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

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

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

Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.

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.

It is my nature to thin where others read.

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.