We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add another one.
Thomas SydenhamI confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.
Thomas SydenhamIn writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
Thomas Sydenham