Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
PARACELSUSOnce 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 things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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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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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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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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As you talk, so is your heart.
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The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!
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All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
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Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.
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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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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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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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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?
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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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Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
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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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