Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
PARACELSUSThe 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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The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.
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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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Dreams are not without meaning wherever they may come from — from fantasy, from the elements, or from another inspiration.
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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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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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