PROPHYLAXIS
Ovid (43 B.C. –A.D. 18?), “Remedia Amoris”:
“Principiis obsta; sero medicina paratur
Cum mala per longas convaluere mores”
(Resist beginnings; too late is the medicine prepared when the disease has gained strength by long delays).
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), “The Doctor’s Dilemma” (1906):
“Stimulate the phagocytes”.
Isaac Watts (1674-48), “Against Evil Company”:
“One sickly sheep infects the flock,
And poisons all the rest”.
Anon (common saying):
“A stitch I time, saves nine”.
MISATTRIBUTED
"Fear is the true enemy, the only enemy".
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