Thomas Sydenham famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#God #Disease
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

#Men #Weather #Medicine
It is my nature to thin where others read.
-- Thomas Sydenham

#Nature
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

#Men #Giving #Suffering
A man is as old as his arteries.
-- Thomas Sydenham

#Men #Arteries
Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.
-- Thomas Sydenham

#Book #Good Book #Very Good
Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.
-- Thomas Sydenham

#Medicine #Merit #Attention
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

#Waiting #Gout #Disease
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

#Lying #Philosophical #Writing
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

#Nature #Confused #Effort
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

#Nature #Son #Men
Fever itself is Nature's instrument.
-- Thomas Sydenham

#Nature #Fever #Instruments
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

#Wise #Kings #Simple
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.
-- Thomas Sydenham

#Men #Medicine #Oxford
Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.
-- Thomas Sydenham

#Disease #Matter #Body
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

#Medicine #Gout #Disease
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty ***** laden with drugs.
-- Thomas Sydenham

#Exercise #Drug #Towns
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

#Men #Garden #Letters
The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
-- Thomas Sydenham

#Art #Exercise #Practice

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