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.
PARACELSUSHowever, 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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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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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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As you talk, so is your heart.
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The art of medicine has its roots in the heart.
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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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Man is ill because he is never still.
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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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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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A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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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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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 ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
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All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.
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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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