Quotes by Thomas Sydenham - Page 1

A man is as old as his arteries.
Thomas Sydenham / Physician
Men
Arteries
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Fever itself is Nature's instrument.
Thomas Sydenham / Physician
Nature
Fever
Instruments
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It is my nature to thin where others read.
Thomas Sydenham / Physician
Thin
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Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.
Thomas Sydenham / Physician
Attention
Insignificant
Medicine
Merit
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Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.
Thomas Sydenham / Physician
Book
Good Book
Very Good
Don Quixote
Frequently
Quixote
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The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
Thomas Sydenham / Physician
Art
Medical
Exercise
Medicine
Practice
Properly
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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 / Physician
Body
Disease
Matter
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Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.
Thomas Sydenham / Physician
God
Disease
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I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.
Thomas Sydenham / Physician
Footsteps
Intention
Method
Treading
Watched
Symptom
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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 / Physician
Add
Infinite
Overwhelmed
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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 / Physician
Drug
Exercise
Twenties
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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.
Thomas Sydenham / Physician
Health
Beneficial
Clown
Influence
Arrival
Exercises
Twenty
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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.
Thomas Sydenham / Physician
Men
Almighty
Almighty God
Giving
Opium
Suffering
Among
None
Pleased
Relieve
Sufferings
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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 upon him.
Thomas Sydenham / Physician
Nature
Men
Human Race
Sake
Son
Nature God Man
Ascertain
Thereby
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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 abeyance.
Thomas Sydenham / Physician
Disease
Hypothesis
Lying
Philosophical
Writing
Author
Lie
Occupied
Whatsoever
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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.
Thomas Sydenham / Physician
Nature
Confused
Disease
Effort
Thrown
Vain
Considered
Defending
Generality
Herself
Proper
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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 / Physician
Kings
Wise
Men
Simple
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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 poor, more wise men than simple.
Thomas Sydenham / Physician
Wise
Comfort
Disease
Gout
Unlike
Individuals
Viz
Wise Men
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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.
Thomas Sydenham / Physician
Died
Disease
Gout
Medicine
Observation
Affirm
Confidently
Statement
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Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.
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Learning
Men
Science
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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 same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.
Thomas Sydenham / Physician
Exemption
Fellows
Liable
Mortality
Afflictions
Bound
Hath
Lastly
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As no man can say who it was that first invented the use of clothes and houses against the inclemency of the weather, so also can no investigator point out the origin of Medicine - mysterious as the source of the Nile.
Thomas Sydenham / Physician
Men
Medicine
Weather
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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 disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.
Thomas Sydenham / Physician
Calculus
Disease
Gout
Painful
Passing
Patient
Speculation
Waiting
Entertain
Frequently
Produces
Stone
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This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as for anatomy, my butcher can dissect a joint full as well; no, young man, all that is stuff; you must go to the bedside, it is there alone you can learn disease! Comment to Hans Sloane on Robert Boyle's letter of introduction describing Sloane as a 'ripe scholar, a good botanist, a skilful anatomist'.
Thomas Sydenham / Physician
Men
Science
Garden
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