Filthy water cannot be washed. If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
Transvaal
If you intend to give a sick man medicine, let him get very ill first, so that he may see the benefit of your medicine.
Nupe
In the midst of your illness you will promise a goat, but when you have recovered, a chicken will seem sufficient.
Jukun
Loss of teeth and marriage spoil a woman’s beauty. Poison should be tried out on a frog.
Bantu
Visitor’s footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.
Bantu
Source: Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations by Peter McDonald
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