Thomas Sydenham quotes

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise. (Thomas Sydenham)
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. View quote
Thomas Sydenham
A man is as old as his arteries. View quote
Thomas Sydenham
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs. View quote
Thomas Sydenham
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. View quote
Thomas Sydenham
Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently. View quote
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. View quote
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 statement in which I am supported by observation. View quote
Thomas Sydenham
In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance. View quote
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. View quote
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 upon him. (Thomas Sydenham)
Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention. View quote
Thomas Sydenham
It is my nature to thin where others read. View quote
Thomas Sydenham