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What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

Paracelsus

All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.
PARACELSUS

Art Awakening Lying Man
Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
PARACELSUS

Dosage Drugs
Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
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Hide Result Reveal
The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
PARACELSUS

Poison Remedy Right
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
PARACELSUS

Live Patient Type Weird
Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
PARACELSUS

Art Employment Medicine Patient Power Science
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
PARACELSUS

Ourselves Prayer Preparation Skill
However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.
PARACELSUS

Alone Awakening Dreams Himself Room Talk
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
PARACELSUS

Art Desire Reveal Time
The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
PARACELSUS

Art Body Copy Inheritance Medicine
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.
PARACELSUS

Art Guide Medicine Pills Science Understand
Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.
PARACELSUS

Experience Greatness Human Magic Power Reason
What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?
PARACELSUS

Benefit Cure Discover Remedy
All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
PARACELSUS

Distinguish Poison Remedy Simplicity
Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?
PARACELSUS

Design Measurement Mystery Time Wind
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
PARACELSUS

Leave Nature Reading Walk

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