Medicine & Medical Proverbs (165 Proverbs)
- Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.
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- Dear physic always does good, if not to the patient, at least to the apothecary.
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- If you are an anvil, be patient; if you are a hammer, strike hard.
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- Old age is a disease that you die from.
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- A library is a repository of medicine for the mind
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- A doctor is only a doctor when he has killed one or two patients.
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- It is no time to go for the doctor when the patient is dead.
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- Every patient is a doctor after his cure.
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- The earth covers the errors of the physician.
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- The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
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- If pride were a disease, how many would be already dead?
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- An imaginary ailment is worse than a disease.
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- Better go without medicine than call in an unskilled physician.
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- Even honey can taste bitter if it's used as medicine.
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- Where there is no wine, we need medicine.
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- There is no such thing as tasty medicine.
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- Early, not late remedies are the most effective.
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- It is well to buy oil as well as salt. [Different remedies should be at hand when required.]
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- He suffers from the same disease. [He is in the same difficulty.]
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- To the patient man will come all the riches of the world.
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- There is more to be feared from the doctor than the disease.
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- The doctor is to be feared more than the disease.
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- The disease worsens with the treatment (The remedy is worse than the disease).
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- The dying man is not saved by medicine.
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- If you want to give a sick man medicine, let him first be really ill -- so that he can see how well the medicine works.
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- He who is sick will not refuse medicine.
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- The doctor demands his fees whether he has killed the illness or the patient.
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- The blunders of physicians are covered by the earth.
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- The bitter cup we strive to remove from us holds the medicine we are most in need of.
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- It ill becomes a carpenter to be heavy-handed, a smith to be shake-handed, or a physician to be tenderhearted.
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- God, healeth, and the physician hath the thanks.
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- Better lose a supper than have a hundred physicians.
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- The earth hides as it takes, the physician's mistakes.
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- The beginning of health is to know the disease.
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- To a physician a sick man is a garden.
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- The sick man is the garden of the physicians.
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- Do not dwell in a city whose governor is a physician.
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- Beware of the anger of a patient man.
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- Before thirty, men seek disease after thirty, disease seeks men.
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- Physicians' faults are covered with earth, and rich men's with money.
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- Medicine cures the man who is fated not to die.
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- Whatsoever was the father of disease, an ill diet was the mother
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- The first step toward a cure is to know what the disease is
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- The physician prescribes the medicine, the vulture waits for the body.
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- When the pain has passed one forgets the medicine.
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- Sickness accompanies a waning moon; a new moon cures disease.
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- Medicine left in the bottle can't help.
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- Work is the medicine for poverty.
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- Three remedies of the physicians of Myddfai: water, honey, and labour.
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- The chemist doesn't smell his own medicine.
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- Sleep is better than medicine.
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- Laughter is the best medicine.
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- Beware of a patient mans fury.
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- Deceive not thy physician, confessor, or lawyer.
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- When fate strikes physicians are useless.
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- People are man's medicine.
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- Old age is in itself a disease.
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- Ready money is ready medicine.
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- To conceal disease is fatal.
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- Physician, heal thyself.
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- Temperance is the best medicine.
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- Where remedies are needed, sighing avails not.
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- Time is anger's medicine.
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- Where philosophy ends medicine begins.
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- Hate has no medicine.
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- Abstinence is the best medicine.
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- Regularity is the best medicine.
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- Death is the poor man's best physician.
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- Every invalid is a physician.
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- Hope is the physician of each misery.
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- Diseases are the visits of God.
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- For extreme ills extreme remedies.
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- Patience is often better than medicine.
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- Repentance is the heart's medicine.
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- Paper is patient.
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- The patient one always wins.
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- Desperate ills require desperate remedies.
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- Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.
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- Elbow-grease is a great preventative of disease.
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- For great evils strong remedies.
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