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" Cure her of that: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon... "
Macbeth, from the text of S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised - Page 82
by William Shakespeare - 1784
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Health and Disease

Kathy Elgin - 2005 - 36 pages
...LeaT and Ophelia, really do go mad. Hamlet only pretends to be mad, but behaves very convincingly. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow MACBETH, ACT 5, SCENE 3 ter: take care of, treat Macbeth and his wife have both done terrible things...
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The Tao of Religion

George Rapanos - 2007 - 337 pages
...you can live in the present. Die to the mind, so the love of God can be rediscovered in your heart. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain; And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd...
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Virgin Gives Birth to a Fish: With One Eye

R. J. J. Atkin - 2006 - 390 pages
...will be given to you. Walk upon your beach and your dwarf will give you access to this king/queendom. "Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain; And with some sweet obivious antidote Cleanse the stuff...
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A Short Introduction to Psychotherapy

Christine Lister-Ford - 2007 - 168 pages
...traumatic events can lead to mental distress. When the doctor reports to Macbeth he receives the challenge: Cure her of that. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd...
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Abysmal: A Critique of Cartographic Reason

Gunnar Olsson - 2010 - 569 pages
...To bed, to bed, to bed! (5.1.73-76) a lamentation to which Macbeth responds by ordering the doctor: Cure her of that. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff...
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Shakespeare and the Practice of Physic: Medical Narratives on the Early ...

Todd Howard James Pettigrew - 2007 - 206 pages
...of equivocation. When first asked how fares his patient, his reply is calculated to be noncommittal: Not so sick, my lord, As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies, That keep her from her rest. (5.3.27-29) His first suggestion, that Lady Macbeth is " [n]ot so sick," has a double implication:...
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Shakespeare's Macbeth Small Cast

Sam Dowling - 2007 - 90 pages
...country round Hang those that talk of fear. Give me mine armour How does your patient doctor DOCTOR Not so sick my Lord As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies That keep her from her rest MACBETH Cure her of that Canst not minister to a mind diseased Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow...
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Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry

Thomas Szasz - 2011 - 293 pages
...Lady Macbeth's madness and her husband's desire to deny its meaning, tells Macbeth that his wife is "Not so sick, my lord / As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies / That keep her from her rest."43 Macbeth is not satisfied. He presses the doctor with these immortal words: "Cure her of that:...
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Be a Poet

Nancy Bogen - 2007 - 426 pages
...lines from Shakespeare's Macbeth, with quite a few words of Latin origin, pretty much tell the story: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffd...
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