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

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

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.

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

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

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

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.