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

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

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

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.

Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.