Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron does not cure, fire cures; and those which fire does not cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.

Father of medicine

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Aphorisms, Section VII, 87

Date / Period

c. 400 BC

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https://classics.mit.edu/Hippocrates/aphorisms.html

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