Thomas Sydenham

Scientist

1624-09-10

Quotes by Thomas Sydenham

• 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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• 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.

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• I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

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• 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.

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