"Disease is nothing else but an attempt on……" — Thomas Sydenham
"Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter."
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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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Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.
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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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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 Attempt Quotes
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
— Francis Bacon
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I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young,…
— Kevin Bacon
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
— Balthus
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
— Amelia Barr
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The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat.…
— Max Baucus
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Art is an attempt to integrate evil.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get…
— Kate Beckinsale
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A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished'…
— John Berger
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
— Alfred Adler
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to…
— Wendell Berry
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
— Theodor Adorno
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Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been…
— Michael Bloomberg
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