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Top 15 Thomas Sydenham Quotes (2025 Update)

Thomas Sydenham Quote: “A man is as old as his arteries.”

1. “A man is as old as his arteries.”

— Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham Quote: “Fever itself is Nature’s instrument.”

2. “Fever itself is Nature’s instrument.”

— Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

— Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham Quote: “The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.”

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

— Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham Quote: “Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.”

5. “Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.”

— Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham Quote: “We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add another one.”

6. “We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add another one.”

— Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham Quote: “The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.”

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

— Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham Quote: “Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.”

8. “Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.”

— Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham Quote: “Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.”

9. “Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.”

— Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham Quote: “As no man can say who it was that first invented the use of clothes and houses against the inclemency of the weather, so also can no investigator point out the origin of Medicine – mysterious as the source of the Nile.”

11. “As no man can say who it was that first invented the use of clothes and houses against the inclemency of the weather, so also can no investigator point out the origin of Medicine – mysterious as the source of the Nile.”

— Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham Quote: “It is my nature to thin where others read.”

12. “It is my nature to thin where others read.”

— Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham Quote: “Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.”

13. “Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.”

— Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham Quote: “Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.”

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

— Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Thomas Sydenham

Thomas Sydenham Quote: “In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.”

17. “In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.”

— Thomas Sydenham

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