The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English; / or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and Modern

by Abel Boyer

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King Alphonsus being Sick, and having try’d several Remedies to no purpose, He left them all, and betook himself to the reading of Quintus Curtius’s History: He was so much delighted with it, that by degrees his Disease abated, and at last being fully recover’d, he said, Farewel Hypocrates, farewel Avicenna, and all Physick; long live Quintus Curtius my true Physician.

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Le Roy Alphonse étant malade aprés avoir tenté en vain plusieurs Remedes, il les abandonna entierement, & se mit à lire l’Histoire de Quinte-Curse. Le plaisir qu’il y prit soulagea peu à peu son mal, & enfin se voyant gueri, il dit: Adieu Hyppocrate, Adieu Avicenne, & toute la Medecine: Vive Quinte-Curse, mon veritable Medecin.