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Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.
 The physician heals, Nature makes well.
 [Lat., Medicus curat, Natura sanat morbus.]  
 The physician heals, Nature makes well.
 [Lat., Medicus curat, Natura sanat morbus.] 
 When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills,
 And I must minister the like to you.  
 When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills,
 And I must minister the like to you. 
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.
 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. 
 In poison there is physic; and these news,
 Having been well, that would have made me sick,
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 In poison there is physic; and these news,
 Having been well, that would have made me sick,
  Being sick, have in some measure made me well. 
 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.] 
 God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
 [Sp., Dios que da la llaga, da la medicina.]  
 God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
 [Sp., Dios que da la llaga, da la medicina.] 
The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope
The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope