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.

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.

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

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

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

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.

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