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.
Thomas SydenhamThe art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
Thomas SydenhamDisease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.
Thomas Sydenham