Quotes About 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.

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

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

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

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

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