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 This is the way that physicians mend or end us,
 Secundum artem: but although we sneer
  In read more 
 This is the way that physicians mend or end us,
 Secundum artem: but although we sneer
  In health--when ill, we call them to attend us,
   Without the least propensity to jeer. 
 Use three Physicians,
 Still-first Dr. Quiet,
  Next Dr. Merry-man
   And Dr. Dyet.  
 Use three Physicians,
 Still-first Dr. Quiet,
  Next Dr. Merry-man
   And Dr. Dyet. 
 But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having 
studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of read more 
 But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having 
studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human 
body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will 
benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal 
attention to the rich and the poor.
   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), 
There is no medicine to cure hatred
There is no medicine to cure hatred
 Who shall decide when doctors disagree,
 And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?  
 Who shall decide when doctors disagree,
 And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? 
 I do remember an apothecary,
 And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted
  In tatt'red weeds, with read more 
 I do remember an apothecary,
 And hereabouts 'a dwells, which late I noted
  In tatt'red weeds, with overwhelming brows,
   Culling of simples. Meagre were his looks,
    Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;
     And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,
      An alligator stuffed, and other skins
       Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves
        A beggarly account of empty boxes,
         Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds,
          Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses
           Were thinly scattered, to make up a show. 
 Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success 
soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults read more 
 Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success 
soever they have, the world proclaimeth and what faults they 
commit, the earth covereth. 
 You tell your doctor, that y' are ill
 And what does he, but write a bill,
  Of read more 
 You tell your doctor, that y' are ill
 And what does he, but write a bill,
  Of which you need not read one letter,
   The worse the scrawl, the dose the better.
    For if you knew but what you take,
     Though you recover, he must break. 
 A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
 [Lat., Orandum est, ut sit read more 
 A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for.
 [Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]