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Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
I find the medicine worse than the malady.
I find the medicine worse than the malady.
 Better to hunt in fields for health unbought,
 Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
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 Better to hunt in fields for health unbought,
 Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
  The wise for cure on exercise depend;
   God never made his work for man to mend. 
 In such a night
 Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew,
  And saw the lion's shadow ere himself,
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 In such a night
 Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew,
  And saw the lion's shadow ere himself,
   And ran dismayed away. 
Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.