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Remedy Quotes (23 quotes)

... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real. You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. Nor is semantics a device for establishing that everyone except the speaker and his friends is speaking nonsense
— Alfred Tarski
In 'The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics', collected in Leonard Linsky (ed.), Semantics and the Philosophy of Language: A Collection of Readings (1952), 17.
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Para todo hay remedio, sino es para la Muerte.
[Italian:] A tutto c' é rimedio fuorohe alia morte.
There is a remedy for everything except death.
— Spanish Proverb
In Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, James Fitzmaurice-Kelly (ed.) and John Ormsby (trans.) The Complete Works of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: Don Quixote (1901), Vol. 6, 221. Note: c.f. medieval Latin saying, "Against the evil of death there is no remedy in the garden." in Elizabeth Knowles, Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2006).
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Tardiora sunt remedia quam mala.
Remedies are slower in their operation than diseases.
— Publius Cornelius Tacitus
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign (1893), 410.
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A man is a poor physician who has not two or three remedies ready for use in every case of illness.
— Asclepiades
Attributed.
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All substances are poisonous, there is none that is not a poison; the right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
— Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus
In Robert Allan Weinberg, The Biology of Cancer (2006), 725.
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All that Anatomie can doe is only to shew us the gross and sensible parts of the body, or the vapid and dead juices all which, after the most diligent search, will be noe more able to direct a physician how to cure a disease than how to make a man; for to remedy the defects of a part whose organicall constitution and that texture whereby it operates, he cannot possibly know, is alike hard, as to make a part which he knows not how is made. Now it is certaine and beyond controversy that nature performs all her operations on the body by parts so minute and insensible that I thinke noe body will ever hope or pretend, even by the assistance of glasses or any other intervention, to come to a sight of them, and to tell us what organicall texture or what kinde offerment (for whether it be done by one or both of these ways is yet a question and like to be soe always notwithstanding all the endeavours of the most accurate dissections) separate any part of the juices in any of the viscera, or tell us of what liquors the particles of these juices are, or if this could be donne (which it is never like to be) would it at all contribute to the cure of the diseases of those very parts which we so perfectly knew.
— Thomas Sydenham
'Anatomie' (1668). Quoted in Kenneth Dewhurst (ed.), Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689): His Life and Original Writings (1966), 85-6.
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An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.
— Benjamin Franklin
In Poor Richard's Almanack (1739).
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But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.
— Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
A Philosophical Dictionary: from the French? (2nd Ed.,1824), Vol. 5, 239-240.
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I prefer the spagyric chemical physicians, for they do not consort with loafers or go about gorgeous in satins, silks and velvets, gold rings on their fingers, silver daggers hanging at their sides and white gloves on their hands, but they tend their work at the fire patiently day and night. They do not go promenading, but seek their recreation in the laboratory, wear plain learthern dress and aprons of hide upon which to wipe their hands, thrust their fingers amongst the coals, into dirt and rubbish and not into golden rings. They are sooty and dirty like the smiths and charcoal burners, and hence make little show, make not many words and gossip with their patients, do not highly praise their own remedies, for they well know that the work must praise the master, not the master praise his work. They well know that words and chatter do not help the sick nor cure them... Therefore they let such things alone and busy themselves with working with their fires and learning the steps of alchemy. These are distillation, solution, putrefaction, extraction, calcination, reverberation, sublimination, fixation, separation, reduction, coagulation, tinction, etc.
— Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus
Quoted in R. Oesper, The Human Side of Scientists (1975), 150. [Spagyric is a form of herbalism based on alchemic procedures of preparation.]
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I tell them if they will occupy themselves with the study of mathematics they will find in it the best remedy against the lusts of the flesh.
— Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain (1924, 1965), 417.
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If you are too fond of new remedies, first you will not cure your patients; secondly, you will have no patients to cure.
— Sir Astley Paston Cooper
Attributed. In Peter McDonald, Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations (2004), 25.
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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.
— Aretaeus of Cappadocia
Therapeutics of chronic diseases II, Ch. II, 485-6.
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In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand this excellent use of the pure mathematics, in that they do remedy and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it; if too wandering, they fix it; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it. So that as tennis is a game of no use in itself, but of great use in respect it maketh a quick eye and a body ready to put itself into all postures, so in the mathematics that use which is collateral and intervenient is no less worthy than that which is principal and intended.
— Sir Francis Bacon
The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book 2. Reprinted in The Two Books of Francis Bacon: Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human (2009), 97.
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It is better to employ a doubtful remedy than to condemn the patient to a certain death.
— Anonymous
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It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions, but hard to get one single remedy.
— Chinese Proverb
Chinese proverb.
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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.
— William Shakespeare
In All's Well That Ends Well, Act 1, 1, 199-200. Collected in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1906), Vol. 1, 299.
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Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
— Nicholas Chamfort
Maximes et pensées (1796), Vol. 1, No. 17.
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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.
— Helen Keller
My Religion (2007), 162.
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Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. … And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.
— Herbert George (H.G.) Wells
A Modern Utopia (1904, 2006), 49.
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The expression Similia similibus is a Latin phrase and means that an imaginary disease can best be cured by an imaginary remedy.
— Elbert (Green) Hubbard
In Elbert Hubbard (ed. and publ.), The Philistine (Mar 1908), 26, No. 4, 105.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
— Pliny the Elder
Natural History, 25, 16. Trans. R. W. Sharples.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
— Sir Francis Bacon
‘Of Seditions and Troubles’, Essays.
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Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils of medicine from supposed facts, and ascribe all the remedies which have been uniformly and extensively useful, to such theories as are true. Facts are combined and rendered useful only by means of theories, and the more disposed men are to reason, the more minute and extensive they become in their observations
— Benjamin Rush
Quoted in John Edmonds Stock, Memoirs of the life of Thomas Beddoes (1810), 401.
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