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

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

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

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.

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.

A man is as old as his arteries.

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