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.
PARACELSUSAll things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.
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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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That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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Man is ill because he is never still.
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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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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him… For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
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The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
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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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All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison.
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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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