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

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.

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

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.

Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.

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.

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