February 16, 2008 - Tolstoy on Health & Medicine - 0 Comments

"The prince frowned and kept coughing as he listened to the doctor. He, as a man who had seen life and was neither stupid nor sick, did not believe in medicine, and in his soul he was angry at this whole comedy, the more so in that he was almost the only one who fully understood the cause of Kitty's illness."

- Tolstoy (trans. P&V), Anna Karenina, 1878