A Quote by Publilius Syrus

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

Publilius Syrus

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Disease Remedies Some Than Worse

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Publilius Syrus
Roman - Writer
85 BC - 43 BC

Some remedies are worse than the disease.

Publilius Syrus

There are some remedies worse than disease.

Sara Shepard

The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.

Carl Honore

There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.

Fleur Adcock

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

Anton Chekhov

Disease is cured by the body itself, not by doctors or remedies.

John Harvey Kellogg

Remedies, indeed, are our great analysers of disease.

Peter Latham

You may know the intractability of a disease by its long list of remedies.

Alonzo M. Clark

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Francis Bacon

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

Aesop

Often the confidence of the patient in his physician does more for the cure of his disease than the physician with all his remedies. Reasserting the statement by Avicenna.

Henri de Mondeville

Some people say you have to fight cancer. But it was fighting me. The cure was worse than the disease, and it left me totally exhausted and depressed. I just hid myself away in my daughter-in-law's flat.

Maggie Smith

We have finally started to notice that there is real curative value in local herbs and remedies. In fact, we are also becoming aware that there are little or no side effects to most natural remedies, and that they are often more effective than Western medicine.