Herman Boerhaave

“The duct now called the salivary duct is not a discovery of Steno's, but of Wharton's.”

“Let your chief Prophylactick be Virtue, and Temperance.”

“The accessory nerve of Willis is the patient nerve of the soul.”

“That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most eloquent poem.”

“The great sublime of sciences, which I call the Art of Medicine.”

“A disease which has been treated with a remedy has two causes, the disease itself and the remedy.”

“Empty the bowels well in pleurisy and peripneumonia.”

“He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.”

“Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows traces of her workings apart from the beaten path.”

“He that would pass the latter part of his life with honour and decency, must, when he is young, consider that he shall one day be old; and remember, when he is old, that he has once been young.”

“The study of the living patient is the best book for the physician.”

“Simplicity is the seal of truth.”