"Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is……" — Thomas Sydenham
"Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves."
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Thomas Sydenham
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20 Quotes by Thomas Sydenham
Thomas Sydenham has 20 quotes on this site.
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The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses…
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I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of…
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Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.
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Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says…
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Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals,…
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Fever itself is Nature's instrument.
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We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby…
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The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper…
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It is my nature to thin where others read.
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Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so…
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A man is as old as his arteries.
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Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.
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More Acute Quotes
This quote is filed under Acute Quotes,
one of 154 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
— Arthur Balfour
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a…
— Lydia M. Child
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will…
— Leonard Cohen
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Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is…
— Sun Tzu
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We find a place for what we lose. Although we know that after such a loss the acute stage of…
— Sigmund Freud
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship…
— Philip Yancey
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...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by…
— Hippocrates
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He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held…
— Baruch Spinoza
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I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching,…
— Jennifer Worth
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Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape…
— George Meredith
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and…
— Florence Nightingale
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