On 4/28/20 10:58 PM, Akim Demaille wrote: > I think > the cure is worse than the disease, as some "great" leader loves to > put it...
I know this is irrelevant but I tried to chase down the first use of the phrase "cure is worse than the disease". Here's the earliest I found in Google Books: "Foure rules were offered by the Reverend Brother, as tending to Unity, and to the healing of the preſent Controverſies about Church-Government. But in truth his cure is worſe than the diſeaſe : and inſtead of making any agreement, he is like to have his hand againſt every man,and every mans hand againſt him." This quote is from: George Gillespie. A Brotherly Examination of ſome paſſages of Mr. Colemans late Sermon upon Iob 11.20. London: Robert Bostock (1645). So even back then the phrase was already being used in its political (not medical) sense as part of a political controversy - which means in this respect we're no better off now than our ancestors were in 1645.
