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

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.

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.

Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.

We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add another one.

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

A man is as old as his arteries.