Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add another one.

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.

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.

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

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