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A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:22)
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:22)
 Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an 
art.
 [Lat., Aegri quia non omnes read more 
 Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an 
art.
 [Lat., Aegri quia non omnes convalescunt, idcirco ars nulla 
medicina est.] 
 When taken
 To be well shaken.  
 When taken
 To be well shaken. 
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
 You behold in me
 Only a travelling Physician;
  One of the few who have a mission
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 You behold in me
 Only a travelling Physician;
  One of the few who have a mission
   To cure incurable diseases,
    Or those that are called so. 
 The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride,
 Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side.
  [Lat., Dat read more 
 The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride,
 Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side.
  [Lat., Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores,
   Sed genus species cogitur ire pedes.] 
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful
 Take a little rum
 The less you take the better
  Pour it in the lakes
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 Take a little rum
 The less you take the better
  Pour it in the lakes
   Of Wener or of Wetter.
    Dip a spoonful out
     And mind you don't get groggy,
      Pour it in the lake
       Of Winnipissiogie.
        Stir the mixture well
         Lest it prove inferior,
          Then put half a drop
           Into Lake Superior.
            Every other day
             Take a drop in water,
              You'll be better soon
               Or at least you oughter. 
 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.