As no man can say who it was that first invented the use of clothes and houses against the inclemency of the weather, so also can no investigator point out the origin of Medicine - mysterious as the source of the Nile.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

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

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

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

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.

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