Paracelsus
Paracelsus
Paracelsus, born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, was a Swiss German philosopher, physician, botanist, astrologer, and general occultist. He is credited as the founder of toxicology. He is also a famous revolutionary for utilizing observations of nature, rather than referring to ancient texts, something of radical defiance during his time. He is credited for giving zinc its name, calling it zincum. Modern psychology often also credits him for being the first to note that some diseases are rooted in...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth11 November 1493
CountrySwitzerland
The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.
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?
Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.
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.
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.
That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... 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. - The Dream Game
Then their imagination could work wonders upon wonders and invoke the shades of the philosophers, who would instruct them in their art.
Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.
This means that each country, in addition to the general properties common to the whole world, also has its own specific properties.
And since the fit manner of preparation is not to be found in pharmaceuticals, we must explore further; that is to say, we must learn from alchemy.
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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.