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

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

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.

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

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

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

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