Physick Quotes by Thomas Sydenham

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Thomas Sydenham has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.
• The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and…
• 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…
• I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine…
• Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had…
• Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and…
• Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

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