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 Learn'd he was in medic'nal lore,
 For by his side a pouch he wore,
  Replete with strange read more 
 Learn'd he was in medic'nal lore,
 For by his side a pouch he wore,
  Replete with strange hermetic powder
   That wounds nine miles point-blank would solder. 
 The medicine increases the disease.
 [Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.]  
 The medicine increases the disease.
 [Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.] 
 But in this point
 All his tricks founder and he brings his physic
  After his patient's death: read more 
 But in this point
 All his tricks founder and he brings his physic
  After his patient's death: the king already
   Hath married the fair lady. 
 And in requital ope his leathern scrip,
 And show me simples of a thousand names,
  Telling their read more 
 And in requital ope his leathern scrip,
 And show me simples of a thousand names,
  Telling their strange and vigorous faculties. 
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
 (Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor?
 (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,
  As she is troubled with read more 
 (Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor?
 (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,
  As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies
   That keep her from her rest.
    (Macbeth:) Cure her of that!
     Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
      Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow,
       Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
        And with some sweet oblivious antidote
         Cleanse the stuffed bosom of the perilous stuff
          Which weighs upon the heart?
           (Doctor:) Therein the patient
            Must minister to himself.
             (Macbeth:) Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it! 
 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.] 
 I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was 
ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to read more 
 I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was 
ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician. 
It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it so it can be devoured by worms.
It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it so it can be devoured by worms.