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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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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.

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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

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

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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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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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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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But is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?

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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

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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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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Scientist

Born: November 11th, 1493

Died: September 24th, 1541

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