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We may see very clearly how the wrong sound, or anti-music, is pathogenic and migrainogenic; while the right sound—proper music—is truly tranquillising, and immediately restores cerebral health. These effects are striking, and quite fundamental, and put one in mind of Novalis’s aphorism: Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.

Oliver Sacks

We may see very clearly how the wrong sound, or anti-music, is pathogenic and migrainogenic; while the right sound—proper music—is truly tranquillising, and immediately restores cerebral health. These effects are striking, and quite fundamental, and put one in mind of Novalis’s aphorism: Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.

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