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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.