An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.
Temporis ars medicina fere est. Time is generally the best medicine.
We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.
Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit.