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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…
• I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine…
• 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…
• 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.
• We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the…

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