The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books
PARACELSUSIt is said that a wise man rules over the stars, but this does not mean that he rules over the influences which come from the stars in the sky. It means that he rules over the powers which exist in his own constitution.
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Let no one who can be his own belong to another.
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The dose makes the poison.
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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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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.
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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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Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.
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Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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Man is ill because he is never still.
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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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The main reason for healing is love.
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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.
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All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.
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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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