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.

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

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

Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.

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.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.