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

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

It is my nature to thin where others read.

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.

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

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

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