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Disease Quotes by Thomas Sydenham
- Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
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