Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Physical illnesses are colored or affected by a person's emotional and mental state.
- In plain terms
- Your mind affects how you experience physical sickness.
- What can you take from it?
- Health issues are shaped by heart and intellect.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- To what extent does mood affect physical symptoms?
- How do we separate mind and body in medicine?
Another view
It implies blame on the individual for their physical condition.
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