is pale rosy; th...
De viribus herbarum - De Pulegio.Latin · 15th century · English available
The power of pennyroyal is said to be hot and dry. The third degree in both is given by physicians. If a pregnant woman takes this herb too often, she aborts. Taken with warm wi...
De viribus herbarum - CHANT CINQUIÈME.French · 19th century · English available
What innumerable crowd intoning its Canticles, Floods the porticoes of the Temple of Lucina? Enter the forecourt, young women, enter; I am going to reveal to you the sacred myst...
La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe - CHANT CINQUIÈME.French · 19th century · English available
We have admired the structure of the pelvis, And in her very temple adored Nature. Let us follow her step by step, catch her in the act, Seek to snatch from her some new benefac...
La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe - CHANT DIXIÈME.French · 19th century · English available
PROUD Juno, disdained in my verses, Furious and indignant against Lucina and me, Jealous to avenge her glory and her influence, Goes to find Jupiter, caresses him, and says: Mas...
La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe - CHANT HUITIÈME.French · 19th century · English available
The God who unites the destiny of lovers, Has two famous Temples for the bonds of Hymen, One close to Amathus, is in those gentle climes, That winter never sullied with its fros...
La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe - CHANT NEUVIÈME.French · 19th century · English available
In that age close to the infancy of the world Where innocence reigned, a fertile woman, Always after nine months, with impunity, Paid the happy tribute of maternity. Upon a bed...
La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe - CHANT PREMIER.French · 19th century · English available
Sublime art, faithful to the will of nature, Before self-interest, envy, and imposture Had subjected your laws to their caprice, A child of Apollo today avenges your rights. Apo...
La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe - CHANT QUATRIÈME.French · 19th century · English available
MUSE, before sowing in the fields of Lucina, Deign to permit at least that my hand uproot The numerous prejudices, the fatal abuses, With which Routine and art are both imbued....
La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe - CHANT SECOND.French · 19th century · English available
O night both delicious and fleeting! How insipid the God of waking seemed to me, When he came suddenly, with indiscreet zeal, To tear me regretfully from the sweetest dreams. I...
La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe - CHANT SIXIÈME.French · 19th century · English available
I have sung of Nature and her Temple, or womb, And her inherent force and her expulsive force. Muse, tell us how, without support, without aid, Fanni alone brought forth the fru...
La Luciniade du docteur Sacombe