Thomas Sydenham Quotes & Sayings
15 most famous Thomas Sydenham quotes and sayings (scientist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.”
“For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.”
“Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.”
“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 statement in which I am supported by observation.”
“Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.”
“The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.”
“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.”
“A man is as old as his arteries.”
“I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.”
“It is my nature to thin where others read.”
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