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Paracelsus Biography

Paracelsus (/ˌpærəˈsɛlsəs/; 1493/4 – 24 September 1541), born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (full name Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), was a Swiss physician, alchemist, and astrologer of the German Renaissance.

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The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Art, Dream, Dreams, Interpretation

The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.

Cause, Causes, Consequence, Disease, Law, Universal

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.

Body, Health, Healthy, Mean, Nature

Consider that we shouldn't call our brother a fool, since we don't know ourselves what we are.

Brother, Call, Fool, Know, Knows

All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.

All Things, Dose, Poison, Poisons, Remedy

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

Dream, Elements, Inspiration, Meaning, Wherever

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.

Country, Different, Meat, Thrives, Wine

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.

Art, Health, Life, Pills, Plasters

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.

Angel, Dream, Nothing, Promise, Reveal, Supernatural

The most secure method, to ruin your health, is a SICK BED!

Bed, Ruin, Ruins, Secure, Sick

The universities do not teach all things. . . so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller. . . Knowledge is experience.

Doctor, Doctors, Lessons, Teach, Wife, Wives

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

Dosage, Poison, Remedy, Thing

I am different. Let this not upset you

Different, Let, Upset

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.

Cause, Causes, Concealed, Marvellous, Things, True

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. . . For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

Desire, Desires, Heaven, Men, Undertakes

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new. . . but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

Design, Measure, Time, Understand, Wind

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.

Book, Knowledge, Patient, Physicians, Written

The spirit is the master; imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material. . . The power of the imagination is a great factor in medicine. It may produce diseases in man and in animals, and it may cure them. . Ills of the body may be cured by physical remedies or by the power of the spirit acting through the soul.

Animal, Cured, Ills, Medicine, Men, Produce

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

Bean, Forges, Gold, Men, Nature, Silver

The main reason for healing is love.

Healing, Love, Reason

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