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> [Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sydenham/gout-unlike-any-other-disease-kills-more-rich-men-than-poor-more-wise/)

[Thomas Sydenham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sydenham/)

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## Other authors on Admiral

## More by Thomas Sydenham

> [I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sydenham/i-confidently-affirm-that-the-greater-part-of-those-who-are-supposed/)

[Thomas Sydenham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sydenham/)

> [Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sydenham/disease-is-nothing-else-but-an-attempt-on-the-part-of-the-body-to-rid/)

[Thomas Sydenham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sydenham/)

> [The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sydenham/the-arrival-of-a-good-clown-exercises-a-more-beneficial-influence/)

[Thomas Sydenham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sydenham/)

> [We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sydenham/we-may-ascertain-the-worth-of-the-human-race-since-for-its-sake-god-s/)

[Thomas Sydenham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sydenham/)

> [We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add another one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sydenham/we-are-overwhelmed-as-it-is-with-an-infinite-abundance-of-vaunted/)

[Thomas Sydenham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sydenham/)

> [For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sydenham/for-humble-individuals-like-myself-there-is-one-poor-comfort-which-is/)

[Thomas Sydenham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sydenham/)

> [This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sydenham/this-is-all-very-fine-but-it-won-t-do-anatomy-botany-nonsense-sir-i/)

[Thomas Sydenham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sydenham/)

> [ Acute \[diseases\] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sydenham/acute-diseases-meaning-those-of-which-god-is-the-author-chronic/)

[Thomas Sydenham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sydenham/)

> [Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sydenham/gout-unlike-any-other-disease-kills-more-rich-men-than-poor-more-wise/)

[Thomas Sydenham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sydenham/)

> [Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sydenham/lastly-he-must-remember-that-he-himself-hath-no-exemption-from-the/)

[Thomas Sydenham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sydenham/)

> [The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sydenham/the-art-of-medicine-was-to-be-properly-learned-only-from-its-practice/)

[Thomas Sydenham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sydenham/)

> [Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sydenham/gout-produces-calculus-in-the-kidney-the-patient-has-frequently-to/)

[Thomas Sydenham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sydenham/)

> [The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sydenham/the-generality-have-considered-that-disease-is-but-a-confused-and/)

[Thomas Sydenham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sydenham/)

> [A man is as old as his arteries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sydenham/a-man-is-as-old-as-his-arteries/)

[Thomas Sydenham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sydenham/)

> [As no man can say who it was that first invented the use of clothes and houses against the inclemency of the weather, so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sydenham/as-no-man-can-say-who-it-was-that-first-invented-the-use-of-clothes/)

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