Young men's knocks old men feel.
"The sins of our youth we atone for in our old age" (Latin).[769]
Rub your sore eye with your elbow.
He who laid down this rule of sound surgery was a man qui ne se mouchait pas du talon; he did not blow his nose with his heel. If a speck of dust enters your eye, close the lid gently, keep your fingers away from it, and leave the foreign body to be washed by the tears to the inner corner of the eye, whence it may be removed without difficulty.
FOOTNOTES:
[754] Gli errori del medico gli copre la terra. Los yerros del médico la tierra los cubre.
[755] Sungrarle y purgarle; si se muriere, enterrarle.
[756] Le médecin est souvent plus à craindre que la maladie.
[757] Fuge medicos ac medicamenta, si vis esse salvus.
[758] Di rado il medico piglia medicina.