“...that the doctor being himself a mortal man, should be diligent and tender in relieving his suffering patients, inasmuch as he himself must one day be a like sufferer.” — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium. — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter. — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add another one. — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves. — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise. — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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