The Imaginary Invalid By Moliere: Play Analysis

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In Moliere’s brilliant play, The Imaginary Invalid, Beralde explains to Argan that more men die from their remedies than their diseases. While overdoses on drugs are a big part of deaths to this day, Beralde is wrong. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, close to two million deaths were disease caused in the US in 2014, while over forty-seven thousand deaths were caused by drugs, as reported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the 17th century, which is when this story takes place, medical treatment was not effective. Doctors used leeches to “suck out the bad blood” and used medicine that had little to no effect on illness. Because of this, many people died from the treatment of their inscrutable illnesses,

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