Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
PARACELSUSLet no one who can be his own belong to another.
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If we want to make a statement about a man’s nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
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Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
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Man is ill because he is never still.
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But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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The dose makes the poison.
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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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