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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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
Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.
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A man is as old as his arteries.
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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.
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Fever itself is Nature's instrument.
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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.
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