Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart?
– William Shakespeare
Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 3. Macbeth asks the Doctor to minister to Lady Macbeth’s diseased mind. Here he uses a series of implied metaphors, with the memory compared to a garden, the brain to a tablet on which troubles are written, while the “stuffed bosom” is Lady Macbeth’s heart.