Hippocrates. 460-359 b. c.
Life is short and the art long.[700:1]
Aphorism i.
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.[700:2]
Aphorism i.
Footnotes
[700:1] See Chaucer, page 6.
[700:2] See Shakespeare, page 141.
For a desperate disease a desperate cure.—Montaigne: Chap. iii. The Custom of the Isle of Cea.