Gout produces calculus in the kidney. . . the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as … - Thomas Sydenham

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

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The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.

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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.

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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.

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A man is as old as his arteries.

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