Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Remedy
The remedy is worse than the disease.
Bacon.—Essay XV. on Seditions, last Line.
Withdraw thy action, and depart in peace;
The remedy is worse than the disease.
Dryden’s Juvenal, Satire XVI.
Better that we awhile had borne
E’en all those ills which most displease,
Than sought a cure far worse than the disease.
Buckingham.—Chorus III. in Marcus Brutus.