"The heart of a physician should be in full steel and armour, like the body of a tortoise"

— Ludger, Conrad (b. 1748)


Place of Publication
Printed for James Ridgeway
Publisher
London
Date
1799
Metaphor
"The heart of a physician should be in full steel and armour, like the body of a tortoise"
Metaphor in Context
BLUM.
I was wrong then. The heart of a physician should be in full steel and armour, like the body of a tortoise.
Provenance
Searching in HDIS (Drama)
Citation
4 entries in the ESTC (1799, 1800).

See The Reconciliation: A Comedy, in Five Acts. Now under Representation at the Theatre Royal, Vienna, with unbounded Applause. Translated from the German of Augustus von Kotzebue. (London: Printed for James Ridgeway, 1799). <Link to ECCO>
Date of Entry
06/13/2005

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.