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

- Thomas Sydenham

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…

- Thomas Sydenham

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

- Thomas Sydenham

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 …

- Thomas Sydenham

It is my nature to thin where others read.

- Thomas Sydenham

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

- Thomas Sydenham

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

- Thomas Sydenham

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.

- Thomas Sydenham

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…

- Thomas Sydenham