Thomas Sydenham Quotes

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Cancer does not discriminate.

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

Remember, I'm a doctor's daughter. So obviously I'm interested in all medical things.

Disease is a vital expression of the human organism.

My life and the lives of many across the world have been deeply affected by lymphoma.

The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.

Remedies, indeed, are our great analysers of disease.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

In medicine it is … necessary that causes both health and disease should be determined.

The gods have become our diseases.

Cancer is always funny.

Tai Shimano visited Shunryu Suzuki. "How are you feeling these days?" Suzuki replied, "They have a new name for me: Cancer!"

In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all our faces would bepale and livid. Society is always diseased, and the best is the most so.

The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight than those of the healthy. Then, too, all healthy people will in the future know disease. That sense of time, ah, the diseased man’s sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave. Then, too the diseased truly bite, whereas the healthy pretend to bite but really only snap at the air. Then, too, then, too, then, too.

Since the most ancient times, all men, and particularly those who endeavored in the practice of medicine, have brought closer together two natural phenomena of capital importance: illness or fever and fermentation.

The study of sickness is the most poetic of the sciences.

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

Cancer is enough to get my attention.

Think I'm gettin' sick, I'm feelin' illegal/ And not having money is the root of all evil

I have a terrific headache.

I do not argue that nature is sacrosanct in the sense that we must never tamper with nature. That would disempower, really, all of medicine. That would mean that we can't combat dread diseases - malaria, polio, all of which are given by nature, if one thinks about it.