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 We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.
 [Lat., Dulcia non ferimus; succo renovamus amaro.]  
 We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.
 [Lat., Dulcia non ferimus; succo renovamus amaro.] 
 'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases
 Are grown so catching.  
 'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases
 Are grown so catching. 
 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? 
 Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut
 Some cureless limb, before in use he put
  His read more 
 Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut
 Some cureless limb, before in use he put
  His violent Engins on the vicious member,
   Bringeth his Patient in a senseless slumber,
    And grief-less then (guided by use and art),
     To save the whole, sawes off th' infected part.
   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, 
 Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a 
major operation by a surgeon.  
 Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a 
major operation by a surgeon. 
 So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art
 By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part,
  Bold in the read more 
 So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art
 By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part,
  Bold in the practice of mistaken rules,
   Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools. 
 Who worse than a physician
 Would this report become? But I consider
  By med'cine life may be read more 
 Who worse than a physician
 Would this report become? But I consider
  By med'cine life may be prolonged, yet death
   Will seize the doctor too. How ended she? 
 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. 
 The medicine increases the disease.
 [Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.]  
 The medicine increases the disease.
 [Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.]