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| A little drug oft brings relief. Ovid. | 1 |
| A disease known is half cured. | 2 |
| A doubtful remedy is better than none. Latin. | 3 |
| Bitter pills are gilded. German. | 4 |
| Bitter pills may have wholesome effects. | 5 |
| Dear physic always does good, if not to the patient at least to the apothecary. German. | 6 |
| Desperate diseases require desperate remedies. French. | 7 |
| I was well, would be better, took physic and died. An epitaph. | 8 |
| If physic do not work prepare for the kirk. | 9 |
| If the pills were pleasant they would not want gilding. | 10 |
| Learn from the beast the physic of the field. Pope. | 11 |
| Medicines are not meant to live on. | 12 |
| Meet the disease at its approach. | 13 |
| One is not so soon healed as hurt. | 14 |
Our bane and physic, the same earth bestows,
And near the noisome nettle blooms the rose. Ovid. | 15 |
| Patients are simples that grow in every medical man’s garden. Punch. | 16 |
| Pills must be bolted not chewed. French. | 17 |
| Starve the measles and nourish the small-pox. Chinese. | 18 |
| The maladies of the body may prove medicines to the mind. Buckminster. | 19 |
| To yield to remedies is half the cure. Seneca. | 20 |
| What cures Sancho makes Martha sick. Spanish. | 21 |
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