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

A man is as old as his arteries.

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.

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

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

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

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.