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    According to the proverb, what do desperate diseases require?

    Question #15165. Asked by Curious. (Dec 20 01 10:22 AM)


    Stevo

    		I think the more usual ending is 'desperate remedies'

    Dec 20 01, 12:18 PM
    fosse4

    		i beleive the phrase to be dire remedies

    Dec 21 01, 10:29 PM
    Tabby Tom

    		Like Stevo, I thought the usual ending was 'desperate remedies'.

    But the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs gives several versions, including:

    Diseases desperate grown by desperate appliance are relieved (1601, Shakespeare, {Hamlet);}

    Desperate cuts must have desperate cures (1639, John Clarke, Paroemiologia {Anglo-Latina);}

    Desperate diseases must have desperate cures (1655, Thomas Fuller, Church History of {Britain);}

    Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies (1713, Daniel Defoe, Reasons Against the Succession of the House of Hanover).

    It seems that you can pay your money and take your choice.

    Dec 22 01, 12:13 PM

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