The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from … - Thomas Sydenham

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Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.

Thomas Sydenham

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.

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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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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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A man is as old as his arteries.

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