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Medicine: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Ægri quia non omnes convalescunt, idcirco ars nulla medicina est. Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.— CICERO — De Natura Deorum. II. 4.

Dulcia non ferimus; succo renovamus succo renovamus amaro. We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.— OVID — Ars Amatoria. III. 583.

Graviora quædam sunt remedia periculis. Some remedies are worse than the disease.— SYRUS — Maxims.

Ægrescitque medendo. The medicine increases the disease.— VIRGIL — Eneid. XII. 46.