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 Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.
It is my nature to thin where others read. - Thomas Sydenham
It is my nature to thin where others read.
- 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
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…
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
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 …
Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves. - Thomas Sydenham
Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.
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
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…
Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention. - Thomas Sydenham
Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.
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
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.
The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise. - Thomas Sydenham
The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
Fever itself is Nature's instrument. - Thomas Sydenham
Fever itself is Nature's instrument.
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