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15 quotes by Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham Thomas Sydenham in a 1689 portrait by Mary Beale. Born (1624-09-10)10 September 1624 Wynford Eagle, Dorset Died 29 December 1689(1689-12-29) (aged 65) Pall Mall, London Nationality English Fields medicine Known for clinical medicine Thomas Sydenham (10 September 1624 – 29 December 1689) was an English physician. He was the author of Observationes Medicae which became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries so...
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The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

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Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst... →

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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... →

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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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Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the... →

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

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For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than... →

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We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took... →

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A man is as old as his arteries.

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

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It is my nature to thin where others read.

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

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

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