"The generality have considered that disease is but……" — Thomas Sydenham
"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 vain."
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Thomas Sydenham
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20 Quotes by Thomas Sydenham
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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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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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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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