Remedy Quotes (8)

A man is a poor physician who has not two or three remedies ready for use in every case of illness.
Attributed.
See also:  |  Disease (87)  |  Physician (122)

If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no patients to cure.
Attributed. In Peter McDonald, Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations (2004), 25.
See also:  |  Cure (18)  |  Patient (24)

In diabetes the thirst is greater for the fluid dries the body ... For the thirst there is need of a powerful remedy, for in kind it is the greatest of all sufferings, and when a fluid is drunk, it stimulates the discharge of urine.
Therapeutics of chronic diseases II, Ch. II, 485-6.
See also:  |  Diabetes (3)  |  Urine (2)

It is better to employ a doubtful remedy than to condemn the patient to a certain death.
Anonymous
See also:  |  Death (55)

It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions, but hard to get one single remedy.
Chinese proverb
See also:  |  Prescription (7)

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
Maximes et pensées (1796), Vol. 1, No. 17.
See also:  |  Cure (18)  |  Drug (16)  |  Philosophy (34)

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all—the apathy of human beings.
My Religion (2007), 162.
See also:  |  Cure (18)  |  Evil (5)

The remedy is worse than the disease.
‘Of Seditions and Troubles’, Essays.
See also:  |  Disease (87)

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