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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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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
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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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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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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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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
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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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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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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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