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" A man is as old as his arteries. "
Man
Old
His
" 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. "
Almighty
Man
Give
" 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. "
Humble
Myself
Men
" 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. "
Sometimes
Stone
Patient
" 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. "
I Am
Observation
Medicine
" In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance. "
Disease
Lie
Mind
" It is my nature to thin where others read. "
Read
Thin
Nature
" I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps. "
Nature
Intention
Her
" 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. "
Laws
Remember
Same
" Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention. "
Merit
Medicine
Attention
" Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently. "
Good Book
Book
Good
" The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs. "
Good
More
Influence
" The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise. "
Only
Practice
Medical
" 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. "
Her
Nature
Down
" 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. "
Nature
Race
Son
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