 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...sound men sick, and sick men kill. Mauinger. For men are brought to worse distresses, By taking physie, than diseases ; And therefore commonly recover, As soon as doctors give them over. Butler, Hint. "Wounds by the wider wounds are heal'd, And poisons by themselves expell'd. Butler, Hud.... | |
 | 1890 - 714 pages
...Butler's hit at medicine in his Hudibras, viz. : "For men are brought to worse distresses By taking physic than diseases ; And, therefore, commonly recover As soon as doctors give them over." is not true to-day. As a recent editorial in the Lancet well puts it : " No fault is further from the... | |
 | 1891 - 556 pages
...armies to the public weal. Pope PHYSIC. EFFECTS OF. For men are brought to worse distresses By taking physic than diseases ; And therefore commonly recover, As soon as doctors give them over. Butler A SHOP FOB. About his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes Green earthen pote, bladders,... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...still more, which withdraws him from it. Goethe. For men are brought to worse diseases ' By taking physic than diseases, / And therefore commonly recover / As soon as doctors give them over. Butler. 20 For men at most differ as heaven and earth, / But women, worst and best, as heaven and helL... | |
 | 1897 - 774 pages
...infinite amusement of his friends. Butler writes: — "For men are brought to worse distresses, By taking physic, than diseases. And therefore commonly recover, As soon as doctors give them over." "Most those ills we mortals know, From doctors and imagination flow." We are today well out in the... | |
 | 1916 - 900 pages
...satirizes all the weaknesses and follies of his time : "For men are brought to worse distresses By taking Physic than diseases, And, therefore, commonly recover As soon as doctors give them over." Lord Byron, in Don Juan, sums up the situation succinctly : "Physicians mend or end us. Secundem artem;... | |
 | 1914 - 76 pages
...Butler, in his Hudibras, hits the doctors as follows : "For men are brought to worse distresses By taking physic, than diseases; And therefore commonly recover, As soon as doctors give them over." The quackish side of the profession, in "putting up the front," did not escape the eagle eye of Shakespeare,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1856 - 892 pages
...than the apothecary. He believes, with Hndibras, that " Men are brought to more distresses By taking physic than diseases, And therefore commonly recover As soon as doctors give them over." Undoubtedly the ingredients of health and long life are " Great temperance, open air, Easy labor, little... | |
 | 1889 - 750 pages
...quotation, purporting to be taken from ' Hudibras':— For men are brought to worse distresses By taking physic than diseases ; And therefore commonly recover As soon as doctors give them over. It looks very Hudibrastio, yet, after very carefully examining every pag« of my copy, I cannot find... | |
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For men are brought to worse distresses, By taking physic, than diseases ; And therefore commonly recover, As soon as doctors give them over. 
