Thomas Sydenham Quotes

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• Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.
• The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.
• I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the…
• Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.
• Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send…
• 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…
• Fever itself is Nature's instrument.
• 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 he…
• The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in…
• It is my nature to thin where others read.
• 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…
• A man is as old as his arteries.
• Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.
• Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.
• Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease.…
• In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
• The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
• Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality,…
• For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than…
• I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

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