Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxf….

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently..

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs..

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a stat….

Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst dise….

This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as for ….

We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add another one..

Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers ….

Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves..

A man is as old as his arteries..

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herse….

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upo….

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium..

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention..

It is my nature to thin where others read..

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise..

Fever itself is Nature's instrument..

As no man can say who it was that first invented the use of clothes and houses against the inclemency of the weather, so also can no investigator poi….

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in ab….

Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter..