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] |