In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of … - Thomas Sydenham

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In the year 2525, that song will be even less popular than when it first came out.

Thomas Sydenham

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

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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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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.

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I dont think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.

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