I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have … - Thomas Sydenham

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Thomas Sydenham

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.

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

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

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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.

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A man is as old as his arteries.

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This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as for anatomy, my butcher can dissect a joint full as well; no, young man, all that is stuff; you must go to the bedside, it is there alone you can learn disease! Comment to Hans Sloane on Robert Boyle's letter of introduction describing Sloane as a 'ripe scholar, a good botanist, a skilful anatomist'.

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