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Banished the doctor, and expell'd the friend.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. III. L. 330.

Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. III. L. 174.

So modern 'pothecaries, taught the art By doctor's bills to play the doctor's part, Bold in the practice of mistaken rules, Prescribe, apply, and call their masters fools.— POPE — Essay on Criticism. L. 108.

But, when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warm'd the politician, Cur'd yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.— PRIOR — The Remedy Worse than the

Disease You tell your doctor, that y' are ill; And what does he, but write a bill, Of which you need not read one letter; The worse the scrawl, the dose the better. For if you knew but what you take, Though you recover, he must break.— PRIOR — Alma. Canto III. L. 97.

Physicians, of all men, are most happy: whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.— QUARLES — Hieroglyphics of the Life of

S. Man. Use three Physicians, Still-first Dr. Quiet, Next Dr. Merry-man And Dr. Dyet. From Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum. Edition 1607. Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest; evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil.— Shakespeare — King John. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 112.