The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
PARACELSUSThis is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
More Paracelsus Quotes
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Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.
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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 right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
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Man is ill because he is never still.
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And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.
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The dose makes the poison.
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Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
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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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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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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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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
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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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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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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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