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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

8513 Hipporates 460- 370 BC John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:8513
AUTHOR:Hippocrates (c. 460–c. 370 B.C.)
QUOTATION:Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Aphorism i.
 
Note 1.
See Shakespeare, Hamlet, Quotation 179.

For a desperate disease a desperate cure.—Montaigne: Chap. iii. The Custom of the Isle of Cea. [back]