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It may be so old a saying that you won't be able to find an original attribution.

To go a bit older than 1964: according to the Oxford dictionary in quotations, on the 6th November 1605, Guy Fawkes is reputed to have said

"The desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy"... which is very similar to "extremis malis extrema remedia".

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