“Be careful then, patients,
and don’t accept any doctor;
die for free and do not give
a single coin to medicine.”

—  Juan del Valle y Caviedes

Y así, enfermos, ojo alerta
y ningún médico admitan;
mueran de gorra sin dar
un real a la medicina.
Diente del Parnaso ('Parnassus' Tooth') (1689), 'Prólogo al que leyere este tratado’.
Quoted in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 1038.

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Y así, enfermos, ojo alerta y ningún médico admitan; mueran de gorra sin dar un real a la medicina.

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