A man is as old as his arteries.

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It is my nature to thin where others read.

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Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

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Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.

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The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

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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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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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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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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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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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