Doctor Lounge shelf
Witnessing suffering
What physicians wrote after staying in the room: pain observed, attended, and carried home.
How this shelf is gathered
Witnessing suffering
Built from poem labels and lines that describe suffering, pain, watching, and bedside presence.
Representative records
Poems surfaced from the current release.
- 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 - De Menta.Latin · 15th century · English available
Mint bears a hot and dry power in the second degree. By a drink of it, the digestive power is aided. It comforts the stomach and, when swallowed, holds back vomiting.
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 Senetione.Latin · 15th century · English available
Erigeron in Greek, we call seniclum, Because in its flower it seems similar to hoary hairs. It grows on walls and in gardens and on tiled roofs. The power of that herb is said t...
De viribus herbarum - E L E G I A V.Latin · 16th century · English available
While I live far away near the Bears that never touch the sea, Where the land of the North Wind lies sluggish with cold: The author of the year who guides the ethereal horses Ha...
Poemata - T R I B U L U S.Latin · 17th century · English available
T R I B U L U S. Tribulus, if you, born in billowy marshes, are cold, Why nevertheless do you have the horns of an angry brow? We protect secret wealth: beneath the rind a sweet...
Coena, sive De cibariorum virtutibus - UNGUENTUM MARCIATON.Latin · 19th century · English available
1235 Marciaton breaks up the torments of cold gout: It regulates arthritic and sciatic complaints, the spleen and swelling of the belly, And uterine complaints with harmonious p...
Aegidii Corboliensis carmina medica - — 32. La fistule, poème héroïcomique, par un fistuleux. 1856 ; 1[2 feuille in-8°.French · 19th century · English available
A living Sisyphus still, I dragged upon the earth A block of stone, alas! as hard as iron; And yet the implacable wrath of the Gods Destined, we are told, this punishment for hell!
Le Parnasse médical français - Belle Fourmi, tu rêves, solitaire,French · 19th century · English available
Leave them to me! I will predict the storm That would disturb the course of a clear day; Towards God, for you, my homage will ascend, By my knowledge I will embellish your days,...
Le Parnasse médical français - Aux portes de l'Eternité,French · 19th century · English available
At the gates of Eternity, When I have finished my career, If there remains to me a little dust Of this sad humanity, Let the tomb alone seize it, And let from my soul separate T...
Le Parnasse médical français - Un morceau de pain dur soutient mon existence ;French · 19th century · English available
A piece of hard bread sustains my existence; I acquire it with difficulty, it is often lacking: The passerby, whose assistance I implore in vain, Flees without looking at me, wi...
Le Parnasse médical français - Pour les harems elle est vendueFrench · 19th century · English available
For the harems she is sold Among heaps of vile booty, Disfigured, half-naked: To be a slave is her destiny. Happy still when the injury Can, in this degradation, Save her from t...
Le Parnasse médical français