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

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

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

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.

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.

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

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