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.

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.

A man is as old as his arteries.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

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

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.