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Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
Better use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
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
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.
 Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, 
loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.  
 Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, 
loyal criticism will have beneficial effects. 
 A single doctor likes a sculler plies,
 And all his art and all his physic tries;
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 A single doctor likes a sculler plies,
 And all his art and all his physic tries;
  But two physicians, like a pair of oars,
   Conduct you soonest to the Stygian shores. 
 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.] 
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.
 Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the 
crowd of physicians had killed him."  
 Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the 
crowd of physicians had killed him." 
 How the Doctor's brow should smile,
 Crown'd with wreaths of camomile.  
 How the Doctor's brow should smile,
 Crown'd with wreaths of camomile.