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1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xiv. 97 It is a strange point of physik, when the remedie it self is more dangerous then the disease.]

1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 63 For which inconveniences, the doctrine of Italy..hath introduced Cabanet councels, a remedy worse then the disease.

1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xvi. 312 Withdraw thy Action, and depart in Peace; The Remedy is worse than the Disease.

1734 tr. C. Rollin Method teaching & studying Belles Lettres IV. 310 We may then come to correction, but not make it too common and habitual; for then the remedy is worse than the disease.

1794 C. Plowden Remarks Mem. G. Panzani 112 The indiscretions of others proved the remedy to be almost as dangerous as the disease.

1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. ix. xxi. 151 It has also the property of spirits of wine, to take out greasy spots in silks or woollens; but the remedy is worse than the disease, for it leaves an abominable odour.

a1862 H. D. Thoreau Yankee in Canada (1866) 133 They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil.

1904 Collier's 7 May 20/1 (advt.) I know you want to reduce your weight, but probably you think it impossible or are afraid the remedy is worse than the disease.

1939 ‘F. O'Brien’ At Swim-Two-Birds 144 Such practices are murder, and those that are so unhappy as to come under such Circumstances if they use the forementioned means, will certainly one day find the remedy worse than the Disease.

2005 A. Ichijo & G. Uzelac When is Nation? i. 121 Affirmative action has been an attempt to remedy this racism, but the remedy is worse than the disease.