Oliver Goldsmith, while studying medicine before embarking on his writing career was once called to attend to a poor patient in Southwark, England.
Goldsmith after examining the patient, a labourer, realised that the man required food more than medicine. He gave him a bottle of medicine and told him to take a little of it three times a day. Then he took all the money he had with him, put it in an envelope and gave it to him.
“And from this,” he said to the man, “take as often as required.”
The patient soon recovered.