Author: Thomas Sydenham

Quotes

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

- 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

- Thomas Sydenham

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

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

- Thomas Sydenham

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.

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.

- 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.

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.

- Thomas Sydenham

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

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

- 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.

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

- Thomas Sydenham

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