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Every body consists of three ingredients. The names of these are Sulphur, Mercury, and Salt.

Paracelsus

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.
PARACELSUS

Country Different Earth Growth Thrive
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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Art Guide Medicine Pills Science Understand
For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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Ourselves Prayer Preparation Skill
A little bit of beer is divine medicine.
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Alcohol Divine Medicine
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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Live Patient Type Weird
Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.
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Himself Man
Be not another, if you can be yourself.
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Be Yourself Original
All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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Distinguish Poison Remedy Simplicity
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.
PARACELSUS

Best Discover Live Reveal True
The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy.
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Poison Remedy Right
The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.
PARACELSUS

Consequence Human Law Reason Ultimate Universe
The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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Beginning Power Wisdom
Medicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Ethics Medicine Philosophy Pillar
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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Book Himself Knowledge Patient Rich Writing
Man is ill because he is never still.
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Calm Man Sick
This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.
PARACELSUS

Alchemy Chemist Doctor Medicine Office

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