Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.

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.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

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

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.