Thomas Sydenham Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Thomas Sydenham Quotes and Sayings


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    A man is as old as his arteries. Thomas Sydenham | Refcard PDF
  • 2
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 3
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 4
    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 | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
  • 6
    I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps. Thomas Sydenham | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
  • 8
    It is my nature to thin where others read. Thomas Sydenham | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
  • 10
    Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention. Thomas Sydenham | Refcard PDF
  • 11
    Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently. Thomas Sydenham | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
  • 13
    The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise. Thomas Sydenham | Refcard PDF
  • 14
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 15
    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 | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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