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Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about medicine

Every disease will have its course.

Proverbs and old sayings English

The cure is worse than the disease.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Whatsoever was the father of the disease, an ill diet was the mother.

Proverbs and old sayings English about diets, mother

He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian

If a sauna, whiskey and tar do not help, the disease is fatal.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about help

If vodka, tar and sauna don't help, the disease leads to death.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about help, death

If tar, hard liquor and sauna do not cure; the disease is fatal.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish

Elbow-grease is a great preventative of disease.

Proverbs and old sayings French

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.

Proverbs and old sayings French

Old age is a disease that you die from.

Proverbs and old sayings German about olderness, age, old

Three diseases without shame: love, itch, and thirst.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about shame, love

The remedy is often worse than the disease.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

If pride were a disease, how many would be already dead?

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about proudness

People with the same disease share sympathy.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about people

Victims of the same disease have a lot to talk about.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about victims

Elderliness is not a disease, but a richness.

Proverbs and old sayings about wealth

To conceal disease is fatal.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Old age is in itself a disease.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about olderness, age, old