Insignificant Merit Quotes 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…

— Thomas Sydenham

Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.

— 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.

— 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…

— Thomas Sydenham

We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add another one.

— 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…

— 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…

— Thomas Sydenham

Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.

— 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…

— 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…

— Thomas Sydenham

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

— 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…

— Thomas Sydenham