remedies quotes

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.24,'Of Innovations'.

We reason with one another; he prescribes the remedies; I omit to take them and I recover.

-Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molie'  re
On his relationship with his doctor, Mauvillan, in the presence of Louis XI V. Quoted in Vincent Cronin Louis XI V (1964), p.291.

   Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyse it by encumbering it with remedies.

- Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
  War and Peace, bk.10, ch.29.