“The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. It is a dreadful thing to have you forced to live there! so far off! – and the air so bad!”
– Jane Austen
Emma, Chapter 12. Mr. Woodhouse, the eccentric patriarch of the Woodhouse family and a hypochondriac, says this to Isabella. He is a figure of satire in the novel.