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.
Thomas SydenhamPhysick, 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.
Thomas SydenhamThe arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.
Thomas SydenhamThe art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
Thomas Sydenham