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.

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

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

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

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

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

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.