It is my nature to thin where others read.

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.

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.

It is my nature to thin where others read.

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

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.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.