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.

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.

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

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

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

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.