It is my nature to thin where others read.

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.

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

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

A man is as old as his arteries.

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.