Thomas Sydenham
Thomas Sydenham
Thomas Sydenhamwas an English physician. He was the author of Observationes Medicae which became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries so that he became known as 'The English Hippocrates'. Among his many achievements was the discovery of a disease, Sydenham's Chorea, also known as St Vitus Dance...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDoctor
Date of Birth10 September 1624
nature confused effort
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.
book good-book very-good
Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.
nature fever instruments
Fever itself is Nature's instrument.
art exercise practice
The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
add overwhelmed abundance
We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add another one.
men giving suffering
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.
men arteries
A man is as old as his arteries.
exercise drug towns
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.
god disease
Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.