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

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

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

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.

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.