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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.

Paracelsus

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
PARACELSUS

Cure Eyes Nature See Tree
Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage.
PARACELSUS

Dosage Medicine Nourishment Poison Wine
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
PARACELSUS

Live Patient Type Weird
Be not another, if you can be yourself.
PARACELSUS

Be Yourself Original
Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
PARACELSUS

Be Yourself Himself
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.
PARACELSUS

Art Guide Medicine Pills Science Understand
He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless.
PARACELSUS

Himself Love Understand Worth
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
PARACELSUS

Case Doubt Feeling Guide Known Life
I am different. Let this not upset you.
PARACELSUS

Different Myself Upset Yourself
All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
PARACELSUS

Challenge Finding God Healing Health Man Nature Need Science
Nothing is hidden so much that it wouldn’t be revealed through its fruit.
PARACELSUS

Hide Result Reveal
Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
PARACELSUS

Ethics Medicine Philosophy Pillar
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.
PARACELSUS

Attack Body Fight Health Himself Nature Sick
It would be an error to try to build the Kingdom of Heaven upon envy. For nothing that is founded on envy can thrive; it must have another root.
PARACELSUS

Build Error Heaven Thrive
Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
PARACELSUS

Body Ingredient Name Science
In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.
PARACELSUS

Break Heaven Human

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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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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