Careful Words

medicine (n.)

medicine (v.)

  A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.

Old Testament: Proverbs xvii. 22.

  Medicine for the soul.

The miserable have no other medicine,

But only hope.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Not poppy, nor mandragora,

Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,

Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep

Which thou owedst yesterday.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3.

I find the medicine worse than the malady.

John Fletcher (1576-1625): Love's Cure. Act iii. Sc. 2.