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

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

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.

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.

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.

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.