The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
PARACELSUSThe human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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All numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.
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The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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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?
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Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
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The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
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Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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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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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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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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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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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.
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