Antidote

About Antidote

“, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.”
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“Ægri quia non omnes convalescunt, idcirco ars nulla medicina est.”
— Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.
“Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."”
— Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Book II, Chapter XXXVII.
“I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixty years, appealed to a physician.”
— Plutarch, De Sanitate tuenda, Volume II.
“When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills.”
— William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act II, scene 4, line 149.
“But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.”
— Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique portatif ("A Philosophical Dictionary") (1764), Physicians.

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