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.

It is my nature to thin where others read.

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

A man is as old as his arteries.

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 generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

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