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

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.

It is my nature to thin where others read.

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.

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

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.