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.
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.
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.
It is better to employ a doubtful remedy than to condemn the patient to a certain death.
See also: | Death (55)
It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions, but hard to get one single remedy.
Chinese proverb
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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
Maximes et pensées (1796), Vol. 1, No. 17.
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.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
‘Of Seditions and Troubles’, Essays.
See also: | Disease (87)
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