Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise, for cure, on exercise depend;
God never made his work, for man to mend.
—John Dryden, from his 1700 poem "To My Honour'd Kinsman, John Driden, of Chesterton."
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