Thomas Sydenham

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

—Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689)

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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."

—Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689)

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"A man is as old as his arteries."

—Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689)

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"Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter."

—Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689)

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"Fever itself is Nature's instrument."

—Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689)

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"We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add another one."

—Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689)

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"Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout."

—Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689)