maladies quotes

Medical men all over the world having merely entered into a tacit agreement to call all sorts of maladies people are liable to, in cold weather, by one name; so that one sort of treatment may serve for all, and their practice thereby be greatly simplified.

-Jane Baillie ne  e Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle
  Letter to  John Welsh, 4 Mar.

  A thousand horrid Prodigies foretold it. A feeble government, eluded Laws, A factious Populace, luxurious Nobles, And all the maladies of stinking states.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
c.1737  Irene, act1, sc.1 (first produced1749).