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.

A man is as old as his arteries.

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.

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

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

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.

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