Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

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

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

As no man can say who it was that first invented the use of clothes and houses against the inclemency of the weather, so also can no investigator point out the origin of Medicine - mysterious as the source of the Nile.

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

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

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